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| Homeless man grateful for boots, but barefoot again Monday, Dec 03, 2012 05:47 AM PST The homeless man who was photographed being given a pair of boots by a New York City police officer in Times Square on a bitterly cold night last month was spotted on the Upper West Side on Sunday. And he was once again barefoot. "Those shoes are hidden," Jeffrey Hillman, the 54-year-old homeless man, told [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rogue dentist’s 30-year crusade against wisdom teeth removal extracts results Monday, Dec 03, 2012 02:52 AM PST Dr. Jay Friedman relishes his role as dental outcast. Like a pesky younger brother who enjoys watching his siblings squirm, the 86-year-old dentist and public health advocate has for decades been poking and prodding at the oral health community over his personal obsession: wisdom teeth. Friedman has argued for more than 30 years that removing [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bloody new photo of Trayvon Martin's killer released Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:08 PM PST  ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A color photograph of George Zimmerman with a bloody, swollen nose taken on the night he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin last February was posted on the Internet on Monday by Zimmerman's legal defense team. As the photo began to be circulated widely by the news media, lawyers on both sides disagreed about its significance to the second-degree murder case against Zimmerman. "It's not a game changer," Zimmerman lawyer Mark O'Mara told Reuters. ... Full Story | Top |
| Republican Doomsday Plan: Cave on Taxes Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:39 AM PST  Republicans are seriously considering a Doomsday Plan if fiscal cliff talks collapse. It’s quite simple: House Republicans would allow a vote on extending the Bush middle class tax cuts and offer the president nothing more. Full Story | Top |
| White House, Republicans play game of political chicken as fiscal cliff nears Monday, Dec 03, 2012 01:30 AM PST  WASHINGTON - The White House says Republicans should come clean about how much they're willing to raise tax rates on the rich. Republicans counter that President Barack Obama's latest plan is a joke that avoids tough decisions on the nation's biggest entitlement programs, including Medicare. Full Story | Top |
| GOP Makes Fiscal Cliff Counter-Offer Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:19 PM PST  House Speaker John Boehner today sent President Obama a counter-proposal on how to cut the deficit that he called a “credible plan†to break the stalemate in negotiations to keep the country from going off the “fiscal cliff.†In the plan, Republicans offer a total... Full Story | Top |
| La. town evacuates; police relocate explosives Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:36 PM PST  A town in northwest Louisiana was being evacuated and state police were starting a criminal investigation of a company after finding about 6 million pounds of explosive material used in howitzers they say was stored illegally. Full Story | Top |
| APNewsBreak: Gacy's blood may solve old murders Monday, Dec 03, 2012 05:16 AM PST  Detectives have long wondered what secrets serial killer John Wayne Gacy and other condemned murderers took to the grave when they were executed â€" mostly whether they had other unknown victims. Full Story | Top |
| Letterman, Hoffman, Zeppelin honored by Obama Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:02 AM PST  David Letterman's "stupid human tricks" and Top 10 lists vaulted into the ranks of cultural acclaim Sunday night as the late-night comedian received this year's Kennedy Center Honors with rock band Led Zeppelin, an actor, a ballerina and a bluesman. Full Story | Top |
| House Republicans release counterproposal in ‘fiscal cliff’ talks Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:46 PM PST WASHINGTONâ€"House Republicans on Monday unveiled a counterproposal to a Democratic plan to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff that includes $800 billion in new government revenue by eliminating write-offs in the tax code while extending current tax rates for all income levels. In a letter sent to the White House, Republican leaders outlined a plan that [...] Full Story | Top |
| 5 states to increase class time in some schools Monday, Dec 03, 2012 01:07 PM PST  Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer. Full Story | Top |
| Obama salutes entertainers at Kennedy Center Honors Monday, Dec 03, 2012 07:26 AM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Music legend Led Zeppelin was recognized on Sunday alongside entertainers from stage and screen for their contributions to the arts and American culture at the Kennedy Center Honors, lifetime achievement awards for performing artists. The eclectic tribute in Washington, alternated between solemn veneration and lighthearted roasting of honorees Academy Award-winning actor Dustin Hoffman, wisecracking late-night talk show host David Letterman, blues guitar icon Buddy Guy, ballerina Natalia Makarova and Led Zeppelin. ... Full Story | Top |
| Girl Bit by Dolphin Felt Bad for the Fish Monday, Dec 03, 2012 08:39 AM PST The little girl who got bit by a dolphin at Sea World said today that it “really, really hurt.†But instead of being upset, 8-year-old Jillian Thomas said she prayed for the dolphin. “There was this little carton that you put the fish in and... Full Story | Top |
| 'Maternity Mansion' Lures Pregnant Women From China Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:10 AM PST  Babies Born in U.S. Get Automatic Citizenship Full Story | Top |
| Alaska murder suspect linked to 7 other killings Monday, Dec 03, 2012 05:42 AM PST  Investigators say a man found dead of an apparent suicide in an Alaska jail was not only suspected of killing an Anchorage barista but may be linked to seven other possible slayings around the country. Full Story | Top |
| Republicans move on ‘fiscal cliff’ negotiations Monday, Dec 03, 2012 02:01 PM PST WASHINGTONâ€"Fiscal negotiations in Washington moved forward Monday as Republicans offered a new proposal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. The White House dismissed the proposal as an unbalanced effort that would hurt the middle class. The GOP plan included $800 billion in new government revenue by eliminating tax code write-offs while extending current tax rates [...] Full Story | Top |
| TV Magician's Head Catches Fire Monday, Dec 03, 2012 05:30 AM PST U.S. magician Wayne Houchin is recovering in a Dominican Republic hospital after a TV host lit his head on fire with a flammable liquid. Houchin was a guest on the Dominican Republic’s “Approach the Stars†TV program Nov. 26 when, he says, host Franklin Barazarte... Full Story | Top |
| "Doomsday" hill may be one Israeli settlement too far Monday, Dec 03, 2012 08:24 AM PST  E1, West Bank (Reuters) - The hillside called E1 is one of the few places around Jerusalem that Jesus Christ might still recognize: a stony, dusty, barren slope on the way down to the desert and the Dead Sea. If Israel carries out plans announced this week, it is destined to be the site of another Jewish settlement city, on occupied land that the Palestinians believe must be part of the state for which they have just won de facto U.N. recognition. Roads that seem to go nowhere run up its rocky slopes and streetlights provide slivers of shade from the often fierce sun. ... Full Story | Top |
| Government promises world won’t end on Dec. 21 Monday, Dec 03, 2012 11:28 AM PST The U.S. government wrote a helpful blog post on Monday titled, "Scary Rumors About the World Ending in 2012 Are Just Rumors." The post on USA.gov says NASA scientists have received thousands of letters from people convinced that the world will end on Dec. 21, based on a misunderstanding of the ancient Mayan calendar that's [...] Full Story | Top |
| 'Cognitive Big Bang' Discovered in Tiny Sea Worm Monday, Dec 03, 2012 08:58 AM PST  Several "brainy" genes that were duplicated in a tiny sea creature nearly 550 million years ago may have led to the massive expansion in intelligence in vertebrate species, two new studies have found. Full Story | Top |
| Obama hosting Twitter chat Monday at 2 p.m. ET Monday, Dec 03, 2012 10:19 AM PST President Barack Obama is set to do a Twitter chat on Monday at 2 p.m. Obama announced on his @barackobama Twitter page that he would discuss his tax plan on the social networking website, where information is shared in 140-character microbursts known as tweets. "Good to see lots of folks on twitter speaking out on [...] Full Story | Top |
| Voyager 1 Spacecraft Enters New Realm at Solar System's Edge Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:18 PM PST  NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has discovered a new layer of the solar system that scientists hadn't known was there, researchers announced today (Dec. 3). Full Story | Top |
| New details of a ship’s battle with Superstorm Sandy Monday, Dec 03, 2012 11:07 AM PST A new account of the HMS Bounty's last hours battling Hurricane Sandy reads like a novel. But unfortunately the story is true, and ends tragically with the death of the captain and a crew member and the destruction of the ship. Reports have emerged that Capt. Robin Walbridge chose to ride out Hurricane Sandy at [...] Full Story | Top |
| Russia, China urge North Korea to drop rocket launch plan Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:52 AM PST  MOSCOW/BEIJING (Reuters) - Russia and China urged North Korea on Monday not to go ahead with a plan for its second rocket launch of 2012, with Moscow saying any such move would violate restrictions imposed by the U.N. Security Council. North Korea's state news agency on Saturday announced the decision to launch another space satellite and reportedly told neighbors it would take a similar path to that planned for a failed rocket launch in April. "We urgently appeal to the government (of North Korea) to reconsider the decision to launch a rocket," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a ... Full Story | Top |
| UK's Prince William and wife Kate expecting a baby Monday, Dec 03, 2012 11:23 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine are expecting a baby, destined to be the country's future monarch, although the mother-to-be is in hospital with a type of very acute morning sickness that sometimes indicates twins. "Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that The Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby," the prince's office said in a statement on Monday, adding that Queen Elizabeth and the royal family were delighted. ... Full Story | Top |
| Man May Get Rude Awakening Why Wife Clings To Night Shift Sunday, Dec 02, 2012 09:10 PM PST DEAR ABBY: I'm married to the girl of my dreams. She's the best thing that's ever happened to me. We both work in the medical field. She's an emergency room nurse, and I'm a paramedic/firefighter.For several years my wife worked the day shift at a hospital more than an hour away from home. I tried to convince her to find a job closer, so we could see each other more. Finally, she told me she had been offered a night shift position at the hospital here in town. She promised to switch to a day shift if one opened up. I thought that was great. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police: Pa. man shoots, kills ex at church service Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:54 AM PST An elementary school music teacher walked into a church in the middle of Sunday services and shot and killed his ex-wife as she sat in a pew, police said. Full Story | Top |
| Cargo ships stack up as Los Angeles port strike in 7th day Monday, Dec 03, 2012 12:52 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Freighters with no place to unload their cargo lined up at anchorages off Los Angeles and Long Beach for a seventh day on Monday as shippers and striking clerks resumed talks to end a labor dispute that has idled most of America's biggest container port complex. The two sides remained at loggerheads over the future of union representation for clerical jobs after individuals retire from those jobs, but the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63 has so far resisted calls for outside mediation. ... Full Story | Top |
| Store employee fired after ‘booting’ ambulance Monday, Dec 03, 2012 03:08 PM PST One generally assumes that an ambulance with its lights flashing can park wherever it pleases. This past weekend in New Orleans, a parked ambulance was "booted" by a convenience store employee, who was apparently annoyed that the ambulance had parked in his store's lot. Never mind that the paramedics were treating a man inside the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Veterans' gun rights sticky issue in defense bill Monday, Dec 03, 2012 06:28 AM PST  Should veterans deemed too mentally incompetent to handle their own financial affairs be prevented from buying a gun? Full Story | Top |
| News anchor ‘regrets’ negotiating on air with man holding family hostage Monday, Dec 03, 2012 07:01 AM PST Jose Luiz Datena, host of a popular Brazilian crime show, became part of the unfolding story he was covering when a knife-wielding man holding his own mother and sister hostage demanded to speak with him. The man had been negotiating with policeâ€"who had surrounded his Sao Paulo-area homeâ€"for more than an hour late last month [...] Full Story | Top |
| 'Three Cups of Tea' co-author David Oliver Relin dies in suicide at age 49 Monday, Dec 03, 2012 11:43 AM PST  David Oliver Relin, co-author of the bestselling book "Three Cups of Tea," said in legal filings more than a year before his suicide that his career had been hurt by allegations of fabrications in the book recounting how Greg Mortenson started building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Full Story | Top |
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