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| Ontario man disputes $5,400 bill for being rescued while ice fishing Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 12:13 PM PST OSHAWA, Ont. - A southern Ontario man says he will fight the $5,400 bill he got from a fire department for rescuing him after he went through the ice while fishing. 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 |
| Icelandic girl wins right to use her given name Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 05:55 AM PST  REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) â€" A 15-year-old Icelandic girl has been granted the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother, despite the opposition of authorities and Iceland's strict law on names. Full Story | Top |
| Ala. child hostage standoff in 2nd day at bunker Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 08:47 AM PST  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) â€" A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day as police surrounded an underground bunker where authorities said a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead. 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 |
| Economic jitters compete with Obama agenda Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 08:06 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Just as President Barack Obama is pushing new initiatives on gun control and immigration, the gloomy old problem of a sluggish economy is elbowing its way back into prominence. Consumer confidence is falling, the economy is contracting and large automatic spending cuts are threatening to hit the Pentagon and other programs, with uncertain consequences. Full Story | Top |
| Birth Mom Found Through Viral Post Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:19 PM PST  A Utah woman found her apparent birth mother three days after her Facebook appeal went viral. On Sunday, Janessa Simons, 21, posted a picture of herself holding her birth information. She was born at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo on Nov. 17, 1991.... Full Story | Top |
| Menendez says he reimbursed donor for 2 jaunts Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 09:39 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Sen. Robert Menendez's office says he reimbursed a prominent Florida political donor $58,500 on Jan. 4 of this year for the full cost of two of three trips Menendez took on the donor's plane to the Dominican Republic in 2010. Full Story | Top |
| Standoff: Ala. gunman holed up with kidnapped boy Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 09:48 PM PST  MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) â€" A gunman holed up in a bunker with a 5-year-old hostage kept law officers at bay Wednesday in an all-night, all-day standoff that began when he killed a school bus driver and dragged the boy away, authorities said. Full Story | Top |
| McCain: Hagel on ‘the wrong side’ of history on Iraq Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 07:13 AM PST Republican Sen. John McCain angrily dismissed defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel as stubbornly camped “on the wrong side†of history when it comes to Iraq, and he openly doubted whether he could support the confirmation of his former comrade and fellow Republican. The heated exchange between the two men, both decorated Vietnam War veterans, was [...] 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 |
| Syria protests over Israel attack, warns of "surprise" Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 11:13 AM PST  BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria protested to the United Nations on Thursday over an Israeli air strike on its territory and warned of a possible "surprise" response. The foreign ministry summoned the head of the U.N. force in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to deliver the protest a day after Israel hit what Syria said was a military research centre and diplomats said was a weapons convoy heading for Lebanon. ... Full Story | Top |
| New York Times says targeted by China hackers after Wen report Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 12:29 AM PST  BEIJING (Reuters) - The New York Times said on Thursday that Chinese hackers had "persistently" attacked its computers over the past four months since the paper published a story on Premier Wen Jiabao, but sensitive material related to the report was not accessed. The New York Times said the attacks coincided with its report last October that Wen's family had accumulated at least $2.7 billion in "hidden riches". China said at the time the report smeared his name and had ulterior motives. ... Full Story | Top |
| Syria and Iran threaten retaliation against Israel Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 05:09 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) â€" Syria and Iran have threatened to retaliate for an Israeli air raid near the capital Damascus. 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 |
| 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 |
| Police not amused by motorcyclist’s freeway marriage proposal Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 07:50 AM PST Police in California say they're mulling over charges against a motorcyclist who orchestrated the shutdown of a freeway outside Los Angeles so he could propose to his girlfriend. The stunt, captured in a video posted to YouTube, occurred Sunday on the 10 Freeway in West Covina, Calif., 20 miles east of L.A. The video shows [...] Full Story | Top |
| Newtown families hope massacre transforms nation Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 06:52 PM PST  NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) â€" Newtown officials and parents of children killed in last month's elementary school massacre called on lawmakers Wednesday to turn the tragedy into "the moment of transformation" by banning high-powered, military-style rifles and high-capacity magazines while providing better care to the mentally ill and requiring more background checks for gun owners. Full Story | Top |
| Ann Coulter Turns on Marco Rubio Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 03:45 PM PST  Marco Rubio has been selling a bipartisan plan on immigration, but Ann Coulter isn’t buying it. One day after Rubio entered the conservative lion’s den to talk immigration reform on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, Coulter blasted the GOP senator in a Human Events column. “Some... Full Story | Top |
| Obama says immigration overhaul possible by first half of 2013 Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 05:06 PM PST  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama rejected Republican complaints about his proposals for overhauling the U.S. immigration system on Wednesday and said he believed it was possible to get a deal done by the end of the year if not in the first half. Obama gave an interview to a pair of Spanish-language U.S. television networks to promote his proposals for giving 11 million illegal immigrants a pathway to U.S. citizenship after a bipartisan Gang of Eight senators offered its own plan. "I´m hopeful that this can get done, and I don´t think that it should take many, many months. ... Full Story | Top |
| Te'o was in love, says the man at the center of the hoax Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 11:42 AM PST  Ronaiah Tuiasosopo fell in love with Manti Te'o and said all his energy went into pretending to be the woman the Notre Dame linebacker came to know as Lennay Kekua. 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 |
| White House won’t renew president’s jobs council Thursday, Jan 31, 2013 08:47 AM PST The White House is not renewing its Council on Jobs and Competitiveness set to expire on Thursday, a decision that drew a storm of criticism from Republicans who have long criticized the council for being ineffective amid continued high unemployment and national economic turmoil. "Unbelievable," Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri began in a statement in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Zimmerman wants to delay trial for Martin shooting Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 11:57 PM PST  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) â€" Attorneys for the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with shooting Trayvon Martin to death on Wednesday asked for more time to prepare his case, saying prosecutors had been slow to turn over evidence. 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 |
| Immigration reform: Which states would feel it most? California, for one Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 05:44 PM PST With immigration reform now firmly on the agendas of both the Senate and White House, a key question is how to assess its possible impact on states, particularly in two of the most important areas, the labor market and fiscal policy. Full Story | Top |
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