Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol (Reuters)

Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol (Reuters)

Occupy protesters rally against Congress at Capitol (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:17 PM PST

Reuters - Demonstrators from the Occupy movement rallied at the Capitol and congressional office buildings on Tuesday to protest against the influence of money on lawmakers.

Enough signatures collected to recall Wisconsin governor (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:16 PM PST

Wisconsin State Governor Scott Walker speaks after signing the ceremonial bill, after the Republican-controlled House and Senate eliminated almost all collective bargaining for most public workers, at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin March 11, 2011. REUTERS/Darren HauckReuters - Organizers of the petition drive to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker submitted what appeared to be more than enough signatures on Tuesday to force the first-term Republican to defend his seat in a special election.

Severed head found in bag under Hollywood sign, police say (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:33 PM PST

Reuters - A severed human head was found in a bag below the iconic Hollywood sign in the hills above Los Angeles on Tuesday, prompting a search in the area for an accompanying body, authorities said.

After Two Days of Debate, Evangelical Leaders Unite Behind Santorum (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:30 AM PST

Time.com - A group of 125 evangelical leaders met in Texas this weekend and after eight hours of conversation and a final ballot taken on 3 x 5 cards named Rick Santorum as their preferred GOP candidate

Jon Huntsman Ends Presidential Campaign, Backs Romney (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:30 AM PST

Time.com - Jon Huntsman signaled that he will bow out of the Republican presidential race Monday morning and endorse Mitt Romney

End to California prison receiver "in sight": judge (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:59 PM PST

Reuters - California's ability to provide health care to its prison inmates has improved so much since a receiver was appointed to oversee it that the state should prepare to resume some oversight, a District Court judge said on Tuesday.

More accustomed to rain, Seattle braces for snow (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 05:17 PM PST

Washington State Patrol trooper Josh Griffith walks in a heavy snowfall to talk with drivers on Interstate 90 where the pass ahead was closed Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, near North Bend, Wash. Snow has been falling steadily in various parts of western Washington since the weekend, but meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Seattle said that the biggest snowfall could come on Wednesday. Forecasts issued Tuesday morning called for about 5 to 10 inches of snow for the Seattle metropolitan area with communities along the Interstate corridor south of Seattle expected to get heavier amounts. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Seattle, a city more accustomed to rain than snow, prepared for a potentially major snowstorm to hit Wednesday as the city's mayor urged residents to stay off roads and school officials prepared for the worst.

Fuel transfer runs smoothly in iced-in Alaska city (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:50 PM PST

In a photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, two fuel transfer hoses run side-by-side from the Russian tanker Renda to the Nome harbor Jan. 16, 2012. The hoses began transferring more than 1.3 million gallons of fuel from the tanker to the town later that day. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 3rd Class Grant DeVuyst)AP - A Russian tanker that went on an ocean odyssey of 5,000 miles to deliver fuel to the iced-in city of Nome was offloading the gasoline and diesel in what officials say is smooth sailing so far, with one possible problem avoided.

DA: Homeless killings suspect stalked victims (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:27 PM PST

A relative holds a government military photo of Itzcoatl Ocampo, a former Marine who saw combat in Iraq, in Yorba Linda, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. Ocampo has been named as a suspect in a series of killings of homeless men in Orange County, Calif. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - The Iraq War veteran would carefully stalk each of his victims from among the thousands of homeless living in Southern California. He would then stab them repeatedly with a knife that could cut through bone, authorities say.

Apparent 1st for Del. as gov. spares killer's life (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 04:34 PM PST

This undated photo provided Jan. 4, 2012 by the Delaware Department of Correction in Smyrna, Del., shows 49-year-old Robert Gattis. Delaware Gov. Jack Markell has decided to accept a recommendation from the state Board of Pardons that he commute Gattis' death sentence to life in prison without parole. Gattis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday for killing Shirley Slay in 1990. (AP Photo/Delaware Department of Correction)AP - Gov. Jack Markell, in an apparent first for Delaware, has spared the life of a man whose execution had been scheduled later this week for the shooting death of his former girlfriend.

Snow-laden Alaska towns dig out from huge pile-up (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:58 PM PST

AP - Students are back in class. Vulnerable roofs are shoveled for the most part. Snow removal crews are getting a breather as skies stay clear over this corner of Alaska.

Mount Rainier snowshoer burned money for warmth (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:18 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by Mount Rainier National Park, Yong Chun Kim, 66, of Tacoma, is shown. He was reported missing on Saturday after he fell down a slope and became separated from a group he was leading in the Paradise area, a popular high-elevation destination on the mountain's southwest flank, about a 100-mile drive south from Seattle. A rescue team reached Yong Chun Kim on Monday afternoon but it took nine hours to bring him from the rugged terrain covered in deep snow to a road, spokeswoman Lee Taylor said late Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Mount Rainier National Park)AP - A snowshoer who was lost in a blizzard for two days on Washington state's Mount Rainier said he stayed alive by digging out a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth.

Chef Paula Deen hid diabetes, pushed high-fat food (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:17 PM PST

FILE- This undated file photo courtesy of Food Network shows celebrity chef Paula Deen. Deen recently announced that she has Type 2 diabetes. While Deen has cut out glass after glass of sweet tea and taken up treadmill walking off camera, she plans few changes on the air. (AP Photo/Food Network, File)AP - Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, makes no apologies for waiting three years to disclose she has diabetes while continuing to dish up deep-fried cheesecake and other high-calorie, high-fat recipes on TV.

Reward offered in fatal beating near Liberty Bell (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:21 PM PST

An undated photo provided by the Gamma Iota Sigma fraternity, Sigma Chapter, of Temple University shows Kevin Kless, 23. Kless, a recent college graduate, was beaten shortly before 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 in Philadelphia's historic district when, investigators say, he yelled at a cab that wouldn't give him a ride and was savagely beaten by men who piled out of a car, perhaps in the mistaken belief he was yelling at them. The three men and the driver of the car drove off. Kless was pronounced dead at a hospital several hours later. (AP Photo/The Gamma Iota Sigma fraternity, Sigma Chapter, of Temple University)AP - Investigators pleaded Tuesday for witnesses to come forward and searched for surveillance footage of the men who beat to death a young man they apparently thought was yelling at them — not at the taxi that wouldn't give him and his friends a lift in the city's historic district.

US: Deadly attack on Americans was premeditated (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:59 PM PST

AP - U.S. military investigators found no conclusive evidence that an Afghan officer who killed eight U.S. airmen and one U.S. civilian during a meeting in Kabul in April had ties to the Taliban, according to a report released Tuesday.

US promotes democracy with suddenly important Togo (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:49 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves to local men and women after her meeting with Togo President Faure Gnassingbe at the Presidential Palace in Lome, Togo, Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week is taking stock of democratic advances in West Africa after an intense year of diplomacy preoccupied by the Arab Spring. The region's improvements in multiparty governance and the rule of law have come in fits and starts, and often on the back of political violence. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)AP - After venturing to reclusive Myanmar, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed democratic reforms Tuesday in another place long dominated by dictators, becoming the first American in her post to ever visit the African nation of Togo.

Parents say disabled NJ girl was denied transplant (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:36 PM PST

AP - The parents of a 3-year-old girl say she's being denied a kidney transplant because of her mental disabilities, but experts caution the situation may be much more complex.

Man guilty of killing Ga girl; body found in trash (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 06:15 PM PST

Ryan Brunn enters Superior Court Judge Frank Mills court at the Cherokee County Justice Center in Canton, Ga. on Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012. Brunn, 20, pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges including murder in the Dec. 2 killing of Jorelys Rivera. He responded “Yes, sir,” when a judge asked if he was pleading guilty to the charges. The judge accepted his plea and sentenced him to life without parole. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Phil Skinner) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUTAP - A maintenance man quietly detailed in court how he lured a 7-year-old girl into a vacant apartment, molested her, beat and stabbed her to death and stuffed her body into a trash bin. The admission Tuesday as the girl's family sobbed in the front row brought an unusually rapid conclusion to a murder case that frightened a north Georgia community just over a month ago.

Several hundred Occupy protesters rally at Capitol (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 03:35 PM PST

As Congress returns from its winter recess, protesters aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 201, to decry the influence of corporate money in politics. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Several hundred protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement converged on the West Lawn of the Capitol Tuesday to decry the influence of corporate money in politics and voice myriad other grievances.

Stabbing by 10-year-old in San Diego stuns friends (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:43 PM PST

Cody Vales, 16, looks down as he talks about the two neighborhood boys involved in a stabbing Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, in El Cajon, Calif. A 10-year-old boy is suspected of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old friend in the chest Monday with a kitchen knife, authorities say. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - A 10-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing a close friend has stunned a tight-knit community with a rare show of such violence by someone so young.
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