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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Officer: 4th Peterson wife upset over 3rd's death

Officer: 4th Peterson wife upset over 3rd's death

Officer: 4th Peterson wife upset over 3rd's death

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:39 PM PDT

Just two days after his third wife's body was found, Drew Peterson sat on a card-table chair next to his tearful fourth wife and corrected at least one of her answers as state police interviewed her about the death, the lead investigator told jurors on Wednesday.

Careful black bear raids Colorado chocolate shop

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:37 PM PDT

A bear in a candy store is nothing like a bull in a china shop. At least not this one.

White House: Obama opposes Boy Scouts' ban on gays

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event in Denver, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)The White House says President Barack Obama, who is honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America, opposes the youth organization's policy of excluding gays as members and adult leaders.

Romney aide: Mass. plan would have covered woman

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:31 PM PDT

Mitt Romney's spokeswoman says a cancer-stricken woman discussed in a Democratic TV ad would have had health care under the Republican presidential candidate's health plan in Massachusetts.

Egypt fires intelligence chief, militants hit

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:27 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers stand atop an APC at the Kerem Shalom crossingCAIRO (Reuters) - President Mohamed Mursi sacked the intelligence chief on Wednesday and Egyptian aircraft hit targets on the border with Israel in the biggest assault in the area in nearly 40 years after a deadly attack by militants on Egyptian border police. It was unclear how far Mursi - who must accommodate the powerful army at home and reassure Israel that, as Egypt's first Islamist president, he will maintain stable relations - had expanded his authority in response to Sunday's attack. ...

McCaskill, Akin tout extremes in Mo. Senate race

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:25 PM PDT

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin emerges to give his victory speech after his win in the senate primary race at his campaign party at the Columns Banquet Center in St. Charles, Mo., on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUTMissouri's U.S. Senate race is shaping up as one of stark contrasts — and a dream matchup for both Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and her newly minted Republican challenger, U.S. Rep. Todd Akin.

NYC boy, 16, is the fastest texter in America

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:24 PM PDT

The reigning 16-year-old champion of cellphone texting has reclaimed the title of fastest texter in America.

Romney compares California's economy to Greece

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:19 PM PDT

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks with Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey, right, and farm owner Lemar Koethe in a corn field in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Pitching for the women's vote, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Republicans intent on undoing his health care law would be eliminating benefits for women and funding for contraceptive services. GOP rival Mitt Romney took a potshot at California when he compared it to financially troubled Greece.

Hutterites want apology for NatGeo television show

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:18 PM PDT

This undated image released by National Geographic Channels shows Hutterite Judy Hofer picking carrots from the garden in King Colony, Mont. "Meet the Hutterites," a National Geographic documentary series about a small religious colony in rural Montana. Leaders of a Hutterite colony are demanding to meet with the head of the National Geographic Society after they say a reality show on the National Geographic Channel misrepresented life on the Montana colony and harmed their members. The King Ranch Colony says residents were pressured and coerced to fabricate scenes to boost ratings, and they are want a public apology and a pledge that the 10 episodes never air again. (AP Photo/National Georgraphic, Ben Shank)Leaders of a Hutterite colony in Montana are demanding an apology from the National Geographic Society for a television show they say misrepresented their way of life and poisoned public opinion of them.

Mars crater where rover landed looks 'Earth-like'

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:18 PM PDT

In this image released by NASA on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, a self portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. The camera snapped pictures 360-degrees around the rover. (AP Photo/NASA)The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to California's Mojave Desert with its looming mountains and hanging haze, scientists said Wednesday.

Going for gold: Royal Mail issues Olympian stamps

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:18 PM PDT

Herman Sanchez pastes a stamp of Britain's Ben Ainslie collected during the 2012 Summer Olympics on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in London. London has been issuing stamps every day with photos of Britain's gold medallists. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)These British athletes can't be licked.

Trying to save Gulf sharks as trade in fins soars

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:12 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, June 12, 2012 photo, a man carries a blacktip shark imported from Oman to be auctioned at a fish market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The global trade in shark fins totals hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and tens of millions of sharks around the world may be caught every year for their fins. Some experts estimate that stocks of some shark species in inshore reef systems around the world have fallen by up to 90 percent. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)Marine scientist Rima Jabado has spent the last three years visiting docks around the United Arab Emirates and the fish markets of Dubai, chatting with fishermen and asking them about sharks. What she hears from all of them, she says, is that shark stocks have dropped drastically in the warm waters offshore in the Gulf.

Friend: Man acted out of love in hospital killing

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:10 PM PDT

In this undated photo provided by the Summit County Sheriff Department shows John Wise. Wise, 66, is suspected of the mercy killing of his wife, who was shot at her bedside in the ICU unit of Akron General Medical Center Saturday. She died the next morning. Wide seemed perplexed at the charge when he stood before a judge Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012 on an aggravated attempted murder charge, asking whether his wife was indeed dead. (AP Photo/Summit County Sheriff Department)A man accused in the fatal shooting of his wife of 45 years in a hospital intensive care unit once told his longtime co-worker that the couple had agreed they never wanted to become disabled in a nursing home.

A rally on Wall Street fades; Priceline tanks

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:10 PM PDT

FILE - In a July 26, 2012 file photo trader Gregory Rowe, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stronger corporate earnings reports and expectations that central banks will act to support the economy powered the Standard & Poor's 500 index past 1,400 Tuesday Aug. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)U.S. stocks are closing mixed as uneven corporate earnings and concerns about Europe stem a recent market rally.

La. charter school changing pregnancy policy

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:09 PM PDT

A Louisiana charter school that kicked pregnant students out of class and required them to be home-schooled is changing its policy.

Ernesto races across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:08 PM PDT

Men stand on top of a marine fender that was ripped from a dock after Hurricane Ernesto made landfall overnight in Mahahual, near Chetumal, Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)Tropical Storm Ernesto spun across Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Wednesday, heading toward the country's oil heartland after forcing the evacuation of thousands of tourists and fishermen from beaches in Tulum and the Costa Maya.

Report details crimes after Ivory Coast election

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:06 PM PDT

The head of a commission investigating Ivory Coast's post-election violence says more than 550 fighters allied with President Alassane Ouattara committed crimes such as execution and torture during the conflict.

FELIX DOES IT

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:06 PM PDT

Allyson Felix has finally done it.

Sesame Street casting Latino character

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:04 PM PDT

FILE - This April 11, 2011 file photo, character "Rosita" from Sesame Street gestures during a taping of the show in New York. The popular children's show will hold a casting for a new Latino character on Aug. 20, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)So you grew up watching Elmo, Cookie Monster and Big Bird, and now you want to be friends with Rosita, Luis and Maria.

Oil slips after 3 straight gains; pump prices rise

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:02 PM PDT

The upward climb in oil prices paused on Wednesday. But the respite may not last long.

Norbert Leo Butz joins Katie Holmes on Broadway

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 12, 2011 file photo, Norbert Leo Butz appears backstage at the 65th Annual Tony Awards in New York. Butz will join actress Katie Holmes in the Broadway comedy "Dead Accounts" beginning previews on Saturday, Nov. 3 and opening Wednesday, November 28 at the Music Box Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)Katie Holmes has gotten a stage brother — Norbert Leo Butz.

Key moments in Hewlett-Packard's recent history

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 21, 2012 file photo shows a Hewlett Packard logo in Frisco, Texas. Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday, May 23, 2012 that it's laying off 27,000 workers, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business. The Palo Alto, Calif., company said it'll save $3 billion to $3.5 billion annually from cost cuts, including the layoffs. Hewlett-Packard Co. expects to complete the job cuts by the end of fiscal 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)On Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard Co. says it will take a massive charge against its earnings for the latest quarter, leading to a record loss of nearly $9 billion. It comes as the maker of personal computers struggles to compete with mobile devices.

No one injured in fiery Megabus crash in Georgia

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:59 PM PDT

A double-decker bus caught fire along Interstate 85 in northeast Georgia, forcing passengers to scramble off and closing the northbound lanes of the busy highway for hours on Wednesday.

Prosecutor: Pastor helped mom duck VT court order

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:56 PM PDT

Prosecutors in Vermont say a Mennonite pastor worked with others to help a woman flee the United States with her child rather than share custody of her child with her former lesbian partner.

Obama's lead over Romney grows despite voters' pessimism

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:55 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama greets members of the audience after delivering remarks at an election campaign fundraiser in StamfordWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the future but voters do not seem to be holding it against Democratic President Barack Obama, who slightly expanded his lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney this month, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll says. Three months before the November 6 presidential election, nearly two-thirds of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction. Only 31 percent say it is moving in the right direction - the lowest number since December 2011. ...

Blair is "deeply worried" UK may leave EU - paper

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:54 PM PDT

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair waves as he leaves a Diamond Jubilee lunch with Britain's Queen Elizabeth in central LondonBERLIN (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a German newspaper he was "deeply worried" Britain might opt to leave the European Union in a referendum, particularly if too many powers were transferred to Brussels without democratic legitimacy. Talk of Britain leaving the EU was once far fetched, but the euro zone debt crisis and the prospect of the currency bloc forging a closer political union have convinced some senior UK politicians it is time to demand a new relationship with Brussels. ...

Obama: Romney would take health care back to 1950s

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:48 PM PDT

President Barack Obama greets supporters at a campaign event at the University of Colorado Auraria Events Center, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in Aurora, Colo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)President Barack Obama says Republicans who want to repeal his health care overhaul want to take the country back to policies more suited to the 1950s than to the 21st century.

Android extends dominance in smartphones worldwide

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Got an iPhone? You're in the minority.

Owens takes part in 1st practice with Seahawks

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:47 PM PDT

Seattle Seahawks' Terrell Owens catches a pass during NFL football training camp, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)Terrell Owens has completed his first practice back in the NFL as a member of the Seattle Seahawks, a workout that featured some impressive catches and getting slammed to the turf by a new teammate.

Randy Travis arrested naked, charged with DWI

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:45 PM PDT

This photo provided by the Grayson County, Texas, Sheriff's Office shows Country singer Randy Travis who has been charged with driving while intoxicated. Authorities say Travis was being jailed without bond Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, pending an appearance before a judge in Sherman, Texas, about 60 miles north of Dallas. (AP Photo/Grayson County Sheriff's Office)Randy Travis is accused of driving while intoxicated and threatening to kill state troopers after the country singer crashed his car and was found naked and combative at the scene.

Syrian troops push into Aleppo to oust rebels

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:44 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, center, speaks under the portrait of the Syrian President Bashar Assad during a meeting in Damascus, Syria. Hijab defected and fled to neighboring Jordan, a Jordanian official and a rebel spokesman said Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)Syria launched a ground assault Wednesday on rebel-held areas of the besieged city of Aleppo, the center of battles between government forces and opposition fighters for more than two weeks.

US-Japan is golden rematch in Olympic soccer

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:42 PM PDT

Heather Mitts, of the United States women's soccer team, trains in London, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, ahead of the upcoming women's soccer final at the 2012 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)It's not just about the gold medal. It's about redemption.

Ernesto weakens over southern Mexico, churns toward Gulf

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:39 PM PDT

The beach front of Mahahual is seen as Hurricane Ernesto approaches the southern part of the Yucatan peninsulaCHETUMAL, Mexico (Reuters) - Tropical storm Ernesto weakened on Wednesday as it dumped heavy rains over Mexico's southern Yucatan peninsula and headed toward the Gulf of Mexico, where Mexico's main oil operations are located. A hurricane warning for Mexico's western Gulf coast was called off earlier on Wednesday and replaced with lower-grade hurricane watch as the storm lost strength over land. The storm spared major tourist areas on the Yucatan coast from a direct hit, landing in sparsely populated low-lying jungle late on Tuesday. ...

Olympics 2012: Live Report

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:36 PM PDT

The US' Ashton Eaton in the decathlon high jump1935 GMT: WRESTLING: Japan's Kaori Icho has won her third successive Olympic women's freestyle wrestling 63kg gold medal, defeating China's Jing Ruixue in the final at the Excel Arena.

Forest Service gets more aggressive on small fires

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:33 PM PDT

The U.S. Forest Service has directed supervisors on federal forest lands to temporarily abandon its policy of letting small fires keep burning in isolated areas, with rampant forest fires in the country's western half putting a strain on firefighting resources and concerns over the possibility of more fires in drought-stricken areas.

Browns' first pick Richardson to see specialist

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Trent Richardson's ailing left knee may be more seriously injured than the Cleveland Browns thought.

Google to include people's Gmail in search results

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:28 PM PDT

Google's Internet search engine is getting more personal by highlighting information drawn from its users' Gmail accounts on its main results page.

COASTING

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:27 PM PDT

and almost got beat. Blake slowed too early and was almost caught at the finish line but still ended up first.

Nearly 2,000 convicted over 2011 London riots

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:25 PM PDT

Sixteen gang members have received prison sentences ranging from 16 months to nine years for their role in Britain's riots a year ago.

AP PHOTOS: Torrential rains deluge Manila

Posted: 08 Aug 2012 12:25 PM PDT

This photo released by the Department of National Defense Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, shows flooded areas in Bulacan province, northern Philippines. Widespread flooding battered a million others and paralyzed the Philippine capital began to ease Wednesday as cleanup and rescue efforts focused on a large number of distressed residents, some still marooned on their roofs. (AP Photo/Department of National Defense)People struggling to walk in streets through water often up to their chests. Rescuers in rubber boats frantically trying to reach distressed residents of submerged villages. Churches turned into temporary refuges.
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