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| Man claiming to be pastor leaves waiter note: ‘I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?’ Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 07:59 AM PST A man claiming to be a pastor apparently tried to stiff a waiter on a tip, explaining that his work for God absolved him of having to leave one. A photo of the receipt, posted to Reddit.com, shows a bill for $34.93 that included an automatic 18 percent gratuity ($6.29) above a blank space for [...] Full Story | Top |
| Actor Jim Nabors marries male partner in Seattle Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 06:37 AM PST  HONOLULU (AP) â€" Jim Nabors, the actor best known for playing Gomer Pyle on TV in the 1960s, has married his longtime male partner. Full Story | Top |
| Obama's Favorability Best Since '09 Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 04:01 AM PST  Barack Obama has advanced to his highest personal popularity since his first year in office, and Americans who’ve formed an opinion of his second inaugural address last week broadly approve of it, the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finds. At the same time, Obama’s favorability... Full Story | Top |
| Calif. home searched in 1984 disappearance of boy Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:58 AM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) â€" It has been nearly 30 years since 10-year-old Kevin Collins disappeared while waiting for a bus after basketball practice. His mother, now 72, said she felt numb as she watched police search a San Francisco home in connection to the decades-old cold case. Full Story | Top |
| White House blames Sandy, spending cuts as economy shrinks Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 07:25 AM PST The White House on Wednesday blamed the devastation from Superstorm Sandy and disruptions from deep scheduled spending cuts for the surprise 0.1 percent drop in gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter of 2012. It was the first such contraction since early 2009 when the country was in the grips of the Great Recession. [...] Full Story | Top |
| Texas woman's execution halted; DA won't appeal Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:17 PM PST  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) â€" The first woman scheduled to be executed in the U.S. since 2010 won a reprieve Tuesday, mere hours before she was scheduled to be taken to the Texas death chamber. Full Story | Top |
| US economy shrinks 0.1 pct., 1st time in 3 ½ years Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 06:01 AM PST  The U.S. economy shrank from October through December for the first time since the recession ended, hurt by the biggest cut in defense spending in 40 years, fewer exports and sluggish growth in company ... Full Story | Top |
| McCain: Failure to act on immigration could turn red states blue Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 06:44 AM PST Failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform could have disastrous political consequences for Republicans in red states with growing Hispanic populations, Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, a key player in drafting the blueprint for an immigration overhaul, said Wednesday. "The Republican Party has failed to understand to a significant degree the importance of this issue to [...] Full Story | Top |
| High-tech cargo airship being built in California Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:32 PM PST  TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) â€" The massive blimp-like aircraft flies but just barely, hovering only a dozen feet off a military hangar floor during flight testing south of Los Angeles. Full Story | Top |
| Israel hits Syria arms convoy to Lebanon: sources Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:11 PM PST BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes bombed a convoy near Syria's border with Lebanon, sources told Reuters, apparently targeting weapons destined for Hezbollah in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel's Lebanese enemy. Syrian state television accused Israel of bombing a military research center at Jamraya, between Damascus and the nearby border, but Syrian rebels disputed that, saying their forces had attacked the site. No source spoke of a second Israeli strike. ... Full Story | Top |
| Alabama school bus shooting suspect holed up in bunker: police Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:45 PM PST MIDLAND CITY, Alabama (Reuters) - The gunman suspected of fatally shooting an Alabama school bus driver before holing up in an underground bunker with a young child is a Vietnam veteran with anti-government views, authorities and an organization that tracks hate groups said on Wednesday. Law enforcement officials from multiple agencies were bivouacked near the bunker in Midland City but offered few details about an overnight standoff with the shooter that stretched into Wednesday evening. Authorities said driver Charles Albert Poland Jr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ala. Gunman Takes 6-Year-Old Hostage Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:59 AM PST  A 6-Year-Old Passenger Has Been Taken Hostage by the Suspected Gunman Full Story | Top |
| Germany marks 80th anniversary of Hitler's rise Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 05:42 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) â€" On the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to always fight for their principles and not fall into the complacency that enabled the Nazi dictator to seize control. Full Story | Top |
| Zimbabwe Is Down to Its Last $217 Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:35 AM PST There are cash-strapped governments, and there are broke governments. And then there's Zimbabwe, which, after paying last week's government salaries, has just $217 in the bank. No, we didn't forget any zeroes to the end of that figure. Zimbabwe, the country that's home to some of the world's largest plutonium and diamond reserves, is literally as rich as a 14-year-old girl after a really good birthday party. The country's finance minister admitted as much in a press conference on Tuesday. ... Full Story | Top |
| Clinton says she doesn't see "getting back into politics" Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:24 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday cast doubt on speculation she might run for the White House in 2016. In an interview taped for National Public Radio, Clinton was asked what questions she needs to answer for herself as she decides whether to run for president. "I'm not even posing those questions. I am really looking forward to stepping off the fast track that I've been on. I've been out of politics as Secretary of State. I don't see myself getting back into politics," she said, according to an excerpt of the interview. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ex-Ill. Gov. Ryan released from halfway house Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 11:42 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) â€" Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was back at his longtime home on Wednesday following his pre-dawn release from a federal prison after serving more than five years for corruption. Full Story | Top |
| Lindsay Lohan could face jail after March trial in California Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:54 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan will stand trial on March 18 on charges she lied to California police about a June car crash and violated probation, raising the possibility she could be sent back to jail. A judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday set the trial date on charges related to the car crash and said the court will hold a hearing at the same time on whether Lohan in the incident violated probation from a 2011 jewelry theft. ... Full Story | Top |
| Standoff: Man shoots Ala. bus driver, takes child Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 06:33 AM PST MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) â€" Police, SWAT teams and negotiators clustered at a rural property where a man was believed to be holed up in an underground shelter Wednesday after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| Israeli airstrike hits truck convoy in Syria Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 11:03 AM PST BEIRUT (AP) â€" Israel conducted a rare airstrike inside Syria near the border with Lebanon, hitting a convoy of trucks, foreign officials said Wednesday, amid fears President Bashar Assad's regime is providing weapons to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah. Full Story | Top |
| Jamaica embraces controversial Super Bowl ad Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:38 PM PST Jamaica is embracing a controversial Super Bowl commercial that depicts a white office worker from the U.S. Midwest feigning the Caribbean island's lilting patois accent to display a cheerful, upbeat outlook.Some ... Full Story | Top |
| Photo of Rescued Pit Bull Warms the Hearts of the Web Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 11:12 AM PST Lots of animal stories in the news this week, not all of them the warm and fuzzy kind. The discovery of a suspected dog-fighting ring in Plant City, Fla., on Monday elicited angry reactions from locals and the Internet community. But along with sadness comes a touching photo from Reddit user F.L. Medic, who uploaded [...] Full Story | Top |
| Former Marine Corps General: Women in combat long overdue Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 04:38 AM PST On the Radar This past week we saw an extraordinary change in the military lifting the ban on direct combat for women. Former Marine Corps General James Cartwright, a defense consultant for ABC News, lived through a similar sea change in the 1990s, when the military lifted its combat ban for female aviators. Cartwright recalls [...] Full Story | Top |
| Armed Arizona posse guards schools: Vigilantes or vigilance? Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 10:22 PM PST From a distance, the Maricopa County sheriff's patrol car parked near the entrance to a school parking lot suggests the presence of a uniformed deputy, sitting vigilant behind the wheel â€" a 9 millimeter Glock on his waist, a Remington shotgun nearby, and a bulletproof vest snug under his tan shirt. Full Story | Top |
| Labrador is America's top dog, bulldogs make headway Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:49 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Labrador retriever held its 22-year reign as America's top dog, but a determined bulldog is gaining ground in the popularity stakes. The American Kennel Club's annual ranking of most popular dog breeds on Wednesday showed Labradors in the lead, with other large dogs moving up and once-popular smaller breeds such as the Yorkshire terrier and the miniature poodle losing some ground. "Bigger breeds are making their move," said AKC spokeswoman Lisa Peterson. "The bulldog has muscled his way into the top five," she said, displacing the popular Yorkie, which dropped to ... Full Story | Top |
| Prince Charles and Camilla Surprise 'Tube' Passengers Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:34 PM PST  Commuters in London may have thought they had boarded the wrong train today when they saw who was sitting with them. Traveling on the tube, London’s subway, were none other than Prince Charles, the man next in line to the British throne, and his wife,... Full Story | Top |
| Britain Blanketed by Snow in New Satellite Image Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 04:05 AM PST  Unusually frigid and snowy conditions blanketed much of the island of Great Britain in snow earlier this month. The winter wonderland was spotted from above by NASA's Terra satellite on Jan. 26. Full Story | Top |
| Obama to Congress: No Repeat of Obamacare on Immigration Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:26 AM PST One message that came through loud and clear in President Obama’s immigration speech: He’s not interested in a repeat of the protracted negotiations-to-nowhere that stalled health reform during his first term. Full Story | Top |
| 13 Tech Terms You Should Never Say Again Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 02:09 PM PST  You’d never describe your USB Flash drive as a floppy disk, even though it serves the same purpose. You wouldn’t think of referring to the network admin who runs your servers as a "keypunch operator." So why did you tell your daughter that you are "filming" her dance recital on a digital camera? Full Story | Top |
| Tensions linger in US over 'comfort women' plaques Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 10:13 AM PST  HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) â€" Four years ago, noticing plaques at the county courthouse commemorating slavery, the Holocaust and other atrocities, Korean-American community leader Chejin Park struck upon the idea of adding a tribute to the "comfort women" of World War II. Full Story | Top |
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