Monday, December 5, 2011

U.S. Postal Service seeks to end next-day mail (Reuters)

U.S. Postal Service seeks to end next-day mail (Reuters)

U.S. Postal Service seeks to end next-day mail (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:37 PM PST

A woman mails envelopes at a U.S. office in New York, April 15, 2010. REUTERS/Mike SegarReuters - The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service on Monday moved forward with plans to end next-day delivery of letters, postcards and other First Class mail.

Agents looked for porn in search of Bernie Fine's properties (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:57 PM PST

Reuters - Federal agents searched the home and office of former Syracuse basketball coach Bernie Fine last month for pornographic materials and items detailing his relationships with young boys, court records showed.

California governor launches tax ballot measure (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:52 PM PST

Reuters - With California once again running short on revenue, Governor Jerry Brown said on Monday he would circumvent the legislature and press a statewide ballot measure to raise the state's sales tax and increase tax rates on the wealthy for five years.

Why Don't They Like Mitt Romney? (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST

Time.com - Mitt Romney isn't having a very good week

Has Herman Cain's Campaign Reached the End of the Line? (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:00 PM PST

Time.com - Herman Cain has said he will "reassess" his presidential candidacy over the coming days, but it shouldn't take long for him to realize that his campaign is finished

Amanda Knox hires attorney for possible book deal (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:09 PM PST

Amanda Knox gestures while speaking during a news conference at Sea-Tac International Airport, Washington after landing there on a flight from Italy October 4, 2011. REUTERS/Anthony BolanteReuters - Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder and freed from prison by an Italian court in October, has hired a prominent Washington, D.C.-based lawyer as she considers possible book deals, her spokesman said on Monday.

Navy training mine washes ashore on Miami Beach (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:28 PM PST

A live Navy training mine that washed ashore is shown at Miami Beach, Fla., Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Police cordoned off the area around the beached mine with yellow tape Monday and kept bystanders away as Fire Rescue crews and a bomb squad arrived. Fire Rescue spokesman Jesus Sola says photos of the mine have been taken and sent to the Navy, which will remove the device. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP - A bomb squad has removed a Navy training mine that authorities say washed ashore on Miami Beach in an area dotted by numerous condominiums.

Blagojevich hoping family, shame lighten sentence (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:04 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2008 file photo, then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich bites his nails as he enters a news conference in Chicago to make his first substantial public comments since his arrest on federal corruption charges. He denied wrongdoing and was later was impeached and removed from office. On Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, the former governor is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Chicago on 18 counts of corruption. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - He was convicted of a shocking crime: trying to sell the president's former Senate seat. He eroded the public trust, supposedly lied to jurors and has shown no remorse. Yet Rod Blagojevich says he also did good while he was Illinois' governor, and he has two young daughters to support and no previous criminal record.

APNewsBreak: Clinton orders review of visa program (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:24 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2010 file photo taken in Destin, Fla., a check for J-1 visa worker Kateryna Totskaya shows zero pay for the pay period. Middlemen commonly dock students' pay so heavily for lodging, transportation and other necessities that the wages work out to $1 an hour or less, according to an inspector at the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Department in the Florida Panhandle who has worked cases involving J-1 students since 2001. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an 'extensive and thorough review' of the foreign exchange program that has been used by U.S. businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry. (AP Photo/Mari Darr-Welch, File)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an "extensive and thorough review" of a foreign exchange program that has been used by U.S. businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry.

Airport worker fired after refusing to load dog (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:00 PM PST

In this photo taken Dec. 1, 2011, Lynn Jones sits with her three dogs, from left, Junior, Manny and Jewel, at her Lockwood, Nev. home. Jones, a former airport baggage handler, was fired after refusing to load an ailing dog onto a plane at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Marilyn Newton) NEVADA APPEAL OUT; NO SALESAP - Airport baggage handler Lynn Jones saw the sad look on the listless, emaciated dog sitting in a pet carrier and knew something was wrong. Then she saw that its body was covered with sores and its paws were worn raw.

16,000 Holocaust victims to get German pensions (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:23 PM PST

FILE- In this April 19, 1943 file photo, a group of Jews areescorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers. After a year of tough negotiations, Germany agreed Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, to pay pensions to about 16,000 Holocaust victims worldwide who survived wartime ghettos or were forced to hide from Nazi persecution. (AP Photo, File)AP - After a year of tough negotiations, Germany has agreed to pay pensions to about 16,000 additional Holocaust victims worldwide — mostly survivors who were once starving children in Nazi ghettos, or were forced to live in hiding for fear of death.

Two elderly women object to security search at JFK (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:08 PM PST

AP - With age come such things as catheters, colostomy bags and adult diapers. Now add another indignity to getting old — having to drop your pants and show these things to a complete stranger.

Syracuse coach's accuser admits molesting teen boy (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:18 PM PST

AP - A man who accused former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine of molesting him admitted Monday that he sexually abused a boy in Maine.

FAA chief on leave after drunken driving arrest (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:26 PM PST

This handout provided by Fairfax County, Va. Sheriff's Office shows FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. Babbitt was placed on a leave of absence Monday and U.S. officials said his employment is under review following his arrest for drunken driving in suburban Northern Virginia. (AP Photo/Fairfax County, Va. Sheriff's Office)AP - FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt was placed on a leave of absence Monday as Department of Transportation officials decide how to handle Babbitt's weekend arrest on charges of drunken driving in suburban northern Virginia.

FAMU student leaders call for an end to hazing (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:30 PM PST

AP - Florida A&M President James Ammons said Monday the university is committed to breaking a conspiracy of silence that has for decades shrouded hazing practices at the school and finally resulted in a band member's death.

BP: Halliburton destroyed key oil spill evidence (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:54 PM PST

AP - BP in a high-stakes court filing is accusing Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the nation's worst offshore oil spill.

Search for missing Ga. girl turns up body in trash (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:19 PM PST

This handout photo provided Monday Dec. 5, 2011, by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department, shows Jorelys Rivera, 7, of Canton, Ga. A team of state law enforcement officials specially trained in child abductions has been brought in to join the search for the 7-year-old Georgia girl missing since Friday. (AP Photo/Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department)AP - A body found in a trash container is believed to be that of a 7-year-old girl who went missing last week from an apartment complex playground north of Atlanta, authorities said Monday.

Obama prods GOP on payroll tax cut (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:08 PM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, urging Republican lawmakers to pass the payroll tax cut. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama accepted a move by Senate Democrats to scale back his Social Security payroll tax cut extension on Monday, then prodded Republicans to support it despite a requirement for the very wealthy to pay more taxes.

Obama makes case for extending payroll tax cuts (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:08 PM PST

President Barack Obama talks extending payroll tax cuts, Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, in the White House briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - President Barack Obama pressured Republicans in Congress on Monday to extend a payroll tax cut, saying the economic recovery is "still fragile" and middle class families need the money.

First-class mail: Just a little bit s-l-o-w-e-r (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:08 PM PST

Mail carrier Zack Wyscarver delivers mail in freezing temperatures in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Dec. 5, 2011. Unprecedented cuts by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service will slow first-class delivery next spring and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)AP - Already mocked by some as "snail mail," first-class U.S. mail will slow even more by next spring under plans by the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service to eliminate more than 250 processing centers. Nearly 30,000 workers would be laid off, too, as the post office struggles to respond to a shift to online communication and bill payments.
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