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| Homeless Man’s Honest Deed Rewarded with $16K Donation, and Counting Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 09:22 AM PST A homeless man in Kansas City, Mo., made national headlines more than a week ago when he returned a valuable platinum and diamond engagement ring accidentally dropped into his cup of change by a woman offering some extra cash. Now, hundreds of donors have contributed more than $16,000 to a page on GiveForward.com to help Billy Ray Harris get his life back on track. The man's rewards don't stop with financial help -- the media story helped him connect with a brother in Lubbock, Texas, he hasn't seen in nearly 30 years. Full Story | Top |
| Mississippi newspaper owner defends gay marriage cover story Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 06:03 AM PST A newspaper in rural Mississippi is defending its decision to run a cover story on what it called the first same-sex marriage in the county it serves. On Feb. 7, the Laurel Leader-Call published the story Historic Wedding: Women wed in Laurel through smiles, tears about the wedding of Jessica Powell and Crystal Craven. Craven [...] Full Story | Top |
| Police: Hotel altercation sparked Vegas shooting Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 06:04 PM PST LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip. Full Story | Top |
| Britain to India: Diamond in royal crown is ours Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 08:38 PM PST  AMRITSAR, India (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron says a giant diamond his country forced India to hand over in the colonial era that was set in a royal crown will not be returned. Speaking on the third and final day of a visit to India aimed at drumming up trade and investment, Cameron ruled out handing back the 105-carat Koh-i-Noor diamond, now on display in the Tower of London. The diamond had been set in the crown of the current Queen Elizabeth's late mother. ... Full Story | Top |
| Pakistani man accuses ambassador to U.S. of blasphemy Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 06:19 AM PST  MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police registered an accusation from a businessman on Thursday that the country's ambassador to the United States had committed blasphemy, a crime that carries the death penalty, in connection with a 2010 TV talk show. The accusation against Ambassador Sherry Rehman is the latest in a string of controversial blasphemy cases in Pakistan, a largely Muslim nation whose name translates as Land of the Pure. According to Pakistan's blasphemy laws, anyone found to have uttered words derogatory to the Prophet Muhammad can be put to death. ... Full Story | Top |
| Laura Bush Wants Off Gay Marriage Ad Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:52 AM PST  Laura Bush was apparently caught off guard this week when she was featured in a TV ad in support of  gay marriage. The ad, created by a group called Respect for Marriage Coalition, includes a statement Bush made during an interview with CNN’s “Larry King Live†in 2010... Full Story | Top |
| Vegas police look for SUV from shooting and crash Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:35 AM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" Gunshots fired from a black Range Rover on the Las Vegas Strip early Thursday caused a Maserati to crash into a taxi, creating a fireball and killing three people as the SUV sped away. Full Story | Top |
| Obama weighs stepping in on gay marriage case Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 12:01 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Facing heightened expectations from gay rights supporters, the Obama administration is considering urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage â€" a move that could have a far-reaching impact on same-sex couples across the country. Full Story | Top |
| Troops getting gear from charity as U.S. military braces for budget cuts Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:53 AM PST Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned this week that looming military spending cuts “will result in a serious erosion of readiness across the force.†The caution comes as no surprise to Aaron Negherbon, whose nonprofit helps soldiers circumvent government fiscal challenges and red tape to get critical equipment to combat troops. “I’ve been told by units [...] Full Story | Top |
| Move over, Jaws—huge goldfish invade Lake Tahoe Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 09:28 AM PST Goldfish the size of canned hams are turning up in Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. A group of researchers from the University of Nevada at Reno discovered and documented the oversized fish, including one 18-inches long. Others had apparently spotted the fish in the waters of Lake Tahoe, but Christine Ngai and fellow researchers [...] Full Story | Top |
| How to Talk to Your Teen Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:02 AM PST Katie's Take It’s a delicate time â€" if not every parent’s worst nightmare - when a child enters puberty. Not only are their bodies changing physically, but hormones are raging and bad moods are in full swing. Katie Couric spoke with Dr. Barbara Greenberg, parenting expert and clinical psychologist, all about how parents can talk [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fishermen, acting on gut, find crash site, 2 girls Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 03:47 PM PST  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) â€" As their mother lay dead in the middle of the night, a 4-year-old Oregon girl dragged her seriously injured younger sister from a crashed car and the two huddled under a blanket â€" and waited. Full Story | Top |
| Mexico security forces abducted dozens in drug war: rights group Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 09:45 PM PST  IGUALA, Mexico (Reuters) - Dozens of people were abducted and murdered by Mexican security forces over the past six years during a gruesome war with drug cartels, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, urging President Enrique Pena Nieto to overhaul the military justice system. The rights group said that since 2007 it has documented 149 cases of people who were never seen again after falling into the hands of security forces, and that the government failed to properly investigate the "disappearances. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sequester 101: What happens if cuts kick in March 1 and four other questions Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 12:06 PM PST Come March 1, the government cuts that nobody in Washington thinks are sensible are set to take hold. Full Story | Top |
| White House rejects GOP senators’ request to withdraw Hagel Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 01:15 PM PST The White House on Thursday afternoon flatly rejected a request made earlier in the day by 15 Republican senators to withdraw Chuck Hagel's nomination as defense secretary. "This waste of time is not just meaningless political posturingâ€"because we firmly believe that Sen. Hagel will be confirmedâ€"but the waste of time is of consequence," White House [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rubio a ‘savior’? Maybe not, but many conservative groups see (voting) perfection Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:59 AM PST Marco Rubio may not be the "Savior of the Republican Party," but similar to followers of a better-known savior who walked the earth 2,000 years ago, some of the most influential American conservative groups see perfection in the junior senator from Florida. (Rubio seems to want to keep the messianic allusions to a minimum. After [...] Full Story | Top |
| The Lost Tribes of the Amazon Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 12:22 PM PST  Often described as “uncontacted,†isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern worldâ€"at least for now. Full Story | Top |
| Vatican feuds, fiefdoms, betrayals await next pope Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 10:35 AM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) â€" If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A. Full Story | Top |
| Official: Calif. gunman was loner, 'gamer' Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 09:48 PM PST  TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) â€" The first of three people killed in a gunman's rampage was identified Wednesday as a 20-year-old woman but police did not know why she was in the home of the shooter, who lived with his parents and was described by authorities as a video game-playing loner. Full Story | Top |
| Monster Goldfish Found in Lake Tahoe Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 11:33 AM PST  A new kind of lake monster has been found, in the depths of Lake Tahoe: gigantic goldfish. Researchers trawling the lake for invasive fish species scooped up a goldfish that was nearly 1.5 feet long and 4.2 pounds. Full Story | Top |
| Winter storm blankets Great Plains with snow Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 01:18 PM PST  ST. LOUIS (AP) â€" Blinding snow, at times accompanied by thunder and lightning, bombarded much of the nation's midsection Thursday, causing whiteout conditions, shutting down large swaths of interstate highways and forcing schools, businesses and even state legislatures to close. Full Story | Top |
| Why Congress protected its own pay in the sequester deal Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 03:54 AM PST Congressional staffers face layoffs and furloughs in two weeks, but Congress members made sure their own paychecks were safe when passing the “sequester law†in 2011. Full Story | Top |
| NASA Sees Monster Sunspot Growing Fast, Solar Storms Possible Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 05:05 AM PST  A colossal sunspot on the surface of the sun is large enough to swallow six Earths whole, and could trigger solar flares this week, NASA scientists say. Full Story | Top |
| Detroit named most miserable U.S. city in Forbes ranking Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 02:49 PM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - With its violent crimes, high unemployment, dwindling population and financial crisis, Detroit was named on Thursday as the most miserable city in the United States. It toppled Miami, which held the title last year, and surpassed Flint, Michigan, Rockford and Chicago in Illinois and Modesto, California, which rounded out the five most unhappy urban areas. "Detroit's problems are hardly news. It has been in a four-decade decline paralleling the slide in the U.S. auto industry," according to Forbes.com, which compiles the yearly ranking. ... Full Story | Top |
| Chicago district disappointed in ex-congressman Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 08:51 AM PST  Residents in this swath of sprawling Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs have brimmed with loyalty to Jesse Jackson Jr. over the past 17 years, giving him an enthusiastic majority each election â€" even after ... Full Story | Top |
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