2011年1月31日星期一

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Judge approves moving Arizona shooting case to Tucson (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:04 PM PST

An artist's depiction shows Jared Lee Loughner (L), the Arizona man accused of shooting 20 people while trying to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend, and his attorney public defender Judy Clarke during a court appearance in Phoenix, Arizona January 10, 2011. REUTERS/Joan AndrewReuters - PHOENIX (Reuters) A federal judge has approved moving court proceedings to Tucson, Arizona from Phoenix for Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old college dropout accused in a shooting rampage there, court filings said on Monday.

Midwest braces for monster winter blizzard (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:41 PM PST

Reuters - The Midwest braced for a massive and potentially dangerous winter storm on Monday with forecasts of up to 2 feet of snow and strong winds that could make travel virtually impossible.

Three charged with being Guggenheim fraudsters (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 02:30 PM PST

Reuters - Three people have been charged with posing as representatives of the wealthy Guggenheim family in an effort to defraud investors, federal prosecutors announced on Monday.

Even Girl Scout Cookies Are Victims of the Recession (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:30 PM PST

Time.com - When efforts to tighten economic and health-realted belts collide, adorable Girl Scouts lose.

Dennis Kucinich, Self-Described 'Courageous Congressman,' Sues Congress (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:30 PM PST

Time.com - From fighting for the people, to fighting an olive pit

U.S. wants TV producer to face murder charge in Mexico (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:25 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. prosecutors on Monday filed court papers to send a former "Survivor" television producer to Mexico to stand trial for murder in the death of his Brazilian wife, according to court papers.

Dems: Oil, gas drillers pumped diesel into ground (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 01:13 PM PST

AP - Oil and gas companies have injected more than 32 million gallons of fluids containing diesel fuel underground without first getting government approval as required, a report by congressional Democrats said Monday.

Report: Fla. mom hit teen daughter before shooting (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 03:53 PM PST

In this Jan. 30, 2011 booking photo provided by the Hillsborough County Jail shows Julie Schenecker. Schenecker was arrested Jan. 28, 2011 and charged with two counts of first degree premeditated murder after she allegedly shot and killed her two teenage children. Schenecker allegedly told investigators she shot her children because they talked back and were 'mouthy.' (AP Photo/Hillsborough County Jail)AP - A suburban Florida soccer mom showed signs of trouble in the months before she was accused of killing her two teenage children: Her 16-year-old daughter told authorities in November she had been hit by her mother on two occasions, and troopers investigating a car crash that same month thought the woman's glassy eyes and "mush mouth" indicated she had been using drugs.

Feds probe Calif. 'sham university' for visa fraud (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 03:00 PM PST

AP - The government of India is condemning the use of ankle monitors on Indian students who were enrolled at a "sham university" in California that authorities say was a front for illegal immigration.

Cut down on salt, government says — and calories (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 02:34 PM PST

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack listens during a news conference at George Washington University in Washington, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011, announcing new dietary guidelines to help Americans make healthier food choices and confront obesity epidemic. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - You should eat less salt, the government says. A lot less.

Serial rapist suspected of strangling Wash. guard (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:45 PM PST

AP - An inmate suspected of strangling a female guard with a microphone cord in a prison chapel during an escape attempt is a rapist who once doused a woman in gasoline and set her on fire, raising more questions about why the officer was alone and unarmed at the time of the attack.

NYC mayor conducts gun-sale sting in Arizona (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:46 PM PST

This photo provided by the New York NYC Mayor's Office shows Mayor Michael Bloomberg showing an undercover video at City Hall in New York, Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. Bloomberg said undercover investigators working for New York City were not required to pass a background check on Jan. 23 at a Phoenix, Arizona gun show when they bought a pistol with an extended magazine, 'like the weapon used in Tucson.' He said the sale just days after the mass shooting in Tucson exposes a 'dangerous gap' in federal gun laws. (AP Photo/NYC Mayor's Office, Edward Reed)AP - Weeks after the shooting in Tucson, sellers at an Arizona gun show allowed undercover investigators hired by New York City to buy semiautomatic pistols even after they said they probably couldn't pass a background check, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday.

91,000 Gulf oil spill claims, just 1 final payment (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 02:13 PM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2011 file photo, attorney Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator in charge of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, BP's compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims, speaks during a town hall meeting in Bay St. Louis, Miss. The fund has issued a final settlement payment to just one of the thousands of people and businesses waiting for checks, records show, and that $10 million payout went to a company after BP intervened on its behalf. (AP Photo/The Sun Herald, Amanda McCoy, File) TV OUT; ONLINE OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT: MISSISSIPPI PRESS OUTAP - BP's compensation fund for Gulf oil spill victims has issued a final settlement payment to just one of the thousands of people and businesses waiting for checks, records show, and that $10 million payout went to a company after the oil giant intervened on its behalf.

Judge: Obama's health overhaul unconstitutional (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:44 PM PST

President Barack Obama delivers a statement on Egypt in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP - A federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that President Barack Obama's entire health care overhaul law is unconstitutional, placing even noncontroversial provisions under a cloud in a broad challenge that seems certain to be resolved only by the Supreme Court.

Monster winter storm takes aim at one-third of US (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:44 PM PST

Tom Gillian uses a snow shovel to scrape ice from the windshield of his car in Denver Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. A front moved through the state early Monday morning bringing with it freezing rain, snow and cold. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP - A monster winter storm took aim at a third of the nation Monday, threatening to lay a potentially deadly path of heavy snow and ice from the Rockies to New England, followed by a wave of bitter, bone-rattling cold that could affect tens of millions of people.

Report: Immigration law not enforced consistently (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 12:56 PM PST

AP - Some local law enforcement agencies, particularly in the Southeast, are turning over illegal immigrants who commit even minor offenses to federal authorities for deportation, while others are focused on deporting more violent criminals, according to a report released Monday.

Canadian who ran child sex ring gets 25 years (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 11:31 AM PST

AP - A Canadian was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday after admitting to running what amounted to a brothel for pedophiles in Thailand that exploited children as young as 4.

For bayou Indians, spill threatens a way of life (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 03:13 AM PST

In this Jan. 28, 2011 photo, an abandoned fishing boat is seen sitting on the bank of a bayou past seafood dock owner Price Billiot in the American Indian fishing village of Pointe-Aux-Chenes, La., where Billiot says he's surviving for now, thanks in part to $65,000 in emergency oil spill payments he received from BP PLC in June for his business losses. Even before oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico last spring, Louisiana's American Indian fishing villages were on the brink of collapse because of social change and the dramatic loss of coastal wetlands. Now, Indians who have known nothing but fishing all their lives find their futures tied to Kenneth Feinberg, the man handing out checks for billions of dollars of damage claims resulting from the spill. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - Even before oil began spewing into the Gulf of Mexico last spring, Louisiana's American-Indian fishing villages were on the brink of collapse because of social change and the dramatic loss of coastal wetlands.

Funeral pyres an option in Colo. mountain town (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 08:42 AM PST

In this photo taken on Jan. 12, 2011, Brenda Ellis, right, 18, watches as the body of her mother Belinda Ellis, 48, is cremated outdoors in Crestone, Colo. Funeral industry officials say Crestone is the only place in the U.S. where funeral pyres are performed for people regardless of religion. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno)AP - Belinda Ellis' farewell went as she wanted. One by one, her family placed juniper boughs and logs about her body, covered in red cloth atop a rectangular steel grate inside a brick-lined hearth. With a torch, her husband lit the fire that consumed her, sending billows of smoke into the blue-gray sky of dawn.

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