2011年3月1日星期二

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Yahoo! News: U.S. News

Wisconsin governor unveils deep spending cuts (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:30 PM PST

Reuters - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in spending on Tuesday, and he said the cuts could be even worse if Democrats continue to block his plan to curb the power of public sector unions.

Ohio union plan like Wisconsin draws protests (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:50 PM PST

Reuters - More than 8,000 protesters converged on Ohio's state capital on Tuesday as state lawmakers considered a bill similar to one proposed in Wisconsin to curtail the power of public sector unions.

California should allow gay marriage: attorney general (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:32 PM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010, California Attorney General Kamala Harris gives her first news conference in Los Angeles. Harris asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday, march 1, 2011, to allow gay marriages to resume while the court considers the constitutionality of the state's voter approved ban on same sex unions. The request came after the California Supreme Court said it needed the rest of the year to consider a legal question the appeals court said it needs answered before it can resolve the case. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Reuters - California's attorney general urged a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to permit gay marriages while it considers whether to overturn the state's ban on same-sex weddings.

The Science of Women and Cats: The Bond Is Real (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:55 PM PST

Time.com - The kittehs love us back! A new study demolishes the stereotype of cats as cold, aloof animals that want only food from their owners.

Party Poopers: Colleges' Admissions Departments Stalk Your Facebook (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:55 PM PST

Time.com - A new survey from Kaplan Test Prep reveals that 82 percent of admissions officers use Facebook in their recruiting

Man tied to Mexico shooting of U.S. agent arrested (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 02:05 PM PST

Reuters - U.S. authorities arrested a Texas man who had originally bought one of the guns used in a shooting in Mexico that killed a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and wounded a second agent, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Despite overhaul, gas wastewater still a problem (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 04:46 PM PST

FILE - In this April 23, 2010 file photo, workers move a section of well casing into place at a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site near Burlington, Pa., in Bradford County. Pennsylvania's natural gas drillers are still flushing vast quantities of contaminated wastewater into rivers that supply drinking water, despite major progress by the industry over the past year in curtailing the practice. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson, File)AP - Pennsylvania's natural gas drillers are still flushing vast quantities of contaminated wastewater into rivers that supply drinking water, despite major progress by the industry over the past year in curtailing the practice.

Chicago police chief walks on last day of contract (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 04:24 PM PST

FILE - In this June 28, 2010 file photo, Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis, left, take questions as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley listens during a news conference in Chicago. Officials confirmed Tuesday, March 1, 2011 that Superintendent Weis is leaving his job immediately and won't stay on for two more months as Mayor Daley had wanted him to do. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis said Tuesday he is leaving his job immediately and won't stay on for two more months as Mayor Richard Daley had wanted him to.

Body of missing elderly Ohio man found in Tenn. (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:43 PM PST

FILE - This undated picture released by the FBI shows 84-year-old Richard Russell and his 85-year-old wife, Gladis, who who haven't been heard from since Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. Authorities say Sam Littleton, who is wanted for questioning in the disappearance of the Russells, was apprehended late Wednesday morning, Feb. 23, 2011 in Princeton, W.V., in the woods behind a Walmart. Littleton was charged in absencia Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 with killing his girlfriend's 26-year-old daughter. Her body was found last week in his basement in Bellefontaine, the Ohio community where the Russells live. (AP Photo/FBI, File)AP - The body of an elderly Ohio man who disappeared with his wife more than two weeks ago has been found off a road in Tennessee, police said Tuesday.

Old enemy — flooding — revisits weary Ohio city (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:55 PM PST

Strong winds tore a brick wall down on a building being renovated at the intersection of Main St and Mitchell Ave on Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press, Dan Henry)AP - Jarrod Steffan loaded his kayak with fans and shuttled them across his flooded street Tuesday to begin drying out his house. It was a drill he knew all too well.

Lawyer: Fake Utah drilling bids were 'sabotage' (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:18 PM PST

Tim DeChristopher walks to the Frank E. Moss Federal Courthouse with an unidentified woman, right, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, in Salt Lake City. DeChristopher faces trial this week on charges that he thwarted a 2008 oil-and-gas lease auction to bring attention to climate change. (AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)AP - Tim DeChristopher, ex-wilderness guide, looked like trouble.

Panel told no guarantee against unethical research (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 01:22 PM PST

AP - Experts say that the kind of unethical medical studies that occurred half a century ago could still happen again despite more than 1,000 rules and regulations that should prevent such abuses.

Army's new fitness tests add taste of battlefield (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:54 PM PST

U.S. Army Sgt. Cornelius Trammell, clears a hurdle as he demonstrates one of the elements of the Army's new Combat Readiness Test, at Fort Jackson, in Columbia, S.C., Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The Army plans to toughen its fitness tests for the first time in 30 years to make sure all soldiers have the strength, endurance and mobility for battle. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)AP - Sit-ups don't make a soldier, the Army has decided. So its 30-year-old fitness requirements are getting a battlefield-inspired makeover.

NJ congressman tops 'Jeopardy' computer Watson (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:51 PM PST

AP - Turns out it really does take a rocket scientist to beat Watson, the "Jeopardy"-winning computer.

Document: Day care owner seen shopping during fire (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:42 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2011, file photo emergency personnel respond to a fire at a day care operated by Jessica Tata in Houston. Houston Fire Department investigators said that Tata left the kids she was caring for without adult supervision, while a stovetop burner was on, before a deadly blaze that killed four of the children and injured three others, according to an arrest affidavit made public Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. Tata has been charged with reckless injury to a child involving serious bodily injury. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen, File) MANDATORY CREDITAP - Investigators found that the operator of a home day care where a fire killed four children last week had left the youngsters in her care alone to go shopping, according to a court document made public Tuesday.

Wis. governor proposes deep cuts for schools (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:55 PM PST

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses a joint session of the Legislature at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers have been protesting the governor's budget for 14 days at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)AP - After focusing for weeks on his proposal to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights, Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday presented his full budget — a plan that cuts $1 billion in aid to public schools and local government but avoids any tax or fee increases, furloughs or widespread layoffs.

Space station gets much-needed storage room (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:53 PM PST

This image taken from video by NASA television shows astronaut Stephen Bowen during a spacewalk, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - The International Space Station got a sorely needed storage room Tuesday, a 21-foot-long supply closet packed with goods and a humanoid robot that will remain boxed up for another two months.

NY jury hears closings in fatal ID theft case (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PST

This undated photograph provided by the U.S. Attorney's office shows Irina Malezhik, a Russian-language translator who disappeared in 2007. Malezhik was ending an assignment as a translation assignment at a law office in 2004 when she asked an innocent but fateful question: Could anyone offer her a lift to Brooklyn? The man who obliged by chance, authorities say, was a stranger named Dmitriy Yakovlev and he is now alleged to have murdered Malezhik, 47. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney) NO SALESAP - A man accused in the 2007 disappearance of a Russian-language translator lied to the FBI when he suggested she must have left the country without telling anyone, a prosecutor said Tuesday in closing arguments in an identity theft case the defense argued is based on thin evidence.

Ohio considers union bill as critics shout outside (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:46 PM PST

AP - As thousands of protesters kept watch, an Ohio state Senate panel considered whether to ban all public workers in the state from striking and subject them to fines and possible jail time for participating in walkouts.

Tenn. overtakes Mo. in meth lab seizures, busts (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:31 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2010 file photo a Franklin County police officer counts pills containing pseudoephedrine during a raid of a suspected meth house in Gerald, Mo. The Missouri State Highway Patrol, citing Drug Enforcement Administration statistics, says Missouri once again leads the nation in meth lab busts and seizures with 1,950 meth lab incidents in 2010. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)AP - Missouri is not leading the nation in methamphetamine lab busts and seizures for the first time since 2003, according to figures released Tuesday.

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