Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: | | 'My experience with Mike Wallace: integrity, charm, character' Sun,8 Apr 2012 01:17 PM PDT Reuters - Via statements and comments on Twitter, colleagues and friends reacted Sunday to the news that longtime CBS correspondent Mike Wallace, the "60 Minutes" interviewer, died Saturday at age 93: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan: "My heart is broken today over the death of my dear friend Mike Wallace. My parents introduced me to Mike more than 75 years ago and we've been fast friends ever since. ... Mike was an old school journalist and one of the most astute people I've ever met. ... Full Story | Top | Watson wins Masters in dramatic playoff Sun,8 Apr 2012 09:22 PM PDT Yahoo! Sports - The Masters tournament involves approximately 100 players taking a total of around 20,000 strokes. But in the end, it came down to just two: Louis Oosthuizen's astonishing albatross on No. 2, and Bubba Watson's ungodly pop-fly wedge shot from the woods on the second hole of a playoff. Both shots are now part of Masters lore, but only one man won a green jacket. Full Story | Top | Facebook clues in deadly Tulsa attacks Sun,8 Apr 2012 07:00 AM PDT ABC News - Police say their investigation of the shooting spree in Tulsa, Okla., will include the racially charged Facebook postings of one of the two men arrested in connection to the attacks. Full Story | Top | North Korea readies longe range rocket for launch Sun,8 Apr 2012 08:59 PM PDT Reuters - North Korea has readied a rocket for a launch from a forested valley in its remote northwest this week that will showcase the reclusive state's ability to fire a missile with the capacity to hit the continental U.S. Full Story | Top | Suspect in dismembering says he met woman online Sun,8 Apr 2012 04:04 PM PDT Associated Press - A man suspected of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend told a newspaper that he met her through Facebook while looking for new friends and that he met two of his alleged accomplices at a library just three days before the killing. Full Story | Top | Suicide rates rising among Canadian girls: study Sun,8 Apr 2012 06:36 PM PDT Reuters - Suicide rates for female teens and pre-teens in Canada rose over the past few decades even though the overall number of youths who took their own lives was dropping, according to a Canadian study that covered nearly 30 years. Researchers whose findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal also noted a change in the preferred methods of suicide, from guns or poisons to suffocation by strangulation. ... Full Story | Top | Peace Corps leaves Mali, new U.S. travel warning issued Sun,8 Apr 2012 04:47 PM PDT Reuters - Peace Corps volunteers have been evacuated from Mali and non-essential U.S. diplomatic personnel have been offered flights out due to ongoing political instability following a military coup in March, the State Department said on Sunday. The agency again warned Americans against travel to the West African nation due to a rebellion in the north and continuing threats of attacks and kidnappings of Westerners. It strongly urged U.S. citizens there to consider leaving temporarily. ... Full Story | Top | 'The Hunger Games' video spoof goes viral Sun,8 Apr 2012 01:38 PM PDT The Sideshow - "The Hunger Games," the film that topped the U.S. box office for the third weekend in a row with $33.5 million, has inspired plenty of parodies. But this one--pitting hipsters from Portland, Austin, Brooklyn, Oakland and Silverlake, Calif., in a dystopian fight to the death--may be the best. The three-minute video, directed by Christopher Guerrero [...] Full Story | Top | Hudson's star power to complicate Chicago murder trial Sun,8 Apr 2012 03:09 PM PDT Associated Press - Accustomed to wearing Vera Wang gowns on red carpets, singing at the Grammys or autographing her weight-loss memoir, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will take on a new role under a very different spotlight — in Chicago's drab criminal courts building at the trial of the man charged with murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. Full Story | Top |
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