Monday, January 2, 2012

Mount Rainier body confirmed as suspected gunman (Reuters)

Mount Rainier body confirmed as suspected gunman (Reuters)

Mount Rainier body confirmed as suspected gunman (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 05:45 PM PST

Reuters - A body found face down in the snow at Mount Rainier National Park is that of an Iraq war veteran suspected of killing a park ranger, then fleeing into the wilderness, authorities said on Monday.

Police arrest man in string of Los Angeles fires (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 01:49 PM PST

Reuters - Police arrested a man on Monday in connection with a wave of 53 arson fires targeting cars and structures, which caused more than $2 million in damages and left nerves in the second-largest U.S. city badly frayed.

Anti-Wall Street protesters make a show at Rose Parade (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 05:25 PM PST

Reuters - Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters sought to upstage the 123rd Tournament of Roses parade on Monday but were largely confined to the sidelines.

Mitt Romney: Winning, One Slogan at a Time (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 01:45 AM PST

Time.com - Everything Romney says is built for repetition, to be quoted in newspapers, in televised soundbites and seared into the national psyche

Mitt Romney: A Candidate's Rhetorical Evolution (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 01:45 AM PST

Time.com - The new and improved Romney travels the country not with a list, but with a story

Prisoner escapes from San Diego area jail in fire truck (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 05:15 PM PST

Reuters - A convicted car thief who was assigned to a San Diego area state prison's fire fighting detail escaped in one of the prison's yellow fire trucks, prison officials said on Monday.

Expert: Wastewater well in Ohio triggered quakes (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:33 PM PST

AP - A northeast Ohio well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.

Mom reunites with biological child 77 years later (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:09 PM PST

In this Dec. 28, 2011 photo, 100-year-old Minka Disbrow stands in her apartment in San Clemente, Calif. Disbrow, who was raped at age 16, has lived to be 100 - long enough to meet the daughter she gave up at birth 77 years earlier and learn about the six grandchildren she didn't know she had. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - For most of her 100 years, Minka Disbrow tried to find out what became of the precious baby girl she gave up for adoption after being raped as a teen.

Father: CA condo victims were Navy pilot, sister (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 04:02 PM PST

AP - A Navy pilot in training who recently took his first flight in an F/A-18 fighter jet and his sister, a girls volleyball coach, were among the four people found dead in a New Year's Day shooting at a condominium in a toney neighborhood on San Diego Bay, the victims' father said Monday.

Road funds at risk in some states over safety rule (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 11:57 AM PST

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2007 file photo, a truck drives on the Highway 40 bridge over I-70 near Midway, Mo. Unless Missouri acts soon, it could lose millions of federal highway dollars as a penalty for not adopting new safety requirements for commercial truckers. Approximately one-third of the states, including Missouri, have indicated they may not meet a Jan. 30 deadline for their drivers’ license offices to require interstate truck drivers to provide proof from a medical professional that they are healthy enough to drive. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson, File)AP - Stuck in a financial pothole, Missouri's highway department has been selling equipment and eliminating employees to scrounge up enough money to repair its roads. Unless it also changes state law, it could lose tens of millions of federal highway dollars as a penalty for not adopting new safety requirements for commercial truck drivers.

Police: Body found at Wash. park is that of gunman (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:10 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Pierce County Sheriff's Dept., Benjamin Colton Barnes, is shown. Officials said Barnes is a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a park ranger at Mount Rainier National Park, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012 in Washington State. (AP Photo/Pierce County Sheriff's Dept.)AP - An armed Iraq War veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger managed to evade snowshoe-wearing SWAT teams and dogs on his trail for nearly a day. He couldn't, however, escape the cold.

24-year-old arrested in Los Angeles arson spree (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:39 PM PST

Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters extinguishes numerous cars on fire in a carport in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. For the fifth night in a row, a spate of arson fires has sent firefighters scrambling to extinguish car fires in the Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, Studio City, and Sherman Oaks neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Fire Department confirms a person of interest has been detained and is being questioned in connection with the arson spree. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)AP - Authorities arrested a man Monday in connection with dozens of suspected arson attacks that destroyed parked cars, scorched buildings and rattled much of the nation's second-largest city over the New Year's weekend.

8 injured in 41-vehicle pileup on I-75 in Kentucky (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 04:48 PM PST

AP - Police say eight people have been injured in a 41-vehicle pileup that shut southbound Interstate 75 for hours on a day when scattered snow showers pelted northern Kentucky.

Fire attacks at NYC homes, Islamic center probed (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:12 PM PST

Police test an overhead surveillance lift in front of the Iman al-Khoei Benevolent Foundation in New York, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012. The foundation houses an Islamic cultural center, including a school, that was attacked by an unknown assailant Sunday who hurled a Molotov cocktail at the front of the building as members gathered for dinner. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - A police security tower rose into the sky Monday, keeping watch over a globally prominent Islamic cultural center that was firebombed amid a handful of attacks being investigated as possibly linked bias crimes.

Feds seek suspects in Utah deaths, Nevada shooting (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 05:57 PM PST

AP - Federal authorities joined a manhunt Monday for two fugitives described as "very dangerous" who are suspected of killing an elderly couple in their Utah home and shooting a woman in the head outside a Nevada casino.

William Carey, donated millions to education, dies (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 06:51 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo released by Johns Hopkins University shows William Polk Carey. Carey, an entrepreneur who founded a New York-based investment management firm bearing his name and donated millions of dollars to help found business schools at universities in Maryland and Arizona, has died at 81, his firm said Monday, Jan. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Johns Hopkins University, File)AP - William Polk Carey, an entrepreneur who founded a New York-based investment management firm bearing his name and donated millions of dollars to help found business schools at universities in Maryland and Arizona, has died at 81, his firm said Monday.

Obama, Congress begin 2012 in oil pipeline dispute (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 01:17 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama and Congress are starting the election year locked in a tussle over a proposed 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to Texas that will force the White House to make a politically risky choice between two key Democratic constituencies.

Critics assail crime laws aimed at people with HIV (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 09:30 AM PST

AP - A man in Texas is serving a 35-year prison sentence for spitting at a police officer — because he has the virus that causes AIDS and his saliva was deemed a deadly weapon. In Michigan, an HIV-positive man who allegedly bit a neighbor during an argument faced a bioterrorism charge.

Obama ending vacation, readying for re-election (AP)

Posted: 02 Jan 2012 10:15 AM PST

President Barack Obama and the first family leave the East-West Center after visiting an exhibit about the President's mother's anthropological work in Honolulu, Hawaii Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)AP - With an eye on the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama is wrapping up a low-key Hawaiian vacation and planning to quickly get back in front of voters as he ratchets up his bid for re-election.
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