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Saturday, July 14, 2012 8:30 PM PDT

Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: GOP governor calls on Romney to release more tax returns Ron Paul's delegate insurgency ends Family fears for abducted pastor U.S. fugitive caught after 24 years on the run Doctor wins Green Party's presidential nod Obama rallies supporters in battleground Virginia U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find way out of crisis Lawn chair balloonists abort mission, land early NYC seaport fire doused without any injuries Florida election officials to get access to citizen database U.S. crops wilting despite scattered Midwest rains Spain austerity measures will raise $69 billion Indiana father accidentally shot dead by 3-year-old son Mary Kennedy reburied away from Kennedy family Is it just the economy? Other issues may play role GOP governor calls on Romney to release more tax returns Sat,14 Jul 2012 03:34 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - ABC News' Michael Falcone and Arlette Saenz report: WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — In an interview with ABC News on Saturday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley called on presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney to release additional years of his tax returns in order to show voters that he... Full Story Top Ron Paul's delegate insurgency ends Sat,14 Jul 2012 03:18 PM PDT ABC OTUS News - Ron Paul's delegate insurgency has come to an end. Supporters of the libertarian GOP presidential candidate fell short at the Nebraska GOP convention, where they had hoped to out-organize Mitt Romney's delegates and push Paul over a critical threshold that would have ensured him an... Full Story Top Family fears for abducted pastor Sat,14 Jul 2012 06:01 PM PDT Associated Press - The family of a Boston Pentecostal pastor abducted in Egypt on Saturday appealed to his captor to release the 61-year-old man, saying he is a diabetic and the family fears for his health. Full Story Top U.S. fugitive caught after 24 years on the run Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:12 PM PDT ABC News (RSS) - One of the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 most wanted fugitives has been captured in the Mexican beach town of Cancun after 24 years on the run. Vincent Legrend Walters, 45, was apprehended early Friday morning and is being held on an extradition request. Walters, who... Full Story Top Doctor wins Green Party's presidential nod Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT Associated Press - A doctor who ran against Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor a decade ago won the chance to challenge him again on Saturday, this time as the Green Party's presidential nominee. Full Story Top Obama rallies supporters in battleground Virginia Sat,14 Jul 2012 01:32 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama, soaked to the skin as he rallied supporters during a downpour in the election battleground state of Virginia on Saturday, kept up his attack on Republican Mitt Romney as the rhetoric hardened on both sides Full Story Top U.N. says Syria killings targeted opposition Sat,14 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT Reuters - United Nations observers found blood, burned homes and signs of artillery fire in the Syrian village of Tremseh on Saturday but were unable to confirm activists' reports that about 220 people were massacred in an attack that prompted international outrage. The United States has branded Syria's leaders murderers after the assault by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's troops, but there was no break in the deadlock among world powers over how to bring about an end to the bloodshed. ... Full Story Top Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find way out of crisis Sat,14 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT Associated Press - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used her first meeting with Egypt's new Islamist president to press Mohammed Morsi to start a dialogue with military leaders as a way of preserving the country's transition to democracy. Full Story Top Lawn chair balloonists abort mission, land early Sat,14 Jul 2012 07:23 PM PDT ABC News - An Oregon gas station owner and his Iraqi co-pilot who lifted into flight Saturday on two lawn chairs tethered to 350 balloons from Bend, Ore., were forced to abort their flight about six hours later due to thunderstorms. Full Story Top NYC seaport fire doused without any injuries Sat,14 Jul 2012 06:26 PM PDT Associated Press - A fire on a tourist-friendly New York City pier that sent a huge cloud of smoke billowing above the Manhattan skyline was doused without any injuries on Saturday, fire officials said. Full Story Top Florida election officials to get access to citizen database Sat,14 Jul 2012 04:17 PM PDT Reuters - Florida election officials will have access to a federal database to help purge its voter rolls of non-citizens under an agreement reached between state and federal officials and welcomed on Saturday by Florida's Republican governor. The Department of Homeland Security will allow state officials to access the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. Florida and federal officials have been battling over access to the database for several weeks. Florida filed a lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department to gain access to the database. ... Full Story Top U.S. crops wilting despite scattered Midwest rains Sat,14 Jul 2012 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - Scattered rains over the last 24 hours provided little relief for U.S. Midwest corn and soybean crops that are rapidly deteriorating in the worst drought since 1988, and the forecast is for scant rain for the next two weeks, meteorologists said on Saturday. "Overall the rain yesterday won't put a dent in the drought because they were spotty hit or miss kind of rains. Certainly some isolated areas will benefit, but it was not a significant drought buster," said AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Pydynowski. Thunderstorms on Friday left from 0.25 inch to 0. ... Full Story Top Spain austerity measures will raise $69 billion Sat,14 Jul 2012 02:11 PM PDT Reuters - The Spanish government's most recent reforms will slash 56.4 billion euros ($69 billion) from the public deficit in the next two and a half years, an official document showed on Saturday, leaving a gap to be filled by taxes on energy. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged 65 billion euros of savings from tax hikes and spending cuts on Wednesday in a painful package aimed at convincing the EU and investors his government is serious about reform. The 8. ... Full Story Top Indiana father accidentally shot dead by 3-year-old son Sat,14 Jul 2012 12:55 PM PDT Reuters - An Indiana father watching television with his children was accidentally shot to death by his 3-year-old son after the boy found a loaded handgun nearby, police said on Saturday. Michael Payless, 33, was found dead in the southern Indiana town of Salem on Friday night. Payless was watching television with two of his children when the other child, a 3-year-old boy, found the gun. "The child accidentally discharged the loaded handgun ... Michael A. Payless was pronounced dead at the scene," an Indiana state police statement said. ... Full Story Top Mary Kennedy reburied away from Kennedy family Sat,14 Jul 2012 06:30 PM PDT Associated Press - Seven weeks after she hanged herself, Mary Richardson Kennedy was reburied in a Cape Cod cemetery 700 feet from her original grave near other Kennedy family members. Full Story Top Is it just the economy? Other issues may play role Sat,14 Jul 2012 10:37 AM PDT Associated Press - As the economy colors and polarizes voters' attitudes, the Election Day outcome for President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney may be decided on the margins by narrower issues that energize small but crucial slivers of the population. Full Story Top

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