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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Keyword: [recipes ]: Everyday recipes: A twist on a simple meatball recipe makes for a comforting dinner
Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Death penalty lawyer Clarke 'humanizes' client and jury
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| Death penalty lawyer Clarke 'humanizes' client and jury Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 05:11 PM PDT  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - When death penalty expert Judy Clarke joined the defense team for the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, she spent months trying to establish a rapport so she could convince him to accept a plea deal that would spare him capital punishment. Though she and his other lawyers angered Kaczynski when they sought to introduce evidence of his mental illness, he eventually pleaded guilty in 1998 and received a life sentence. ... Full Story | Top |
| Female U.S. Army deserter pleads guilty, gets 10-month prison term Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 05:01 PM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - An Army private believed to be the first female U.S. soldier to seek refuge in Canada rather than return to duty in Iraq was sentenced to 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to desertion, military officials in Colorado said on Tuesday. Kimberly Rivera, who said she grew opposed to the war during a three-month tour of duty in Iraq, pleaded guilty at a court-martial proceeding in Fort Carson, Colorado, on Monday and was sentenced immediately. ... Full Story | Top |
| George Zimmerman Still Thinks He Can Convince a Jury He's Not Guilty Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 02:23 PM PDT  The latest chapter of the George Zimmerman murder trial cut off the prologue Tuesday, as Zimmerman and his attorneys appeared in court to waive his right to seek an immunity hearing under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law — and keep the rest of their strategy close to the vest. For better or worse, that means Zimmerman's fate in the killing of Trayvon Martin will likely be put in the hands of 12 jurors beginning June 10, when one of the most emotional trials in recent American history will begin. ... Full Story | Top |
| France: jihadist convert arrested in Mali Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 01:35 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — French troops in Mali have arrested a French citizen who converted to Islam, took on the jihadist cause and threatened his native country in a video last fall, the military spokesman said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Spanish doctor in Puerto trial sentenced to 1 year Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 01:25 PM PDT  MADRID (AP) — The doctor at the heart of cycling's Operation Puerto doping scandal has been convicted, but the key evidence that could implicate more athletes is set to be destroyed — preventing sport agencies from uncovering other cheaters. Full Story | Top |
| Man found guilty of murder in Texas court shooting Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 01:14 PM PDT  GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A Houston man who admitted shooting his daughter outside a Texas courthouse was convicted Tuesday of capital murder for the death of a 79-year-old bystander. Full Story | Top |
| Jurors deliberate Texas courthouse shooting case Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 10:18 AM PDT GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Jurors on Tuesday began deliberating the case of a Houston man accused of fatally shooting a 79-year-old woman when he opened fire on his daughter outside a Texas courthouse last year. Full Story | Top |
| Accused Bomber's Defense Team Gets Renowned Death Penalty Lawyer Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 09:47 AM PDT  Judy Clarke Avoided Death Penalties for the Unabomber and Jared Loughner Full Story | Top |
| Jurors deliberating Texas courthouse shooting case Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 09:22 AM PDT GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Jurors are deliberating the case of a Houston man accused of going on a shooting rampage outside a Texas courthouse that killed a 79-year-old bystander. Full Story | Top |
| Fugitive Surrenders At Texas Border For Alleged Role In A Scheme To Defraud The Export-Import Bank Of The United States Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 08:00 AM PDT WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that on Tuesday, April 23, 2013, fugitive Maria de Jesus Ortiz-Saldivar (Ortiz-Saldivar) surrendered at the U.S. Border in El Paso, Texas and was arrested for her alleged role in a scheme to defraud the Ex-Im Bank.Ortiz-Saldivar, 47, a Mexican citizen and former accountant for Centro Oncolgico de Norte S.A. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ala. man sentenced for wire fraud, paying bribes Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 07:08 AM PDT An Alabama man has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for wire fraud and paying bribes to a Coast Guard transportation officer. Fifty-two-year-old Huffman Earl Monk of Brookwood, Ala., ... Full Story | Top |
| Sisters plead not guilty in Calif. swaddling case Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 06:56 AM PDT PLEASANTON, Calif. (AP) — Two sisters in Northern California facing charges that they endangered infants' lives by binding them too tightly in swaddling blankets have pleaded not guilty. Full Story | Top |
| How the Boston bombing suspect's stellar defense team could help him avoid the death penalty Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 05:05 AM PDT  An experienced defense lawyer who represented the Unabomber and Tucson shooter Jared Loughner joins Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's team Full Story | Top |
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Daily News: Most Popular News Headlines - Man loses life savings on carnival game
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| Man loses life savings on carnival game Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 06:54 AM PDT A New Hampshire man who thought he had a decent ball toss says he lost his life savings—or about $2,600—playing a carnival game he claims was rigged. Henry Gribbohm told WBZ-TV that he was attempting to win an Xbox Kinect at the Manchester carnival when things went awry. The 30-year-old from Epsom, N.H., was playing [...] Full Story | Top |
| Man turns tables on shotgun-wielding attacker Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 07:18 AM PDT A man being robbed at gunpoint at 5 a.m. Saturday morning in New Orleans turned the tables on his attacker when he managed to grab the shotgun, causing the attacker to flee. The confrontation was captured by surveillance footage from a nearby security camera. According to WWL.com, the victim-turned-vigilante wasn't done yet. Via WWL: According [...] Full Story | Top |
| Ron Paul slams Boston police. Has he gone too far? Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 10:03 AM PDT Former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has slammed US law enforcement for responding to the Boston Marathon bombing with "police state tactics." Full Story | Top |
| Invasive predator fish that can live outside water hunted in Central Park Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 05:59 AM PDT Environmental officials are set to conduct a survey of a Central Park lake for the northern snakehead, an invasive predator fish that can live out of water for days. According to NBCNewYork.com, New York's Dept. of Environmental Conservation is asking that anglers fishing the man-made Harlem Meer secure the razor-toothed fish in a container and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Green Beret who vanished in Vietnam War still alive? Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 12:48 PM PDT "Unclaimed," a new documentary premiering at Toronto's Hot Docs film festival on Tuesday night, tells the story of Special Forces Green Beret Master Sgt. John Hartley Robertson, who was shot down over Laos in 1968 and was long presumed dead. The documentary actually follows fellow Vietnam vet Tom Faunce, who heard about Robertson's whereabouts while [...] Full Story | Top |
| Woman finds newborn left on sand at Hawaii beach Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 08:40 AM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — A baby girl was abandoned and found crying in the sand at a Hawaii beach soon after she was born, human services officials said Monday. Full Story | Top |
| Viral Video of Dog Mourning Loss of Her Best Friend Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 11:51 AM PDT Animals have been known to express emotion in a very human way. So it's no surprise that when Bella the dog lost her best friend, Beavis the beaver, she mourned the loss in a way that wasn't much different from how a human would mourn in a similar situation. Before Beavis passed away, he and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama defends handling of Syria and Boston bombing, vows to close Gitmo Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 08:51 AM PDT President Barack Obama on Tuesday forcefully defended his policy toward Syria, his handling of the Boston Marathon bombing, the future of Obamacare and even his political relevance in a wide-ranging press conference 100 days into his second term. Obama also made a passionate promise to try again to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison. The [...] Full Story | Top |
| Lower tuition for immigrants becomes law in Colo. Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 08:29 AM PDT  Immigrant students will pay significantly less in tuition at Colorado colleges under legislation signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday. Hundreds cheered as the Democratic governor ratified legislation ... Full Story | Top |
| A trippy idea or fiscal genius? Two pols idea to smoke away the deficit Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 04:08 AM PDT Top Line What if the United States could shrink the federal deficit and get high at the same time? Two congressmen calling for the legalization of recreational marijuana say it's not such a trippy idea. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) and Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) say marijuana legalization is a common sense fiscal policy that could [...] Full Story | Top |
| Many in Muslim world want sharia as law of land: survey Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 11:14 AM PDT  By Religion Editor Tom Heneghan (Reuters) - Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, but they disagree on what it includes and who should be subject to it, an extensive new survey says. Suicide bombing was mostly rejected In the study by the Washington-based Pew Forum, but it won 40 percent support in the Palestinian territories, 39 percent in Afghanistan, 29 percent in Eygpt and 26 percent in Bangladesh. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obamacare faces new legal challenge: Its 'tax' still violates the Constitution Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 08:13 AM PDT With tax day and IRS forms fresh in their minds, most Americans might think the US tax system couldn't get any more daunting. Full Story | Top |
| Zimmerman says no to ‘stand your ground’; case going straight to trial Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 12:20 PM PDT George Zimmerman has waived his right to a pretrial hearing over whether he should be acquitted of murder charges under Florida's "stand your ground" law. Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who's charged with second-degree murder in the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, said Tuesday in court that he did not want the preliminary hearing, the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sunken Egyptian city reveals 1,200-year-old secrets Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 01:17 PM PDT Until a decade ago, no one knew if Heracleion, believed to be an ancient harbor city, was fiction or real. Now, reports the Telegraph, the researchers who found it—150 feet beneath the surface of Egypt's Bay of Aboukir—are sharing some of the amazing historical artifacts preserved there. The finds include 64 ships, 16-foot-tall statues, 700 [...] Full Story | Top |
| Can the Government Ban ‘Assault Weapons’? Constitutional Experts Weigh In Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 06:26 AM PDT "I would not rely on courts to protect the second amendment." Full Story | Top |
| Willem-Alexander becomes new Dutch king Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 03:01 PM PDT AMSTERDAM (AP) — Millions of Dutch people dressed in orange flocked to celebrations around the Netherlands Tuesday in honor of a once-in-a-generation milestone for the country's ruling House of Orange-Nassau: after a 33-year reign, Queen Beatrix abdicated in favor of her eldest son, Willem-Alexander. Full Story | Top |
| Advocates criticize Senate immigration bill Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 02:32 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — A sweeping immigration bill in the Senate ran into criticism Tuesday from advocates who complained it puts up undue barriers to citizenship for millions here illegally. Full Story | Top |
| Come On, Come On, Tax Me Baby Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 07:26 AM PDT  Why Rob Walker welcomes an Internet sales tax -- and why you should, too Full Story | Top |
| 300 gallons of urine found in man’s home Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 03:41 PM PDT Police are trying to figure out exactly how to handle one man's truly wasteful collection after 300 gallons of bottled urine were discovered inside a residential home. According to the News-Times, Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) spokesman Dennis Schain said authorities found "200 to 300 one-gallon plastic jugs filled with human urine" [...] Full Story | Top |
| Is Obama's second term sunk? 'Maybe I should just pack up and go home.' Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 11:37 AM PDT It is Day 100 in President Obama's second term, not the milestone moment it was in the first term, but still an opportunity for stock-taking. Full Story | Top |
| Calif. school blunder: All dressed up but no prom Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 03:05 PM PDT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Everyone got stood up at one Southern California high school's prom. The dance itself was a no-show. Full Story | Top |
| The Bagram Airfield Crash Now Has This Horrifying Video Evidence Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 09:35 AM PDT  We still don't know much about the seven people who died when a cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, but dashboard camera footage surfaced Tuesday morning on the website LiveLeak — and it provides more answers than you may even feel comfortable watching. Warning: You've probably seen something like this in The Dark Knight Rises or Flight, but this is a real and very scary plane crash — it's not exactly the stuff of meteors recorded from passing vehicles... Full Story | Top |
| George Zimmerman won't seek immunity hearing Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 12:34 PM PDT SANFORD, Florida (AP) — The former neighborhood watch leader charged with fatally shooting a Florida teenager told a judge Tuesday that he agrees with his defense attorneys' decision not to seek an immunity hearing under the state's "Stand Your Ground" self-defense law. Full Story | Top |
| Will the background-check backlash cost some senators their jobs? Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 08:45 AM PDT  A poll finds that several lawmakers who opposed tightening gun laws are taking a beating in the polls Full Story | Top |
| Kansas school apologies to Airman in prom dispute Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 05:41 PM PDT  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas high school principal who barred a member of the Air Force from escorting his sister to prom has apologized to him in an attempt to quell a firestorm that's been fueled by a YouTube video of the debacle and the girl's heartfelt letter to the newspaper. Full Story | Top |
| Obama: US still not sure who used chem weapons Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 01:58 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war. Full Story | Top |
| Arab League sweetens Israel-Palestinian peace plan Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 11:17 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Arab League's decision to sweeten its decade-old proposal offering comprehensive peace with Israel has placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a bind and swiftly exposed fissures in his new government. Full Story | Top |
| Catholic church excommunicates Brazil priest for liberal views Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 03:05 PM PDT  By Paulo Prada RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Catholic Church has excommunicated a Brazilian priest after he defended homosexuality, open marriage and other practices counter to Church teaching in online videos. In a statement released late on Monday, the priest's diocese said Father Roberto Francisco Daniel, known to local parishioners as Padre Beto, had "in the name of 'freedom of expression' betrayed the promise of fealty to the Church." The priest "injured the Church with grave statements counter to the dogma of Catholic faith and morality. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'I'm gay': NBA player Jason Collins breaks barrier Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 06:51 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Last summer, NBA veteran Jason Collins considered joining an old Stanford college roommate, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, at Boston's gay pride parade. Full Story | Top |
| ESPN: Regrets Broussard comment on gay NBA player Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 01:23 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN says that it regrets the "distraction" caused by one of its reporters who described Jason Collins as a sinner after the NBA center publicly revealed that he was gay. Full Story | Top |
| Is Your Shirt From Here? Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013 03:44 AM PDT Nina Strochlic on the growing list of retailers using the Bangladesh factory complex that collapsed. Full Story | Top |
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