Thursday, February 16, 2012

New Jersey Assembly passes gay nuptials despite veto (Reuters)

New Jersey Assembly passes gay nuptials despite veto (Reuters)

New Jersey Assembly passes gay nuptials despite veto (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:55 PM PST

Phil Fung (R) holds hands with Shawn Klein, his life-partner of 18 years, during their marriage ceremony on the 61st floor of the Empire State Building in New York, February, 14, 2012. REUTERS/Andrew BurtonReuters - The New Jersey Assembly passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage on Thursday, sending the measure to Republican Gov. Chris Christie, a possible vice-presidential candidate who has promised a veto.

Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter dead at 57 (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 04:32 PM PST

Palm Beach Atlantic University head coach Gary Carter smiles before the start of their season opening game against Lynn University at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Florida February 2, 2012. REUTERS/Doug MurrayReuters - Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter, who led the New York Mets to a World Series and was known as "The Kid" for the exuberance he displayed on the field, died on Thursday after battling brain cancer. He was aged 57.

Plane carrying marijuana strays into Obama LA airspace (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:02 PM PST

Reuters - A small plane with more than 20 pounds of marijuana strayed into restricted airspace around President Barack Obama's helicopter on Thursday in Los Angeles, prompting U.S. F-16 fighters to rush to intercept it, officials said.

The Senate's Barbershop: An Unlikely Bailout Recipient (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:20 PM PST

Time.com - Your state's senators better have nice dos, because the Senate's barbershop recently received $300,000 to keep it running

Romance & Real Estate: How Your Housing Situation Affects Your Love Life (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:20 PM PST

Time.com - Where you live affects who you date -- and who will absolutely refuse to date you

Anti-abortion "personhood" bill clears Oklahoma senate (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:05 PM PST

Reuters - Oklahoma lawmakers edged closer toward trying to outlaw abortion on Wednesday by approving "personhood" legislation that gives individual rights to an embryo from the moment of conception.

Aretha, Stevie Wonder to sing at Houston's funeral (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:10 PM PST

FILE- In this Oct. 28, 2006, file photo, singer Whitney Houston arrives at the 17th Carousel of Hope Ball benefiting the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills, Calif. Houston died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, she was 48. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)AP - Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder will sing at the private funeral of Whitney Houston on Saturday in what promises to be a very musical service.

Dad won't be buried in Wash. near sons he killed (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:41 PM PST

FILE - In a Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011 file photo, Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, listens during a court hearing regarding the custody of his two sons, in Tacoma, Wash. A search at a recycling center in Grahan, Wash. recovered some papers, books and a map of Utah that Josh Powell dropped off the day before he killed his two young sons and himself in an explosive fire, the Pierce County sheriff's office said Monday, Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)AP - The man who killed his two sons in an explosive house fire in Washington state will not be buried in the same cemetery as the children, his family said Thursday.

NJ Assembly passes gay marriage bill (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:59 PM PST

A woman in the gallery is overcome by emotion after a bill sponsored by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora D-Trenton, legalizing same-sex marriages, passes and is the final Legislative approval for Marriage Equality at the State House in Trenton, N.J., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)AP - The New Jersey Assembly on Thursday passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriages, setting the stage for an expected veto by Gov. Chris Christie.

Curb the car dashboard technology, government asks (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 01:23 PM PST

AP - Auto dashboards are becoming an arcade of text messages, GPS images, phone calls and web surfing, the government says, and it's asking carmakers to curb those distractions when vehicles are moving.

Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:41 PM PST

In a courtroom sketch, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man who tried blowing up a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day 2009 is sentenced to life in prison by U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmonds in federal court in Detroit, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Jerry Lemenu)AP - Defiantly declaring "a day of victory," a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the flight testified that the failed attack had disturbed their sleep and travels for more than two years.

NY Times correspondent Shadid dies in Syria (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 07:12 PM PST

AP - New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid has died in eastern Syria while on a reporting assignment.

NJ trooper's triplets in bus crash: 1 dead, 2 hurt (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:06 PM PST

Investigators view the scene of a school bus crash Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, in Chesterfield, N.J. State police at the scene of the school bus crash say a child has died in the accident, and that the child is the daughter of a state trooper. The bus collided with a dump truck at about 8:30 a.m. at a Route 528 intersection in Chesterfield. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP - A dump truck collided with a bus carrying elementary schoolchildren on Thursday, killing an 11-year-old daughter of a state trooper and critically injuring three other students — two of them the triplet sisters of the dead girl, authorities said.

Stepbrother charged with sexual abuse of Wis. teen (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:31 PM PST

Mike Vega points to the area of sidewalk in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, where he discovered a starving 15-year-old after she escaped from her abusive father and stepmother last week. The severely malnourished teenager had been forced to stay in an unfinished basement for years and an alarm would sound if she went upstairs, police records say. The teen told authorities she ate what she could find in the garbage and on the floor of her father and stepmother's Madison home. Sometimes she was made to eat her feces and drink her own urine, according to a police affidavit. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)AP - Prosecutors on Thursday charged the stepbrother of a severely malnourished Wisconsin teen with repeatedly sexually assaulting her beginning around her 10th birthday, in the same year she claims her father and stepmother began confining her to the basement.

Ohio couple get 8 years in in son's cancer death (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:25 PM PST

Monica Hussing, center is handcuffed after being sentenced to eight years in prison on involuntary manslaughter charges in Cleveland Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Their son, Willie Robinson, died from Hodgkin lymphoma in 2008. Prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hussing's attorney is John Luskin, left. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)AP - The parents of an 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday following their guilty pleas to denying him medical treatment.

Ariz. officer scrutinized after 6th fatal shooting (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:22 PM PST

This undated photo provided by the Scottsdale, Ariz., Police Dept. shows Scottsdale Police Officer James Peters. Peters was one of several Scottsdale police officers called to a home in the Phoenix suburb on Tuesday night, Feb. 14, after neighbors reported a man holding a baby was threatening them with a handgun, Chief Alan Rodbell said. Peters shot and killed Loxas, who was holding his grandson at the time. For Officer Peters it is his seventh officer involved shooting since 2002, six of them being fatal. Police department spokesman Sgt. Mark Clark said investigators were looking into Peters' decision to shoot Loxas on Tuesday and why officers felt threatened or believed he was a threat to the child. (AP Photo/Scottsdale Police Department)AP - Is James Peters one trigger-happy cop? Or just an aggressive police officer who happens to find himself in more than the usual number of explosive situations?

Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 03:33 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 1962 photo provided by NASA, astronaut John Glenn climbs into the Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. for the flight which made him the first American to orbit the earth. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight.

Payroll tax cut bill facing Senate opposition (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 05:31 PM PST

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, talks about an accord on the payroll tax cut negotiations, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Capitol Hill negotiators Thursday officially unveiled hard-fought compromise legislation to prevent 160 million workers from getting slapped with a payroll tax hike, but it ran into turbulence in the Senate, where Republicans withheld support and several Democrats attacked it.

AP source: Pot found aboard plane near Marine One (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 06:01 PM PST

AP - Two Air Force F-16 fighters intercepted a privately owned Cessna airplane that entered the same Los Angeles airspace as Marine One on Thursday as the helicopter was ferrying President Barack Obama.
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