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| ‘Fresh Prince’ theme leads to school lockdown Friday, Mar 01, 2013 02:42 PM PST A student's outgoing voice mail message quoting the theme to "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" led to a school lockdown in Ambridge, Pa. The Times Online in Beaver, Pa., explains what happened. A receptionist from a doctor's office called to remind student Travis Clawson about an upcoming appointment. Clawson didn't pick up, so the call [...] Full Story | Top |
| Force choke? White House owns ‘Jedi mind meld’ slip Friday, Mar 01, 2013 02:07 PM PST President Barack Obama may have drawn a bit of nerdly wrath on Friday by saying he couldn't just "Jedi mind meld" Congress into agreeing to compromise to avoid painful spending cuts known as sequestration. Obama committed what people who show up to movies two weeks early and in homemade Stormtrooper costumes may consider a cardinal [...] Full Story | Top |
| Truck carrying thousands of bottles of ketchup crashes on interstate Friday, Mar 01, 2013 11:27 AM PST It looked a lot worse than it was. A semitruck carrying thousands of bottles of Heinz ketchup crashed on I-80 near Reno, leaving huge splotches of bright red tomato paste on the heavily trafficked highway. Fortunately, nobody was injured, though traffic was mucked up for about an hour on Thursday. Sgt. Janay Sherven of the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Armed Services Committee Republicans vow: No more defense cuts Friday, Mar 01, 2013 10:50 AM PST While most Washington lawmakers fled Washington Thursday night, Republicans from the House Armed Services Committee stuck around to get in one final jab on sequestration Friday. Immediately after the Senate rejected two bills that would have avoided the across-the-board automatic budget cuts, most lawmakers exited the Capitol, walked down the building's east steps toward their [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman without driver’s license saves bus after driver passes out Friday, Mar 01, 2013 10:00 AM PST A woman without a driver's license saved the day when a bus driver became ill while behind the wheel. WBAL-TV Baltimore reports that Janai Stafford boarded the Baltimore County bus outside a Giant supermarket. She noticed the bus had a lot of kids on board so she sat in the front, near the driver. [Related: [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama: If I were a judge, I’d strike down gay marriage bans Friday, Mar 01, 2013 09:32 AM PST President Barack Obama said in a press conference Friday that if he sat on the Supreme Court, he would most likely rule that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional. Obama's Justice Department filed a brief Thursday night with the Supreme Court urging the nine justices to overturn California's voter-approved gay marriage ban, which passed in 2008 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama: Spending cuts not an ‘apocalypse,’ GOP should compromise Friday, Mar 01, 2013 08:30 AM PST Declaring “I am not a dictator,†President Barack Obama urged Americans on Friday to help him pressure Republicans to help halt painful automatic government spending cuts. Obama acknowledged that the $85 billion “sequestration†would not be the end of the world but warned that it would slow the tepid recovery and cost jobs. "This is [...] Full Story | Top |
| Romney to Fox: Obama to blame for sequester stalemate; election was roller coaster Friday, Mar 01, 2013 08:19 AM PST President Barack Obama has himself to blame for the sequester stalemate, Mitt Romney told Fox News in his first major interview since losing the 2012 presidential race. Obama, said Romney, has been traveling around the country "berating Republicans and blaming and pointing" over the sequester. The former Massachusetts governor, who along with his wife, Ann [...] Full Story | Top |
| News anchor cracks up while reporting on swimming cat Friday, Mar 01, 2013 07:57 AM PST A news anchor for WDBJ-7 in Roanoke, Va., could not keep a straight face while reporting on a cat who swims to lose weight. But, come on, how could anybody not laugh at this? After about 10 seconds of footage that features the chubby cat in a life vest doing the cat-paddle, the anchor, Susan [...] Full Story | Top |
| Four months after Sandy, Seaside Heights struggles to find a sense of ‘normal’ Friday, Mar 01, 2013 07:30 AM PST SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J.â€"People have come from hundreds of miles away to see it, sneaking past the yellow caution tape and heavy police guard onto a closed beach still littered with jagged pieces of debris four months after Superstorm Sandy nearly swept away this tiny oceanfront town. The Jet Star roller coaster, sucked from the Casino [...] Full Story | Top |
| Weekend in politics: Obama, congressional leaders meet, and more Friday, Mar 01, 2013 03:16 AM PST It’s sequester dayâ€"the day $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts is scheduled to take effect. President Barack Obama will meet Friday morning at the White House with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to discuss plans to break the budget [...] Full Story | Top |
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