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- GOP governor calls on Romney to release more tax returns
- Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight
- NYC seaport fire doused without any injuries
- Florida election officials to get access to citizen database
- U.S. fugitive caught in Cancun after 24 years on the run
- Liturgy, Flying Lotus keep Pitchfork energy high
- Lawn chair balloonists take flight
- Ron Paul's delegate insurgency ends
- Doctor wins Green Party's presidential nod
- Y-Me organization closes its doors
- Is it just the economy? Other issues may play role
- U.N.: Syria attack targeted army defectors, activists
- Spain austerity measures will raise $69 billion
- Indiana father accidentally shot dead by 3-year-old son
- U.S. crops wilting despite scattered Midwest rains
- U.N. team investigates reported massacre in Syria
- Mitt Romney relaxes while President Obama rallies
- Report: EU fund plans $120 billion Spain bailout
- Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find way out of crisis
- Obama rallies supporters in battleground Virginia
GOP governor calls on Romney to release more tax returns Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:34 PM PDT |
Weather stops tandem lawn chair balloon flight Posted: 14 Jul 2012 05:02 PM PDT |
NYC seaport fire doused without any injuries Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:33 PM PDT |
Florida election officials to get access to citizen database Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:17 PM PDT Florida election officials will have access to a federal database to help purge its voter rolls of non-citizens under an agreement reached between state and federal officials and welcomed on Saturday by Florida's Republican governor. The Department of Homeland Security will allow state officials to access the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. Florida and federal officials have been battling over access to the database for several weeks. Florida filed a lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department to gain access to the database. ... |
U.S. fugitive caught in Cancun after 24 years on the run Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:17 PM PDT The U.S. Marshals Service has captured Vincent Legrend Walters, one of the law enforcement agency's 15 most wanted fugitives, in the Mexican resort city of Cancun. Walters, 45, wanted on kidnapping, murder and drug charges stemming from a 1988 San Diego case, was apprehended Friday morning, then transported to Mexico City where he will await extradition to the United States, the service said late on Friday. Walters had been working at the Cancun International Airport under the assumed name Oscar Rivera, according to a statement released by the agency. ... |
Liturgy, Flying Lotus keep Pitchfork energy high Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:25 PM PDT Kot: Liturgy threw up a furious din amid the torrential rain Saturday. When the skies cleared the energy plummeted, with the twee pop sounds of Cults and Idaho's Youth Lagoon. |
Lawn chair balloonists take flight Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:39 AM PDT |
Ron Paul's delegate insurgency ends Posted: 14 Jul 2012 03:18 PM PDT |
Doctor wins Green Party's presidential nod Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:48 PM PDT |
Y-Me organization closes its doors Posted: 14 Jul 2012 04:01 PM PDT A Chicago-based national breast cancer support group known for its 24-hour hotline and Mother's Day fundraising race abruptly shut its doors last week. |
Is it just the economy? Other issues may play role Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:37 AM PDT |
U.N.: Syria attack targeted army defectors, activists Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:08 PM PDT An attack in the Syrian village of Tremseh appeared to target the homes of army defectors and activists, and assailants used weapons including artillery and mortars, a statement by the spokesman for the U.N. observers in Syria said on Saturday. The observers entered the village on Saturday after activists said about 220 people had been killed there by President Bashar al-Assad's troops. The observers saw damaged houses and a burned school and planned to return to the village on Sunday, the statement said, adding the number of casualties was unclear. |
Spain austerity measures will raise $69 billion Posted: 14 Jul 2012 02:11 PM PDT The Spanish government's most recent reforms will slash 56.4 billion euros ($69 billion) from the public deficit in the next two and a half years, an official document showed on Saturday, leaving a gap to be filled by taxes on energy. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pledged 65 billion euros of savings from tax hikes and spending cuts on Wednesday in a painful package aimed at convincing the EU and investors his government is serious about reform. The 8. ... |
Indiana father accidentally shot dead by 3-year-old son Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:55 PM PDT An Indiana father watching television with his children was accidentally shot to death by his 3-year-old son after the boy found a loaded handgun nearby, police said on Saturday. Michael Payless, 33, was found dead in the southern Indiana town of Salem on Friday night. Payless was watching television with two of his children when the other child, a 3-year-old boy, found the gun. "The child accidentally discharged the loaded handgun ... Michael A. Payless was pronounced dead at the scene," an Indiana state police statement said. ... |
U.S. crops wilting despite scattered Midwest rains Posted: 14 Jul 2012 10:28 AM PDT Scattered rains over the last 24 hours provided little relief for U.S. Midwest corn and soybean crops that are rapidly deteriorating in the worst drought since 1988, and the forecast is for scant rain for the next two weeks, meteorologists said on Saturday. "Overall the rain yesterday won't put a dent in the drought because they were spotty hit or miss kind of rains. Certainly some isolated areas will benefit, but it was not a significant drought buster," said AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Pydynowski. Thunderstorms on Friday left from 0.25 inch to 0. ... |
U.N. team investigates reported massacre in Syria Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:53 PM PDT |
Mitt Romney relaxes while President Obama rallies Posted: 14 Jul 2012 11:12 AM PDT |
Report: EU fund plans $120 billion Spain bailout Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:45 PM PDT The European Union's bailout fund is working on a €100 billion ($120 billion) package to prop up Spanish banks, according to a report Saturday by German news weekly Der Spiegel.A confidential draft plan ... |
Clinton to Egypt's Morsi: Find way out of crisis Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT |
Obama rallies supporters in battleground Virginia Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:32 PM PDT |
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