Italian captain being placed under house arrest (AP)

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• Italian captain being placed under house arrest (AP)
• Romney says he pays about 15 percent in income tax (AP)
• Romney looking to clinch GOP nomination in Florida (AP)
• Groups file signatures to recall Wis. Gov. Walker (AP)
• DA: Homeless killings suspect stalked victims (AP)
• Calif. family of fallen Marine given Navy Cross (AP)
• More accustomed to rain, Seattle braces for snow (AP)
• Paula Deen teams with Novo Nordisk on diabetes (AP)
• Scientists confirm rocks fell from Mars (AP)
• Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang leaving company (AP)
• Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns (Reuters)
• Romney unscathed from debate attacks (Reuters)
• SEC Inspector General Kotz leaving agency (Reuters)
• Citi's turnaround plan hits euro crisis speedbump (Reuters)
• Italian coastguard heard pleading with liner captain (Reuters)
• Kraft to cut 1,600 jobs in split (Reuters)
• Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt (Reuters)
• Accused White House gunman faces attempted assassination count (Reuters)
• Is Romney ‘inevitable?’ Here’s how he lines up against Obama (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the decline in what younger generations know about him (The Christian Science Monitor)

Italian captain being placed under house arrest (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:08 PM PST AP - An Italian coast guard official vehemently demanded that the captain go back to his crippled cruise ship to oversee its evacuation, but the captain repeatedly resisted, according to a shocking audiotape made public Tuesday.

Romney says he pays about 15 percent in income tax (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:08 PM PST AP - After weeks of stalling, Mitt Romney did an about-face on Tuesday and said he will release his tax returns in April and that they will show he pays close to 15 percent of his income in taxes.

Romney looking to clinch GOP nomination in Florida (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:28 PM PST AP - Four years ago, Florida crushed Mitt Romney's presidential ambitions. This time, the GOP front-runner is working to ensure the state seals his nomination — regardless of what happens in South Carolina's primary on Saturday.

Groups file signatures to recall Wis. Gov. Walker (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:29 PM PST AP - Opponents of Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker submitted nearly twice as many signatures Tuesday as required to force a recall election, but still face the challenge of transforming public outrage over his moves against unions into actual votes to oust him from office.

DA: Homeless killings suspect stalked victims (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:08 PM PST AP - A 23-year-old Iraq War veteran charged with the stabbing deaths of four homeless men in a rampage that terrorized Southern California had selected additional victims, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Calif. family of fallen Marine given Navy Cross (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:30 PM PST AP - A Marine who died from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was awarded the highest honor given to members of the Corps for his heroic actions as he hurled his body into a fellow serviceman and warned the rest of the his squad of the blast.

More accustomed to rain, Seattle braces for snow (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:08 PM PST AP - Seattle, a city more accustomed to rain than snow, prepared for a potentially major snow storm to hit Wednesday as the city's mayor urged residents to stay off roads and school officials prepared for the worst.

Paula Deen teams with Novo Nordisk on diabetes (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:20 PM PST AP - Celebrity chef and Food Network star Paula Deen is teaming with drug maker Novo Nordisk to launch a program that aims to help people live with Type 2 diabetes and promote a Novo diabetes drug.

Scientists confirm rocks fell from Mars (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:08 PM PST AP - They came from Mars, not in peace, but in pieces. Scientists are confirming that 15 pounds of rock collected recently in Morocco fell to Earth from Mars during a meteorite shower last July.

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang leaving company (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:44 PM PST AP - Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling company as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader.

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:37 PM PST Reuters - Yahoo Inc co-founder Jerry Yang resigned from the struggling Internet company on Tuesday.

Romney unscathed from debate attacks (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 09:07 PM PST Reuters - Republican presidential hopefuls attacked Mitt Romney's record in business and government on Monday and challenged him to release his tax returns, but the front-runner emerged largely unscathed from a South Carolina debate.

SEC Inspector General Kotz leaving agency (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:27 PM PST Reuters - David Kotz, the tough internal watchdog at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is leaving the agency at the end of January, the SEC said on Tuesday.

Citi's turnaround plan hits euro crisis speedbump (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:26 PM PST Reuters - The European debt crisis interrupted the plans of Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Vikram Pandit to rebuild the bank, which reported an 11 percent drop in quarterly profit and disappointed Wall Street amid lackluster investment banking and trading business.

Italian coastguard heard pleading with liner captain (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 02:29 PM PST Reuters - Italian coastguards pleaded angrily with the captain of a stricken super-liner to return to his ship, according to recordings released on Tuesday as divers found five more bodies in the half-submerged wreck of the Costa Concordia.

Kraft to cut 1,600 jobs in split (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:59 AM PST Reuters - Kraft Foods Inc said that splitting into two companies would lead it to cut about 1,600 jobs in North America this year and that its 2011 profit should be slightly higher than it had previously forecast.

Treasury dips into pension funds to avoid debt (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:09 PM PST Reuters - The Treasury on Tuesday started dipping into federal pension funds in order to give the Obama administration more credit to pay government bills.

Accused White House gunman faces attempted assassination count (Reuters) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 11:35 AM PST Reuters - An Idaho man was formally indicted on Tuesday for attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama and on other criminal charges after he allegedly opened fire on the White House in November.

Is Romney ‘inevitable?’ Here’s how he lines up against Obama (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 03:06 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - If electability trumps ideology in the Republican nominating contest â€" and in the end it almost always does (Barry Goldwater in 1964 was an exception) â€" then the 2012 presidential race inevitably will boil down to Romney vs. Obama.

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the decline in what younger generations know about him (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 01:25 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - At the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Crenshaw in Los Angeles, the Michael Brown family is settling into folding camp chairs early for a good view of the annual MLK parade. This is the man that changed their lives forever “by setting the path,” as Mr. Brown puts it, rattling off King’s accomplishments from boycotts to marches to speeches.

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