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Storms wreck Indiana towns, kill 28 in 3 states
Fri,2 Mar 2012 09:56 PM PST
Associated Press -  Powerful storms leveled small towns in southern Indiana, transforming entire blocks of homes into piles of debris, tossing school buses into a home and a restaurant and causing destruction so severe it was difficult to tell what was once there. As night fell, dazed residents shuffled through town, some looking for relatives, while rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors. Without power, the only light in town came from cars that crawled down the streets.
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Harrowing images show devastation after storms
Fri,2 Mar 2012 12:23 PM PST
 Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in the East Limestone, Ala. on Friday, March 2, 2012. A reported tornado destroyed several houses in northern Alabama as storms threatened more twisters across the region Friday (AP Photo/The Decatur Daily, Gary Cosby Jr.)
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BP settles Gulf spill suits, expects $7.8B payout
Fri,2 Mar 2012 11:15 PM PST
Associated Press -  BP agreed late Friday to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant's 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in the nation's history.
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Ohio emerging as microcosm of GOP race
Fri,2 Mar 2012 08:07 PM PST
Associated Press -  This state's Super Tuesday primary is proving to be the perfect microcosm of the nation's unruly race for the Republican presidential nomination: Mitt Romney is spending lots of money, Rick Santorum is aggressively courting conservatives and Newt Gingrich is counting on big ideas to swing votes his way.
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Obama joins in assailing Limbaugh slur of student
Fri,2 Mar 2012 08:27 PM PST
Associated Press -  Stepping into an emerging culture clash over women, President Barack Obama made a supportive phone call Friday to a law student who testified before Congress about the need for birth control coverage, only to be called a "slut" by Rush Limbaugh.
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Official: Mistakes led to Afghan Quran burnings
Fri,2 Mar 2012 09:37 PM PST
Associated Press -  A Western official says a series of unintentional mistakes led to the burning of Qurans and other Islamic texts at a U.S. base in Afghanistan and that five American troops could face a disciplinary review over it.
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Red Cross blocked by Syria from ex-rebel enclave
Fri,2 Mar 2012 01:58 PM PST
Associated Press -  The Syrian government blocked a Red Cross convoy Friday from delivering badly needed food, medical supplies and blankets to a rebellious neighborhood of Homs cut off by a monthlong siege, and activists accused regime troops who overran the shattered district of execution-style killings and a scorched-earth campaign.
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Yelp soars in market debut on Facebook optimism
Fri,2 Mar 2012 02:55 PM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Consumer review website Yelp Inc made a sparkling market debut on Friday, buoyed by optimism ahead of Facebook's public listing and hopes for further successful public listings by Internet companies down the road. Yelp's stock closed 64 percent higher at $24.58, a day after Yelp priced its IPO at $15 a share - above its indicated range of $12 to $14. At Friday's closing price, the company is worth about $1.47 billion - about 17 times its 2011 revenue. ...
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Regulators seek input on cell phone interruptions
Fri,2 Mar 2012 05:53 PM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The deliberate disruption of mobile phone service last year by transit police in San Francisco has prompted federal communications regulators to consider rules for similar situations in the future. The Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Department said it cut cellphone service to aid public safety but civil liberties groups criticized the actions as a violation of free speech and argued it put people at more risk. ... Full Story | Top |
Facebook adding banks for IPO: sources
Fri,2 Mar 2012 02:30 PM PST
Reuters -  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will add banks in coming weeks to help underwrite its initial public offering, two sources familiar with its plans said on Friday. Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and Citigroup are among the banks that will likely be added, said the sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Last September, Facebook increased its credit line to $2.5 billion. One of the sources said that the credit line may be increased to about $5 billion in the future. In February 2011, Facebook set up a $1. ...
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FCC denies Dish request on wireless plans
Fri,2 Mar 2012 04:56 PM PST
Reuters - (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it was delaying its decision on whether Dish Network Corp can build a wireless cellular network, a move that could hurt the value of the satellite television company's newly acquired wireless assets. Dish shares fell more than 3 percent in after market trading. Dish was seeking a waiver of its license to allow it to build a purely terrestrial network, rather than one that combines both satellite and terrestrial service. ... Full Story | Top |
Kodak sells online business to Shutterfly
Fri,2 Mar 2012 11:38 AM PST
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co has agreed to sell its online photo services business to Shutterfly Inc for $23.8 million, kicking off the bankrupt photography pioneer's relaunch as a much slimmer company although a patent sale seen crucial to its turnaround may still be months away. The once-iconic company that invented the hand-held camera has said it will quit the camera business and is expected to fetch $1 billion to $2 billion from the sale of about 1,100 digital patents, which is due to get under way by June 30. ...
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Joint action on HIV and TB saved 900,000 lives: WHO
Fri,2 Mar 2012 08:56 AM PST
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - An estimated 910,000 lives were saved worldwide over six years thanks to better collaboration between health services to protect people with the AIDS virus from tuberculosis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. The WHO said there had been a sharp rise in the numbers of HIV positive people tested for tuberculosis (TB) and vice versa from 2005 to 2010. That allowed doctors to treat people more quickly and prevent the spread of TB to other patients, it added. ...
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Unnecessary cancer treatment in men on the rise
Fri,2 Mar 2012 05:53 PM PST
Reuters - By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new review of U.S. data on prostate cancer finds that despite established guidelines, a growing number of men who should not be getting aggressive treatment are getting it anyway. Men with low-risk tumors and a life-expectancy of less than 10 years -- for instance, men in their 80s or 90s -- are not candidates for so-called curative therapies like radiation or prostate surgery because there's little evidence it would benefit them. ... Full Story | Top |
Too few ICU beds may up patient deaths
Fri,2 Mar 2012 05:48 PM PST
Reuters - By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A shortage of beds in hospital intensive care units may mean that more seriously ill patients die, according to a study from France. Researchers focused on 10 hospitals in western France, where there's a known shortage of ICU beds. They found that of 1,332 patients referred to the hospitals' ICUs over three months, almost 15 percent were turned away (at least temporarily) because there were no open beds. And those patients had a higher risk of dying than patients who got into the ICU right away. ... Full Story | Top |
Meaning-based therapy may aid terminal patients
Fri,2 Mar 2012 06:03 PM PST
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Psychotherapy focused on spirituality and finding meaning may help improve quality of life and well-being in terminally ill cancer patients, suggests a new study from a large cancer treatment center. The talk therapy sessions only seemed to provide a short-term benefit -- though researchers said that was reasonable given that many of the study participants were near the end of their lives, with progressively worsening disease. ... Full Story | Top |
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