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Pearl Jam's former manager sentenced to prison for theft, paper reports Friday, Feb 28, 2014 07:10 PM PST (Reuters) - Pearl Jam's former financial manager, who used his position with the rock band to steal $380,000, was sentenced on Friday to 14 months in prison at a court hearing in Washington state, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. Rickey Charles Goodrich, 55, had initially faced 33 theft charges but in December he pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree theft, the paper reported on its website. Goodrich was chief financial officer at Pearl Jam's Seattle-based management company, Curtis Management, before he was fired in September 2010. Full Story | Top |
Bangkok boating lake park becomes focus of protests Friday, Feb 28, 2014 07:10 PM PST | Top |
Obama warns Russia of 'costs' for intervention in Ukraine Friday, Feb 28, 2014 07:05 PM PST | Top |
Detroit creditors want more time to vet city's bankruptcy plan Friday, Feb 28, 2014 06:21 PM PST | Top |
No charges in shooting of Georgia Alzheimer's patient, prosecutor says Friday, Feb 28, 2014 06:17 PM PST In the latest case to raise questions about the legality of asserting self-defense in a fatal shooting, Catoosa County District Attorney Herbert Franklin said he was declining to file charges against Joe Hendrix "Hendrix was concerned that if the man got by him, his girlfriend in the house would be defenseless," Franklin said in a statement. Authorities say Ronald Westbrook, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, walked up to Hendrix's front door in Chickamauga, Georgia, carrying a flashlight and some mail, and began ringing the doorbell. Westbrook, who lived about 3 miles away, then walked to the side and rear of the house, the prosecutor said. Hendrix, took a gun and confronted Westbrook, ordering him to stop, but Westbrook kept advancing, Franklin said. Full Story | Top |
Google loses bid to keep anti-Islamic video online during appeal Friday, Feb 28, 2014 05:43 PM PST | Top |
Obama preaches unity to Democrats at winter meeting Friday, Feb 28, 2014 05:02 PM PST | Top |
Generic drugmakers ramp up campaign against FDA label proposal Friday, Feb 28, 2014 04:34 PM PST By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Generic drugmakers are furiously campaigning against a proposed U.S. rule that would require them to change the prescribing information on their products if they receive new safety information, which they say would open them to product liability lawsuits. The rule would overturn regulations that have been in place for three decades that prohibit generic drugmakers from updating safety data on their labels without such changes first being made by the company that developed the drug. The Food and Drug Administration, which issued its proposal in November, said the change is designed to "create parity" between branded and generic drug makers with respect to labeling changes, and remove an unnecessary impediment to the prompt communication of safety data. Generic drugmakers say the proposed rule would raise the cost of drugs and lead to confusion among consumers. Full Story | Top |
Documents show 1990s effort to 'humanize' Hillary Clinton Friday, Feb 28, 2014 04:29 PM PST | Top |
Extra funds help float Noah's Ark replica in Kentucky Friday, Feb 28, 2014 04:09 PM PST A Christian ministry that plans to build a Noah's Ark replica in Kentucky has raised enough money to go ahead with the $150 million project - and is thanking an adversary for boosting its support. Creation Museum founder Ken Ham announced this week that a municipal bond offering has brought in enough money to begin the long-delayed "Ark Encounter," a theme park featuring a 510-foot-long model of Noah's Ark near the Kentucky-Ohio border. Ham credited the funding bump to Bill Nye "the Science Guy," a popular commentator on science issues who faced off against him in a widely publicized February 4 debate over evolution. Full Story | Top |
U.S. regulator seeks to block Alaskan mine to protect salmon Friday, Feb 28, 2014 03:52 PM PST By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators moved on Friday to block development of the Pebble mine in Alaska, which could be one of the largest copper projects in the world, citing potential "irreversible harm" to the state's salmon fishery. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it has initiated a rarely used process under the Clean Water Act to "identify appropriate options to protect" the Bristol Bay fishery from the impact of the proposed mine. The decision follows a report in January that found large-scale mining would pose serious risks to salmon and native cultures in the pristine corner of southwest Alaska. "Extensive scientific study has given us ample reason to believe that the Pebble mine would likely have significant and irreversible negative impacts on the Bristol Bay watershed and its abundant salmon fisheries," EPA administrator Gina McCarthy said in a statement. Full Story | Top |
Polish official in 'Heil Hitler' outburst quits party roles Friday, Feb 28, 2014 03:51 PM PST A senior politician with Poland's ruling party accused of drunkenly shouting "Heil Hitler!" at a German customs officer apologized on Friday and stepped down as head of his party's group in the European parliament. Jacek Protasiewicz, by his own account, drank two bottles of wine on a flight from Warsaw to Frankfurt, and then got into an argument with the customs officer as he tried to leave the airport terminal. The incident heaped embarrassment on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who has tried to build a new partnership with Berlin by putting to one side animosities that still linger after Germany's occupation of Poland in World War Two. A statement from Tusk's Civic Platform party said Protasiewicz had informed the prime minister of his resignation from his roles as head of the party campaign for the European parliament election in May, and as leader of the Civic Platform faction in the European parliament. Full Story | Top |
U.S. sees Russian troop movements into Crimea, officials say Friday, Feb 28, 2014 03:33 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has seen indications of Russian troop movements from and into Ukraine's Crimea region on Friday but their numbers are unclear, as are the intentions of those movements, U.S. officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. One U.S. official said some of the movements could be designed to bolster protection of Russian forces there. (Reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Eric Beech) Full Story | Top |
Soccer-Cyprus FA suspends fixtures after referree targeted Friday, Feb 28, 2014 03:32 PM PST (Adds Soccer tag, no change to text) NICOSIA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Cyprus FA suspended all weekend fixures on Friday after the home of an international referee was targeted in a bomb explosion. Earlier, the Cyprus Referees Association said its members would not attend any weekend fixtures after the home of its chairman, referree Leonidas Trattos, was attacked on Thursday. "Such incidents are beyond any boundary of logic," read a statement from the Cyprus FA. Full Story | Top |
U.S. Senate Democrats do not plan to pass budget this year: Murray Friday, Feb 28, 2014 03:29 PM PST | Top |
Sisters' jail visits to accused Boston bomber not confidential: prosecutors Friday, Feb 28, 2014 03:11 PM PST | Top |
FTC says considering lawmaker's concerns about Herbalife Friday, Feb 28, 2014 03:09 PM PST | Top |
Ukraine's defense ministry warns of action by 'radical' forces in Crimea Friday, Feb 28, 2014 02:45 PM PST Ukraine's defense ministry said it had information that unknown "radical forces" were planning to try to disarm its military units in Crimea early Saturday morning and warned against such action. "In the case of such unknown actions, the Ukrainian armed forces will act in accordance with the laws of Ukraine and the regulations of the Ukrainian armed forces," the ministry said in a statement on its Website. Full Story | Top |
Federal program aims to make pet food, livestock feed safer Friday, Feb 28, 2014 02:44 PM PST A new federal program aims to standardize inspection procedures for pet food and farm animal feed produced in the United States, making them safer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. The Animal Feed Regulatory Program Standards comprise a series of new voluntary standards for inspections by state and other regulatory programs that oversee the production of pet food and feed for farm animals such as cattle, chickens and pigs. Concern over the safety of pet food and farm animal feed has mounted in recent years, as discoveries of salmonella-contaminated dog food and livestock feed contaminated with a corn-based toxin led to waves of product recalls and worries about the safety of the U.S. food production system. Full Story | Top |
SEC investigating Goldman, Citi on bonds: WSJ Friday, Feb 28, 2014 02:35 PM PST | Top |
U.S. utilities need industry group focused on cyber defense: report Friday, Feb 28, 2014 02:09 PM PST By Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. utilities would benefit from an independent group to set industry-wide guidelines on combating cyber threats, according to a think-tank report released on Friday that was co-authored by a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The report, from the Bipartisan Policy Center, said a new independent organization could bring together the disparate interests in the sector to help manage cybersecurity for the nation's electric grid, and help to deal with threats such as new malware that could be targeted at plants' information technology systems. "We don't have one group looking at this holistically to see what the answers are," said Curt Hebert, a co-author of the report who is a former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency which oversees aspects of the nation's elecric grid. The other authors of the report were Michael Hayden, director of the CIA under President George W. Bush, and Susan Tierney, former assistant secretary at the Energy Department under President Bill Clinton. Full Story | Top |
Jailed Venezuela protest leader mocks Maduro's talks Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:58 PM PST | Top |
S&P ends at record but off day's high on Ukraine worries Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:57 PM PST | Top |
France striving to stop Central African Republic split, Hollande says Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:52 PM PST | Top |
U.S. GDP revised down, but hints of economic thaw emerge Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:52 PM PST | Top |
U.S. names Larry Silverman as temporary point man on Syria Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:43 PM PST U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Larry Silverman will temporarily become the United States' point man on Syria with the departure of Robert Ford on Friday, a State Department spokeswoman said. Ford, who became U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2011 and is retiring, was instrumental in persuading the Syrian opposition groups to join talks with the government aimed at ending Syria's nearly three-year-old civil war. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Silverman would stand in until a permanent successor to Ford is named. Full Story | Top |
Kerry voices U.S. dismay at anti-gay law to Uganda's Museveni Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:21 PM PST | Top |
Google seeks to repost anti-Islamic film during appeal Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:20 PM PST | Top |
Armed men seize two airports in Ukraine's Crimea, Russia denies involvement Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:06 PM PST | Top |
Venezuela unrest chokes transport, worsens economic woes Friday, Feb 28, 2014 01:04 PM PST By Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Anti-government protests in Venezuela have left some 1,500 trucks that distribute about half the country's vegetables sitting idle in the western city of La Grita, waiting for roads blocked by demonstrators to be re-opened. At least 17 people have been killed in unrest that has posed the most serious challenge yet to socialist President Nicolas Maduro's 10-month-old administration. Some transport companies have idled trucks due to the threat of violence as protesters face off against security forces at barricades, especially in the western state of Tachira. "It's not just that we could lose our trucks, or their contents, we could lose our lives too," said Freddy Rosales, spokesman for a group of vegetable producers in La Grita. Full Story | Top |
Anti-rape rules aim to protect immigrants in U.S. detention: DHS Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:57 PM PST | Top |
Jailed TV pitchman Trudeau's California estate for sale Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:57 PM PST By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The ostentatious contents of the California home of former TV pitchman and convicted fraudster Kevin Trudeau go on sale on Friday to pay a $38 million judgment over false promises he made in a weight-loss book, according to an estate sale listing. Trudeau has battled federal regulators for years over his marketing of various products to combat cancer, hair loss, memory loss and obesity in infomercials that were ubiquitous on late-night television in the United States. A federal jury in Chicago convicted Trudeau, 51, in November of criminal contempt for violating a 2004 federal court settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that barred him from misrepresenting the contents of his books in advertisements. Trudeau's Los Angeles-area home will be emptied of a number of curiosities, including a menagerie of Swarovski crystals, a 72-candle chandelier, a grand piano, dishes, trinkets and art, said Will Munyon of Munyon and Sons, an estate sale firm that is running the sale of the home's contents. Full Story | Top |
Fed may need to let inflation run hot to meet goals: Evans Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:42 PM PST By Jason Lange NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should be willing to let inflation temporarily run above its target level so as to more quickly bring the economy back to health, a top Fed official said on Friday, even as a second policymaker signaled the very idea left him cold. The debate, between Chicago Fed President Charles Evans and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, underscored a fundamental disagreement over the central bank's optimal approach to policy under new Fed Chair Janet Yellen. To Evans, one of the Fed's most dovish policymakers, allowing inflation to run above the Fed's 2-percent target would be a small price to pay for bringing the U.S. economy back to full employment quickly, and could even signal the Fed's commitment to making good on its goals. To Plosser, an ardent policy hawk, letting inflation rise above the target would call into question the Fed's commitment to its goals, undermining its policy effectiveness. Full Story | Top |
Tunisian Prime Minister replaces Islamist governors ahead of election Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:41 PM PST | Top |
Colombian rebels want U.S. to participate in peace talks Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:37 PM PST | Top |
Russian cooperation crucial for resolving Ukraine's crisis: EU official Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:22 PM PST By Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - Any peaceful resolution of Ukraine's political turmoil must have Russia in the mix out of concern the two nations could descend into open warfare, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani said on Friday. "Of course it is important to back democracy, but at the same time it is important to work with Russia. Because without strong cooperation with Russia it is impossible to have a good solution. Tajani was alluding to the 2008 war involving Russia and another former Soviet republic, Georgia, over two Moscow-backed breakaway regions, Abhkazia and South Ossetia. Full Story | Top |
U.S. judge rejects Bin Laden son-in-law's claim of mistaken identity Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:21 PM PST | Top |
Chilean indigenous leader jailed in high-profile murder case Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:16 PM PST A court on Friday sentenced a Mapuche indigenous leader to 18 years in prison for his participation in the killing of a couple during an arson attack last year in a high-profile case that rekindled divisions over land rights in Chile. A Temuco criminal tribunal found Celestino Cordova, a 27-year-old traditional healer, guilty of taking part in the deadly attack on the elderly Luchsinger landowners on their estate in the southern Araucania region. Many Mapuche, famous for their fierce resistance to the Spanish conquest, say they were robbed by the Chilean government's often brutal colonization policy in the 19th century. That has bred deep-seated Mapuche resentment against the descendants of immigrants such as the Luchsingers, whose ancestors reportedly arrived in Southern Chile in 1883. Full Story | Top |
IMF's Lagarde says no need to panic on Ukraine aid request Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:14 PM PST By Anna Yukhananov WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Friday that there was no need to "panic" in terms of delivering economic aid to Ukraine, as she cast doubt the nation would need as much immediate help as its new leaders claim. "We do not see anything that is critical, that is worthy of panic at the moment," IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told reporters. "We would certainly hope that the (Ukrainian) authorities refrain from throwing lots of numbers which are really meaningless until they've been assessed properly." Ukraine's government coffers have been depleted by huge debt repayments, efforts to protect its currency and high energy costs. The country's new leaders, appointed after President Viktor Yanukovich was ousted last weekend, say they need $35 billion over two years to avoid default, and may need $4 billion immediately. Full Story | Top |
Panama Canal says deal with consortium to be signed next week Friday, Feb 28, 2014 12:06 PM PST | Top |
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