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| Breaking: 3 more suspects in Boston Marathon bombings case taken into custody Wednesday, May 01, 2013 08:10 AM PDT Federal authorities arrested three friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Wednesday, accusing them of trying to obstruct justice by hiding evidence in the case and lying about it. Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both Kazakh nationals who attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth with Tsarnaev, were charged with "conspiracy to obstruct justice" [...] Full Story | Top |
| 5-year-old boy shoots 2-year-old sister in Ky. Wednesday, May 01, 2013 01:29 PM PDT  BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister to death in rural southern Kentucky with a rifle he had received as a gift last year, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Pa. woman who disappeared in 2002 found in Fla. Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:14 AM PDT LITITZ, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has surfaced in Florida and has told police she traveled there on a whim with homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges and survived by scavenging food and panhandling, authorities said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Kansas school apologizes to Airman in prom dispute Wednesday, May 01, 2013 06:04 AM PDT  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas high school principal who barred a member of the Air Force from escorting his sister to prom has apologized to him in an attempt to quell a firestorm that's been fueled by a YouTube video of the debacle and the girl's heartfelt letter to the newspaper. Full Story | Top |
| SD tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site Wednesday, May 01, 2013 04:10 PM PDT SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by dilapidated structures and hundreds of gravesites — many belonging to Native Americans massacred more than a century earlier. Full Story | Top |
| Official: Arrested student entered US without visa Wednesday, May 01, 2013 04:39 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Full Story | Top |
| 9-year-old boy helps nab home invasion suspects Wednesday, May 01, 2013 06:56 AM PDT Two armed robbers were no match for a kid. According to a story from ClickonDetroit, the two men had knocked on the door of a Hazel Park, Mich., home on Sunday. Posing as friends of a family member, they forced their way into the house, had the adults lie down on the floor with blankets [...] Full Story | Top |
| Teen arrested, expelled for ‘science project gone bad’ Wednesday, May 01, 2013 01:58 PM PDT A 16-year-old girl was arrested and expelled from her high school after what a friend called a "science project gone bad" resulted in a small explosion. WTSP reports that Kiera Wilmot of Bartow, Fla., is accused of mixing household chemicals in a small water bottle that later exploded at her high school. No one was [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s case against war in Syria Wednesday, May 01, 2013 01:42 PM PDT Under what circumstances would President Barack Obama unleash U.S. military might into Syria's civil war? Obama and senior aides set a high bar even higher in recent days. The same president who widened America's drone war, ordered the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and led NATO into the conflict in Libya without [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sarah Palin for Senate? Wednesday, May 01, 2013 08:47 AM PDT  A Tea Party group tries to draft Palin to make a run in 2014 Full Story | Top |
| Obama’s Approval Rating on These Three Issues Has Tanked Wednesday, May 01, 2013 02:34 PM PDT These three issues "are perhaps the ones that will dominate Washington on a domestic scale for the foreseeable future." Full Story | Top |
| Police clash with protesters after May Day rally in Seattle Wednesday, May 01, 2013 09:46 PM PDT  By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - Protesters clashed with police in Seattle on Wednesday as a May Day rally that began peacefully turned violent after dark, with demonstrators hurling objects at officers who responded by firing flash-bang grenades and pepper spray. One protester was seen using a skateboard to smash windows at a Walgreens drug store in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood, and others overturned trash cans and lined up newspaper display racks to block police. ... Full Story | Top |
| ROLL CALL: Amanda Bynes: 'I'm Not Crazy' Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:19 AM PDT  Plus, Lindsay Lohan, Tara Reid and Ke$ha are making headlines! Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans! Full Story | Top |
| Colorado ushers in new law with midnight unions Wednesday, May 01, 2013 09:45 AM PDT DENVER (AP) — The first gay couple granted a civil union in Colorado said their vows before hundreds of people early Wednesday morning at a downtown Denver municipal building where couples and members of the public gathered. Full Story | Top |
| Immigration debate gives life to annual rallies Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:54 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Demonstrators demanded an overhaul of immigration laws Wednesday in an annual, nationwide ritual that carried a special sense of urgency as Congress considers sweeping legislation that would bring many of the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally out of the shadows. Full Story | Top |
| Israel: Conflict over recognition, not territory Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:00 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister gave a cool reception Wednesday to a new Arab Mideast peace initiative, saying the conflict with the Palestinians isn't about territory, but rather the Palestinians' refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish homeland. Full Story | Top |
| Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Mysterious Metallic Orbs Below Mexico’s ‘Temple of the Feathered Serpent’ Wednesday, May 01, 2013 01:18 PM PDT "We can not yet establish its role because it is an unprecedented discovery." Full Story | Top |
| The Missing Piece From Your Low-Sodium Diet Wednesday, May 01, 2013 05:03 AM PDT If you've been diagnosed with high blood pressure, your doctor has likely prescribed a low-sodium diet. The recommended intake for dietary sodium is 1,500 milligrams per day, with an upper limit of 2,300 milligrams per day for people who are not at risk for high blood pressure based on age, medical history or ethnicity. The average American takes in 3,400 milligrams per day, about three-quarters of which comes from processed and restaurant foods rather than from the actual salt shaker. Full Story | Top |
| Scholars find cannibalism at Jamestown settlement Wednesday, May 01, 2013 02:45 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest American colonists at Jamestown, Va., survived harsh conditions by turning to cannibalism. Full Story | Top |
| Boston police: 3 more suspects in custody bombings Wednesday, May 01, 2013 08:40 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Three more suspects have been taken into custody in the marathon bombings, city police said Wednesday. Full Story | Top |
| Paula Broadwell: ‘I’ve made some mistakes, but I’m trying to look forward’ Wednesday, May 01, 2013 05:44 AM PDT Paula Broadwell, the woman at the center of the 2012 sex scandal that rocked the Central Intelligence Agency and led to the resignation of its director, Gen. David Petraeus, has not spoken publicly since their affair was first reported in November. But Broadwell, who wrote Petraeus' biography, "All In," attended an annual YMCA prayer breakfast [...] Full Story | Top |
| China says U.S. should watch Japanese nationalism Wednesday, May 01, 2013 03:57 AM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States should be just as concerned as other countries about a rise in Japanese nationalism, China's ambassador to Washington said, hinting that the United States should not offer Japan encouragement in its dispute with China over a group of islets. China and Japan are involved in an increasingly bitter stand-off over the uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, called Senkaku by Japan and Diaoyu by China, which lie atop of possibly large energy reserves. Beijing last month protested a voyage by 10 boats carrying Japanese activists into waters near the islands. ... Full Story | Top |
| Is Obama already a lame-duck president? Wednesday, May 01, 2013 04:51 AM PDT  The president is being forced to defend his relevance even though his second term is just beginning Full Story | Top |
| Beyonce’s tour demands are insane Wednesday, May 01, 2013 03:04 PM PDT One doesn't earn the reputation of being a diva for nothing, but Beyoncé's latest tour demands solidify her in claim to that title. Full Story | Top |
| Alan Alda wants scientists to cut out the jargon Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:23 PM PDT  STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Among the procedures Army surgeon Hawkeye Pierce performed on "M.A.S.H." was an end-to-end anastomosis. Full Story | Top |
| California City to Buy Chinese-Made, Taxpayer-Financed Electric Buses Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:36 PM PDT  With Six You Get Seatbelt? Calif. to Buy 10 Chinese eBuses Full Story | Top |
| HBO documentary focuses on women who searched for bin Laden Wednesday, May 01, 2013 05:48 AM PDT In Kathryn Bigelow's movie "Zero Dark Thirty," Jessica Chastain played Maya, a young CIA operative whose stubborn pursuit of Osama bin Laden played a major role in the al-Qaida leader's death. The film garnered both awards (including a Golden Globe for Chastain) and controversy—largely because of graphic scenes depicting the CIA's use of torture on [...] Full Story | Top |
| A ‘Bag Man’ dad may sue the New York Post Wednesday, May 01, 2013 07:35 AM PDT The father of one of the young men the New York Post said were sought by the FBI in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings might sue the tabloid for tabbing his son as a suspect. El Houssein Barhoum, whose teenage son, Salah Barhoum, is pictured on the April 18 cover of the New York [...] Full Story | Top |
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