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| US gov't to air-drop toxic mice on Guam snakes Friday, Feb 22, 2013 06:16 AM PST  Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are scientists' prescription for a headache that has caused the tiny U.S. territory misery for more than 60 years: ... Full Story | Top |
| Fishermen, acting on gut, find crash site, 2 girls Friday, Feb 22, 2013 06:19 AM 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 |
| Snowplow driver covers up cars and blocks driveways—on purpose Friday, Feb 22, 2013 09:19 AM PST The snowplow driver calling himself Dogg has been ticking off a lot of people. Mark Hussey, who plows the streets of Lowell, Mass., for a private contractor, made a video of himself as he buried cars in the white stuff and blocked driveways by pushing back the snow shoveled off of them. The worst part: [...] Full Story | Top |
| Rat tales abound in NYC after Superstorm Sandy Friday, Feb 22, 2013 06:49 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) â€" At the height of Superstorm Sandy, city residents watching seawater pour into the subway system couldn't help but wonder: What will become of all the rats? Full Story | Top |
| How bad is the Republicans' demographic problem? See for yourself (Interactive) Friday, Feb 22, 2013 07:05 AM PST Even a few ticks upward in Hispanic turnout have major benefits for the Democratic Party, which stands to draw less than half its support from non-Hispanic white voters by the end of the decade. Full Story | Top |
| As sequestration looms, Americans say to cut basically nothing Friday, Feb 22, 2013 08:49 AM PST If you were in charge of government spending, what programs would you cut to reduce the deficit and maybe take a bite out of the debt? A new poll from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center suggests that the answer is: Nothing…well, maybe aid to the world’s poor. The survey was released one week before automatic [...] Full Story | Top |
| Slavery-math questions cause uproar at NYC school Friday, Feb 22, 2013 07:00 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) â€" A school principal said she's "appalled" by a homework assignment that used scenarios about killing and whipping slaves to teach math. Full Story | Top |
| Gov't downsizes amid GOP demands for more cuts Friday, Feb 22, 2013 11:20 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Republicans and other fiscal conservatives keep insisting on more federal austerity and a smaller government. Without much fanfare or acknowledgement, they've already gotten much of both. Full Story | Top |
| Major snowstorm headed for New England Friday, Feb 22, 2013 12:17 PM PST BOSTON (Reuters) - New England braced on Friday for its third snowstorm in three weekends, gathering crews to ready roads and trim trees ahead of the snow, sleet and freezing rain that hit the Midwest. The storm blanketed states from Minnesota to Ohio earlier this week, dumping more than a foot of snow in Kansas on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel hundreds of flights and stranding motorists on highways. ... Full Story | Top |
| Maserati driver in Vegas shooting-crash was rapper Friday, Feb 22, 2013 12:06 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) â€" The Maserati driver who died after being peppered with gunfire from someone in a Range Rover SUV, sparking a fiery crash that killed two others, was identified Friday as an aspiring rapper originally from Northern California. Full Story | Top |
| Utah trooper accused of making bogus DUI arrests Friday, Feb 22, 2013 08:32 AM PST  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) â€" During her 10 years as a Utah state trooper, Lisa Steed built a reputation as an officer with a knack for nabbing drunken motorists in a state with a long tradition of tee totaling and some of the nation's strictest liquor laws. Full Story | Top |
| What’s ‘Joe the Plumber’ up to these days? He’s giving away an AR-15 Friday, Feb 22, 2013 09:14 AM PST After an unsuccessful bid for Congress last year, Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as "Joe the Plumber," recently launched a new conservative advocacy websiteâ€"and announced this week he's giving away an AR-15 rifle to promote it. "Despite what national news commentators say, the AR 15 is NOT an 'assault weapon' or 'weapon of mass destruction,'" the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Al-Qaida tipsheet on avoiding drones found in Mali Friday, Feb 22, 2013 04:47 AM PST  TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) â€" One of the last things the bearded fighters did before leaving this city was to drive to the market where traders lay their carpets out in the sand. Full Story | Top |
| Transportation secretary warns of flight cancellations, delays under sequester Friday, Feb 22, 2013 11:35 AM PST President Barack Obama's administration on Friday brought out Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to strike fear in the American public over the sequester right where it hurts: their impatience with air travel. Ahead of the sequesterâ€"across-the-board spending cuts set to take effect March 1 in the absence of a budget dealâ€"the Federal Aviation Administration is planning [...] Full Story | Top |
| 'I'm a monster': Veterans 'alone' in their guilt Friday, Feb 22, 2013 06:32 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" A veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, former Marine Capt. Timothy Kudo thinks of himself as a killer â€" and he carries the guilt every day. Full Story | Top |
| Police: Hotel altercation sparked Vegas shooting Thursday, Feb 21, 2013 09:26 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 |
| FBI Declares War on The Scooter Store Friday, Feb 22, 2013 04:36 AM PST Approximately 150 federal and state law enforcement agents launched a massive raid on one of the biggest perpetrators of government fraud in America: The Scooter Store. Yes, that's right. The nation's largest provider of single-person electric vehicles and power chairs is the target of a federal investigation, probably because many of the people who ride around their "personal mobility devices" don't actually need them. Full Story | Top |
| THE RESET: White House catalogs spending-cut woes Friday, Feb 22, 2013 10:26 AM PST  As the nation slowly recovers from the severe 2007-2009 recession, a battle rages between lawmakers who want the government to aggressively tackle deficits with spending cuts and those who caution the economy is still too frail to stand on its own feet. Full Story | Top |
| Some patients won't see nurses of different race Friday, Feb 22, 2013 01:47 PM PST  DETROIT (AP) â€" It's been called one of medicine's "open secrets" â€" allowing patients to refuse treatment by a doctor or nurse of another race. Full Story | Top |
| Cardinal: Married Catholic priests a possibility Friday, Feb 22, 2013 10:51 AM PST  LONDON (AP) â€" Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain's most senior Catholic cleric said Friday. Full Story | Top |
| Defense: Mayor didn't know salary was illegal Friday, Feb 22, 2013 06:50 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) â€" The unschooled and illiterate former mayor of the scandal-ridden suburban city of Bell had no training that would have alerted him that his huge salary was illegal, his lawyer told a jury in closing arguments. Full Story | Top |
| S.African court grants Pistorius bail in murder case Friday, Feb 22, 2013 07:05 AM PST PRETORIA (Reuters) - A South African court granted bail on Friday to Oscar Pistorius, charged with the murder of his girlfriend, after his lawyers argued the "Blade Runner" was too famous to pose a flight risk. The decision by Magistrate Desmond Nair drew cheers from the athlete's family and supporters, although he appeared unmoved. Pistorius had broken down in tears earlier in the week-long hearing. The court set bail at 1 million rand and postponed the case until June 4. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama administration: Cuts to cause flight delays Friday, Feb 22, 2013 10:10 AM PST The Obama administration is warning that automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect March 1 will result in travel delays at major airports and require traffic-disrupting shutdowns of air traffic ... Full Story | Top |
| Inventor Spills Wine Secret: Put It in a Blender Friday, Feb 22, 2013 04:00 AM PST  BOSTON â€" Decanting wine is a common tactic among some oenophiles, and involves pouring the drink through an aerator or into a special container to let it "breathe." But inventor and amateur chef Nathan Myhrvold has an even better and faster way: Put it in the blender. Full Story | Top |
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