Saturday, January 21, 2012

Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno's health status serious (Reuters)

Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno's health status serious (Reuters)

Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno's health status serious (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 05:16 PM PST

Reuters - The health of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who was fired last November in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal involving an assistant coach, has deteriorated and his status is serious, a family spokesman said on Saturday.

Fast-moving snowstorm hits Northeast (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 01:37 PM PST

A man cleans the street during a snow storm in Jersey City January 21, 2012. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - After an unusually mild winter across much of the United States, a fast-moving snowstorm struck the Northeast from central Pennsylvania to Connecticut on Saturday, while the Pacific Northwest struggled to recover from a rare heavy snowfall.

Bonnie and Clyde guns bring $210,000 in Missouri auction (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 01:13 PM PST

Reuters - Two guns believed seized from gangsters Bonnie and Clyde in 1933 after a deadly Missouri shootout with police sold for a combined $210,000 at an auction on Saturday in Kansas City to an unnamed online bidder.

Inside Obama's World: The President talks to TIME About the Changing Nature of American Power (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:35 AM PST

Time.com - In an exclusive interview with TIME's Fareed Zakaria, Obama opens up on Iran, Afghanistan, China and the challenges the U.S. faces in navigating a rapidly changing world. A full transcript of their conversation follows

More Fees, Fewer Branches As Banks Cope With Lower Profits (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:35 AM PST

Time.com - Several big banks have reported their earnings over the past week, and the results aren't pretty

Subculture of Americans prepares for civilization's collapse (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 08:44 AM PST

Reuters - When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.

Storm blankets Northeast with a few inches of snow (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 04:56 PM PST

Matt Redmond, age 3, and his father, Mike, ride a sled down a hill after an overnight snowfall in Baltimore, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - A few inches of snow coated the Northeast on Saturday in a storm so rare this season in the East that some welcomed it.

Repeal of legislative immunity proposed in Arizona (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:04 AM PST

AP - An Arizona senator gets in a fight with his girlfriend on a Phoenix freeway and avoids arrest. An Arkansas legislator leads officers on a high-speed chase through two counties and doesn't get taken into custody. A Georgia lawmaker claims he couldn't be prosecuted on a DUI charge.

Eye on State of the Union, Obama promotes tourism (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 11:07 AM PST

President Barack Obama sings before speaking at a campaign event, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at the Apollo Theatre in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Eye on the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama is citing his work to bolster tourism and aid the economy as he readies to outline his election-year priorities.

Obama's State of the Union: Jobs, re-election time (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:52 PM PST

President Barack Obama sings before speaking at a campaign event, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at the Apollo Theatre in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Vilified by the Republicans who want his job, President Barack Obama will stand before the nation Tuesday night determined to frame the election-year debate on his terms, using his State of the Union address to outline a lasting economic recovery that will "work for everyone, not just a wealthy few."

INFLUENCE GAME: Online companies win piracy fight (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:38 AM PST

This screen shot shows the home page Google.com. A campaign whose backers include tech heavyweights like Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. has successfully portrayed the bills — the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act — as an attack on a free and open Internet rather than a way to protect the jobs of Americans in the movie and music industries, in a protest Wenesday, Jan. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Google.com)AP - Outspent but hardly outgunned, online and high-tech companies triggered an avalanche of Internet clicks to force Congress to shelve legislation that would curb online piracy. They outmaneuvered the entertainment industry and other old guard business interests, leaving them bitter and befuddled.

Mild winter offers break from high heating costs (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 06:08 AM PST

In this Jan. 18, 2012 photo, Missy Marsh, left, and her parents Debra and Robert Marsh, discuss the pressures of paying for heating during winter while having breakfast at Central United Methodist Church in Traverse City, Mich. Few Americans have welcomed this yearís mild winter as much as low-income families, who are enjoying an unexpected break from high heating costs. (AP Photo/John Flesher)AP - Ashley Tatum was three months behind on utility payments after leaving her job at a coffee shop because of pregnancy complications. The mother of two owed $648, and the tough economy did not offer many options.

Crews contain Reno fire that claimed 29 homes (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:02 PM PST

Chris Watts cries after pulling his grandmother's coffee mug out of the rubble of her home Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Pleasant Valley, south of Reno, Nev. Authorities confirmed that the body of June Hargis, 93, was found in the aftermath of Thursday's brush fire, but her cause of death has not been established, so it's not known if it was fire related. The Watts family also lost their home, barn and three horses. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)AP - As rain helped crews surround a brush fire that destroyed 29 homes and forced thousands to flee, the family of the blaze's only known fatality said Saturday that prosecuting the man who admitted to starting it wouldn't "do any good."

Major youth groups make headway against sex abuse (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:04 AM PST

In this Tuesday, April 13, 2010 file photo, Kerry Lewis, left, leans into his lawyer Paul Mones after the verdict against the Boy Scouts of America was announced in Portland, Ore. The jury decided that the Boy Scouts were negligent for allowing the abuser to associate with Lewis and other boys after admitting to a Scouts official in 1983 that he had molested 17 boys. Within a few months of that judgment, the Scouts announced that all adult volunteers - now numbering 1.2 million - would be required to take child-protection training when they join the Scouts and repeat the training every two years. The Scouts also created the full-time position of youth protection director, and filled it with Michael Johnson, a former police detective from Plano, Texas, who is an authority on child abuse detection and prevention. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Jamie Francis)AP - The Boy Scouts have labored for decades to curtail sexual abuse of scouts by adult volunteers. But when their name was evoked in a lawsuit linked to the Penn State abuse scandal, the reference was not to problems — it was acknowledgment that the Scouts' current prevention policies are considered state of the art.

For some, pardons about redemption, not freedom (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 07:43 AM PST

In this Jan. 18, 2012 photograph, on the porch of his Wesson, Miss., home, Thomas Ailes displays Executive Order No. 1083, which pardons him for a marijuana conviction from the 1970s. The Vietnam veteran drove to Jackson to pick up the executive order from the Mississippi Parole Board after first learning of the pardon from a friend earlier this month. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - When Thomas Ailes heard from a friend that he'd been pardoned for a marijuana conviction from the 1970s, he didn't wait for the Mississippi Parole Board to mail him the paperwork. He jumped in his blue Dodge truck and drove an hour to the capital to pick it up himself.

Colo. girl escapes apparent kidnapper, calls 911 (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 10:55 PM PST

AP - A missing 9-year-old girl escaped from an apparent kidnapper and called 911 herself from a convenience store in Colorado Springs on Friday.

Female Ark. prison guard killed checking on inmate (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 09:49 PM PST

AP - A convicted murderer stabbed a female guard to death at an east Arkansas prison Friday while she was investigating whether he had an unauthorized pair of shoes, a prison spokeswoman said.
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