12 Mar 2010

feedYahoo! News: U.S. News

Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC responders (AP)

Firemen and rescue personnel work at the site of the World Trade Center in New York in September 2001. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.(AFP/File/Marcos Townsend)AP - Thousands of ground zero workers who claim to have been sickened by dust and debris from the World Trade Center will have 90 days to decide whether to accept a settlement worth up to $657.5 million.


12 Mar 2010 3:23pm GMT

NYC police pursue video leads in bar beating (AP)

This image provided by the New York Police Department and made from a surveillance camera inside a convenience store near a bar shows a man police believe to be the stranger who followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday March 11, 2010, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, according to police. The attack occurred around 2 a.m. at Social, a three-story bar and lounge on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan where the 29-year-old victim, a nurse, had gone with a friend, authorities said. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP - Security video has attracted some tips, but none so far have led police to the stranger who followed a woman into a bar restroom, savagely beating her and perhaps trying to sexually assault her after she rejected his advances.


12 Mar 2010 2:56pm GMT

Experts say US doctors overtesting, overtreating (AP)

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama returns to the White House from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., following a medical exam in Washington. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — even President Obama — are being overtreated. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)AP - Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans - maybe even President Barack Obama - are being overtreated.


12 Mar 2010 2:48pm GMT

feedCNN.com - U.S.

Officials: Bacterial meningitis kills Oklahoma student

An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness.

12 Mar 2010 2:07pm GMT

Sunday, 3-14 is Pi day!

The sound of meditation for some people is full of deep breaths or gentle humming. For Marc Umile, it's "3.14159265358979..."

12 Mar 2010 1:53pm GMT

feedYahoo! News: U.S. News

Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom (AP)

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is photographed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Fulton, Miss., a day after the high school announced they wouldn't hold the senior prom April 2. McMillen wanted to bring a same-sex date and wear a tuxedo. (AP Photo/Matthew Sharpe)AP - A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled.


12 Mar 2010 1:36pm GMT

Old laws, raids leave Philly bar owners foaming (AP)

In this Wednesday, March 10, 2010 photo, bartender Sean McGuinness pauses while working at the Resurrection Ale House, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Philadelphia. An anonymous complaint that the Philadelphia bar was selling beer that has not been properly licensed with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board led to raids on three upscale bars last week in which police confiscated three quarter-kegs and 317 bottles of beer that believed to have not been properly registered with the state. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - A real brouhaha has beer lovers in the City of Brotherly love frothing over with anger.


12 Mar 2010 12:52pm GMT

Friend: Suspected US al-Qaida member grew radical (AP)

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago.


12 Mar 2010 12:05pm GMT

Former John Edwards aide returning to NC court (AP)

Andrew Young, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, testifies the existence and location of a disc and missing flash drive during a hearing at the Chatham County Superior Court House in Pittsboro, N.C., Tuesday, March 9, 2010. John Edwards former mistress, Rielle Hunter, has sued Young for invasion of privacy. Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones considered twice whether to send Young to jail for contempt over his handling of copies of photographs taken by Rielle Hunter. (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP - A former aide to John Edwards is returning to court just days after a North Carolina judge nearly sent him to jail over his handling of a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter.


12 Mar 2010 9:50am GMT

Fed. appeals court upholds 'under God' in pledge (AP)

File - In this June 14, 2004 file photo, Michael Newdow looks down at the fax copy of the Supreme Court's ruling preserving the phrase 'one nation under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance outside his Sacramento, Calif., home. A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected arguments by Newdow that the phrase violates the separation between church and state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,Ffile)AP - An appellate court has upheld references to God on U.S. currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting arguments they violate the constitutional separation of church and state.


12 Mar 2010 9:26am GMT

Autopsy: Animal fatally mauled teacher in Alaska (AP)

In this 2009 photo provided by the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District, Candice Berner, an Alaska special education teacher, holds up crab caught on a school district outing. Autopsy results announced Thursday, March 11, 2010, indicate Berner, 32, died March 8, 2010, in an animal attack outside the village of Chignik Lake, Alaska. Based on wolf tracks and other indications at the scene, Alaska State Troopers say Berner likely was killed by wolves but that the kind of animal cannot be determined without additional testing. (AP Photo/Lake and Peninsula Borugh School District, Alaska) NO SALES.AP - A teacher jogging along a rural Alaskan road was killed in an animal attack and authorities say wolves are the chief suspects.


12 Mar 2010 9:22am GMT

Man convicted in slaying of Broncos cornerback (AP)

FILE - This April 24, 2005, file photo shows Darrent Williams smiling as he holds a Denver Broncos' jersey bearing his name during a news conference at the team's headquarters in Denver. Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of a man charged with murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams. The decision was expected to be read in court shortly. Defendant Willie Clark was taken to the courtroom Thursday, March 11, 2010, to hear the decision. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)AP - The group of Denver Broncos players arrived at the Safari nightclub to celebrate New Year's Eve and was whisked inside by bouncers. One of the dozens of people waiting in line to get in - an alleged Tre-Tre Crips gang member - took exception.


12 Mar 2010 9:12am GMT

Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman (AP)

AP - Utah's House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude "hot-tubbing" with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.

12 Mar 2010 9:02am GMT

Lawmakers probe lax enforcement of animal rules (AP)

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2008, file photo, a worker throws a piece of meat among cattle carcass scraps dropped into a truck at the Hallmark Meat Packing slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif. In May 2008, the Agriculture Department banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand, since so-called 'downer' cows pose an increased risk for mad cow disease, E. coli and other infections. That change came in the wake of the nation's largest beef recall, after the Humane Society of the United States released another video in early 2008 showing the abuse of downers at Hallmark Meat Co. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)AP - The knives at the slaughterhouse weren't properly sanitized, a government investigator said, and employees at the meatpacking plant didn't know how to test the carcasses of days-old veal calves for a dangerous pathogen. Food safety conditions were so poor at the Vermont processing facility that it should close before someone got sick, officials warned.


12 Mar 2010 8:43am GMT

After drop in poll, AG recuses himself in NY probe (AP)

** ADDS THAT KAYE IS THE INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ** FILE - In this May 2, 2008 file photo, Chief Judge Judith Kaye speaks during a Law Day event in Albany, N.Y. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Thursday, March 11, 2010, that he has recused himself from the investigation and has appointed Kaye as independent counsel to probe whether Gov. David Paterson illegally took World Series tickets or had improper contact with a woman who accused an aide of domestic violence. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)AP - In recusing himself after two weeks of investigating Gov. David Paterson, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said there was no "technical conflict" but described the probe thus far as preliminary and bowed to pressure that included sinking approval ratings for the man widely expected to run for governor.


12 Mar 2010 8:17am GMT

feedCNN.com - U.S.

Independent counsel named in Paterson investigations

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has appointed a former chief judge of the State Appellate Court to oversee two investigations of Gov. David Paterson.

12 Mar 2010 6:40am GMT

High school hires female football coach

A high school in Washington, D.C., is set to name a former women's professional football player as its head varsity football coach Friday, a move that a national women's sports advocacy group calls historic.

12 Mar 2010 3:49am GMT

School sued for canceling prom over lesbian student

A Mississippi high school faces a lawsuit over its decision to cancel its prom rather than allow a lesbian high school student to attend with her girlfriend.

12 Mar 2010 2:49am GMT

feedYahoo! News: U.S. News

Indiana man who murdered 2 executed in Texas (AP)

This undated photo provided March 10, 2010 by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Joshua Maxwell. Maxwell is scheduled to be executed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Huntsville, Texas, for the robbery and fatal shooting of an off-duty police officer in San Antonio nearly 10 years ago. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice)AP - An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday in Texas for killing a sheriff's officer.


12 Mar 2010 2:37am GMT

feedCNN.com - U.S.

Court: Pledge of Allegiance is OK

Public schools in Western states can continue teacher-led reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, after a federal court ruled against a group of atheist parents.

12 Mar 2010 2:22am GMT

feedYahoo! News: U.S. News

APNewsBreak: Calif. murder suspect broke parole (AP)

This April 6, 2004 photo released Wednesday, March 10, 2010, by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows murder suspect John Albert Gardner III with a prison identification card. Gardner has pleaded not guilty to murdering Chelsea King in San Diego County and to the attempted rape of another woman. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 ordered California corrections officials to keep sex offenders' parole records indefinitely after he learned the files of a man now charged with killing a 17-year-old girl had been destroyed. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation) EDS NOTE: IMAGE PROVIDED BY POLICE SHOWS WHITE AREA IN BOTTOM RIGHT CORNERAP - A convicted sex offender charged with murdering one California teenager and under investigation for another killing violated his parole by moving too close to a school but was allowed to remain free, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.


12 Mar 2010 2:22am GMT

Report blasts firm overseeing Katrina recovery (AP)

AP - An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina has been overcharging the city, including billing for theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an internal investigation found.

12 Mar 2010 1:58am GMT

11 Mar 2010

feedCNN.com - U.S.

Ex-NOPD cop admits role in cover-up of LA bridge shooting

A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, authorities said.

11 Mar 2010 10:14pm GMT

Coroner: Post-Katrina hospital death not homicide

After reviewing the case of a woman who died at New Orleans, Louisiana's Memorial Hospital in the days after Hurricane Katrina, coroner Frank Minyard said Thursday that he cannot classify her death as a homicide.

11 Mar 2010 8:36pm GMT

Report: 12-year-olds abusing inhalants

When their kids turn 12, parents are concerned about peers pressuring them to smoke cigarettes, drink and use drugs, but it turns out 12-year-olds are doing something else: getting high on inhalants.

11 Mar 2010 7:20pm GMT

Ex-Obama adviser: Democrats may get 'slaughtered' in fall

Steve Hildebrand, one of the top advisers who helped put President Obama in office, has a stark warning for his old friends at the White House and on Capitol Hill.

11 Mar 2010 2:43pm GMT