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News: APNewsBreak: Russell Brand, Katy Perry to divorce North Korea Restores Order to Kim Funeral With Photoshop Florida Marine Veteran Shot in Craigslist Robbery Used Fingers to Plug Bullet Wounds Man caught trying to board flight with loaded handgun Satellite Photo Shows New Island Rising from Earth's Red Sea Alaska teen who was injected with heroin dies Man, 99, Divorcing Wife Over 60-Year-Old Affair South Dakota bar owner charged with raping 3 girls Authorities: Abortion doctors charged with murder Rescue group in crisis mode after cat euthanized Biologists: Lone gray wolf crosses into California Titanic artifacts up for auction in NY in April Virus sickens 110,000 in Vietnam, kills 166 Settlement in Elly Mae Clampett Barbie doll suit North Korea's new leaders lash out at South Korea and allies Christie warns he'll return 'Jersey style' if Iowans don't vote Romney 'Synthetic' marijuana is problem for US military Making big bets on Iowa: Gingrich and Perry, not Romney Israel kills al Qaeda-linked chief in Gaza strike In a first, gas and other fuels are top US export Obama delays request for $1.2T debt limit increase Romney son jokes about Obama's birth certificate Canadian Couple Welcomes 100th Grandchild Video: Newt Gingrich tears up in Iowa while speaking about his mother Video: Des Moines coffee-shop owner evicts Occupy protesters; 'You're not allowed to ever come back' Mystery trust beats the clock for lottery jackpot The Mitt Romney restoration: A vision of a past we can believe in Texas Teen Ben Breedlove: More than 1,500 Attend Memorial Service Missing Arkansas Mother's Torched Car Found in Forest Wash. man arrested with marijuana wrapped as gifts Nation's largest welfare state makes deep cuts Some crew still aboard burning Russian nuclear sub 2011 Was the Year of the Restless Sun 2 dead, 61 hurt in 40-vehicle New Orleans pileup 2 abortion providers charged with murder in Md. Romney says Paul doesn't represent mainstream Ron Paul's newsletters and Mitt Romney's Harvard years illustrate the mental approaches of the Iowa front-runners: Character Sketch GOP's Bachmann limps to Iowa caucus finish line New details rekindle HP-Hurd flap Can You Cure a Hangover? APNewsBreak: Russell Brand, Katy Perry to divorce Fri,30 Dec 2011 04:22 PM PST Associated Press - Russell Brand and Katy Perry are getting a divorce, the British comedian told The Associated Press Friday. Full Story Top North Korea Restores Order to Kim Funeral With Photoshop Thu,29 Dec 2011 06:01 PM PST ABC News - The funeral procession for Kim Jong-Il was carried out with military precision and when a handful of dawdlers messed up those regimented lines, they were eliminated. From the photo, that is. A photo released by the North Korea's state news agency and transmitted by the... Full Story Top Florida Marine Veteran Shot in Craigslist Robbery Used Fingers to Plug Bullet Wounds Thu,29 Dec 2011 09:28 AM PST ABC News - Karl Trenker's Military Training and Physical Condition Might Have Saved His Life Full Story Top Man caught trying to board flight with loaded handgun Thu,29 Dec 2011 03:16 PM PST Reuters - KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - A man trying to board a Delta Airlines flight in Kansas City with a loaded handgun was charged on Thursday with carrying a concealed weapon, authorities said. Anthony Winn, 26, of Kansas City was caught by a security screener Wednesday with what appeared to be a gun in his carry-on bag, according to U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips of the Western District of Missouri. Officers at the airport found a loaded 9 millimeter Glock handgun with 23 live rounds of ammunition, including one in the chamber, said a criminal complaint filed Thursday. ... Full Story Top Satellite Photo Shows New Island Rising from Earth's Red Sea Thu,29 Dec 2011 11:11 AM PST SPACE.com - The Red Sea has a new inhabitant: a smoking island. Full Story Top Alaska teen who was injected with heroin dies Thu,29 Dec 2011 04:00 PM PST Associated Press - An Alaska teenager allegedly injected with heroin by a 26-year-old man died Thursday, almost a week after suffering the drug overdose, Anchorage police said. Full Story Top Man, 99, Divorcing Wife Over 60-Year-Old Affair Thu,29 Dec 2011 03:48 PM PST ABC News - This year  has been filled with its share of sudden and surprising divorces in the entertainment and political world, but this split may take the cake. A 99-year-old Italian man filed for divorce from his 96-year-old wife of 77 years after he found letters from... Full Story Top South Dakota bar owner charged with raping 3 girls Thu,29 Dec 2011 11:29 AM PST Associated Press - The shots of alcohol and mixed drinks began flowing in the early morning hours. Three friends — two 14-year-olds and a 12-year-old — were supposed to be babysitting over a Saturday night. Instead, police say, they met up with a bar owner, who drove them to his closed tavern and began pouring them drinks — vodka shots, orange juice and vodka, vodka and coke and energy drinks. Full Story Top Authorities: Abortion doctors charged with murder Fri,30 Dec 2011 01:43 PM PST Associated Press - Two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. Full Story Top Rescue group in crisis mode after cat euthanized Wed,28 Dec 2011 04:05 PM PST Associated Press - Animal lovers threatened to pull donations to an animal rescue group and the public flooded the agency with scathing comments and calls after a man's cat was euthanized when he couldn't afford its medical care, prompting the Arizona Humane Society to go into damage-control mode Wednesday. Full Story Top Biologists: Lone gray wolf crosses into California Fri,30 Dec 2011 07:30 AM PST Associated Press - A lone gray wolf has wandered across the Oregon border into California in what wildlife officials hailed Thursday as the historic return of a species not seen in the state in more than 80 years. Full Story Top Titanic artifacts up for auction in NY in April Thu,29 Dec 2011 12:48 PM PST AFP - More than 5,000 artifacts salvaged from the Titanic are to be sold in one lot at auction in New York, 100 years to the day after the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic with some 1,500 people on board. Full Story Top Virus sickens 110,000 in Vietnam, kills 166 Fri,30 Dec 2011 01:38 AM PST Associated Press - Vietnam says an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has infected more than 110,000 people this year and killed 166, most of them children under 5 years old. Full Story Top Settlement in Elly Mae Clampett Barbie doll suit Thu,29 Dec 2011 03:04 PM PST Associated Press - The actress who played pigtailed, critter-loving Elly May Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies" has settled her lawsuit over a Barbie doll that uses the character's name and likeness. Full Story Top North Korea's new leaders lash out at South Korea and allies Fri,30 Dec 2011 01:42 PM PST Reuters - SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sounded a bellicose note in its first communication with the outside world since the death of leader Kim Jong-il, saying its confrontational stance against South Korea would not change and labeling its opponents "foolish." Since Kim Jong-il died on December 17, the outside world has been watching to see whether his son Kim Jong-un, aged in his 20s, would stick to its hardline "military first" policies that have seen the isolated nation move closer to nuclear weapons capacity. ... Full Story Top Christie warns he'll return 'Jersey style' if Iowans don't vote Romney Fri,30 Dec 2011 09:58 AM PST The Ticket - WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--Chris Christie came to Iowa on Friday, not as a 2012 presidential candidate, as many Republicans in the state had hoped, but as Mitt Romney's most high-profile surrogate in the final days before Tuesday's first-in-the-nation caucuses. More than 100 people turned out before daylight in the parking lot of a Hy-Vee supermarket, [...] Full Story Top 'Synthetic' marijuana is problem for US military Fri,30 Dec 2011 01:11 PM PST Associated Press - U.S. troops are increasingly using an easy-to-get herbal mix called "Spice," which mimics a marijuana high, is hard to detect and can bring on hallucinations that last for days. Full Story Top Making big bets on Iowa: Gingrich and Perry, not Romney Fri,30 Dec 2011 07:14 AM PST The Signal - After months of speculation over how much effort Mitt Romney will put into winning in the Iowa caucus, the Huffington Post is declaring him "All in." Romney will spend Friday in New Hampshire before coming back to Iowa on Saturday and staying through the Tuesday caucuses. Previously, some observers assumed he would stay another day [...] Full Story Top Israel kills al Qaeda-linked chief in Gaza strike Fri,30 Dec 2011 03:27 PM PST Reuters - GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters)- Israel killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction in the Gaza Strip on Friday, accusing him of involvement in firing rockets and a planned attack on the Jewish state from the neighboring Egyptian Sinai. The deadly air strike was Israel's second against a Salafi Islamist militant this week. Militants identified him as Momen Abu Daf, chief of the Army of Islam, among a loose network of Palestinian groups which profess allegiance to al Qaeda and have been reinforced by volunteers who slip in from the Sinai. ... Full Story Top In a first, gas and other fuels are top US export Fri,30 Dec 2011 06:31 PM PST Associated Press - For the first time, the top export of the United States, the world's biggest gas guzzler, is — wait for it — fuel. Full Story Top Obama delays request for $1.2T debt limit increase Fri,30 Dec 2011 12:25 PM PST Associated Press - President Barack Obama is delaying his request for another $1.2 trillion increase in the United States' debt limit at the request of congressional leaders. Full Story Top Romney son jokes about Obama's birth certificate Fri,30 Dec 2011 02:53 PM PST Associated Press - One of Mitt Romney's sons has an answer for those who say his father should release his tax returns. He jokes that President Barack Obama should go first and release his birth certificate and other records. Full Story Top Canadian Couple Welcomes 100th Grandchild Fri,30 Dec 2011 09:28 AM PST ABC News - Just in time for Christmas, Viktor and Aneta Urich of Grande Prairie, Alberta, welcomed their 100th grandchild, the Daily Herald-Tribune reported. The Urichs, who are in their early 60s, have 16 children. Their eldest son, Heinrich – father of newborn Henry – has nine kids younger... Full Story Top Video: Newt Gingrich tears up in Iowa while speaking about his mother Fri,30 Dec 2011 09:23 AM PST The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--In a rare personal moment on the campaign trail for Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate broke down when asked to speak about his mother, Kathleen Gingrich. At a town hall meeting at a coffee shop here, Gingrich reflected on the role his mother played in his life, and [...] Full Story Top Video: Des Moines coffee-shop owner evicts Occupy protesters; 'You're not allowed to ever come back' Fri,30 Dec 2011 07:58 AM PST The Ticket - DES MOINES, Iowa--On Friday morning before a planned event appearance by Newt Gingrich, some members of "Occupy Iowa" made a stop at Java Joe's, a coffee shop here that MSNBC has been broadcasting from. The protesters didn't get far before the owner of the shop gave them the boot. About four or five Occupiers stood chanting [...] Full Story Top Mystery trust beats the clock for lottery jackpot Fri,30 Dec 2011 01:30 PM PST Associated Press - Iowa Lottery officials had more questions than answers Friday as they tried to unravel the stunning mystery behind a year-old winning ticket turned in less than two hours before Thursday's deadline for a jackpot worth up to $14.3 million. Full Story Top The Mitt Romney restoration: A vision of a past we can believe in Fri,30 Dec 2011 05:53 AM PST The Ticket - DAVENPORT, Iowa--I'm told the reason it remains illegal to raise chickens in Iowa City, where I live, is because Iowans moved to our relatively cosmopolitan college town to get away from the country people and, by extension, their chickens. Twentysomethings from bigger cities, where it is fashionable to raise your own chicks and harvest fresh [...] Full Story Top Texas Teen Ben Breedlove: More than 1,500 Attend Memorial Service Fri,30 Dec 2011 06:32 AM PST Good Morning America - Rapper Kid Cudi Talks About Breedlove's Heartbreaking Video Full Story Top Missing Arkansas Mother's Torched Car Found in Forest Fri,30 Dec 2011 12:58 AM PST Good Morning America - Police Emergency Dispatcher and Mother of 3 Vanished Days Before Christmas Full Story Top Wash. man arrested with marijuana wrapped as gifts Thu,29 Dec 2011 03:07 PM PST Associated Press - A Washington state man faces felony marijuana trafficking charges after an officer found 3.3 pounds of marijuana wrapped up as Christmas gifts during a traffic stop in northern Idaho. Full Story Top Nation's largest welfare state makes deep cuts Thu,29 Dec 2011 06:25 AM PST Associated Press - Advocates of welfare reform in California often cite one, eye-popping statistic as they have pressed for cuts and changes to the program in recent years: The state has one-eighth of the nation's population but one-third of all welfare recipients. Full Story Top Some crew still aboard burning Russian nuclear sub Fri,30 Dec 2011 02:14 AM PST Associated Press - A major fire aboard a docked Russian nuclear submarine that injured seven crew members with toxic fumes and left others stuck inside the vessel appeared to be brought under control on Friday, and officials said the blaze had caused no radiation leaks. Full Story Top 2011 Was the Year of the Restless Sun Thu,29 Dec 2011 07:49 AM PST SPACE.com - After five years of surprising quiet, the sun roared to life in 2011. Full Story Top 2 dead, 61 hurt in 40-vehicle New Orleans pileup Fri,30 Dec 2011 12:44 AM PST Associated Press - Two men died and 61 other people were injured Thursday in a pre-dawn pileup involving about 40 cars, vans and other vehicles on a busy interstate that crosses New Orleans, closing the route for hours both ways, police said. Full Story Top 2 abortion providers charged with murder in Md. Fri,30 Dec 2011 04:58 PM PST Associated Press - Authorities say two out-of-state doctors who traveled to Maryland to perform late-term abortions have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder, an unusual use of a law that allows for murder charges in the death of a viable fetus. Full Story Top Romney says Paul doesn't represent mainstream Fri,30 Dec 2011 11:14 AM PST Associated Press - An Iowa victory within reach, an increasingly confident Mitt Romney on Friday cast chief GOP presidential rival Ron Paul as a fringe candidate and said: "I'm working harder than anyone to make sure he's not the nominee." Full Story Top Ron Paul's newsletters and Mitt Romney's Harvard years illustrate the mental approaches of the Iowa front-runners: Character Sketch Thu,29 Dec 2011 05:37 AM PST The Ticket - On martial law and growth-share matrices A TV ad in Iowa ballyhoos Ron Paul as "the one you can trust." But while Paul's anti-government consistency may be rare in politics, his newsletter business during the early 1990s was a shell game worthy of P.T. Barnum. The un-bylined newsletters, which featured Paul's name in oversized letters, [...] Full Story Top GOP's Bachmann limps to Iowa caucus finish line Fri,30 Dec 2011 11:28 AM PST Associated Press - Encountering small crowds and fresh viability questions, Republican Michele Bachmann slogged into the final weekend of Iowa caucus campaigning Friday looking for any spark to her flagging bid. Full Story Top New details rekindle HP-Hurd flap Fri,30 Dec 2011 08:32 AM PST Reuters - (Reuters) - Former Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd made increasingly aggressive romantic advances over several years toward an independent contractor who later accused him of sexual harassment, according to claims in a letter from her lawyer obtained by Reuters. The letter, ordered unsealed and allowed to be made public for the first time since the scandal emerged last year, outlined in intricate detail accusations by TV starlet and HP contractor Jodie Fisher that Hurd had wined and dined her, then allegedly sought sexual favors in return for employment. ... Full Story Top Can You Cure a Hangover? Fri,30 Dec 2011 05:01 AM PST ABC News - Ringing in the New Year with too much bubbly might make for a rough start to 2012. But a new wave of hangover-fighting pills and patches, plus a handful of old standbys, claim to spare you the headache, fatigue and upset stomach brought on by booze.... Full Story Top

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