Saturday, July 28, 2012

3 shot dead in Pa.; girl taken, found safe in Ohio

3 shot dead in Pa.; girl taken, found safe in Ohio

3 shot dead in Pa.; girl taken, found safe in Ohio

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 01:08 PM PDT

Map locates site of a shooting in PennsylvaniaAuthorities in south-central Pennsylvania say a man confronting his estranged wife about custody arrangements for their daughter shot her to death and also killed her boyfriend and his mother, then fled with the 4-year-old girl before the two were found about 250 miles away in Ohio.

Column: London 2012 learns (again) how to lose

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:58 PM PDT

Rule Britannia? Try cruel Britannia.

QUITE A VIEW

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:57 PM PDT

Early in these games, one of the most popular places in Olympic Park has been atop a grassy hill where the Olympic rings stand and overlook the park. It's a breathtaking view, and there were long lines throughout the day Saturday as visitors scaled the hill to get their pictures taken under the rings.

US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:48 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 5, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Washington's political praise has reached a crescendo ahead of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's anticipated visit this weekend with Netanyahu in Israel. Their relationship has spanned decades, since their brief overlap in the 1970s at the Boston Consulting Group. Both worked as advisers for the firm early in their careers, before Romney co-founded his own private-equity firm. Romney in a speech this week called Israel The CIA station chief opened the locked box containing the sensitive equipment he used from his home in Tel Aviv, Israel, to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia, only to find that someone had tampered with it. He sent word to his superiors about the break-in.

ONE OF THE GUYS

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev attended the Russian women's volleyball match against Britain at Earls Court on Saturday afternoon. Surrounded by dark-suited, earphone-clad secret service, Medvedev even joined the crowd in doing the wave.

2 missing US climbers found dead

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Searchers have found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who perished on their way down from a glacier-capped Peruvian peak in mid-July.

Charlie Sheen sitcom poised for 90-episode pickup

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:38 PM PDT

FILE - This June 26, 2012 file photo shows actor Charlie Sheen attending the FX Summer Comedies Party at Lure in Los Angeles. Sheen's FX sitcom "Anger Management" is half-way through its initial 10-episode run and poised to get an order for 90 more. Sheen told reporters Saturday, July 28, 2012, that the prospect of continuing is as "exciting as hell," and added cheerily, "I don't think 90's gonna be enough." (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP, File)Charlie Sheen says he's not insane anymore.

CELEB INTERLUDE

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:38 PM PDT

AP's Jenna Fryer reports from the streets of London:

Olympic viewing: NBC sets opening ceremony record

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:28 PM PDT

A look at media coverage of the London Olympics:

Chinese city kills project after pollution protest

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:26 PM PDT

A protester stands in front of a lines of riot police officers Saturday July 28, 2012 in Qidong, Jiangsu Province, China. Authorities in eastern China dropped plans for a water-discharge project Saturday after thousands of protesters angry about pollution took to the streets, in the latest of many such confrontations in a country where three decades of rapid economic expansion have come at an environmental price. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)Authorities in eastern China dropped plans for a waste water discharge project Saturday after thousands of protesters angry about pollution took to the streets. It was the latest of many such confrontations in a country where three decades of rapid economic expansion have come at an environmental price.

PHOTO OP, FOOD OP

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:25 PM PDT

USA's Ariel Hsing hits a shot during a first round table tennis match against Mexico's Yadira Silva at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)American 16-year-old Ariel Hsing was tickled about reaching the second round in table tennis on Saturday. But meeting Michelle Obama on Friday might have been even better.

Syrian rebels survive regime onslaught in Aleppo

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:23 PM PDT

In this Sunday, 22 July, 2012 photo a Syrian rebel fires his weapon during clashes with Syrian troops in Idlib, Syria. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government launched an offensive Saturday to retake rebel-held neighborhoods in the nation's commercial hub of Aleppo, unleashing artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships against poorly armed opposition fighters.

Romney closing Israeli fundraiser to reporters

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:22 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife Ann board his charter plane at London Stansted Airport, Saturday, July 28, 2012, as he travels to Israel. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to raise campaign money in private while in Israel, so what he tells wealthy supporters while abroad will be kept quiet.

Warm reception expected as Romney lands in Israel

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:22 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and wife Ann arrive in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, July 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Mitt Romney's support for Israel will likely earn the presumptive Republican presidential nominee a warm welcome from Israeli leaders when he meets with them Sunday — and a frosty reception from Palestinians, who fear he would do little to advance their stalled statehood dreams.

Lochte wins 400 IM in blowout; Phelps finishes 4th

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:20 PM PDT

USA's Michael Phelps competes in a heat of the men's 400-meter individual medley at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)Ryan Lochte turned his much-anticipated duel with Michael Phelps into a blowout, pulling away to win the Olympic 400-meter individual medley by more than 3 seconds Saturday night. Even more stunning: Phelps didn't win any medal at all.

Record-setting opening ceremony for NBC

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:19 PM PDT

Fireworks ignite over the Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)The Olympics opening ceremony was seen in the U.S. by 40.7 million people, making it the most-watched opening ceremony for a summer or winter Olympics.

Olympics 2012: Live Report

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:11 PM PDT

A shock victory in the cycling road race for Kazakhstan's Alexandre Vinokourov1910 GMT: A big grin from Lochte as he receives his medal on the podium and the US national anthem plays -- but no sign of the diamond teeth grill. Rapturous applause from the crowds for the American who celebrates his 28th birthday on August 3.

HAPPY ODDSMAKERS

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:10 PM PDT

There were some pretty sad-looking people cycling out of central London after Mark Cavendish failed in his bid to win the men's road race.

Gambhir, Raina fire India to victory

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:06 PM PDT

Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir raises his bat and helmet in celebration after scoring a centuryGautam Gambhir cracked a century and Suresh Raina smashed a brisk 65 not out to power India to a thrilling five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the third one-day international in Colombo on Saturday.

House Ways and Means chairman fighting cancer

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 12:02 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2011, file photo, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., talks on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a hearing on three trade bills. Camp says July 28, 2012, he's been diagnosed with a "very early, highly treatable and curable type" of cancer. He says in a statement that doctors found non-Hodgkin lymphoma during a recent routine yearly physical. Camp says he'll continue in Congress and retain his committee chairmanship while undergoing chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)The chairman of the House's tax-writing committee says he's been diagnosed with a "very early, highly treatable and curable type" of cancer.

2 Colo. victims mourned at funerals in Ohio, Texas

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT

Pallbearers carry Matt McQuinn, killed in the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting, from the church after his funeral Saturday, July 28, 2012, in Springfield, Ohio. McQuinn shielded his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler, from gunfire during the shooting. Twelve people were killed and dozens were wounded in a shooting attack last Friday at a packed movie theater during a showing of the Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises." Police have identified the suspected shooter as James Holmes, 24. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)The woman whom Matt McQuinn loved and whose life he saved by taking three bullets for her wept as pastors spoke of his heroism and sacrifice during his funeral Saturday, and of the senselessness of the shooting spree at a Colorado movie theater where he and 11 others were killed just more than a week ago.

PRESSURIZED

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:59 AM PDT

USA head coach Geno Auriemma, top, helps up Croatia guard Sandra Mandir after she was knocked out of bounds during a basketball game at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)U.S. women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma on the pressure that comes with a 34-game winning streak in the Olympics: "Some day, maybe it's Monday, maybe Wednesday, maybe Friday, Sunday, who knows, the United States is going to lose in the Olympics. ... I'll be disappointed for those players. But the pressure's there whether you worry about it or not."

BRITAIN, NOT YANKS

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:51 AM PDT

Boston Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia, right, tags out New York Yankees' Andruw Jones at home plate during the eighth inning of a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York, Friday, July 27, 2012. The Yankees defeated the Red Sox 10-3. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)The Olympics opening ceremony dwarfed the Red Sox-Yankees game for viewership in the New York market. The Yankees' 10-3 win Friday night was seen by an average of 335,000 viewers on the YES Network while the Olympics were viewed by an average of 2,634,000 on WNBC, according to YES.

Jackson move to Mayo could point to complications

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:46 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2011 file photo, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., is seen during the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington. The Mayo Clinic says Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. is being treated for depression at its hospital in Rochester, Minn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)Jesse Jackson Jr.'s transfer to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota could indicate a complicating physical illness arose during the Illinois congressman's treatment for depression, several experts in psychiatric care said Saturday.

Queen tours Olympic Park after debut as Bond Girl

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:43 AM PDT

Queen Elizabeth II meets athlete Nick Willis and other members of the New Zealand Olympic team, as she tours the Athletes Village dining hall at the Olympic Park, in London, Saturday July 28, 2012. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool)Fresh from her star turn as the latest Bond Girl, Queen Elizabeth II returned to Olympic Park for an encore Saturday, while the usually biting British press gave a resounding review: We are amused.

US team expects tough challenge in chase for gold

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:43 AM PDT

United States guard Kobe Bryant (10) talks to reporters during a men's team basketball practice at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)It's go time for the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team. It's gold time.

LOCHTE, NOT PHELPS

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:41 AM PDT

A U.S. win in swimming just now: Ryan Lochte wins United States' first gold of the London Olympics in the 400 IM. Michael Phelps comes in fourth.

Rebels hold 100 Syria loyalists in Aleppo-monitor

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:31 AM PDT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels have detained at least 100 Syrian officers, soldiers and pro-government militiamen this week in the city of Aleppo, where a major battle is anticipated, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. A video posted on YouTube showed rebels with Kalashnikovs from "The Tawheed (monotheism) Brigade" guarding the detainees who were lined up in four groups omn a school playground. An off-camera voice said they had been detained in Aleppo, Syria's biggest city. ...

Assad has many generals to fight Syrian rebels

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on July 19, 2012, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, meets with Fahd Jassem al-Freij, Syria's new Defense Minister, in Damascus, Syria. Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime received last week the worst blow since the country's crisis began 17 months ago in what many thought would quickly bring the Assad family four-decade dynasty to an end but the government appears to have absorbed the shock of the explosion that killed four top security officials and it's on the offensive again. (AP Photo/SANA, File)The Syrian regime appears to have absorbed the shock it suffered in the heaviest blow against it yet in Syria's 17-month-old upheaval — a bombing that killed four top aides.

'ABSOLUTE BLAST'

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:22 AM PDT

Michael Rothwell from Wimbledon, who was watching beach volleyball with three male friends — all clad in bikini tops and shorts.

Narrow escapes for Phelps, Park

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT

US swimmer Michael Phelps competes in the men's 400m individual medley heatsMichael Phelps scraped into a 400m medley showdown with Ryan Lochte while South Korean hero Park Tae-Hwan was disqualified then reinstated on a turbulent opening day of the Olympic swimming competition here Saturday.

GUEST APPEARANCE

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Paul McCartney made a cameo at Horse Guards Parade, where he watched two matches of Saturday's opening day. He left his seats, though, right before Britain's men's match against Canada began.

Arkansas man sentenced to death in officer's death

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:05 AM PDT

An Arkansas man who shot a police officer during a traffic stop last year, then coldly shot him in the face while he was pleading for his life, was sentenced to death on Saturday.

US cruises to lead in men's gymnastics qualifying

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:01 AM PDT

U.S. gymnast Danell Leyva performs on the parallel bars during the Artistic Gymnastics men's qualification at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)The Americans just might be able to back up their big talk.

KEEPING IT NATURAL

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 11:01 AM PDT

At the London Olympics in 1908, gold medalists were presented, alongside their medals, with something rather British indeed. The king and queen would present winners with a glass-fronted box of oak leaves from Windsor Castle.

TAR HEEL BLUE

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:56 AM PDT

United States forward Anthony Davis, left, drives to the basket past Russell Westbrook during a men's team basketball practice at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 28, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)The easiest thing to notice upon walking into the gym at the University of East London, where the U.S. men's basketball team is practicing, is the color of the walls.

Peterson's murder trial follows years of acrimony

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:45 AM PDT

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by the Stacy Peterson family, Stacy Peterson, 23, right, of Bolingbrook, Ill., is seen with her younger sister Cassandra Cales. Peterson, the wife of Drew Peterson, a sergeant with the Bolingbrook Police Department, was reported missing Oct. 29, 2007. On Tuesday, July 31, 2012, opening statements are slated in the much-anticipated trial of the 58-year-old Peterson, who was charged with the 2004 murder of his 40-year-old third wife, Kathleen Savio, only after his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished without a trace in 2007. Many Savio family members are potential witnesses and so can't speak publicly about the case or sit in on testimony. But Cales, one of the most outspoken members of Stacy Peterson's family, said she will be at the Will County courtroom as the trial starts in earnest. (AP Photo/Courtesy the Stacy Peterson Family, File)The start of testimony in Drew Peterson's murder trial comes in the wake of public acrimony between the former Chicago police officer and relatives of his former wives.

SYRIA'S BALANCING ACT

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:44 AM PDT

Syria's Olympic team arrives during the Opening Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 27, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)He's in a delicate position for sure.

US women overcome sloppy play, beat Croatia 81-56

Posted: 28 Jul 2012 10:42 AM PDT

FILE - In this photo May 12, 2012 file photo, United States' Diana Taurasi competes against China in an exhibition women's basketball game in Seattle. The U.S. begins its quest for a fifth straight Olympic gold medal against Croatia on Saturday, July 28, 2012, a team the Americans beat 109-55 a week ago in Istanbul.(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)Tina Charles scored 14 points and Angel McCoughtry added 13 to lead the U.S. women's basketball team to a sloppy 81-56 victory over Croatia on Saturday in their Olympic opener.
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