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Thursday, September 4, 2014

Oklahoma report: Executioners need more training

Oklahoma report: Executioners need more training

Oklahoma report: Executioners need more training

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:54 PM PDT

Clayton Lockett insetOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma turned to a 15-year physician and a medical technician with 40 years' experience to put Clayton Lockett to death, yet his execution still went awry.

Some Wyoming lawyers upset about Cheney speech

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:52 PM PDT

FILE - In a Dec. 13, 2013 file photo, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney smiles as he talks about his new book, "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey," at Little America Hotel and Resort in Cheyenne, Wyo. The Wyoming State Bar invited Cheney, a prominent Republican with deep Wyoming ties, to be keynote speaker at its annual convention banquet Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Some lawyers are objecting, both to Cheney's selection and to how the bar announced his appearance. (AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Miranda Grubbs, File)CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney can be a polarizing figure even six years out of office.

Court rules against gay marriage bans in 2 states

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:51 PM PDT

File of Jon Stark and husband David Moore joining supporters of same-sex marriage rally at Utah's State Capitol building in Salt Lake CityA U.S. appeals court in Chicago ruled Thursday that gay marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana violate the U.S. Constitution — thereby bumping the number of states where gay marriage will be legal from 19 to 21.

Man arrested in death of 8-year-old Arizona girl

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:50 PM PDT

Isabella BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) — Police arrested a man Thursday in the disappearance and death of an 8-year-old Arizona girl whose body was discovered in a shallow grave near her home.

Toyota: Cars will be safer, but still need drivers

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:48 PM PDT

FILE - This Feb. 14, 2013 file photo shows the Toyota logo on the trunk of a Toyota automobile at the 2013 Pittsburgh Auto Show in Pittsburgh. Toyota executives on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 promised by 2017 to have collision-prevention technology installed across its U.S. line-up, in both mainstream and luxury vehicles. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — Your car soon will do more to help avoid a crash. As for one day leaving all the driving to the vehicle while you relax in back, don't get your hopes up.

Plant gets Tesla closer to electric car for masses

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:46 PM PDT

Crews with heavy construction equipment work Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center 15 miles east of Sparks, Nev., where Tesla Motors Inc. plans to build a 6,500 worker "gigafactory" to mass produce cheaper lithium batteries for its next line of more-affordable electric cars. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)RENO, Nev. (AP) — To bring electric cars to the masses, Tesla Motors will transform an expanse of desert where pioneers passed on their way to the California Gold Rush and wild mustangs still roam the hillside.

Democrats borrow a GOP idea on health care costs

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:45 PM PDT

FILE - This March 11, 2009 file photo shows Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel speaking at the American Medical Association's annual conference in Washington. Borrowing from a Republican idea, a group including former senior Obama and Clinton advisers proposes to let individual states take the lead on controlling health care costs. The states would set their own targets for health care spending and pocket a share of federal Medicare and Medicaid savings if they succeed. But they'd have to maintain coverage and quality. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — Borrowing a Republican idea, a group including former senior Obama and Clinton advisers is unveiling a novel proposal to let states take the lead in controlling health costs.

Ex-Virginia gov., wife guilty of public corruption

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:44 PM PDT

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, left, is swarmed by the media as he leaves Federal Court for the third day of jury deliberations in his corruption trial in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. McDonnell and his wife Maureen are charged in a 14-count indictment with doing special favors for Jonnie Williams, the CEO of dietary supplements maker Star Scientific Inc., in exchange for $165,000 in gifts and loans. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, have been convicted in a public corruption case that accused them of conspiring to use his office to promote a businessman's product in exchange for gifts.

Maryland father charged in boy's death in vehicle

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:43 PM PDT

LEXINGTON PARK, Md. (AP) — A father was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of his 17-month-old son after he left the boy inside a hot vehicle at a Maryland naval base for more than six hours, Navy investigators said Thursday.

Ohio elections chief urges appeal of voting ruling

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:42 PM PDT

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's elections chief says an early voting decision from a federal judge must be appealed.

Bus swept away by stream in Kashmir; 50 missing

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:39 PM PDT

Residents leave a flooded neighborhood on a boat in Srinagar, India, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Authorities say heavy rains have triggered floods and landslides in the Indian portion of Kashmir, killing at least 14 people in the worst flooding in 22 years. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A bus carrying more than 50 wedding guests was swept away by a flooded stream Thursday in the Indian-held portion of Kashmir, and all but five of the passengers were missing, officials said.

Senate candidate in Colo. touts a failed measure

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:38 PM PDT

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Republican congressman Cory Gardner stands framed by sunflowers and wind turbines and tells voters he co-wrote a law to launch the state's green-energy economy.

Mistaken US bombing blamed on miscommunication

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:36 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military investigators have concluded that a "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan that killed one Afghan and five U.S. soldiers in June was caused by a series of avoidable miscommunications among air and ground forces.

Court rules for Yelp in suit over online ratings

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:31 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Online review site Yelp can lower or raise the rating of a business depending on whether it advertises with the company, a federal appeals court ruled in a lawsuit filed by small businesses claiming Yelp used the tactic to try to extort ads from them.

Ukraine and rebels back peace plan, ceasefire from Friday

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:30 PM PDT

French President Hollande, Ukrainian President Poroshenko, U.S. President Obama, British Prime Minister Cameron, German Chancellor Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Renzi meet to discus Ukraine at the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor resort, near Newport,By Adrian Croft and Gabriela Baczynska NEWPORT Wales/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Friday, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five-month war in Ukraine's east. The breakthrough came after a week in which the pro-Moscow separatists scored major victories with what NATO says is the open support of thousands of Russian troops. Speaking on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Wales, Poroshenko said the ceasefire would be conditional on a planned meeting going ahead in Minsk on Friday of envoys from Ukraine, Russia and Europe's OSCE security watchdog.

U.S. preparing new round of economic sanctions on Russia

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:30 PM PDT

The United States is preparing a new round of economic sanctions against Russia for its incursion into Ukraine, a senior White House official said on Thursday on the fringes of a NATO summit in Wales. Deputy White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes gave no details of the sectors that would be targeted but told reporters that the new penalties were being finalized. "The key point is that Russia must continue to face costs for its own escalation," he said. "If Russia escalates, we can escalate our pressure." Earlier, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko announced the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Friday, provided that an agreement was signed on a new peace plan.

Sting, Tom Hanks among Kennedy Center honorees

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:30 PM PDT

FILE - This May 13, 2011 file photo shows singer Al Green performing in Memphis, Tenn. It's a rare honor for an artist to receive accolades from the president, let alone have him sing one of your tunes. Now Al Green can claim both, knowing that President Barack Obama is already a fan. Green is among five leading artists receiving this year's Kennedy Center Honors, the highest national awards for influencing American culture through the arts. Green joins Tom Hanks, Sting, Lily Tomlin and ballerina Patricia McBride as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the selections Thursday. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a rare honor for an artist to receive accolades from the president, let alone have him sing one of your tunes.

US tops Ukraine to finish basketball worlds group

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:27 PM PDT

Stephen Curry of the US, right, shoots the ball in front of Ukraine's Dmytro during the Group C Basketball World Cup match, in Bilbao, northern Spain, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The 2014 Basketball World Cup competition take place in various cities in Spain from Aug. 30 through to Sept. 14. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)BILBAO, Spain (AP) — The bags were already packed and the Americans had already checked out of their rooms.

A closer look at the Ferguson Police Department

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:24 PM PDT

Attorney General Eric Holder, center, accompanied by Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Division Molly Moran, left, and Ronald Davis, director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, to announce the Justice Department's civil rights division will launch a broad civil rights investigation in the Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)ST. LOUIS (AP) — The announcement that the Justice Department will conduct a civil-rights investigation of the Ferguson Police Department comes nearly a month after Michael Brown's death first raised doubts about the suburban law-enforcement agency.

Comedian Joan Rivers dead at 81

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:22 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 14, 2014 file photo, TV personality Joan Rivers attends A Celebration of Barbara Walters in New York. Melissa Rivers announced Thursday, Sept. 4, that her mother Joan died Thursday, in New York. Rivers was hospitalized Aug. 28, after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday. She was 81.

Ex-Virginia Gov. McDonnell guilty on 11 corruption charges; wife, Maureen, guilty of 9 of 13

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:22 PM PDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ex-Virginia Gov. McDonnell guilty on 11 corruption charges; wife, Maureen, guilty of 9 of 13.

Uncertainty of Afghan election clouds NATO summit

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:21 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks with British Prime Minister David Cameron as NATO leaders meet regarding Afghanistan at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. From left are, Secretary of State John Kerry, the president, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)NEWPORT, Wales (AP) — This week's NATO summit was long planned as a celebration to mark the end of combat in Afghanistan and the coalition forces' shift to a largely advisory role. But the still-unsettled Afghan election has complicated the event, casting doubt on the transition and leaving the door open for all allied troops to be forced out at year's end.

Argentine rock star Gustavo Cerati dies

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:20 PM PDT

A woman places flowers on a poster of Argentine musician Gustavo Cerati that reads in Spanish: "Waiting for you," outside the clinic where he was hospitalized in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. Cerati died at the age of 55 on Thursday, according to the singer's family. The Soda Stereo lead singer had been in a coma since May 15, 2010 when he suffered a stroke following a performance in Caracas, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine rock star Gustavo Cerati died on Thursday, four years after a stroke put him in a coma and ended the career of one of Latin America's most influential musicians.

Where retreating from rising seas is the only option

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:15 PM PDT

By Deborah J. Nelson and Duff Wilson SAXIS, Virginia (Reuters) - This town on Chesapeake Bay is losing three to five feet (1 to 1.5 meters) of shoreline a year and suffered damage during hurricane Sandy. On the harder hit Chesapeake Bay side, some spots now flood nearly every full moon.

Search on for albino cobra loose in California

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:13 PM PDT

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities warned parents to watch their children and keep them away from dark holes after an albino cobra was seen slithering through a Southern California suburban neighborhood this week.

US comic Joan Rivers dies: family

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:12 PM PDT

This October 5, 2009 photo shows US actress Joan Rivers during a photocall during the 25th edition of the MIPCOM, in Cannes, southern FranceJoan Rivers, the acerbic US stand-up comic and television presenter, died on Thursday, a week after being rushed to a New York hospital, her family announced. "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers. She passed peacefully at 1:17 pm surrounded by family and close friends," daughter Melissa Rivers said in a statement. The Brooklyn-born Rivers had been at Mount Sinai Hospital since she reportedly stopped breathing during a medical procedure on her vocal cords at a private clinic on August 28.

French president's ex depicts him as cruel, lying

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:11 PM PDT

A pile of former French first lady Valerie Trierweiler's book "Thank You for this Moment", is pictured in a Paris bookstore, France, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. The former companion of French President Francois Hollande writes in a book that the Socialist presents himself as someone who doesn't like the rich, but in fact "doesn't like the poor." The couple broke up in January amid reports Hollande was having an affair with actress Julie Gayet. The book risks further damaging the image of the already deeply unpopular president even though the French had little love for Trierweiler, who couldn't find her place as first lady. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)PARIS (AP) — Ah, beware the writings of a betrayed woman.

Ex-Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell and wife convicted of corruption, fraud, bribery charges

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:10 PM PDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ex-Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell and wife convicted of corruption, fraud, bribery charges.

FDA OKs Merck drug, 1st in new cancer drug class

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:09 PM PDT

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved the first drug in a new class of cancer medicines that work by stimulating the immune system, a Merck drug developed for treating deadly skin cancer.

Garth Brooks creates own digital service for music

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:09 PM PDT

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Garth Brooks isn't just going digital. He's launching his own digital sales service.

Justice Dept. announces Ferguson police probe

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2014 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder talks with Capt. Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol at Drake's Place Restaurant in Florrissant, Mo. The Justice Department plans to open a wide-ranging investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb, a person briefed on the matter said Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File-Pool)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department launched a broad investigation Thursday into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri, police department, following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

Waylon Jennings' collection going up for auction

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:08 PM PDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A collection of outlaw country singer Waylon Jennings' belongings will go on public auction this fall, including a rare 1958 motorcycle originally owned by Buddy Holly and locks of Willie Nelson's braided hair.

BP ruled grossly negligent in 2010 oil spill

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:08 PM PDT

A US Coast Guard image of fire boat response crews as they battle the blazing remnants of the BP operated offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010BP faces billions of dollars in new fines over the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill after a New Orleans judge Thursday ruled it was guilty of "gross negligence". Federal court judge Carl Barbier said that the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blowout, which killed 11 and spilled 4.2 million barrels of oil into Gulf waters, happened because BP's US subsidiaries, along with oil-services company Halliburton and rig owner Transocean, did not take adequate care in drilling the highly risky well. Barbier said that the British oil giant knew the Macondo well it was drilling, called by some working on it the "well from hell", was particularly dangerous because of the high risk of a blowout. BP's decisions throughout the drilling process qualified as "gross negligence" because they were "an extreme departure from the care required under the circumstances or a failure to exercise even a slight care."

Special Report: As seas rise, a slow-motion disaster gnaws at U.S. shores

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:07 PM PDT

Waves pound the seawall near a crab house on Saxis Island in VirginiaBy Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Duff Wilson SAXIS, Virginia (Reuters) - Chincoteague is the gateway to a national wildlife refuge blessed with a stunning mile-long beach – a major tourist draw and source of big business for the community. The access road and parking lot have been rebuilt five times in the past decade because of coastal flooding, at a total cost of $3 million. Officials who run Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge say they face a losing battle against rising sea levels. Chincoteague wants the federal government to continue to rebuild rather than retreat.

Sunni militants kidnap dozens of men in Iraq

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:06 PM PDT

Residents say militants affiliated with the extremist Islamic State group have kidnapped dozens of men from a Sunni village north of Baghdad.

Ex-Va. Gov. McDonnell, wife convicted of 1 public corruption charge; more verdicts pending

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 12:00 PM PDT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Ex-Va. Gov. McDonnell, wife convicted of 1 public corruption charge; more verdicts pending.

Hanks, Sting lead list of Kennedy Center honorees

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:58 AM PDT

The 2013 Kennedy Center Honors award ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington on December 8, 2013Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and British rock-pop legend Sting are among the recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors, the highest US award for living performing artists. US actress Lily Tomlin, soul singer Al Green and ballerina Patricia McBride round out the list of honorees, the Kennedy Center -- Washington's top venue for the performing arts -- announced. The five will be honored at a black-tie awards gala attended by President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle on December 7 at the Kennedy Center. The first couple will receive the five at the White House prior to the gala, a high point in Washington's social calendar.

Comedian Joan Rivers has died, says her daughter Melissa Rivers

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:58 AM PDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Joan Rivers has died, says her daughter Melissa Rivers.

Stocks flat as oil drop offsets ECB stimulus

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:57 AM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 9, 2011 file photo shows a Wall Street street sign near the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. U.S. stocks rose Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, after the European Central Bank surprised traders by trimming its main interest rate to a record low, and announcing that it would purchase asset-backed securities in an effort to stimulate the region's ailing economy. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks were flat in afternoon trading as a slump in energy stocks offset a surprise announcement from the European Central bank that it planned to purchase asset-backed securities in an effort to stimulate the region's ailing economy.

How John Lennon affects today's immigration fight

Posted: 04 Sep 2014 11:54 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 18, 1972, file photo, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, leave a U.S. Immigration hearing in New York City. The argument over President Barack Obama's legal authority to defer deportations begins 42 years ago with a bit of hashish, a dogged lawyer and, yes, John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Lennon was facing deportation from a Nixon administration eager to disrupt the ex-Beatle's planned concert tour and voter registration drive. The case hinged on Lennon's 1968 conviction for possession of cannabis resin in London. Lennon ultimately succeeded. The case's legacy is an integral part of the legal foundation Obama relied on in 2012 to set up a program that has deferred the deportation of more than 580,000 immigrants who entered the country illegally as children. (AP Photo)WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine. The argument over President Barack Obama's legal authority to defer deportations begins 42 years ago with a bit of hashish, a dogged lawyer and, yes, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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