Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Virginia lawmakers pass revised ultrasound requirement (Reuters)

Virginia lawmakers pass revised ultrasound requirement (Reuters)

Virginia lawmakers pass revised ultrasound requirement (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:50 PM PST

Reuters - Virginia lawmakers on Wednesday passed a revised ultrasound requirement for women seeking abortions that dropped a mandatory internal scan, after Republican Governor Bob McDonnell shifted his stance on the hotly contested measure.

U.S. judge orders Moroccan held for Capitol plot (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:11 PM PST

Reuters - A U.S. judge on Wednesday ordered a Moroccan man to be held on charges that he planned a suicide bombing attack against Congress, believing he was working with al Qaeda militants when in fact his contacts were undercover agents.

Struggling Floridians line up for a chance to keep homes (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:15 PM PST

Reuters - Nearly 1,200 people lined up at a downtown Miami conference center on Wednesday, holding onto mortgage documents and income statements in the hope of saving the homes they are struggling to pay for.

Is It Time to Start Worrying About Inflation Again? (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:35 PM PST

Time.com - The greatest threat to any long-term investor is inflation. It not only erodes the value of stocks and bonds, but also depresses economic growth and misleads policymakers

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

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 01:35 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

Guantanamo captive in plea deal with U.S. prosecutors (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:03 PM PST

Reuters - An alleged al Qaeda operative from Maryland held at Guantanamo Bay has entered into a plea agreement with U.S. military prosecutors that calls for him to testify against other detainees, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Authorities tracing phone of mountain man's family (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:27 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 - Troy James Knapp is a wanted man, a mountain recluse authorities say is responsible for more than two dozen cabin burglaries in the remote southern Utah wilderness. He's considered armed and dangerous, a ticking time bomb.

Report: Crime at US public schools on the decline (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 02:59 PM PST

AP - Violent crime at the nation's schools is declining, and students and schools are reporting less bullying and gang activity.

Man's childhood comic collection fetches $3.5M (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:22 PM PST

This Feb. 13, 2012 handout photo provided by Heritage Auction , shows the CGC-Certified 6.5 copy of Detective Comics #27 from the Billy Wright Collection at Heritage Auctions in Dallas,Texas. On Wednesday, the collection is expected to bring more than $2 million when Heritage Auctions offers the comics at auction in New York City. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Heritage Auctions)AP - Billy Wright plunked down dime after dime for comic books while growing up in the late 1930s and early 1940s, caring for the collection he started around the age of 9 until his death more than half a century later. On Wednesday, most of that collection sold for a whopping $3.5 million.

Police say love triangle led to CA murder-suicide (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:26 PM PST

AP - A 73-year-old gunman entangled in a love triangle shot and killed the treasurer of a remote-controlled airplane club who police said was having an affair with the estranged wife of the attacker.

Teenage girl dies after inhaling helium at party (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:26 PM PST

AP - Last weekend, 14-year-old Ashley Long told her parents she was going to a slumber party. But instead of spending the night watching videos and eating popcorn two blocks away, she piled into a car with a bunch of her friends and rode to a condo in Medford, Ore., where police say the big sister of one of her friends was throwing a party with booze and marijuana.

Police: Girl forced to run 3 hours dies; 2 charged (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:26 PM PST

AP - At a doublewide trailer along a dirt road in rural Alabama, authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin was forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. The severely dehydrated girl had a seizure and her death days later was ruled a homicide.

Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive' (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:30 PM PST

Imam Abdul A. Muhammad of the Masjid Imam K. Ali Muslim mosque in Newark, N.J., speaks in his clothing and accessories store, regarding surveillance of the Muslim community by the New York Police Department, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012. Americans in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive, even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months in mid-2007, plainclothes NYPD officers snapped pictures of mosques and eavesdropped in Muslim neighborhoods. The result was a 60-page report, obtained by The Associated Press. It cited no evidence of crimes. It was just a guide to Newark’s Muslims. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

2nd degree murder verdict in lacrosse death trial (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:24 PM PST

AP - Jurors found a former University of Virginia lacrosse player guilty of second-degree murder Wednesday in the drunken, jealousy-fueled slaying of his ex-girlfriend, rejecting a verdict of first-degree murder and a possible life sentence.

Judge says Wash. can't make pharmacies sell Plan B (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:32 PM PST

AP - Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the state's true goal was to suppress religious objections by druggists — not to promote timely access to the medicines for people who need them.

Lesbian federal worker wins health benefits case (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:25 PM PST

AP - A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Wednesday that the U.S. government cannot deny health benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee by relying on the 1996 law that bars government recognition of same-sex unions.

Police: Ga. victims related in Korean spa shooting (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:38 PM PST

AP - A gunman walked into the Su Jung Health Sauna, argued with someone and then opened fire, killing two of his sisters and their husbands, then himself, authorities said Wednesday

Obama signs payroll tax cut extension into law (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 05:16 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama signed the payroll tax cut extension into law Wednesday, notching an election-year victory and rare bipartisan agreement in the continuing partisan battle over jobs, taxes and debt.

8-year-old critical after Wash. school shooting (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 06:39 PM PST

AP - An 8-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday after she was shot in the abdomen at her elementary school near Seattle, and one of her classmates was detained, authorities said Wednesday.

Congressional offices receive mailed threats (AP)

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:25 PM PST

AP - Some congressional offices outside Washington and media organizations have received threatening letters containing a suspicious powdery substance that was tested and proved to be harmless, the FBI and the Senate's top law enforcement officer said Wednesday.
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