Friday, January 20, 2012

Insight: Mississippi pardons benefited whites by big margin (Reuters)

Insight: Mississippi pardons benefited whites by big margin (Reuters)

Insight: Mississippi pardons benefited whites by big margin (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:42 PM PST

Reuters - Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's grants of commutations or pardons to more than 200 prisoners, all but eight in his final days in office, disproportionately benefited white offenders among a predominantly black prison population, a Reuters analysis found.

Congress has legal clout on Keystone pipeline: study (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 07:13 PM PST

Reuters - The Congress has the constitutional right to legislate permits for cross-border oil pipelines like TransCanada's Keystone XL, according to a new legal analysis released late on Friday.

Trial of accused Haditha ringleader resumes without plea deal (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:21 PM PST

Reuters - The court-martial of a U.S. Marine sergeant accused of leading a 2005 massacre of civilians in the Iraqi city of Haditha resumed on Friday without a plea deal, suggesting that court-sanctioned negotiations toward such an agreement had stalled.

Exclusive: President Obama Dismisses Romney's Foreign Policy Attacks (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:25 PM PST

Time.com - President Obama dismissed Republican rival Mitt Romney's critiques of his foreign policy credentials Wednesday in an exclusive TIME interview

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

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:25 PM PST

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

Former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart engaged to marry (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 05:07 PM PST

Reuters - Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped at age 14 from her Salt Lake City home and held for what she described as "nine months of hell," is engaged to be married and anticipates a wedding in early summer, a family spokesman said on Friday.

Ill. man in joking mood despite nail in brain (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:24 PM PST

This photo provided by Christ Medical Center & Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn,, Ill. on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012 shows an X-ray of a nail embedded in Dante Autullo's brain. Autullo unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, and posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery. (AP Photo/Christ Medical Center & Hope Children's Hospital)AP - Gail Glaenzer still can't believe that her fiance unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, let alone that he posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery.

Viral video spoofs the, er, stuff New Yorkers say (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:17 PM PST

This image courtesy of Mindy Tucker shows comedians Eliot, left, and Ilana Glazer as they pose for a photograph in New York. A video the siblings created about the things New Yorkers say has gone viral in the few days it's been posted, attracting lots of opinions of what New Yorkers do and don't say. (AP Photo/Mindy Tucker)AP - Hip young New Yorkers hate waiting for the subway. They wouldn't be caught dead near tourist sites and couldn't care less if a celebrity walked by. They're snobby about what they read, even snobbier about what they eat, stick to their own borough, and call the most minuscule bedrooms "huge."

Tiny baby leaves Los Angeles hospital amid fanfare (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:16 PM PST

Haydee Ibarra looks at her 14-week-old daughter, Melinda Star Guido, at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. At birth, Melinda Star Guido tipped the scales at only 9 1/2 ounces, less than a can of soda. After spending her early months in the neonatal intensive care unit, a team of doctors and nurses will gather Friday Jan. 20, 2012 to see her off as she heads home. She is the world's third smallest baby and the second smallest in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - One of the world's smallest surviving babies was discharged Friday from the hospital where she spent nearly five months in an incubator — but not before getting the Hollywood treatment.

New US plan to stop drug flow over northern border (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 02:29 PM PST

AP - Federal law enforcement agencies will help tribal officers obtain equipment and training on Indian lands near the U.S.-Canadian border as part of the White House's newly released strategy for reducing the flow of illegal drugs and drug proceeds between the two countries.

Police witnesses called in fake 'Rockefeller' case (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:17 PM PST

FILE - In this July 8 2011 file photo, Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a German man who masqueraded as a member of the famous Rockefeller family, appears in an Alhambra, Calif. court. Gerhartsreiter faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 in the cold case murder of John Sohus, 27, who disappeared from San Marino, Calif. in 1985. (AP Photo/Sarah Reingewirtz, Pool, File)AP - A forensic scientist testifying in the murder case against a man who posed as an heir to the Rockefeller fortune says there were four bloodstains in the Southern California guesthouse where the suspect lived.

29 homes lost in Nevada fire; 2,000 evacuated (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:26 PM PST

A house burns just south of the Old 395 Gas Station Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 in Washoe Valley, Nev. Winds gusting up to 82 mph pushed a fast-moving brush fire south of Reno out of control on Thursday as it burned several homes, threatened dozens more and forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. (AP Photo/The Reno Gazette-Journal, Liz Margerum) NEVADA APPEAL OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALESAP - Reno hasn't seen a winter this dry in more than 120 years. So residents welcomed a forecast that a storm was due to blow across the Sierra Nevada this week.

Adult in Ohio Craigslist case charged with murder (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 05:03 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2011 file photo, Richard Beasley, 52, appears in Summit County Common Pleas Court in Akron, Ohio, on drug charges. Confusion over rules governing prisoner transfers and lack of communication helps explain why Beasley, now suspected in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme, was mistakenly released from Ohio custody twice, according to a state prisons report. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)AP - A self-styled chaplain suspected in a deadly scheme to rob people who replied to a Craigslist job ad has been charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping and robbery and could face the death penalty if convicted, according to an indictment announced Friday.

Coroner IDs man whose head found in Hollywood Park (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 07:06 PM PST

AP - Coroner's officials on Friday identified a man whose dismembered head, hands and feet were found in a Hollywood park as a 66-year-old from Los Angeles, and police continued to hunt for his killer.

After protest, Congress puts off movie piracy bill (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 06:18 PM PST

Megaupload.com employees Bram van der Kolk, also known as Bramos, left, Finn Batato,second from left, Mathias Ortmann and founder, former CEO and current chief innovation officer of Megaupload.com Kim Dotcom (also known as Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor), right, appear in North Shore District Court in Auckland, New Zealand, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. The four appeared in court in relation to arrests made to Megaupload.com, which is linked to a U.S. investigation into international copyright infringement and money laundering. (AP Photo/Greg Bowker, New Zealand Herald) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUTAP - Caving to a massive campaign by Internet services and their millions of users, Congress indefinitely postponed legislation Friday to stop online piracy of movies and music costing U.S. companies billions of dollars every year. Critics said the bills would result in censorship and stifle Internet innovation.

PSU trustees install new leadership (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:01 PM PST

Penn State Board of Trustees President Karen Peetz addresses the board at its regularly scheduled meeting in State College, Pa., Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. Peetz was elected to the position earlier in the meeting. Penn State President Rodney Erickson also used the meeting as an opportunity to address the perception that the university isn't being as open and honest as it could be in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. (AP Photo/Andy Colwell)AP - Penn State's Board of Trustees elected banking executive Karen Peetz to lead the embattled board and help the school negotiate the aftermath of a nightmarish child sex abuse scandal involving a former assistant football coach.

TV station covers Ohio bribery trial with puppets (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 02:06 PM PST

A puppet representing witness Ferris Kleem is shown during taping at WOIO-TV in Cleveland Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. The station uses the puppets performing as witnesses, reporters and jurors to detail the corruption trial against former Cuyahoga county commissioner Jimmy Dimora, which began last week in federal court in Akron. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - It's "Sesame Street" meets the unseemly side of politics.

Snow cancels flights, snarls traffic in Chicago (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 05:00 PM PST

Cars move slowly as snow falls in Chicago on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. Hundreds of flights were canceled at O'Hare International and Midway airports today as a snowstorm moved into the Chicago area with the threat of dumping more than 6 inches of snow.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)AP - Chicago officials worked Friday to prevent a repeat of last year's "snowmageddon," when a blizzard left hundreds of drivers stranded along one of the city's main thoroughfares for up to 12 hours overnight.

Power outages in Northwest could continue for days (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 04:41 PM PST

A U.S. flag is shown encrusted with ice, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, near Lacey, Wash. Heavy layers of ice brought down trees and power lines across the Northwest Friday, following two days of snow and ice storms. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - A Pacific Northwest storm that brought snow, ice and powerful winds left a mess of fallen trees and power lines Friday as tens of thousands of residents already without power faced the prospect of a cold, dark weekend and flooding became a top region-wide concern.

Wisconsin recall webcam so boring it's mesmerizing (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 03:20 PM PST

This Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, frame grab from a webcam put up by the Government Accountability Board shows Wisconsin state workers in Madison, Wis. processing about 1.9 million petition signatures to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker and six others from office. The webcam has attracted a following of political junkies, despite there being no sound and no indication of the specific tasks each person is performing. (AP Photo/Government Accountability Board)AP - Nameless bureaucrats processing petitions to recall the governor shuffle in and out of the frame, stacking, unstacking and scanning seemingly endless piles of paper in a process carried live on an increasingly popular webcam that's so mind-numbingly boring, it's mesmerizing.
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