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Farmers, pecan growers say coal plant kills plants
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:44 pm PST
 AP - Along a stretch of Highway 21, in a pastoral, hilly region of Texas, is a vegetative wasteland. Trees are barren, or covered in gray, dying foliage and peeling bark. Fallen, dead limbs litter the ground where pecan growers and ranchers have watched trees die slow, agonizing deaths. Full Story | Top |
Newark Mayor uses Twitter to help manage snow emergency
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:33 am PST
The Cutline - While Mayor Michael Bloomberg faces criticism over New York City's slow response to the northeast blizzard, a nearby big-city mayor is getting praise for his unique, hands-on response to the snow emergency. The Village Voice has already proclaimed Newark Mayor Cory Booker as the "Hero of the Snowpocalypse." For the past two days, Booker has [...] Full Story | Top |
Ski lift accident in Maine sends 8 to hospital
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:12 pm PST
 AP - A 35-year-old chair lift due to be replaced failed Tuesday in high winds at a Maine resort, sending skiers — some of them children — plummeting into ungroomed snow far below that fell with the Northeast's recent blizzard and softened the landing. At least eight were injured. Full Story | Top |
Manatees paddle to warm water to escape Fla. chill
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:34 pm PST
 AP - People aren't the only ones in Florida who don't like cold weather. Manatees — those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails — are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. On Tuesday, more than 300 manatees floated in the outflow of Tampa Electric's Big Bend Power Station. Full Story | Top |
Obama's economist pick seen as sign of new agenda
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:10 pm PST
 AP - Change is soon coming to the White House economic team, with President Barack Obama set to announce a new top adviser who will have broad influence over the administration's efforts to jumpstart the struggling economy. Full Story | Top |
Ohio french fry dispute ends with one unhappy meal
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:30 am PST
AP - Police say a dispute over the freshness of french fries got heated at a McDonald's in northern Ohio. Authorities say a customer refused fries waiting Sunday night in their serving pouches at the restaurant near Sandusky. The manager insisted the fries were fresh. Full Story | Top |
European anarchists grow more violent, coordinated
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:23 pm PST
 AP - A loosely linked movement of European anarchists who want to bring down state and financial institutions is becoming more violent and coordinated after decades out of the spotlight, and may be responding to social tensions spawned by the continent's financial crisis, security experts say. Full Story | Top |
E-mails, letters favor pardon for Billy the Kid
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:02 pm PST
AP - More people say they favor a pardon for Billy the Kid than oppose the idea after Gov. Bill Richardson's office set up a website and e-mail address to take comments on a possible posthumous pardon for one of New Mexico's most famous Old West outlaws. Full Story | Top |
Commander: US can't seal Afghan-Pakistan border
Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:34 pm PST
 AP - There's no practical way for U.S. troops to seal Afghanistan's vast border with Pakistan and stop all Taliban fighters from slipping through, so they are focusing on defending vulnerable towns and fighting insurgents on Afghan soil, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
S.Korea schools get robot English teachers
Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:19 pm PST
 AFP - Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. Full Story | Top |
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