Sunday, June 2, 2013

Daily News: Yahoo! News - Cleanup continues as storms move toward East Coast

Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 12:28 AM PDT
Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines:
Cleanup continues as storms move toward East Coast 
Sunday, Jun 02, 2013 12:28 AM PDT
 A police officer offers directions to a driver leaving this heavily damaged supply yard for Cactus Drilling Company on State Highway 66 in El Reno, Okla. on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Employee David Stottemyre was working in the lot when the tornado took aim at the plant. Stottemyre ran inside the large supply storage building and took shelter as the tornado passed over, leaving the building in a twisted pile of steel and metal. He was not injured. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Jim Beckel) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUTA violent weather system that claimed 12 lives in Oklahoma and Arkansas amid tornadoes and flash floods gave way to clearing skies as the storms trekked toward the East Coast on Sunday.
Full Story
Top
Okla. residents opt to flee storms this time 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:05 PM PDT
 Josh Stapleton, left, and Dan Garrett help to salvage furniture from their friends Fred and Joann Horn's home that was destroyed by the tornado Saturday, June 1, 2013 in El Reno Okla. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)Experts say it was a dangerous decision to make.
Full Story
Top
4 firefighters killed in Houston fire mourned 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:58 PM PDT
 An official looks over the damaged scene the day after four firefighters died, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Houston. Four firefighters searching for people they thought might be trapped in a blazing Houston motel and restaurant Friday were killed when part of the structure collapsed and ensnared them, authorities said. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)The blaze was the deadliest in the 118-year history of the department.
Full Story
Top
N.M. fights blazes; Calif. area evacuated 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 10:17 PM PDT
 The Powerhouse Fire burning in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles sends up a huge plume of smoke on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Smoke from the fire made visibility hazy in the San Fernando Valley, foreground. The blaze has burned thousands of acres of brush since it erupted Thursday afternoon near a utility powerhouse. (AP Photo/John Antczak)Crews in New Mexico fought two growing wild blazes, while a shift in the wind prompted evacuation calls in California.
Full Story
Top
Despite series of scandals, China backs Hong Kong leader 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 09:30 PM PDT
 Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung listens to a question from a lawmaker in Hong KongHong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying is facing fresh uncertainty over the political support he has from China.
Full Story
Top
2 Mexico kidnap victims sons of drug traffickers 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:24 PM PDT
 A man takes photos with his mobile phone of the facade of an after hours bar plastered with signs of missing people in Mexico City, Friday May 31, 2013. Anguished relatives said that on Sunday, May 26, eleven young people were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs. One sign reads: "Help us find him to return to his family." (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)Authorities have been searching desperately for motives in the crime.
Full Story
Top
Angel evokes tragedies at service for N.Y. teen 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 02:34 PM PDT
 In this Thursday, May 30, 2013 photo, sculptor Lei Hennessy-Owen talks about the angel sculpture behind her, in Warwick, N.Y. Hennessy-Owen, who has crafted angels to mark high-profile tragedies including the 9/11 attacks, donated this angel as a memorial to a New York teenager killed in a car crash. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald)"I like to show angels rising out of wreckage," said the artist.
Full Story
Top
First Facebook president Sean Parker weds in California 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 09:18 PM PDT
 Founders Fund Managing Partner Sean Parker attends the eG8 forum in ParisBillionaire Sean Parker, co-founder of music-sharing website Napster and the first president of Facebook, was married Saturday in Northern California, a representative for the couple said.
Full Story
Top
Illinois GOP elects new chairman after infighting 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:47 PM PDT
 Republican committeeman and lobbyist Jack Dorgan of Rosemont, Ill., speaks with reporters after being elected as the Illinois Republican party's chair, Saturday, June 1, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)After months of public infighting and constant bickering over issues that also continue to divide the national party, Illinois Republicans selected a new leader Saturday who they hope is the best option to bring factions of the party together after its poor showing in last November's elections.
Full Story
Top
3-day-old harbor seal pup rescued on Long Island 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:32 PM PDT
 In this photo provided by Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation, a female Harbor seal pup rests on a mat in the Riverhead Foundation facility at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, N.Y. Riverhead Foundation biologists responding to multiple calls of a distressed seal, found her struggling against the surf and was transported her back to the Foundation's marine mammal hospital. (AP Photo/Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation)The pup was taken to a marine mammal hospital.
Full Story
Top
TV host's black war posters focus of Pa. exhibit 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 06:33 PM PDT
 In this Thursday, May 30, 2013 photo, University of Pennsylvania professor and PBS History Detectives host Tukufu Zuberi speaks about an Italian 1942 broadside matted on canvas by Gino Boccasile during an interview with The Associated Press at the Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster exhibit at the Penn Museum, in Philadelphia. The new museum exhibition presents 33 posters owned by Zuberi that were designed to mobilize Africans and African-Americans in war efforts, even as they faced oppression and injustice in their homelands. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)The exhibit examines how wartime propaganda has been used to motivate oppressed populations.
Full Story
Top
Magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes Taiwan; some damage 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 11:24 PM PDT
 A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck the island of Taiwan on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Full Story
Top
Source: Bruno Mars' mother dies at age 55 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 10:35 PM PDT
 FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2012 file photo, Bruno Mars arrives at the 54th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The mother of Grammy-winning pop star Bruno Mars has died. Bernadette Hernandez died Saturday, June 1, 2013 of a brain aneurysm, according to a publicist for Mars' label, Atlantic Records, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak on the record.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)The mother of Grammy-winning pop star Bruno Mars has died in Hawaii.
Full Story
Top
Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, dies at 90 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 08:16 PM PDT
 FILE - Actress Jean Stapleton speaks during an interview in Washington on Wednesday, March 3, 1977, saying she will increase speaking out to the "Edith Bunkers" of the land to try and muster support for the Equal Rights Amendment. Stapleton, who played Edith Bunker in the groundbreaking 1970s TV comedy "All in the Family," has died. She was 90. John Putch said Saturday, June 1, 2013 that his mother died Friday, May 31, 2013 of natural causes at her New York City home surrounded by friends and family. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor)Stapleton was the counterpoint to Carroll O'Connor's Archie on "All in the Family."
Full Story
Top
Hagel mixes business and memories in Asia trip 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 09:40 PM PDT
 U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel delivers his keynote address on "The US Approach to Regional Security" at the International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS Asia Security Summit, Saturday, June 1, 2013 in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)It's been a bit of a walk down memory lane for the former infantry soldier.
Full Story
Top
Lutheran assembly elects first openly gay bishop 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 02:12 PM PDT
 This undated image provided by ReconcilingWorks shows Dr. Guy Erwin, a premier scholar on Martin Luther, who was elected as Lutheran Bishop Saturday June 1, 2013 in Los Angeles. Erwin is Bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Church in America (ELCA). (AP Photo/ReconcilingWorks)The election of Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin comes after a controversial rule change in 2009.
Full Story
Top
Despite mammoth blood discovery, cloning still unlikely 
Saturday, Jun 01, 2013 12:16 PM PDT
 Despite Mammoth Blood Discovery, Cloning Still UnlikelyDespite the recent discovery of a stunningly preserved mammoth, the odds of scientists using it to clone a real-life mammoth anytime soon are still low, experts say.
Full Story
Top
You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)