tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4092328900028319382012-01-14T05:18:49.839-08:00RKLnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-57051563438647440382010-02-18T03:39:00.001-08:002010-02-18T03:39:47.015-08:00

Eight American missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti returned to the U.S. aboard a military cargo plane early Thursday after nearly three weeks in a Haitian jail. But two others remained detained in an ordeal sparked by the group's attempt to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country. About 12 hours after a Haitian judge approved their release, the missionaries

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-34520333966284193512010-02-17T03:29:00.001-08:002010-02-17T03:29:26.707-08:00

What the world already knows of Prince Frederic von Anhalt reads like a tabloid writer's dream: eighth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, lover (never confirmed) of Anna Nicole Smith, self-proclaimed member of European royalty. The flamboyant socialite says he'll add a new title on Wednesday: California gubernatorial candidate. Von Anhalt and his attorney said they will file his candidate papers in late

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-16395318693410430192010-02-17T03:26:00.001-08:002010-02-17T03:26:42.624-08:00

In a highly anticipated grand finale to their mission, astronauts opened the shutters on the International Space Station's new observation deck Wednesday and were humbled by "absolutely spectacular" views of Earth from inside the elaborate atrium of windows. The $27 million lookout opened each of its seven eyes one window at a time as the crews of the station and shuttle Endeavour carried out

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-85472546267116450352010-02-16T06:47:00.001-08:002010-02-16T06:47:51.674-08:00

Two teenage brothers wounded during a brazen shooting inside a Northern California church were cooperating with police in the search for a hooded gunman and two other suspects. Richmond police Sgt. Bisa French said Tuesday they now have leads on two of the men involved in the shooting Sunday at the New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ. The suspects are thought to be in their late teens or

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-85342180291560794112010-02-16T03:29:00.001-08:002010-02-16T03:29:57.259-08:00

The forecast: a mighty winter blizzard sure to dump a record-setting blanket of snow that will grow from inches to feet overnight, just in time for rush hour. When it happened this month in Washington, they called it "Snowpocalypse" and an overwhelmed city couldn't keep its streets clear. When it happened last week in Chicago, they called it "Tuesday" and kept the blacktop black from first

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-35857747340279413472010-02-15T11:22:00.001-08:002010-02-15T11:22:24.014-08:00

Firefighters are sifting through a burned out home in a Chicago suburb, trying to pinpoint the cause of a weekend blaze that killed seven people, including a 3-day-old baby. Ron Opalecky, an assistant fire marshal in Cicero, told reporters Monday that fire officials believe the blaze started in the rear of the home, which had several two- and three-bedroom apartments. It was unclear how many

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-87220743937175572132010-02-15T02:58:00.001-08:002010-02-15T02:58:37.451-08:00

Police were seeking a hooded gunman who horrified the congregation of a San Francisco Bay area church when he paced the aisles then pulled out a gun and shot two teenagers. No arrests had been made or suspects named in the Sunday shooting at New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ in Richmond, police said. The gunman flanked by two companions in hooded sweatshirts walked into the church, scanned

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-15535982747187087152010-02-12T04:44:00.001-08:002010-02-12T04:44:34.351-08:00

Former President Bill Clinton has left the Manhattan hospital where he underwent a heart procedure, a close friend said Friday. Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe said on CBS' "The Early Show" that Clinton had left New York Presbyterian Hospital. Clinton lives in Chappaqua, a Westchester County hamlet about 35 miles north of New York City. "He's out of the hospital

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-39511581669938071902010-02-11T10:54:00.001-08:002010-02-11T10:54:53.456-08:00

Some of the children arrived with no school records at all, some with only the clothes on their backs. A few still bear scrapes and bruises. All carry terrible memories. Nearly 1,000 youngsters who survived Haiti's catastrophic earthquake have enrolled in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area's public schools, joining the largest concentration of Haitians in the United States. The influx is putting

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-65249208432052553292010-02-11T06:00:00.001-08:002010-02-11T06:00:54.871-08:00

The Haitian judge deciding whether 10 U.S. missionaries should face trial for attempting to take a busload of children out of the country is probably ready to make his ruling, a defense lawyer said. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil finished questioning the Americans on Wednesday and now must transmit his recommendation to the prosecutor, lawyer Gary Lassade said. The prosecutor could appeal if the judge

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-32867971564807179212010-02-11T05:59:00.001-08:002010-02-11T05:59:50.202-08:00

Three unarmed security guards were following orders last month when they stood by without intervening as a 15-year-old girl was badly beaten in a downtown Seattle bus tunnel. Now the company they work for and government officials say those orders should be revised. The guards' actions during the brutal attack — captured on surveillance video — prompted an outcry from Metro Transit and King

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-77049557162006497512010-02-11T05:58:00.001-08:002010-02-11T05:58:42.628-08:00

Utility crews rumbled along icy roads working to restore power to more than 150,000 customers from Virginia to New Jersey as some airports resumed operations on Thursday, a day after a blizzard smothered the East Coast in record snowfalls. Many schools systems in the path of the storm remained closed for a second day, including in Baltimore and Philadelphia, although New York City school

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-66286517237329133932010-02-10T07:42:00.000-08:002010-02-10T07:42:07.121-08:00

Snow, wind and slush hounded eastern commuters early Wednesday as blizzard warnings from Baltimore to New York City heralded the second major storm in a region already largely blanketed by weekend snowfall. More than 10 inches of new snow fell before dawn in parts of Maryland that had received up to 30 inches just a few days earlier. Plows and salt spreaders fought heavy snow in Pennsylvania and

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-55944279933819461862010-02-10T03:39:00.001-08:002010-02-10T03:39:45.108-08:00

Shuttle Endeavour arrived to a warm welcome at the International Space Station early Wednesday, delivering a new room and observation deck that will come close to completing construction 200 miles above Earth. The midnight rendezvous occurred as the two spacecraft sailed over the Atlantic, just west of Portugal. It took longer than normal to lock the shuttle and station together because of the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-87129904542950414112010-02-09T08:26:00.001-08:002010-02-09T08:26:50.930-08:00

Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday on track for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices were closed for a second day and utility workers struggled to restore power knocked out by a weekend blizzard. The storm hit the Midwest early, closing schools and greeting commuters with slick, slushy roads from Minneapolis and Chicago to Louisville, Ky. Hundreds of flights

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-38646604950457163382010-02-09T07:38:00.001-08:002010-02-09T07:38:59.823-08:00

Authorities have called on residents of more than 500 homes in the wildfire-scarred Southern California foothills to evacuate by Tuesday morning, fearing that heavy rains from a new round of storms could cause more mudslides. Weather forecasters issued a flash flood watch for Tuesday afternoon through late Tuesday night for neighborhoods below steep slopes that were scorched by the fires last

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-14737171188302509482010-02-08T04:37:00.001-08:002010-02-08T04:37:46.054-08:00

An elderly Chinese-born engineer convicted of economic espionage for hoarding sensitive documents that included space shuttle details faces sentencing Monday, and prosecutors are seeking a 20-year term. A judge found Dongfan "Greg" Chung, 74, guilty in July of six federal counts of economic espionage and other charges for keeping 300,000 pages of sensitive papers in his home. The documents also

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-59859149395317599162010-02-08T04:36:00.001-08:002010-02-08T04:36:11.928-08:00

Tens of thousands of workers in the snowy Mid-Atlantic region were given Monday off to shovel out from a blizzard that buried some areas in nearly 3 feet of snow as another storm loomed. Federal agencies that employ 230,000 in Washington will be closed, as will many businesses and school districts across the region. With more snow expected Tuesday, stranded travelers and those struggling with no

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-30764919337594777642010-02-08T04:35:00.001-08:002010-02-08T04:35:41.538-08:00

Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what's likely the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program, hauling a new room and observation deck for the International Space Station. The space shuttle took flight before dawn, igniting the sky with a brilliant flash seen for miles around. The weather finally cooperated: Thick, low clouds that had delayed a first launch attempt

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-79533513518773191652010-02-05T05:50:00.001-08:002010-02-05T05:50:30.763-08:00

Coffee shops in the Seattle area introduced the world to "bikini baristas" three years ago, hiring attractive young women to serve up steamy espressos and lattes while wearing as little as a G-string and pasties. But cities are now taking a closer look at the "sexpresso" stand craze after police investigations revealed that some baristas were serving coffee with a side of something not even

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-31507064392714113472010-02-05T05:49:00.000-08:002010-02-05T05:49:33.922-08:00

Michael Jackson's doctor plans to seek his day in court Friday — whether or not he's been charged in the singer's death. After waiting all week to face a likely charge of manslaughter, Dr. Conrad Murray and his frustrated legal team plan to surrender at a Los Angeles courthouse. "We are going to be at the courthouse at 1:30 (p.m.) for his surrender," said Miranda Sevcik, spokeswoman for

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-34504063795242641192010-02-03T01:48:00.000-08:002010-02-03T01:48:56.590-08:00

Just over a week ago, a friend of a missing Florida lottery winner approached an acquaintance with a chilling request, according to detectives: Dig up the body of the dead man in her backyard. That woman, Dorice "DeeDee" Moore, was charged Tuesday with trying to conceal the slaying of the man who disappeared after winning millions. The dead man, Abraham Shakespeare, was last seen in April — more

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-36605659724519917572010-02-02T09:57:00.000-08:002010-02-02T09:57:37.889-08:00

Two artists who have encased one of Detroit's thousands of abandoned homes in ice are hoping their effort inspires and helps draw attention to the housing crisis that has battered the nation. Photographer Gregory Holm and architect Matthew Radune (Ray-DOON') have spent weeks spraying water on the home for the Ice House Detroit project. They plan to bring in large lights Friday to illuminate the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-70688239553377318672010-02-02T09:55:00.001-08:002010-02-02T09:55:18.683-08:00

Police arrested a man Tuesday who they say told investigators he was drunk when he set a blaze that killed five Guatemalan immigrants by using paint thinner to light a roll of toilet paper in a baby carriage near the front door. Daniel Ignacio, 29, was charged with arson and five counts of murder, police spokesman Paul J. Browne said. Ignacio was a resident of the building that burned down

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-91135597088636744672010-02-02T03:44:00.000-08:002010-02-02T03:44:09.353-08:00

Thousands of people are expected to gather before dawn in western Pennsylvania to await a weather forecast by the world's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW'-nee) Phil. German tradition holds that if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-41852045578104668522010-02-02T03:38:00.001-08:002010-02-02T03:38:12.874-08:00

Sonny Brave Eagle and his family spent six days in the dark without a phone or working radio before law officers found them in their home after a fierce winter storm cut power across South Dakota's impoverished Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. "We didn't know what was going on," said Brave Eagle, among hundreds of people on the sprawling reservation amid a second week without electricity as

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-67416722429746316052010-01-29T03:18:00.000-08:002010-01-29T03:18:03.255-08:00

A storm that toppled power lines, shutdown major highways and buried parts of the southern Plains in heavy ice and snow began moving into the South early Friday, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark — possibly for several more days. Winter storm warnings were in effect from New Mexico to North Carolina after about 13 inches of snow fell Thursday in the northern Texas Panhandle, where

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-78471154051308777582010-01-28T08:19:00.000-08:002010-01-28T08:19:24.983-08:00

The man who has confessed to killing a high-profile Kansas abortion provider is expected to testify Thursday about his vehement opposition to abortion and what drove him to put a .22-caliber handgun to Dr. George Tiller's forehead and pull the trigger. Scott Roeder is likely to repeat for jurors his already public claim that he believed killing Tiller, one of only a few late-term abortion

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-36193909619007765592010-01-28T04:15:00.001-08:002010-01-28T04:15:15.702-08:00

Elizabeth Edwards stood faithfully by her husband even after she learned he had an affair on the campaign trail while she battled cancer. She recently described the "slow process" of trying to rebuild her trust in John. Her struggle to reconcile the marriage appeared to be near its end with word on Wednesday that she and her husband of more than 30 years have separated. The news came a week

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-61086871084202229602010-01-28T04:14:00.000-08:002010-01-28T04:14:35.943-08:00

When Al Melquist voted for Barack Obama in 2008, the unemployed software engineer was drawn to the politician's charisma and promise of solutions for the nation's economic woes and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the time since, Melquist has given up looking for work. The house in Las Vegas where he lived sits empty and bank-owned after his landlord didn't make mortgage payments for 13 months.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-74217575272908598332010-01-27T05:59:00.001-08:002010-01-27T05:59:24.596-08:00

The four men accused of trying to tamper with Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phones share a common experience as young ideologues writing for conservative publications. Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers wearing hard hats, tool belts and flourescent vests when they walked into the senator's office inside a federal building in New Orleans on Monday.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-65382947596391815312010-01-26T05:14:00.000-08:002010-01-26T05:14:09.955-08:00

Samantha Burton wanted to leave the hospital. Her doctor strongly disagreed, enough to go to court to keep her there. She smoked cigarettes during the first six months of her pregnancy and was admitted on a false alarm of premature labor. Her doctor argued she was risking a miscarriage if she didn't quit smoking immediately and stay on bed rest in the hospital, and a judge agreed. Three days

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-55410534057946911722010-01-25T11:58:00.001-08:002010-01-25T11:58:37.748-08:00

The brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan pleaded not guilty Monday to assaulting their 70-year-old father, who died over the weekend after a disturbance at the family's Massachusetts home. Mark Kerrigan, 45, described by his lawyer as an unemployed plumber, was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail after his arraignment Monday in Woburn District Court. Kerrigan did not speak at the hearing but

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-5724809724283181482010-01-25T05:32:00.001-08:002010-01-25T05:32:08.313-08:00

Prosecutors are expected to present evidence Monday that a Missouri man meticulously planned the murder of one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers by stalking the doctor and gunning him down inside a Kansas church. Scott Roeder is on trial on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault for the May 31 death of Dr. George Tiller, who was shot while serving as an usher at his

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-78139483827510020122010-01-21T04:05:00.001-08:002010-01-21T04:05:51.100-08:00

For the American Red Cross, a surge of donations to help its relief efforts in Haiti provides a dramatic chance to prove it learned from its flawed responses to Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 terror attacks. "People are watching what we do. We know that," said spokesman Roger Lowe. Through Wednesday, the Red Cross had received by far the largest share of Haiti-inspired donations from the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-79985652832097253742010-01-20T02:23:00.000-08:002010-01-20T02:23:09.476-08:00

After two days of lightening, flooding and even a tornado, officials tried to get ahead of the next round of powerful storms that are pummeling Southern California by ordering evacuations in mudslide-prone foothill neighborhoods. Los Angeles police officers went door-to-door in the Tujunga neighborhood late Tuesday, handing out flyers and asking residents of about 200 homes to be out of their

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-21228672803028462432010-01-19T11:43:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:43:38.229-08:00

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order immediate closure of shipping locks near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes. The court rejected a request by Michigan for a preliminary injunction to close the locks temporarily while a long-term solution is sought to the threatened invasion by the ravenous fish. The one-sentence ruling didn't explain the court's

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-69261903600396406312010-01-19T11:42:00.001-08:002010-01-19T11:42:32.757-08:00

The mayor of San Diego testified Tuesday that his views on same-sex marriage evolved after he learned one of his daughters was a lesbian. Mayor Jerry Sanders took the witness stand on behalf of two same-sex couples suing to overturn Proposition 8, California's voter-approved gay marriage ban. "I had been prejudiced," he said. "I was saying one group of people did not deserve the same respect,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-51279685200322296182010-01-19T04:48:00.000-08:002010-01-19T04:48:41.535-08:00

Authorities and residents of Southern California are bracing for another day of rain as the second of three back-to-back storms expected to hit the state this week approaches the coast. Forecasters posted a flash flood watch early Tuesday for areas scarred by last summer's wildfires in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. High surf advisories, issued Monday, also were in effect into

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-10795605104527055452010-01-19T04:46:00.001-08:002010-01-19T04:46:32.431-08:00

The appointment of Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Richard Walker to the bench was held up for two years during the late 1980s in part because he had angered gay rights activists. Now, he is presiding over the most important gay civil rights case in a generation. Like a lot of powerful people, Walker is a profile in fragments, a figure sketched from rare interviews, his work product and his

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-84087155003443638182010-01-18T08:50:00.001-08:002010-01-18T08:50:45.708-08:00

Worshippers in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s hometown are remembering the civil rights icon during a special ceremony at the church where he once preached. Princeton University scholar Cornel West was to deliver the keynote address on Monday, which is King's namesake holiday, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King preached there from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. A march is

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-25671873556572504822010-01-18T08:48:00.001-08:002010-01-18T08:48:25.219-08:00

With a serial rapist on the loose, Cassandra McGinty has developed a new routine when she arrives home: search room to room, a handgun or stun gun drawn. The predator has been assaulting older women in central Texas over the past year, terrifying residents and frustrating investigators who have only a vague description of the suspect. Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the towns

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-51066058115124630592010-01-18T00:55:00.000-08:002010-01-18T00:55:44.524-08:00

The Golden Globe Awards is like a fancy dinner party in an alternate universe where everyone is famous and beautiful. There's a fully stocked bar — and a fully stocked makeup station in the bathroom. A-listers in their finest attire fill almost every seat in the Beverly Hilton Hotel's International Ballroom. Here's a running view from inside the festivities. ___ Rain on the red carpet meant

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-70627404603496813822010-01-18T00:53:00.001-08:002010-01-18T00:53:36.500-08:00

A man returning from Haiti who walked through a restricted door and set off an alarm that led to the evacuation of a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport simply went the wrong way, his attorney said Sunday. "He just walked through the wrong door," said defense attorney Scott Dufault, who declined to comment further when reached by phone at his office following his client's

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-19174846704385269762010-01-12T06:26:00.000-08:002010-01-12T06:26:03.870-08:00

Decades ago, poor children became known as "disadvantaged" to soften the stigma of poverty. Then they were "at-risk." Now, a Washington lawmaker wants to replace those euphemisms with a new one, "at hope." Democratic State Sen. Rosa Franklin says negative labels are hurting kids' chances for success and she's not a bit concerned that people will be confused by her proposed rewrite of the 54

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-13667611738016275652010-01-12T06:24:00.001-08:002010-01-12T06:24:25.832-08:00

Testimony in a groundbreaking legal challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban resumes Tuesday with testimony from two Ivy League historians who will discuss the nation's experience with matrimony and anti-gay discrimination. The trial, which began Monday, is the first in a federal court to decide the constitutionality of state bans on gay marriage. Regardless of the outcome, the case is

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-31953676094969021072010-01-11T11:44:00.000-08:002010-01-11T11:44:01.080-08:00

The crew of a plane that landed with a belly flop at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday "did everything right" as they brought the jetliner down after a landing gear malfunctioned, a pilots union said. Herb Hunter, spokesman for the United Airlines branch of the Air Line Pilots Association, said the union was happy that the 48 passengers and five employees got off the Airbus A319 "

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-23733052224569366082010-01-11T11:36:00.001-08:002010-01-11T11:36:54.984-08:00

Former NBA star Jayson Williams, his personal life in shambles, took responsibility for accidentally shooting his limousine driver to death eight years ago by pleading guilty Monday to assault and agreeing to serve at least 18 months in prison. Williams was awaiting retrial on a reckless manslaughter count but pleaded guilty to the lesser aggravated assault count for the 2002 death of Costas

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-60737995221135710592010-01-11T03:00:00.001-08:002010-01-11T03:00:13.896-08:00

Henry Ford's great-grandson arrived at the shuttered auto plant to brag about a plan to revive the vast empty space: Investors would transform it into a modern factory to make solar panels and high-tech energy systems instead of Town Cars and Thunderbirds. "I can't imagine a better way to reuse the facility," Bill Ford said during his visit to the former Wixom Assembly plant in September.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-49394363988904776122010-01-05T15:03:00.003-08:002010-01-05T15:03:37.076-08:00

A small cargo jet crashed into a forest preserve Tuesday afternoon shortly after being cleared to land at a suburban Chicago airport, with officials saying that it appears the two people aboard were killed. Glenview Fire Department Battalion Chief Jim Fancher said a preliminary investigation indicated that a pilot and co-pilot were aboard the jet that crashed into the DesPlaines River in

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-10024298160493000162010-01-05T15:03:00.001-08:002010-01-05T15:03:05.585-08:00

Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman is defending the fertility doctor who helped her conceive 14 children, saying in a video posted to RadarOnline.com on Tuesday that he did "absolutely nothing wrong." The California Medical Board on Monday accused Suleman's Beverly Hills fertility doctor, Michael Kamrava, of gross negligence in three instances: transferring too many embryos, repeatedly transferring

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-33871722519361140542010-01-05T07:28:00.003-08:002010-01-05T07:28:46.551-08:00

Nearly four months after a judge dismissed his lawsuit over Social Security benefits, 66-year-old Johnny Lee Wicks opened fire with a shotgun in a Las Vegas federal building, killing one security guard and wounding a U.S. marshal before being shot to death, authorities said. Preliminary evidence pointed to Wicks' anger over his benefits case as the motive for the shooting, law enforcement

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-75249820497651190312010-01-05T07:28:00.001-08:002010-01-05T07:28:18.081-08:00

Bitter cold and snow sweeping into the eastern U.S left part of New England under record snowfall and hit Southerners with subfreezing temperatures that farmers fear could destroy strawberries and other crops. Four deaths were blamed on the cold in Tennessee. The deep freeze was expected to last for at least the rest of the week. The National Weather Service said the mercury could fall below

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-23131251726481301432010-01-04T08:55:00.001-08:002010-01-04T08:55:11.674-08:00

Snow falling like New Year's confetti joined forces with a chill that dipped deep to the South on Monday to close schools, delay commuters, threaten fruit farmers and shut down at least one nuclear power plant. A weekend snowstorm dumped an all-time record of more than 33 inches on Burlington, the largest city in Vermont. That broke a single-storm record of nearly 30 inches set in 1969. "It

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-91747869222689318892010-01-04T08:54:00.001-08:002010-01-04T08:54:46.986-08:00

A man who caused a security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport, forcing major delays and grounding flights for six hours, left about 20 minutes after he walked the wrong way through a security checkpoint, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday. Someone picking up a passenger told an officer guarding the exit that he thought he saw a man enter through the doors Sunday,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-73979829755905784022009-12-30T09:34:00.001-08:002009-12-30T09:34:37.263-08:00

Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year. Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Adm. Arleigh Burke. Other new stamps will honor the Negro baseball leagues, the Sunday funnies and the Hawaiian rain forest, the Postal Service announced

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-38187509955841587462009-12-29T10:58:00.000-08:002009-12-29T10:58:01.106-08:00

The birth mother of a 7-year-old Virginia girl must transfer custody of the child to the woman's former lesbian partner, a Vermont judge has ruled. Vermont Family Court Judge William Cohen ordered Lisa Miller of Winchester, Va., to turn over daughter Isabella to Janet Jenkins of Fair Haven at 1 p.m. Friday at the Virginia home of Jenkins' parents. Miller and Jenkins were joined in a Vermont

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-47318140913206616712009-12-29T10:56:00.001-08:002009-12-29T10:56:49.501-08:00

Authorities say a man in Southern California riding a Christmas tree being dragged behind an SUV slammed into a parked car and was hospitalized with head injuries. Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino says the 18-year-old and another teenager were Christmas tree surfing, a seasonal Internet fad. Capt. Greg McKeown says the car was going about 25 mph Sunday night when the female driver

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-34164085168113398792009-12-28T14:03:00.001-08:002009-12-28T14:03:08.666-08:00

A two-month capture of about 2,500 wild horses from public and private lands in northern Nevada began Monday amid protests that the roundups are unnecessary and inhumane. Federal officials said the roundup is needed because the 850 square miles of land is overpopulated and could become unlivable to wildlife and livestock within four years. Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman JoLynn Worley

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-62412250632378099982009-12-28T14:02:00.002-08:002009-12-28T14:02:35.346-08:00

Gov. Jim Gibbons and first lady Dawn Gibbons reached a settlement in their divorce Monday and avoided a messy public trial that could have had damaging repercussions for the first-term Republican's struggling re-election bid. Lawyers and the first couple negotiated through the night until 3 a.m. Monday then met with a judge in a Reno courtroom before announcing they had agreed on what will

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-2981380341394176342009-12-28T14:02:00.000-08:002009-12-28T14:02:00.718-08:00

Want to forget 2009? Shred it. Scores of New Yorkers and tourists seeking a fresh start in 2010 came to Times Square on Monday to put their bad memories through the shredder at the third annual Good Riddance Day. Ben Winnick of Simsbury, Conn., shredded a newspaper story about the New York Giants' 41-9 loss Sunday to the Carolina Panthers, which ended the Giants' playoff hopes. "Hopefully,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-39536979626733907702009-12-28T07:36:00.001-08:002009-12-28T07:36:55.799-08:00

A task force of state, regional and federal officials is investigating a string of suspicious weekend fires in Massachusetts, including one in which two people died. At least nine fires were reported early Sunday in houses and cars within a half-mile radius in the college town of Northampton, Mass. Authorities say they suspect arson. Officials are returning to the sites Monday, including the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-74358727210424631542009-12-28T07:35:00.001-08:002009-12-28T07:35:17.496-08:00

Armed officers on Sunday rushed aboard the same Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day, but the perceived threat wasn't much of a danger — just an ill traveler who spent too much time in the bathroom. Coming so soon after a Nigerian was accused of trying to blow up a plane, authorities quickly responded to an emergency call from the crew on Flight 253 from

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-21878896708606993242009-12-24T14:02:00.001-08:002009-12-24T14:02:22.078-08:00

Higher fees for film production companies choosing to work in some New York City buildings have taken effect with no clear word on whether it will tarnish the city's popularity as one of Hollywood's favorite backdrops. One critic calls the $3,200 price tag for a permit to film at one of the city's buildings the highest fee in the nation by a municipality. But the city, which attracts about $5

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-65656872389161437482009-12-24T13:58:00.001-08:002009-12-24T13:58:28.624-08:00

A 9-year-old boy at the center of a five-year custody battle on two continents was finally turned over to his American father Thursday in a scene as tumultuous as the legal fight itself, with the youngster forced to squeeze though a jostling crowd of reporters and photographers. Soon afterward, a smiling Sean Goldman was back in his father's arms, talking about basketball and how much snow there

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-52895785992469911362009-12-24T00:17:00.001-08:002009-12-24T00:17:09.054-08:00

A daylong standoff at a small-town Virginia post office ended peacefully Wednesday with three hostages set free and a disabled suspect in a wheelchair surrendering to police. Warren "Gator" Taylor of Sullivan County, Tenn., was being questioned and authorities do not yet have a motive, state police Sgt. Michael Conroy said. The standoff began at about 2:30 p.m. when shots were fired in the

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-76280474653913947222009-12-18T10:27:00.001-08:002009-12-18T10:27:19.012-08:00

Homes were flooded and drivers were stranded in parts of South Florida as a wet storm system headed north bearing heavy snow for the mid-Atlantic region, prompting winter storm warnings Friday from the Carolinas to New Jersey. The National Weather Service warned that snow, sometimes mixed with rain, would fall into Saturday on much of the Atlantic seaboard on the last shopping weekend before

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-51122881300959649572009-12-18T10:26:00.001-08:002009-12-18T10:26:12.428-08:00

A judge has ordered a New York woman held on $100,000 bail because prosecutors say some of the 42 dead animals buried in her yard were apparently tortured. Prosecutors say some of the animals in Sharon McDonough's yard had duct tape around their mouths. They say others showed signs of drowning. McDonough had been free without bail after her November arrest on misdemeanor charges. She was taken

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-4787332850696428492009-12-16T09:23:00.001-08:002009-12-16T09:23:49.494-08:00

A raid on an exotic animal delivery company in Texas found starving snakes, hundreds of reptiles packed in shipping crates and rodents that had killed and eaten each other, officials said. Dozens of people with the city of Arlington and animal welfare groups took inventory Tuesday of the animals — estimated at 20,000 — and removed them from the U.S. Global Exotics during the raid. The

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-440887957764957612009-12-16T09:20:00.001-08:002009-12-16T09:20:43.917-08:00

Anyone searching for clues about the enduring popularity of Sherlock Holmes need not look only to his headquarters on London's Baker Street. Deep in an underground cavern at the University of Minnesota lies the world's largest collection of Holmes memorabilia — a cache sure to expand with material from the new "Sherlock Holmes" movie starring Robert Downey Jr. as the pipe-puffing super sleuth.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-33966446236547703332009-12-15T11:40:00.000-08:002009-12-15T11:40:25.935-08:00

Four police officers in this Pennsylvania coal town are accused in a federal indictment of orchestrating a cover-up in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant, an attack that resulted in the acquittal of two popular high school football players of serious state charges. The former Shenandoah High School athletes, 19-year-old Derrick Donchak and 18-year-old Brandon Piekarsky, have been charged

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-84120778474278790052009-12-10T10:15:00.000-08:002009-12-10T10:15:05.869-08:00

Authorities are fanning out across Northern Arizona to try to reach 25 to 30 hunters stranded in below-freezing temperatures after a major winter storm. The Coconino County sheriff's office says the hunters were trapped by the 2 to 3 feet of snow that fell Monday. Searchers from the sheriff's office, state Game and Fish Department, and Department of Public Safety are heading to the area

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-56802969240771181232009-12-10T10:14:00.001-08:002009-12-10T10:14:33.404-08:00

Hundreds of Chicago firefighters worked to put out a high-rise fire that left one person dead and 12 people injured. The fire broke out shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday, shooting flames out of the condo building. More than 200 residents ran out into the bitter cold. The 12 people injured included five firefighters, but authorities say none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening.

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-49707872988088234872009-12-10T10:13:00.001-08:002009-12-10T10:13:57.792-08:00

A deadly, windy storm that tortured a wide swath of the country for days threatened to drop a foot or more of snow on parts of New York, Pennsylvania and New England Thursday before finally blowing off the coast of Maine. Commuters from Des Moines to Chicago braced for single digit temperatures and icy roads, while wind chill values as low as negative 25 were forecast for parts of Wisconsin,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-76444167125292400312009-12-07T09:42:00.000-08:002009-12-07T09:42:14.820-08:00

Police are investigating a youth soccer league coach's claims that he was attacked by a former Mississippi congressman after a game. Madison Police Sgt. Robert Sanders says Chip Pickering, a Republican who served 12 years in the U.S. House, was accused of attacking coach Chris Hester on Sunday. Hester, who claims he was wearing a neck brace at the time, says Pickering started yelling at him as

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-11677947669583517922009-12-07T09:40:00.000-08:002009-12-07T09:40:16.171-08:00

Retired firefighter Ed Johann was a teenage apprentice seaman on Dec. 7, 1941, when he spotted Japanese planes coming in over Pearl Harbor. He thought they were U.S. aircraft conducting drills until explosions and flames erupted from stricken ships in the harbor. Then came screams of sailors; the stench of burning oil and flesh. The 86-year-old Oregonian is due to return Monday to Pearl

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-62399674077531938562009-12-04T18:41:00.001-08:002009-12-04T18:41:47.655-08:00

The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected the first female bishop in its 114-year history Friday but ended voting for the day with one of two openly gay candidates still vying for the second bishop's position. Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector of St. Clement's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church in San Clemente, was elected Friday at the diocese's annual convention to replace one of two retiring

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-9074766585195761842009-12-03T09:45:00.002-08:002009-12-03T09:45:37.822-08:00

Two workers doing maintenance on the roof of towering Cowboys Stadium slipped and tumbled at least 50 feet Thursday morning before coming to a stop atop a rain gutter that rings the structure, authorities said. Both suffered injuries believed to be non-life-threatening. The two were working on the top hatch of the retractable-roof venue in suburban Arlington around 7:20 a.m. when they fell,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-54665679438384398052009-12-03T09:45:00.000-08:002009-12-03T09:45:05.512-08:00

A condemned Texas inmate is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court keeps him from the death chamber for the fatal slashing of an 11-year-old girl. Bobby Wayne Woods is set for lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville for the April 1997 abduction, rape and slaying of Sarah Patterson, his ex-girlfriend's daughter. But his attorneys contend his life should be spared because of a Supreme Court ban on

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-57847225940554375642009-12-03T09:44:00.001-08:002009-12-03T09:44:31.316-08:00

In holiday seasons past, South Carolina's first family seemed like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Gov. Mark Sanford, first lady Jenny and their four sons flipped the switch to light the towering statehouse Christmas tree. They posed for a bucolic holiday card describing folksy family events like their youngest giving a turtle a new home in a fountain at the governor's mansion. Oh,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-85675851645720167342009-12-03T09:43:00.001-08:002009-12-03T09:43:50.697-08:00

A search of the mountains near the Oregon-California border was called off Thursday after a couple returned from a Christmas tree hunt, saying they got stuck in the snow for two days. Jennifer and Keith Lee told Jackson County sheriff's deputies their all-wheel drive Subaru got high-centered on a remote road leading into California on the south side of Mount Ashland. "This morning they got

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-11015911147547229632009-12-02T15:36:00.000-08:002009-12-02T15:36:04.486-08:00

Inspiration for the Obamas' first Christmas in the White House came from the house itself. Reflecting on its Georgian style, first lady Michelle Obama chose traditional decorations to reflect the scale, architecture and color palette of each room. Natural materials such as magnolia, hydrangea, honeysuckle vine and pepper berries decorate trees and wreaths in all the rooms on the State Floor,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-42150536739023773812009-12-02T15:20:00.001-08:002009-12-02T15:20:27.351-08:00

Four people accused of breaking into the homes of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and other celebrities pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges involving the theft of $3 million in jewelry, designer clothes and other items. The suspects include 19-year-olds Nicholas Prugo, Diana Tamayo and Courtney Leigh Ames, and 27-year-old Roy Lopez Jr. All four are charged with felony burglary. A judge on

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-29564768029847625472009-12-02T15:10:00.001-08:002009-12-02T15:10:10.221-08:00

Mayor Sheila Dixon's misdemeanor fraud conviction fails to meet a key standard necessary for her removal from office, her attorney said Wednesday as the mayor resumed her regular duties a day after the verdict. Her criminal defense lawyer, Arnold M. Weiner, said the guilty verdict reflected testimony about actions that weren't part of Dixon's duties as City Council president, the post she held

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-15644587862838302512009-12-02T15:09:00.001-08:002009-12-02T15:09:42.387-08:00

There was a list at the door, but the beautifully dressed guest in the chic, red-soled Christian Louboutin shoes wasn't on it. Still, she insisted she was a friend of the host. Not wanting to offend, the staffer at the door waved her in. And when the woman proceeded to drink herself silly at the jewelry-store party on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills a few weeks ago, resting her body on glass cases

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-21565296411121944672009-12-01T14:59:00.000-08:002009-12-01T14:59:52.438-08:00

The state of Virginia wants to make sure that if you learn to be a yoga instructor, the people who teach you the Half Moon, the Sleeping Vishnu and the Upward Facing Dog poses know what they're doing. But three yoga instructors filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Virginia regulators, claiming that the state's plan to license yoga teacher-training programs is an unconstitutional restriction of free

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-43183071049017923042009-12-01T14:58:00.001-08:002009-12-01T14:58:15.723-08:00

A judge declared a mistrial Tuesday at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti after a jury failed to reach a verdict against the son of the notorious Gambino crime family mob boss — the case's fourth hung jury in five years. The anonymous jurors deliberated 11 days before notifying the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked over racketeering conspiracy and murder charges. Prosecutors

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-32899114230639644402009-11-30T09:56:00.000-08:002009-11-30T09:56:43.771-08:00

A heavily armed SWAT team stormed a Seattle home Monday where they thought they had cornered the suspect in the slaying of four police officers at a coffee shop, only to find out that he was not in the house and still on the loose. The discovery added new urgency to the manhunt for Maurice Clemmons as police canvassed the neighborhood with search dogs and hundreds of officers were deployed

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-53137148769159660792009-11-30T09:54:00.001-08:002009-11-30T09:54:35.372-08:00

Making one's true love happy will cost a whopping $87,403 this year, a minuscule increase from last year, according to the latest cost analysis of the items in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." That's the grand total for the single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, purchased repeatedly as the song suggests, according to the annual "Christmas Price Index" compiled by

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-1455657867179969722009-11-30T09:53:00.001-08:002009-11-30T09:53:58.477-08:00

Maine police say a man took a cash machine from inside a convenience store and drove off with it in the back of a stolen pickup truck. Scarborough police found the front door of the convenience store ripped off late Sunday. They soon spotted the pickup with the ATM in the back. Police say the truck backed into a police cruiser before speeding off. After a short pursuit, police arrested 31-

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-10940620254715841882009-11-26T11:28:00.000-08:002009-11-26T11:28:43.899-08:00

Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti brought smiles to thousands of revelers eager to catch a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as turkey and pumpkin pie. Thousands lined the streets of Manhattan on Thursday for the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and crowds gathered nationwide for parades in cities such as Detroit and

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-42709776998769761942009-11-23T08:59:00.000-08:002009-11-23T08:59:38.999-08:00

A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers. Most trucks enrolled in the program pause at the border for just 20 seconds before entering the United States. And nine out of 10 of them do so without anyone looking at their cargo. But

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-26787903396303176712009-11-23T08:40:00.000-08:002009-11-23T08:40:08.501-08:00

Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving white police officers who shot black men or teenagers. Now, the agency is at a dead end in the search for relatives in at least 33 civil rights-era cases, and the FBI needs the public's help. Agents are appealing for

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-91818166574785289342009-11-17T08:24:00.001-08:002009-11-17T08:24:24.238-08:00

Federal prosecutors say a woman has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for her role in a mortgage fraud scheme. Forty-one-year-old Joy Jackson of Fort Washington was also ordered at sentencing on Monday to pay more than $16 million in restitution and to forfeit homes and cars. Prosecutors say Jackson oversaw the Lanham-based Metropolitan Money Store, which cheated lenders and

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-36495797880633247832009-11-17T08:21:00.000-08:002009-11-17T08:21:23.766-08:00

Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts scoured their ship Tuesday for any signs of launch damage while pursuing the International Space Station. Atlantis and its crew of six will hook up with the space station Wednesday. After waking to their first full day in orbit, the astronauts pulled out a 100-foot, laser-tipped inspection boom to check the shuttle's thermal shielding, routine work before

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-49627267401077491382009-11-17T08:19:00.001-08:002009-11-17T08:19:48.654-08:00

The father of a 5-year-old girl whose body was found off a rural North Carolina road regrets giving the girl's mother a chance to raise their daughter, even though she seemed to be getting her life together. The girl's father, Bradley Lockhart, said he had a one-night stand with Antoinette Davis and mostly brought up their daughter before letting Davis take care of her. A month later, Shaniya

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-87843732278588784862009-11-16T08:27:00.000-08:002009-11-16T08:27:47.483-08:00

Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years. Witnesses have told authorities that Ellis cut in front of waiting customers at the Walmart in Kennett on Jan. 6, 2007,

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-7352121052111394132009-11-16T08:26:00.000-08:002009-11-16T08:26:44.869-08:00

Authorities searched along a highway Monday for the body of a missing 5-year-old girl but said they still hoped they might find her alive. Shaniya Davis has been missing since last Tuesday. Her mother, who reported her gone, is accused of offering her for prostitution, according to court documents and police. About 200 searchers fanned across several miles southeast of Sanford on Monday based

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-24491840106473578872009-11-13T06:16:00.000-08:002009-11-13T06:16:32.343-08:00

In what could be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, federal prosecutors sought to take over four U.S. mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a Muslim organization suspected of being controlled by the Iranian government. Prosecutors on Thursday filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation, seeking the forfeiture of more than $500

RKLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-409232890002831938.post-69666929040648635532009-11-13T06:14:00.000-08:002009-11-13T06:14:29.229-08:00

To ease pressures on the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population, Virginia is paying watermen to stay out of the water, using $6.7 million in federal disaster aid to buy back crabbing licenses. Many longtime crabbers won't take the bait, though, preferring a backbreaking job with dwindling returns to no job at all. "I like being outside, and I just absolutely love catching things — absolutely

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