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| Girl comes out to parents with help from a cake Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 02:51 PM PST Coming out to your parents isn't usually easy, but Tumblr user ellende-generes (real name: Laurel) did her best to make the conversation a piece of cake. Actually, make that a whole cake. [Related: High school senior comes out as 'LGBT' while accepting award] Fifteen-year-old Laurel posted a photo of a cake she made for her [...] 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 |
| 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 |
| Postal Worker Retires After 44 Years Without Sick Day Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 12:43 PM PST  On Jan. 31, Deborah Ford will retire from the U.S. Postal Service after 44 years without using any of her sick days. Though her colleagues and the local media, including the Detroit Free Press, applaud her level of commitment, Ford, 64, doesn’t see what the big... 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 |
| 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 with an automatic 18 percent gratuity (or $6.29) added above a blank space [...] 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 |
| 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 |
| Afghan Police Locked Out of Own $7.3M Facility: Report Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 12:07 PM PST  US Inspectors Find 12 Police Working in Building Meant for 175 Full Story | Top |
| Veteran Ravens Cheerleader Barred from Super Bowl Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 12:28 PM PST  As the Baltimore Ravens gear up to take on the San Francisco 49ers in this year’s Super Bowl, there is one team veteran who will not be making the trip to New Orleans. Ravens cheerleader Courtney Lenz, 23, of Baltimore, Md., is a five-year veteran... Full Story | Top |
| Virginia considers dropping ban on unmarried couples cohabitating Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 02:59 PM PST Like its travel slogan says, Virginia is for lovers. But if said lovers are cohabitating outside marriage, they are currently breaking the law. But there’s good news for those lawless lovebirds: State officials in the commonwealth are considering a bill that would legalize cohabitation. Florida, Michigan and Mississippi have similar laws banning cohabitation. In 2011, [...] 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 |
| 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 |
| McCain on whether he’ll oppose challenges to increased border enforcement: ‘Duh.’ Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 01:29 PM PST John McCain heard your question, and he thinks it's really dumb. While the Arizona Republican senator fielded questions on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a day after he joined a bipartisan group of senators to announce a blueprint for comprehensive immigration reform, one reporter asked how he would respond if the proposed provision that requires increased [...] Full Story | Top |
| Israel hits Syria arms convoy to Lebanon: sources Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 11:13 AM PST BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli jets bombed a convoy on Syria's border with Lebanon on Wednesday, sources told Reuters, apparently targeting weapons destined for Hezbollah in what some called a warning to Damascus not to arm Israel's Lebanese enemy. "The target was a truck loaded with weapons, heading from Syria to Lebanon," said one Western diplomat, adding that the consignment may well have included anti-aircraft missiles. ... 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 |
| 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 |
| Gunman Shoots Bus Driver in Ala., Takes Child as 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 |
| New Mexico girl found locked in wooden cage Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 03:23 PM PST  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) â€" A New Mexico woman and her boyfriend locked up an 8-year-old girl with developmental disabilities in a wooden cage, then left her alone while they headed out to watch a movie, police said Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| High-tech cargo airship being built in California Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 09:48 AM 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 |
| Would-be carjackers foiled by mysteries of the stick shift Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 01:51 PM PST An attempted stickup was confounded by a car’s stick shift, when would-be carjackers failed to understand the mechanics behind a manual transmission. Randolph Bean tells WOFL FOX 35 that two men attempted to steal his 2002 yellow Corvette at gunpoint outside an Orlando hospital, but they ended up running away after they couldn’t figure out [...] Full Story | Top |
| Humble nickel from 1913 likely to fetch millions Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 12:41 PM PST RICHMOND, Va. (AP) â€" A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding is expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted. Full Story | Top |
| Alabama school bus shooting suspect holing up in bunker: police Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 11:11 AM 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-America views, authorities and an organization that tracks hate groups said on Wednesday. Law enforcement officials from multiple agencies were convened near the bunker in Midland City as an overnight standoff with the shooter continued on Wednesday, said Dothan Police Sergeant Rachel David. ... Full Story | Top |
| Egypt army chief warns state could collapse Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 04:10 PM PST PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) â€" Residents of this Mediterranean coastal city burying their dead from Egypt's wave of political violence vented their fury at Egypt's Islamist president and the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, demanding his ouster and virtually declaring a revolt against his rule, as the head of the military warned Egypt may collapse under the weight of its turmoil. Full Story | Top |
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