Archive for September, 2010

Utah police investigate polygamist family from reality show ‘Sister Wives’

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Utah police investigate polygamist family from reality show ‘Sister Wives’

Terrorist plot uncovered in Europe (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

People walk past a police car in front of the Eiffel Tower after its evacuation following a bomb alert in Paris. The alert, the second one this month, came amid official warnings that France faces a serious threat of imminent terrorist attack and just a day after a major Paris train station was evacuated after a bomb alert that proved to be a false alarm.(AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)AP – Intelligence officials have intercepted a credible terror plot against Britain and France, raising security fears at the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday, but failing to raise the overall threat level in either country.

Tropical depression aims at Cuba, then Florida (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Cristina Guerrero, left, and Rhona Leary, right, walk from the beach as a brief rain shower interrupted their sunbathing in Miami Beach, Fla. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. Tropical storm warnings have been posted for the Cayman Islands and parts of Cuba, the Bahamas, and the southern coast of Florida as a new tropical depression approaches. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)AP – A tropical depression that quickly developed in the Caribbean headed over Cuba early Wednesday threatening to strengthen into a tropical storm as it headed toward southeastern Florida.

Three decades on, Calif. family awaits execution (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

FILE - In this June 2007 file photo released by the California Department of Corrections is condemned inmate Albert Greenwood Brown. A federal judge on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010 blocked what would have been California's first execution in nearly five years, giving the death row inmate who was two days from receiving a lethal injection a reprieve that could last months. Brown wass scheduled to die at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Thursday  for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Riverside County girl abducted on her way home from school in 1980. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)AP – It was after dark and 15-year-old Susan Jordan was still not home on that school night 30 years ago when her worried family got a chilling call they’ll never forget.

In a happy place, Obama fights a new battle (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

President Barack Obama is greeted by Iowa Gov. Chet Culver as he arrives in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – President Barack Obama is back in the birthplace of his political triumph. But this time the electorate is surly instead of inspired, and he’s not on the ballot alongside his embattled fellow Democrats.

North Korea leader’s son promoted, seen as heir (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

A South Korean man watches a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010. North Korea's absolute leader Kim appointed his youngest son as an army general, giving the son his first known official title in an apparent sign that he is being groomed as the country's next leader. South Korean media said a portrait at top right in the screen is Kim's youngest son Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP – The ascension of Kim Jong Il’s little-known, 20-something son to a prominent ruling party post put him well on the path Wednesday to succeed the supreme leader at the helm of nuclear-armed North Korea and carry the family dynasty into a third generation.

Gates, Buffett set to dine with China’s rich (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

AP – Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett are set to meet China’s super rich Wednesday to sell the art of giving over a dinner that has sparked some soul searching among the world’s second-largest number of billionaires.

More options for seniors with high drug costs (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2008, file photo, a shopper walks toward the pharmacy at a Little Rock, Ark., Wal-Mart store. Reversing a steady decline, the number of prescription plans covering at least some brand-name drugs in the 'doughnut hole' coverage gap will triple next year, from 35 to 106. That's according to an analysis of Medicare data to be released Wednesday Sept. 29, 2010 by Avalere Health, a private research firm.  (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)AP – Seniors with high drug costs will soon have more options to help them cope with Medicare’s prescription coverage gap.

Anti-austerity protests sweep across Europe (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Pickets run after lighting fires to block a highway in Vigo, Spain during a nationwide general strike organized by the Spanish unions, in Madrid, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. Spanish workers staged a general strike Wednesday to protest austerity measures imposed by a government struggling to slash its budget deficit and overcome recession. . (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)AP – Anti-austerity protests erupted across Europe on Wednesday — Greek doctors and railway employees walked out, Spanish workers shut down trains and buses, and one man even blocked the Irish parliament with a cement truck to decry the country’s enormous bank bailouts.

`Dancing’ says bye-bye to boo-gate and Bolton (AP)

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

In this publicity image released by ABC, Michael Bolton, right, and his partner Chelsie Hightower perform on the celebrity dance competition series 'Dancing with the Stars.' On Monday, Michael Bolton performed what was described as the worst jive in 'Dancing With the Stars' history. On Tuesday, he was eliminated from the hit ABC show. (AP Photo/ABC, Adam Larkey)AP – On Monday, Michael Bolton performed what was described as the worst jive in “Dancing With the Stars” history. On Tuesday, he was eliminated from the hit ABC show.