Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Maryland Senate committee approves gay marriage bill (Reuters)

Maryland Senate committee approves gay marriage bill (Reuters)

Maryland Senate committee approves gay marriage bill (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:08 PM PST

Reuters - A Maryland Senate committee approved a gay marriage bill on Tuesday, sending the issue to the full Senate and moving Maryland closer to becoming the eighth state to legalize same-sex nuptials.

Top court to hear university race admissions case (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:53 PM PST

Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether a state university may consider an applicant's race to achieve a more diverse student body, revisiting in an election year a divisive social issue it last addressed nine years ago.

Convicted murderer dies while on hunger strike in California (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 12:20 PM PST

Reuters - A 27-year-old convicted murderer has died while on a hunger strike to protest restrictions on access to health, good food, legal services and other amenities in a segregation unit at a California prison, prison officials said on Friday.

A Champion in Purgatory: Muhammad Ali Returns to Vegas (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:45 PM PST

Time.com - As part of an extended celebration of his 70th birthday, the ailing legend appears at a massive fundraiser to benefit brain research

Three Pieces of Advice Mitt Romney Shouldn't Take (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 01:45 PM PST

Time.com - Here are three things in particular that Romney should not do if he wants to salvage his listing candidacy

Saudi accused in U.S. bomb plot competent to stand trial: judge (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:00 PM PST

Reuters - A Saudi student accused of plotting to build and detonate bombs against targets including the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush was declared competent to stand trial on Tuesday by a federal judge.

Spanish treasure to leave via US military base (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:22 PM PST

AP - The transfer of 17 tons of shipwreck treasure wrested away from deep-sea explorers to the Spanish government will be made later this week from a U.S. Air Force base in Florida, officials confirmed Tuesday night.

Prop. 8 backers seek review of gay marriage case (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:02 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2012 photo, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, seated, raises her arms as legislators and supporters cheer behind her after she signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage, in Olympia, Wash. As the Washington state Legislature passes the halfway mark of a session marked by gay marriage and budget woes, some measures are still alive and others have died. Among those still in play are a bill linking abortion coverage to maternity care and a pared-down transportation funding package. The casualties include a medical marijuana bill and an act to make it easier for minority candidates to get elected in local elections. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - The backers of California's same-sex marriage ban petitioned a federal appeals court Tuesday to review a split decision by three of its judges that struck down Proposition 8, opting for now to avoid taking their chances before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Authorities ID mountain man suspect in burglaries (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:56 PM PST

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff's Office in January, shows a man who authorities on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 identified as Troy James Knapp, walking past a cabin in the remote southern Utah wildness near Zion National Park. Authorities say Knapp, captured by a motion-triggered surveillance camera sometime in December, has been linked to more than two dozen cabin burglaries over the past five years. (AP Photo/Iron County Sheriff, File)AP - Authorities on Tuesday identified a man sought for more than five years in dozens of cabin burglaries in the mountains of southern Utah.

Treasury to release corporate tax plan Wednesday (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:44 PM PST

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, talks about the importance of the payroll-tax cut and jobless-benefits extension compromise that bi-partisan House and Senate conferees reached last week, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - The Obama administration will propose lowering the current 35 percent corporate tax rate, while at the same time eliminating loopholes and subsidies and imposing a minimum tax on the overseas profits of American companies.

11 children removed from Texas home in abuse case (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:41 PM PST

A rusty chair and some toys sit outside a Dayton, Texas, house Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, where 11 children, some of them reportedly found in restraints, where removed by children's protective services last month. Texas authorities said Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, that they removed 11 children last month from the home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds. One month after a raid on the house, authorities are still trying to determine how the children are related and why they were there, Child Protective Services spokeswoman Gwen Carter said. Along with the children, 10 adults were living in the one-story, 1,700-square-foot home. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)AP - Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they found eight confined in a small, dark bedroom with restraints tying some to their beds.

NYPD monitoring of Muslim students sparks outrage (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:44 PM PST

This combo made from file photos shows Yale President Richard Levin in New Haven Conn. on Sept. 13, 2009, left, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Cambridge, Mass. on Nov. 29, 2011. Bloomberg is facing off with Yale University over efforts by the NYPD to monitor Muslim student groups. Levin on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 said in a statement that monitoring of students based on religion was 'antithetical' to the schools' values. Bloomberg defended the practice, saying there is nothing wrong with officers keeping an eye on websites that are available to the general public. (AP File Photos)AP - The mayor faced off with the president of Yale University on Tuesday over an effort by the city's police department to monitor Muslim student groups for any signs that their members harbored terrorist sympathies.

Obama joins Jagger, B.B. King, to belt out blues (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:59 PM PST

President Barack Obama, left, helps B.B. King, right, on stage to perform during the White House Music Series saluting Blues Music in recognition of Black History Month, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The president just couldn't say no: Mick Jagger held out a mic almost by way of command, and soon Barack Obama was belting out the blues with the best of them.

Ex-LA teacher pleads not guilty to lewd acts (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

FILE - This undated police booking photo released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department shows former Los Angeles teacher Mark Berndt, 61, who was arrested for felony molestation of 23 kids after photos surfaced. For much of the last year, sheriff's detectives delicately and quietly investigated the case of Miramonte Elementary School teacher Berndt after discovering photographs of students gagged and blindfolded, some allegedly tasting his semen from a spoon. But they proceeded gingerly, desperate to prevent rumors from spreading around the campus that could taint the testimony of children. (AP Photo/ Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, file)AP - A former teacher whose arrest sparked a scandal at an elementary school that led to the replacement of all of its teachers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to committing lewd acts with 23 children in his classroom.

Sugarland attorneys: Injured Ind. fans share blame (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:43 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2011, file photo the American country music duo Sugarland, featuring vocalist Jennifer Nettles, right, and guitarist Kristian Bush perform a benefit concert in Indianapolis for victims of the Aug. 13 Indiana fair stage collapse. In a Feb. 16, 2012, response to a civil suit filed in November, attorneys for Sugarland say the injuries fans suffered in the deadly collapse were their own fault because they failed to take steps to ensure their own safety before high winds toppled stage rigging. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)AP - Attorneys for country duo Sugarland said concertgoers were at least partly to blame for injuries suffered in a stage collapse, drawing a sharp reaction from fans Tuesday and prompting the band's manager to issue a statement criticizing the finger-pointing.

Texas man guilty in sexual assault of ex-neighbor (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 06:00 PM PST

AP - A Texas man who abducted his former neighbor and tortured the woman while holding her captive for nearly two weeks was convicted Tuesday.

Speed puts community colleges front and center (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 03:29 PM PST

In this Friday, Feb. 17, 2012 photo, Brian Gasiewski, who received training at Macomb Community College, removes an external housing for an industrial shock absorber from a CNC (computer numerical control) machine at Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Co. in Sterling Heights, Mich. The high-tech job shop crafts high-precision parts for machines used in everything from robotics to aerospace to drilling. Macomb Community College lies a few miles down the road in this Detroit suburb. Sometimes it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Community colleges, long the under-loved stepchildren of American higher education, still don't get the dollars of their four-year counterparts, but they're standing very much in the spotlight these days. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)AP - Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Co. is a high-tech job shop, crafting super-precise parts for machines used in everything from robotics to aerospace to oil exploration. Macomb Community College lies a few miles down the road in this Detroit suburb.

Informant dubbed a `trailer park Mata Hari' (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:31 PM PST

In this courtroom sketch, a government informant, identified in court records as Rebecca Williams, testifies Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Phoenix in the trial of two white supremacist brothers charged with bombing a black city official. Williams, dubbed a 'trailer park Mata Hari' by defense attorneys, spent about five years talking with identical twins Dennis and Daniel Mahon, surreptitiously recording their conversations and getting them to open up about the plot with a series of provocative acts. Closing arguments in the trial began Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Maggie Keane)AP - She has been dubbed the "trailer park Mata Hari," an attractive ex-stripper recruited by the feds to befriend identical twin brothers accused of a white-supremacist bombing and to get them to admit to the crime.

Ex-Fiesta Bowl top executive enters guilty plea (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 04:34 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2009 file photo, Boise State coach Chris Petersen, left, is greeted by Fiesta Bowl president John Junker, right, after Petersen disembarked off a charter flight at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. Junker pleaded guilty Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, to a state felony charge to settle allegations stemming from a political donations scandal. The plea is part of an agreement with Arizona prosecutors in connection with the scandal that led to the firing last year of Junker, the bowl's longtime leader, and the resignation of chief operating officer, Natalie Wisneski. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)AP - The Fiesta Bowl's former top executive pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge stemming from a political donations scandal that nearly jeopardized the bowl's role as a regular host of college football's national championship game.

Neb. city's illegal immigration law to be nuisance (AP)

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 05:58 PM PST

AP - A Nebraska city's attempt to fight illegal immigration with a newly court-approved ordinance appears likely to be more of an inconvenience for legal residents than a deterrent to illegal immigrants.
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