Thursday, October 4, 2012

Google, publishers shelve book-scanning suit

Google, publishers shelve book-scanning suit

Google, publishers shelve book-scanning suit

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

FILE-In this Monday, Dec. 13, 2004, file photo, Vince Lee, 34, a library staffer at the University of Michigan's Buhr Shelving Facility, stands among the 2.4 million books that will be digitized in Ann Arbor, Mich. Google and U.S. publishers settled a longstanding dispute over Google's book-scanning project Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Google already has scanned more than 20 million books. Publishers and authors sued, saying the project violated their copyrights. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, Mandi Wright)Google and major book publishers have settled a lengthy legal battle over digital copyrights, but a bigger dispute still looms with thousands of authors who allege that Google is illegally profiting from their works.

Post-debate: Romney basks, Obama challenges

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:38 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a Colorado Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) meeting in Denver, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)An invigorated Mitt Romney basked in rave reviews Thursday after his first face-off with the president, envisioning an inaugural celebration, while President Barack Obama and his allies tried to rebound by vigorously accusing Romney of dishonesty on the debate stage.

Many states fall short of federal sex offender law

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:37 PM PDT

James Womack, director of Hand Up Ministries, walks through the gate which has a sign prohibiting women or children inside the community, in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. Hand Up Ministries is a non profit faith-based organization that offers help to men and women coming out of the prison system to re-enter society. The grounds currently house 150 sex offenders and 7 other felons. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Nearly three dozen states have failed to meet conditions of a 2006 federal law that requires them to join a nationwide program to track sex offenders, including five states that have completely given up on the effort because of persistent doubts about how it works and how much it costs.

Soldier who lost 4 limbs back in Michigan hometown

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:36 PM PDT

Yellow ribbons hang on street lights in Vassar, Mich., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 honoring Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills who is visiting his hometown for the first time since losing all four limbs while fighting in Afghanistan. Mills, his wife, Kelsey, and their 1-year-old daughter, Chloe, will be the grand marshals of Vassar High School's homecoming parade on Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills had been a lot of places since losing his four limbs in Afghanistan. The one place he hadn't been was where people knew him best.

Debate thrusts Big Bird into presidential campaign

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:36 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 30, 2009 file photo shows Big Bird, of the children's television show Sesame Street, in Los Angeles. Big Bird is endangered. Jim Lehrer lost control. And Mitt Romney crushed President Barack Obama. Those were the judgments rendered across Twitter and Facebook Wednesday during the first debate of the 2012 presidential contest. While millions turned on their televisions to watch the 90-minute showdown, a smaller but highly engaged subset took to social networks to discuss and score the debate as it unspooled in real time. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)Big Bird has never been so hot.

Feds charge 91 people in $429M Medicare fraud

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:35 PM PDT

A federal strike force has charged 91 people, including a hospital president, doctors and nurses, with Medicare fraud schemes in seven cities involving $429 million in false billings.

Facebook now home to 1 billion monthly users

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:34 PM PDT

In this Sept. 11, 2012 photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a "fireside chat" at a conference organized by technology blog TechCrunch in San Francisco. Zuckerberg updated his Facebook status on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, to announce that the social networking site has more than 1 billion active users each month. He thanked users and said that he is committed to making Facebook better. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company has had a difficult time of late. There were trading glitches the day it went public in May and concerns since then about its revenue potential. It's also facing lawsuits from disgruntled shareholders.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)More than a billion people now log into Facebook each month to check up on old friends, tag photos of new ones and post about politics, religion, cats or what their kids are doing.

Red Sox fire Valentine after 1 tumultuous season

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:33 PM PDT

Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine watches his team play the New York Yankees during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)The Boston Red Sox thought Bobby Valentine would restore order to a coddled clubhouse that disintegrated during the 2011 pennant race.

Curt Schilling might have to sell bloody sock

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:32 PM PDT

FILE - This April 26, 2007 file photo shows Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's bloody sock and spikes on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Schilling might have to sell the famed blood-stained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series to cover millions of dollars in loans he guaranteed to his failed video game company. Schilling, whose Providence-based 38 Studios filed for bankruptcy in June, listed the sock as collateral to a bank in a September filing with the Massachusetts Secretary of State. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling might have to sell or give up the famed blood-stained sock he wore on the team's way to the 2004 World Series championship to cover millions of dollars in loans he guaranteed to his failed video game company.

FBI came and went to Benghazi in past 24 hours

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:31 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 12, 2012 file photo shows Libyans walking on the grounds of the gutted U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. An independent panel appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is opening its inquiry into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, amid demands from Congress for speedy answers to questions about the security of the mission and concerns that the FBI investigation into the incident has been delayed. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Alaguri, File)A team of FBI agents arrived in Benghazi, Libya, to investigate the terror attack on the U.S. Consulate and left within 24 hours, as the hunt for those who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans narrowed to one or two people in a local extremist group who may have had something to do with the attack, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Ann Romney to guest-host 'Good Morning America'

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:27 PM PDT

Ann Romney is guest-hosting "Good Morning America" next Wednesday.

Puerto Rican boxer Orlando Cruz announces he's gay

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:26 PM PDT

Describing himself as "a proud gay man," Puerto Rican featherweight Orlando Cruz on Thursday became what is believed to be the first pro boxer to come out as openly homosexual while still competing.

Legal fight waged for right to Bill Monroe's name

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Campbell "Doc" Mercer is throwing an annual festival celebrating the life and music of Bill Monroe but without the name of the "Father of Bluegrass Music" to promote it.

Grace shoots course-record 60 at Dunhill Links

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:24 PM PDT

Germany's Martin Kaymer during day one of the Alfred Dunhill Links Golf Championship at Carnoustie Golf Course, Carnoustie, Scotland Thursday Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Lynne Cameron/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUTSouth Africa's Branden Grace made five closing birdies to shoot a course record 12-under 60 in the opening round of the Dunhill Links Championship on Thursday.

Lawyer: 'Melrose' actress chased before NJ crash

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:22 PM PDT

A former "Melrose Place" actress charged in a fatal auto accident two years ago was being chased by another driver, her attorney told jurors on the first day of her manslaughter trial Thursday.

Chicago Teachers Union ratifies deal that ended strike

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:19 PM PDT

Robinson hugs another member of the Chicago Teachers Union as they celebrate the end of their strike in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Public school teachers in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new three-year contract, ending a bitter dispute with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over school reforms that prompted the first strike of city teachers in 25 years. The Chicago Teachers Union said 79.1 percent of its members voted in favor of the deal, which will give teachers an average pay raise of 17.6 percent over four years if the contract is extended an extra year. Ratification required a majority vote in favor. ...

Slain TV anchor's mom can sue hospital, workers

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 26, 2008 file photo provided by KATV Television, is former news anchor Anne Pressly. The mother of slain Little Rock TV anchor Pressly can proceed with a lawsuit claiming outrageous behavior by a hospital and three workers who illegally looked at her daughter's medical files, but an invasion of privacy claim must be dropped, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/KATV Television, File)The mother of a slain Little Rock TV anchor can proceed with a lawsuit claiming outrageous behavior by a hospital and three workers who illegally looked at her daughter's medical files, but an invasion of privacy claim must be dropped, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Rush, Public Enemy among Rock Hall of Fame noms

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:16 PM PDT

FILE - Alex Lifeson, left, and Geddy Lee of the rock band RUSH arrive for the Canadian Music Industry Awards in Toronto,in this Thursday, March 8, 2007 file photo. Rush is among the group of first-time nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.(AP Photo/CP, Frank Gunn, File)Rush, Deep Purple, Public Enemy and N.W.A. are among the group of first-time nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

B is for Burglar? Author Sue Grafton's home hit

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:15 PM PDT

"B'' is for burglar. Mystery writer Sue Grafton, whose best sellers are titled with a letter of the alphabet, tells WHAS-TV (http://bit.ly/QJzjMj ) that her Louisville home is one of several in her neighborhood that was broken into.

Abortion rights yacht sails around Moroccan port

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT

Women's rights activists sail a small boat around a yacht harbor in Smir, northern Morocco on Thursday Oct 4 2012 to raise awareness about safe abortions, despite officials' efforts to seal the port and anti-abortion protests on land. Organizers had initially said a large ship offering abortion information and services was on its way from the Netherlands on Thursday. In response, police sealed the port for what it called Moroccan police Thursday escorted from its waters a small yacht carrying women's rights activists claiming to be able to perform abortions on board, after anti-abortion protesters jeered them on land.

U.S. military helped FBI team in Benghazi visit: Pentagon

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday confirmed a visit of an FBI investigation team to the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi where the U.S. ambassador was killed in an attack last month and said U.S. military personnel provided support to the mission. "At the request of the FBI, the department provided logistic and security support to the investigation team in order to conduct work on site in Benghazi," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters. "(Department of Defense) personnel completed that support earlier today and have departed Benghazi along with the investigation team. ...

U.S. investigators visit Libya compound where ambassador killed

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:12 PM PDT

The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protestBENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A team of U.S. investigators traveled to the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday to visit the compound where the U.S. ambassador was killed in an attack last month, Libyan security sources said. FBI agents were dispatched to Libya after the September 11 assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission and on another facility in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed. But, until now, the agents apparently have remained in Tripoli. "An American team has been visiting the compound," one Libyan security source said. ...

Obama camp fights to keep lead after Romney shines in debate

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:09 PM PDT

President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Romney share a laugh at the end of the first presidential debate in DenverWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's backers scrambled to keep his edge in the presidential race on Thursday after rival Mitt Romney's aggressive debate performance put his campaign on a more positive footing after weeks of setbacks. The president, looking restrained and at times displeased, did not seize opportunities to attack the Republican challenger on his business record at Bain Capital, the "47 percent" video and his refusal to release more income tax returns. ...

Biden: Romney changed his position on tax cut

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:09 PM PDT

Vice President Joe Biden says Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney renounced his own tax cut during Wednesday's presidential debate.

Turkish PM doesn't want war with Syria

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:05 PM PDT

Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. Three suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in a government-controlled area of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people, leveling buildings and trapping survivors under the rubble, state TV said. More than 120 people were injured, the government said. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)Turkey doesn't want war with Syria but it's determined to protect its borders and its people, the country's prime minister declared Thursday.

NHL lockout forces canceled games through Oct. 24

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 15, 2012, file photo, ice covered hockey pucks are shown at the New Jersey Devils practice rink in Newark, N.J. The NHL said Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, that it has canceled the hockey season through Oct. 24, a total of 82 games, because of the ongoing lockout. The NHL and the players' union are unable to decide how to divide $3 billion in hockey-related revenues. There have been negotiations in recent days, but the sides have not gotten any closer to an agreement on core economic issues.(AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)The National Hockey League canceled two weeks of the regular season Thursday, the second time games have been lost because of a lockout in seven years.

FDA: Avoid drugs from company tied to meningitis

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:02 PM PDT

A sign on the door to the New England Compounding Center requests no soliciting at the Framingham, Mass. company, Wednesday Oct. 3, 2012. An outbreak of a rare and deadly form of meningitis has now sickened 26 people in five states who received steroid injections mostly for back pain, health officials said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration identified the maker of the steroid as New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy. (AP Photo/Bob Salsberg)The government is warning doctors and hospitals not to use any product from the specialty pharmacy that made the steroid suspected in a meningitis outbreak.

Egypt frees 2 Coptic boys held for Quran defiling

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Egyptian authorities on Thursday released two Coptic Christian boys taken into in juvenile detention for allegedly urinating on the Quran, but they will remain under investigation, a security official said.

Syria opposes escalation of violence with Turkey

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 12:00 PM PDT

Syria's U.N. envoy said Thursday his government is not seeking any escalation of violence with Turkey and wants to maintain good neighborly relations.

Romney gains ground on Obama after strong debate

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:56 AM PDT

Republican presidential nominee Romney greets his wife Ann at the end of the first U.S. presidential debate in DenverWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mitt Romney gained ground on Democratic President Barack Obama after a strong performance in the first debate of the presidential election, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. Romney is now viewed positively by 51 percent of voters, the first time the Republican challenger has enjoyed a net positive in the presidential race. Obama's favorability rating remained unchanged at 56 percent. Romney moved ahead of the president on several core issues after the Wednesday debate, which was widely seen as a victory for the Republican candidate. ...

Bosnia's National Museum closes after 124 years

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:54 AM PDT

Group of students shout slogans with banner reading "Shame on you" in front of National Museum, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Bosnia's 124 years-old National Museum closed its doors Thursday following disputes among politicians and dwindling state funding, with employees not receiving their salaries for a year.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)It survived the breakup of the Austrian empire, two world wars, the longest city siege in modern history and a bloody war in the 1990s that killed 100,000 people. Yet after 124 years, Bosnia's National Museum closed its doors Thursday due to dwindling state funding and disputes among rival ethnic groups.

Turkey steps up Syria strikes, says will defend borders

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:51 AM PDT

Turkish soldiers stand guard on the Turkish-Syrian border near the Akcakale border crossingAKCAKALE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey stepped up retaliatory artillery strikes on a Syrian border town on Thursday, killing several Syrian soldiers, while its parliament approved further military action in the event of another spillover of the Syrian conflict. Seeking to unwind the most serious cross-border escalation in its 18-month-old crackdown on dissent, Damascus apologized through the United Nations for shelling which killed five civilians in southeast Turkey on Wednesday and said it would not happen again, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said. ...

Mexico deploys forces in death of politician's son

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:50 AM PDT

In this Oct. 15, 2007 photo, Jose Eduardo Moreira Rodriguez, second from left, poses for photographers with his father, Humberto Moreira, second from right, and other unidentified siblings in Saltillo, Mexico. Moreira Rodriguez, son of an embattled former Mexican governor and political party leader, was found shot to death Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012. A relative of Humberto Moreira, who was president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and governor of Coahuila state, says the body of Humberto Moreira son was found Wednesday night in a rural area near Ciudad Acuna, across the border from Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Alberto Puente)The Mexican government dispatched troops, federal police and criminal investigators to a violence-torn state on the U.S. border on Thursday after the assassination of the governor's nephew sent tremors through one of Coahuila's most powerful political families.

Libyan protesters disrupt vote on new Cabinet

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:47 AM PDT

Protesters have broken up a session of Libya's parliament, disrupting a vote of confidence on a new Cabinet, demanding representation for their city.

Israel says Syrian mortar strike was attack on NATO

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:42 AM PDT

PARIS (Reuters) - Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor said on Thursday a deadly Syrian mortar strike on a Turkish town had to be considered an attack on a member of the NATO alliance. Israel is technically at war with Damascus and occupies the Golan Heights that it seized in the 1967 war and later annexed, but it has generally taken a cautious line on the uprising in its Arab neighbor. "One has to say that according to the NATO treaty, it was an attack on a member of NATO, and that means France," Meridor told reporters during a visit to Paris, referring to France's membership of NATO. ...

Red Sox act swiftly, fire Valentine after 1 season

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:41 AM PDT

Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine watches his team play the New York Yankees during the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)The Boston Red Sox fired manager Bobby Valentine on Thursday after one season in which he failed to bring order to a clubhouse that disintegrated during the 2011 pennant race.

Israeli Arab accused of spying for Hezbollah

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:40 AM PDT

Arab citizen of Israel Milad Khatib covers his face as he is escorted at the district court in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Israeli authorities on Thursday indicted an Arab citizen of Israel on charges of spying for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, accusing him of gathering intelligence on security for Israel's president and on army installations. (AP Photo/Abdullah Shama) ISRAEL OUT NOT FOR ARCHIVAL USEIsraeli authorities on Thursday indicted an Arab citizen of Israel on charges of spying for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, accusing him of gathering intelligence on security for Israel's president and on army installations.

Dow Jones average climbs after jobs report

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:39 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, file photo, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A pair of encouraging economic reports helped nudge the stock market higher Wednesday. Measures of business activity in the service sector and job growth last month came in better than economists had expected. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)An encouraging report on the labor market and better sales from Costco and other retail stores helped push the stock market higher Thursday.

Russia proposes diluted U.N. text on Syria attack in Turkey

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:34 AM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia on Thursday blocked adoption of a draft U.N. statement condemning a deadly Syrian mortar attack on a Turkish town and proposed a weaker text calling for "restraint" on the border, without referring to breaches of international law. Western diplomats complained that Russia's proposed Security Council statement, if accepted by the 15-members, would weaken the message to an unacceptable degree. Negotiations on the non-binding statement were continuing, they said. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said U.N. ...

Research on mice suggests new fertility treatments

Posted: 04 Oct 2012 11:32 AM PDT

This undated photo provided by researcher Katsuhiko Hayashi shows an adult mouse which was born from an egg cell produced from a skin cell, and her pups born normally. The eggs were produced by making skin cells revert to a kind of blank slate, so they could be prodded to develop into immature egg cells. The new work was reported online Thursday, Oct. 3, 2012, in the journal Science by a team at Kyoto University. (AP Photo/Science, Katsuhiko Hayashi)Scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice — a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, could someday allow women to stop worrying about the ticking of their biological clocks and perhaps even help couples create "designer babies."
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