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Easier travel ahead for Conn. commuters
Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to shuttle buses Monday, May 20, 2013. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP ...
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Killing of gay man in NYC draws protesters
Pedestrians pass a makeshift memorial for 32-year-old Mark Carson, Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Police said Elliot Morales yelled anti-gay slurs before shooting Carson point-blank in the face in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin ...
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51 killed in Okla. tornado toll expected to rise
MOORE, Okla. -; The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office says the official death toll in the aftermath of a massive tornado that slammed the Oklahoma City area remains at 51 but is expected to ...
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Cathie Anderson Fungus killing coffee plantations in Mexico Central America
Coffee lovers probably won't hear much about la roya in the United States, but this fungal disease is decimating thousands of coffee farms across Mexico and Central America.Pete Rogers isn't the average American coffee lover. He travels to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and other exotic locales to find and purchase green coffee beans for his family's company, Rogers ...
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At least 91 people dead in US tornado disaster
As the president ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts, the scale of the destruction and loss was brutally clear, with whole neighbourhoods reduced to piles of debris by the storm.The hardest hit area was the suburb of Moore, home to 55,000 people, where a primary school with children sheltering inside was razed.Rescuers managed to pull at least 30 of the estimated ...
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American was murdered in Singapore says pathologist
(17 mins ago) An American scientist found hanged in Singapore last year was murdered and his death made to look like a suicide as part of a conspiracy, a US pathologist told an inquiry today. Edward Adelstein, 75, a deputy medical examiner in Missouri, contradicted Singapore police findings that Shane Todd killed himself, but admitted his conclusions were based on pictures of the body and ...
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East Palo Alto Police Chief Declaring ‘Crime Emergency’
Sunday’s killing of a teenager , police Chief Ronald Davis is calling a ';crime emergency'; for the department, which will take effect on Tuesday. Declaring a ';crime emergency'; allows the department to cancel days off and make assignment changes as needed. It will more than double the number of patrol officers in the field during critical time periods, Capt. Carl ...
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10th Annual Get Active America program
For this year's 10th Annual Get Active America! program, which runs throughout the month of May, The Corpus Christi Athletic Club is joining with the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) to help America become physically active and improve their diet. As part of Get Active America! The Corpus Christi Athletic Club will encourage its community to work towards ...
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Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
A few hours after that, we were told that everybody at the most senior levels of the White House knew about the report revealing the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service - everybody but the president, who maintains he learned about it from watching TV.By far the most damaging of the stories has to do with the assault on press freedom.In 2009, Fox News reporter James ...
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Feds also spied on Fox News reporter
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration’s snooping scandal mushroomed yesterday when it was revealed that the Justice Department seized a trove of information about Fox News correspondent James Rosen in an effort to aid a leak investigation - including tracking the reporter’s movements in and out of the State Department.The feds gained access to records of Rosen’s use of the ...
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The taxman’s targeting blame the White House
Whether the Obama administration could have stopped the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups.***Jonah Goldberg made an excellent point in "IRS Follows O’s Lead," (PostOpinion, May 17) when he said: "Imagine for a moment if black civil-rights organizations, gay groups or teachers unions were targeted by the IRS." The White House would have started a major ...
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Hathaway lawyer pleads case to keep her out of prison feds want her to serve 12-18 months
Detroit - Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway shouldn't spend a day in federal prison, her lawyer said Monday, despite admitting she orchestrated an elaborate two-year scheme to defraud her bank of $600,000 owed on a Grosse Pointe Park home. Defense lawyer Steve Fishman argued the loss was less than $70,000 and urged U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara to keep ...
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IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry more details out of current and former officials of the Internal Revenue Service about the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they sought tax-exempt ...
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Vogelsong Injures Hand Giants Shut Out Nationals
Trainer Mark Gruesbeck (L) of the San Francisco Giants looks at the pitching hand of Ryan Vogelsong #32 after Vogelsong was hit in the hand by a pitch against the Washington Nationals in the fifth inning at AT&T Park on May 20, 2013 in San Francisco. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty ...
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South Africa Jansen to Be Honoured in New York
South Africa's Professor Jonathan Jansen will receive the Education Africa Lifetime Achievement Award for Africa at a gala ceremony in New York on 3 June, it was announced at the weekend. Jansen, the vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State, played a key role in turning the university "away from its apartheid legacy into an institution that is truly ...
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Reid Daschle feud over S.D. Senate
The South Dakota Senate race is turning into a tense feud between two longtime Democratic power brokers: Harry Reid and Tom Daschle.The rift between the current and former Senate Democratic leaders threatens their party’s effort to keep control of the Senate seat held by the retiring Sen. Tim Johnson since ...
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Can India provide support to Afghans when Americans go home
I am concerned about Afghans when NATO withdraws in 2014. Pakistanis feel that theirs will be a win-win situation. Americans won't bother after they cross the Atlantic and are safe back home. Europe does not wish to be in picture. India under the present weak leadership is written off as a force; civil or military. Russians have already burnt their fingers badly in Afghanistan not long ...
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Medical examiner 20 children killed in twister
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The Oklahoma state medical examiner's office says that 20 children are among the dead in the tornado that ripped through Oklahoma City suburbs.The twister has killed at least 51 people and officials fear the death toll will rise.Medical examiner spokeswoman Amy Elliott confirmed the children's deaths Monday night. The tornado made a direct hit on an elementary ...
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Average credit card debt late payments fall in 1Q
LOS ANGELES -- Americans got better about paying their credit card debt on time in the first three months of the year, a period when many borrowers use income tax returns to tackle their holiday season debt.The rate of credit card payments at least 90 days overdue fell to 0.69 percent in the first quarter from 0.85 percent a year earlier - drop of nearly 19 percent, credit reporting agency ...
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Erupting Alaska volcano spews ash disrupts air travel
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - One of Alaska's most active volcanoes, which has been belching ash and spewing lava since last week, has forced regional flight cancellations and dusted some nearby communities with ash, scientists and local officials said on ...
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Rand Paul Calls IRS Scandal Un-American
May 20, 2013 11:36pm Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul made another stop in an early voting state Monday evening, continuing to feed the speculation that he will possibly run for president in 2016. Just 10 days ...
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AP Photos Images of devastating Oklahoma tornado
The devastating tornado that swept through Oklahoma turned houses into matchsticks and sent parents and teachers running to pull children from the wreckage of an elementary school in the eye of the storm. At least 51 people were killed by the 200-mph storm and dozens of homes destroyed. The toll was expected to rise. Here are images from the aftermath ...
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Missouri city aids tornado-ravaged Okla. town
President Barack Obama has called Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin to express his concern about a monstrous tornado that wreaked havoc in the Oklahoma City ...
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Healthcare workers set to strike California public hospitals
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly 13,000 healthcare employees at five University of California medical centers plan to strike on Tuesday in a move that threatens to back up emergency rooms and already has forced the postponement of elective ...
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U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear town meeting prayer case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delving into the controversial relationship between government and religion, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether a town in New York could allow members of the public, who in practice were nearly all Christian clergy, to open meetings with a ...
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