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After Texas school shooting, many questions loom
Fri,6 Jan 2012 05:32 AM PST
Associated Press -  The Rev. Jorge Gomez was counseling worried parents and frightened students late into the night the day police fatally shot an eighth-grader brandishing what appeared to be a handgun inside his South Texas school. The parents said their children weren't eating, some were running fevers, and needed to talk to someone.
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Gingrich's NAACP, Food Stamp Remarks Stir Controversy
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:32 AM PST
ABC News - Manchester, N.H.— The blogosphere piled up with headlines Thursday over a part of Newt Gingrich's campaign speech involving food stamps and the NAACP, which left the Gingrich campaign scrambling in defense to put Gingrich's comments in context. "And so I'm prepared if the NAACP invites... Full Story | Top |
Amid tensions, U.S. Navy rescues Iranians from Somali pirates
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:33 AM PST
The Envoy - Just days after Iranian and American military officials traded warnings over a U.S. Navy vessel's departure from the Persian Gulf, the United States Navy has rescued 13 Iranian fishermen and their fishing dhow from Somali pirates in the north Arabian sea, the Pentagon said Friday. And in a side irony that punctuates the rare instance [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama plans change in immigration rule on waivers
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:22 PM PST
Associated Press -  The Obama administration wants to more quickly reunite Americans with their illegal immigrant spouses and children in a move long sought by advocates but panned by Republicans as a way to push unpopular policies around Congress.
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Marine biologist could get 20 years in prison for feeding whales
Fri,6 Jan 2012 11:23 AM PST
The Sideshow - A California marine biologist is facing up to 20 years in prison and half a million dollars in fines for allegedly feeding a group of killer whales and then altering footage of the incident and lying to authorities. In addition to her carrying out maritime research, Nancy Black operates the popular Monterey Bay Whale Watch [...] Full Story | Top |
Dog found alive 4 days after Montana avalanche
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:20 AM PST
Associated Press -  A dog that was feared dead after he was swept away in a weekend avalanche that killed his owner showed up four days later at the Montana motel where his owners had stayed the night before going backcountry skiing.
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200 Million People Use Illicit Drugs, Study Finds
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:01 AM PST
ABC News - Roughly 200 million people worldwide use illicit drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and opioids each year, according to a new study. The figure represents about one in 20 people between the ages of 15 and 64. Using a review of published studies, Australian researchers... Full Story | Top |
NASA questions Apollo 13 cmdr's right to sell list
Fri,6 Jan 2012 06:28 AM PST
Associated Press -  NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
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Thief drops stolen coin collection into Coinstar machine
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:48 PM PST
The Sideshow - Police in Oregon are searching for a suspect who allegedly stole a rare coin collection from his own father and traded it in for pennies on the dollar at a local coin-counting machine. On Christmas day, Dan Johnson Jr. and two friends allegedly broke into a shed on his father's property, where the coin collection [...] Full Story | Top |
Missing Dallas teen accidentally deported to Colombia
Thu,5 Jan 2012 08:25 AM PST
The Sideshow - A Dallas teen missing for more than a year has been found living in Colombia. Lorene Turner tells WFAA that her granddaughter Jakadrien Turner ran away from home in the fall of 2010 when she was just 14. Jakadrien made her way to Houston, where she was arrested by police. That's when things took a [...] Full Story | Top |
Jon Huntsman Gets Boston Globe Endorsement
Thu,5 Jan 2012 07:30 PM PST
ABC News - Jon Huntsman got a high-profile endorsement when the Boston Globe endorsed his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination over a frontrunner from the paper's home state, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The Globe made clear that it was between Huntsman and Romney for the endorsement. But it suggested... Full Story | Top |
Air Force charges three cadets with sex crimes
Thu,5 Jan 2012 06:25 PM PST
Reuters - DENVER (Reuters) - The Air Force charged three of its cadets with sexual misconduct on Thursday, including one accused of rape, just over a week after the government revealed a rise in reports of sexual assault at military academies. The three cadets all attended the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but were involved in separate incidents over the past 15 months, the military said. "Sexual misconduct is a particularly egregious offense and we have a zero tolerance policy in the Air Force," Colonel Tamra Rank, vice superintendent of the academy, said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
Navy rescues Iranians held by pirates
Fri,6 Jan 2012 04:15 PM PST
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just days after Iran warned them not to return to the Gulf, U.S. naval forces in the nearby Arabian Sea rescued 13 Iranian fishermen who were held hostage by pirates for more than a month, the Navy said on Friday. Forces with the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier strike group - the target of threats by Tehran on Tuesday amid heated tensions with the United States - said they freed the Iranians without firing a shot. Fifteen pirates believed to be from Somalia were taken prisoner. ...
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Mitt Romney opens a major lead in South Carolina
Fri,6 Jan 2012 10:21 AM PST
The Ticket - MANCHESTER, New Hampshire—Until recently, Mitt Romney had invested little time or effort in South Carolina, focusing instead on states like New Hampshire and Florida in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. But it may not matter. A new CNN/Time Magazine poll of likely Republican voters in the state finds the former Massachusetts governor with [...] Full Story | Top |
Colorado woman accused of damaging $30 million painting
Thu,5 Jan 2012 04:20 PM PST
Reuters -  DENVER (Reuters) - A 36-year-old woman was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to a painting by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still, a work valued at more than $30 million, authorities said on Wednesday. A police report said Carmen Tisch punched and scratched the painting, an oil-on-canvas called "1957-J no.2", at the recently opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver and pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it. ...
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Jeremy Renner unscathed in bloody Thai bar brawl
Thu,5 Jan 2012 07:27 PM PST
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Mission: Impossible" star Jeremy Renner emerged unscathed from a bar fight in Thailand, his spokesman said on Thursday, but a hotel manager in his party was attacked with an ax. A spokeswoman for Renner, 40, who also played the lead in Oscar-winning Iraq war movie "The Hurt Locker", denied media reports that the actor was hurt in the bloody incident in the Thai resort of Phuket early on Wednesday. "Jeremy Renner was indeed in a bar in Phuket Thailand as a vicious attack on a patron took place but was not injured or involved. ...
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Like magic, Harry Potter's owl spotted across US
Thu,5 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST
Associated Press -  Famous for its role as Harry Potter's companion in the books and movies, a species of majestic, mostly white owls is being sighted in abundant numbers this winter far from both Hogwarts and its native Arctic habitat.
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Did Mitt Romney really win the Iowa caucuses? Vote counter Edward L. True claims miscount
Fri,6 Jan 2012 09:15 AM PST
The Ticket - According to Edward L. True, Rick Santorum actually won the Iowa caucuses Tuesday night. True took part in the caucus for his Washington Wells precinct in Appanoose County--and helped count the ballots afterward. He claims the state Republican party miscounted his precinct's totals. True contends that the allegedly miscalculated Washington Wells total delivered 20 extra [...] Full Story | Top |
80 cent check typo nearly costs man his home
Thu,5 Jan 2012 12:44 PM PST
The Sideshow - A Florida man who accidentally put a "0" near the end of his mortgage check instead of an "8," nearly lost his home. The Tampa Tribune reports that Tom Mudie had recently been approved for a mortgage modification program that lowered his monthly payment by $200. But when Mudie's monthly check was off by 80 [...] Full Story | Top |
Use Your Eyes Instead of a Mouse
Thu,5 Jan 2012 07:13 AM PST
This Could Be Big - It's hard to imagine a computer you can control with your eyes, but the technology exists and should be available on store shelves in the next couple of years. Swedish company Tobii, a pioneer in eye tracking technology, has come up with a way to control the screen of a laptop or desktop with your [...] Full Story | Top |
Report: Obama Admin Will Circumvent Congress With New Illegal Immigration Rule
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:55 AM PST
The Blaze - WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — Are you ready for even more Congressional criticism of the Obama administration? The White House is crafting plans surrounding a rule change to help reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States, a senior administration official said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
Democrats on Santorum's Rise: Whatever
Fri,6 Jan 2012 08:15 AM PST
ABC News - The headlines out of Iowa this week told the story of an underdog ex-senator clawing his way to the top of the GOP field, getting nearly as many votes as Mitt Romney did in the caucus. But Democrats are largely ignoring Rick Santorum. Instead, they've... Full Story | Top |
Mystery of Pompeii's Trashy Tombs Explained
Fri,6 Jan 2012 05:06 AM PST
LiveScience.com - The tombs of Pompeii, the Roman city buried by a volcanic eruption in A.D. 79, had a litter problem. Animal bones, charcoal, broken pottery and architectural material, such as bricks, were found piled inside and outside the tombs where the city's dead were laid to rest. Full Story | Top |
Matt Damon Wades Into World Water Struggle
Fri,6 Jan 2012 09:33 AM PST
Around the World - As a child, before he was a movie star, before he won an Academy award, and before he was one of the most bankable stars in Hollywood, Matt Damon was deeply affected by the extreme poverty he witnessed with his mother on trips to Guatemala. Now with the power of name recognition, he has started [...] Full Story | Top |
Obama lawyers defend healthcare law in Supreme Court
Fri,6 Jan 2012 02:23 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration defended its healthcare overhaul law before the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, rejecting arguments by critics who warned that if the government can require people to have health insurance, it might next make them eat broccoli. Administration attorneys, in court filings and at a briefing, said Congress was within its constitutional powers in requiring Americans to buy insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty, a centerpiece of the law known as the individual mandate. ... Full Story | Top |
Girl Who Thinks She's Abused Gets Scolded By Fellow Teens
Thu,5 Jan 2012 09:02 PM PST
Dear Abby - DEAR READERS: Yesterday I printed letters from adults in response to a letter from "Emotionally Abused in California" (Nov. 2), the 15-year-old who felt her mother was treating her unfairly. Today we'll hear from teenage readers:DEAR ABBY: I'm a 14-year-old girl. My mom showed me the letter from "Emotionally Abused" and I almost died! Her mom sounds just like mine. I am not allowed to wear clothing that shows too much skin or get into a car with a teenage boy. I don't have cable TV. I have to do my own laundry, clean my room, cook dinner and hem my own jeans. ... Full Story | Top |
In many parts of US, it's a winterless wonderland
Thu,5 Jan 2012 06:40 PM PST
Associated Press -  The big snowstorms of autumn are just memories in New England, where people who make their living off winter tourism are losing income and New Hampshire primary candidates lack picturesque winterscapes for photo ops. Tourists in the West play golf instead of skiing. In Midwestern hockey country, you can barely slog a puck through the slush.
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First mixed-embryo monkeys are born in US
Thu,5 Jan 2012 12:26 PM PST
AFP -  US researchers said Thursday they have created the world's first mixed-embryo monkeys by merging cells from up to six different embryos, in what could be a big advance for medical research.
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Santorum: Trim Social Security now even if painful
Fri,6 Jan 2012 03:37 PM PST
Associated Press - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum called Friday for immediate cuts to Social Security benefits, risking the wrath of older voters and countless others who balk at changes to the entitlement program. Full Story | Top |
PSA screening doesn't prevent cancer deaths: study
Fri,6 Jan 2012 01:34 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Annual screening for prostate cancer doesn't cut men's chances of dying from the disease, according to the latest results of a large screening trial. Comparing men who were screened each year with so-called PSA tests, for prostate specific antigen, or rectal exams to those who received their usual care, researchers found that more men in the screening group had been diagnosed with prostate cancer after 13 years -- but there was no difference in how many had died from it. ... Full Story | Top |
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