Wednesday, January 4, 2012

"Rage against Americans" cited in L.A. arson case (Reuters)

"Rage against Americans" cited in L.A. arson case (Reuters)

"Rage against Americans" cited in L.A. arson case (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:17 PM PST

Reuters - A German citizen was charged on Wednesday with setting dozens of fires across Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend in a spree an arson investigator said was motivated by a "rage against Americans."

Giffords to attend Tucson shooting memorial event (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:55 PM PST

Reuters - Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords will attend a vigil in Tucson on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the mass shooting a year ago in which she was badly wounded, her office said on Wednesday.

Mexico drug lord pleads guilty to U.S. trafficking (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:59 PM PST

Reuters - Once powerful Mexican drug lord Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday to drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering charges.

L.A. Phil's Dudamel Leads At-Risk Kids to Classical Music (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:30 AM PST

Time.com - The Los Angeles Philharmonic's star director Gustavo Dudamel brought a groundbreaking program from his native Venezuela. So far, the results have been heartening

Arson Mystery: Who Is Setting Los Angeles on Fire? (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:30 AM PST

Time.com - The police have a person of interest but no confirmed leads to why cars and homes and parking lots are going up in flames

Arizona sheriff says will cooperate with federal officials (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:46 PM PST

Reuters - A controversial Arizona sheriff said on Wednesday he would cooperate with federal officials who have said his office engages in widespread discrimination against Latinos.

Police-on-police shootings rare; guidelines rarer (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:57 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent John Capano, who died while trying to subdue a suspect in a pharmacy robbery in Seaford, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. A law enforcement official speaking on the condition of anonymity told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012 that Capano likely was shot by a retired Nassau County police lieutenant who had been down the street at a deli and responded to the robbery along with an off-duty New York police officer. Off-duty and retired law enforcement officers appear to have few protocols to follow when confronting a crime out of uniform, like the apparent friendly fire that left John Capano dead on New Year's Eve. (AP Photo/Department of Justice, File)AP - Street smarts, judgment, discretion.

Navy pilot killed self in San Diego murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:03 PM PST

This 2011 photo provided by the Reis family shows Karen Reis, left, and her brother David Reis at his winging ceremony for the Navy. The Reis siblings 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, Jan. 2, 2012. David Reis, 25, was an aviator in training at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar since September, and his sister was a girls volleyball coach and worked at a grocery store. (AP Photo/Reis Family Photo)AP - A New Year's Day shooting that left four people dead at a condominium near San Diego was a murder-suicide involving a 25-year-old Navy pilot who killed himself, officials said Wednesday.

German man charged with arson in New Year fires (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:26 PM PST

RE-TRANS WITH CORRECTED ASPECT RATIO - In this image taken from video released on Jan. 2, 2012 by OnScene.tv, arson suspect Harry Burkhart, 24, a German national, is arrested in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Burkhart was pulled over by a reserve sheriff's deputy and later booked for investigation of arson of an inhabited dwelling. Since the arrest, firefighters have not responded to any other suspicious fires. Police declined to reveal any motive for more than 50 fires that have occurred since Friday in Hollywood, neighboring West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley, causing about $3 million in damage. (AP Photo/OnScene.tv)AP - A German man was charged Wednesday with 37 counts of arson in connection with a rash of fires that terrorized Los Angeles over the New Year's weekend.

FDA limits some antibiotics in livestock (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:02 PM PST

AP - The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday ordered farmers to limit the use of a type of antibiotics they give livestock because it could make people more resistant to a key antibiotic that can save lives, encouraging news for public health advocates who say such animal antibiotics are overused.

More US women having twins; rate at 1 in 30 babies (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:45 PM PST

Graphic charts number of twin births per thousand births since 1985.AP - The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of test-tube babies and women waiting to have children until their 30s, when the chances of twins increase.

Mexican cartel kingpin pleads guilty in US court (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:13 PM PST

AP - Mexican drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money, avoiding the spectacle of a trial for the leader of a cartel that once smuggled hundreds of tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States and dissolved bodies of its rivals in vats of lye.

LA auxiliary bishop resigns, admits fathering kids (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:56 PM PST

AP - The resignation of a Los Angeles bishop who fathered two children has shocked the nation's most populous Roman Catholic archdiocese, where Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala grew up and was an outspoken supporter of causes dear to the huge Hispanic population.

Pentagon to unveil plan guiding big spending cuts (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2011, file photo Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey take part in a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington. The Obama administration is rewriting its defense strategy to absorb hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S. defense budget cuts while scaling back the longstanding Pentagon goal of being ready to fight two wars simultaneously. The strategy, to be outlined at a news conference also attended by Panetta and Dempsey, is not expected to mark a big change in defense priorities. It may set the stage, however, for expected cutbacks in Europe and big weapons programs. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - The Obama administration is rewriting its defense strategy to absorb hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts while scaling back the longstanding Pentagon goal of being ready to fight two wars simultaneously.

Study: Parasitic fly could explain bee die-off (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:27 PM PST

In this photo provided by San Francisco State University, the larvae of an Apocephalus borealis fly emerges from the dead body of a host honey bee. The A. borealis fly is suspected of contributing to the decrease in the honey bee population. Researchers say the fly deposits its eggs in the abdomen of honey bees and as the larvae grow within the body of the bee, the bee begins to lose control of its ability to think and walk, flying blindly toward light. It eventually dies and the fly larvae emerge. (AP Photo/John Hafernik, San Francisco State University)AP - Northern California scientists say they have found a possible explanation for a honey bee die-off that has decimated hives around the world: A parasitic fly that hijacks the bees' bodies and causes them to abandon hives.

Panel urges lower cutoff for child lead poisoning (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 04:47 PM PST

In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006 photo, contractors Luis Benitez, foreground, and Jose Diaz, background, clean up lead paint in a contaminated building in Providence, R.I. A federal panel recommended Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012 that the threshold for lead poisoning in children should be lowered. If adopted by government officials, hundreds of thousands of additional U.S. children could be classified as having lead poisoning. Recent research persuaded panel members that children could suffer harm from concentrations of lead lower than the old standard, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said. (AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki)AP - For the first time in 20 years, a federal panel is urging the government to lower the threshold for lead poisoning in children.

Stirring up a fight, Obama names consumer watchdog (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 06:28 PM PST

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Richard Cordray before speaking about the economy, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will buck GOP opposition and name Cordray as the nation's chief consumer watchdog. Outraged Republican leaders in Congress suggested that courts would determine the appointment was illegal. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Defying Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama on Wednesday barreled by the Senate and installed a national consumer watchdog on his own, provoking GOP threats of a constitutional showdown in the courts. Setting a fierce tone in the election-year fight for middle-class voters, Obama said: "I refuse to take `no' for an answer."

NY Gov. Cuomo sets state on course for 2nd year (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 05:20 PM PST

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his second State of the State speech at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, N.Y., on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)AP - Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday outlined what he hopes are the next steps to reviving New York state and moving out of his famous father's shadow.

Oil industry chief warns Obama on Canada pipeline (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 02:18 PM PST

AP - The oil industry's top lobbyist warned the Obama administration Wednesday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline or face "huge political consequences" in an election year.

Texas police kill 8th-grader carrying pellet gun (AP)

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:24 PM PST

Nancy Blanco and her husband Arturo Carreon comforted their two children, Ashley Carreon,12, and Josey Lynn Carreon,13, after being reunited with them at Dean Porter Park in Brownsville,Texas Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. The park is across the street from Cummings Middle School. A 15 year-old student was shot and killed by Brownsville police at the school after he was seen brandishing a weapon inside the school. (AP Photo/The Brownsville Herald, Brad Doherty)AP - Police shot and killed an eighth-grader in the hallway of his middle school Wednesday after the boy brandished what looked like a handgun and pointed it at officers. It turned out to be a pellet gun that closely resembled the real thing.
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