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| Police name suspect in Vegas shooting Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 07:50 PM PST  Police have identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of an aspiring rapper as he drove on the Las Vegas Strip in a Maserati before dawn on Thursday, sparking a fiery crash that also killed a cab driver and his passenger. Ammar Asim Faruq Harris, described as armed and dangerous, was still at large on Saturday, but the black Range Rover from which he is suspected of opening fire had been impounded, Las Vegas police said. Authorities said a gunman in a Range Rover opened fire early on Thursday on the silver Maserati being driven by 27-year-old Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr. ... Full Story | Top |
| White House directs open access for government research Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 07:23 PM PST  The White House has moved to make the results of federally funded research available to the public for free within a year. Full Story | Top |
| Governors press for alternative to impending spending cuts Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 04:56 PM PST  They want Congress and Obama to give states more say in bringing down federal debt. Full Story | Top |
| Sources: Half-inch crack blamed for F-35 grounding Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 07:12 PM PST  An engine blade crack prompted the U.S. military to ground all 51 F-35 jets. Full Story | Top |
| Rare baby crocs released into wild Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 06:22 PM PST  Nineteen baby Siamese crocodiles are being let loose in the wetlands of Laos. Full Story | Top |
| World's smallest space telescopes launching Monday Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 02:30 PM PST  Two tiny satellites will launch into orbit Monday on a mission to study the brightest stars in the night sky. Full Story | Top |
| Italians head to polls in crucial vote for euro zone Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 04:03 PM PST  Italians vote on Sunday in one of the most closely watched elections in years. Full Story | Top |
| Banksy street murals pulled from Miami auction after controversy Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 06:59 PM PST  Two spray-paint murals by the elusive street artist Banksy, including one that vanished last week from a North London wall, were pulled in the 11th hour from a Miami auction on Saturday. Who owns the London mural remains a mystery, as does how it ended up in a Miami auction house shortly after going missing. Frederic Thut, owner of Fine Art Auctions Miami, which had been due to sell the piece, has said his firm did "all necessary due diligence" to establish the ownership of the work. But the London piece and another Banksy mural were pulled nevertheless. ... Full Story | Top |
| Vatican blasts media for influencing election with 'false' reports Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 07:30 AM PST  The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports. Full Story | Top |
| Powerball winners live modestly, give back to town Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 12:58 PM PST  Some lottery winners fritter away fortunes or meet tragic ends, but not the Hills. Full Story | Top |
| Spiral of Karachi killings widens Pakistan's sectarian divide Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 05:01 PM PST  Members of Pakistan's Shi'ite minority are braced for a new chapter of persecution after a series of bombings. Full Story | Top |
| Hawaii governor: Sequestration will make Pearl Harbor less secure Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 09:49 AM PST  Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii warns against a failure to avoid across-the-board sequestration budget cuts. Full Story | Top |
| Don't just blame cats: Dogs disrupt wildlife, too Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 06:06 PM PST  Though they seem so natural in our homes, cats and dogs are natural predators, too. Most will attack birds, lizards and smaller mammals when given the chance, and scientists have demonstrated how their explosive populations can upset ecosystems. Full Story | Top |
| Radioactive waste leaking from tanks at Washington state nuclear site Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 07:48 PM PST Six underground storage tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington state were recently found to be leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, state and federal officials said on Friday. The seeping waste adds to decades of soil contamination caused by leaking storage tanks at Hanford in the past and threatens to further taint groundwater below the site but poses no near-term danger of polluting the Columbia River, officials said. ... Full Story | Top |
| Report: Chile's Pinochet wanted anti-vote violence Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 01:35 PM PST  U.S. documents indicate the Chilean dictator sought to use military force to annul the referendum that ended his regime. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to argue for gay marriage in Supreme Court case Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 01:24 PM PST  The Obama administration has taken another important step in its advocacy of same-sex marriage, weighing in on an important case to be heard in the US Supreme Court next month. Full Story | Top |
| How dinosaurs grew the world's longest necks Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 07:46 AM PST  How did the largest of all dinosaurs evolve necks longer than any other creature that has ever lived? One secret: mostly hollow neck bones, researchers say. Full Story | Top |
| Authorities: Report of gunman at MIT was a hoax Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 04:14 PM PST  Authorities say a report of a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was a hoax and there is no threat to public safety. Full Story | Top |
| Iran says it has captured a foreign 'enemy drone' Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 01:52 PM PST TEHRAN, Iran (AP) â€" Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that it had captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran. Full Story | Top |
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