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Yahoo! News: U.S. News Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:54:17 GMT |
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Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be sitting on a couch touting an issue most politicians avoid like the plague: gun control.
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Indianapolis officials urge Super Bowl crowds to play it safe
(Reuters)
- Reuters - Indianapolis authorities called on Super Bowl celebrants to play it safe on Saturday night at festivities near the city's football stadium, after at least 10 people were injured the previous evening.
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Parents urge more tests as twitches spread at New York school
(Reuters)
- Reuters - State health officials have added three more names to a growing list of students in this working-class town who are experiencing mysterious tics and twitching, while authorities on Saturday sought to assure parents the community's high school is safe.
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Class War 2012: Why Both Parties Are Flying the Anti-Wall Street Banner
(Time.com)
- Time.com - Gingrich ended his campaign against Romney in Florida with the same message strategy that Romney's senior advisers had used in another Republican primary two years earlier: Attack Goldman Sachs. There was a good reason
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Inside Facebook's IPO: How the Social Web Will Reshape the Economy
(Time.com)
- Time.com - Facebook's IPO -- the largest in Internet history -- is a once-in-a-generation milestone in the evolution of the web
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Major snowstorm barrels down on Central Plains
(Reuters)
- Reuters - A major winter storm that dumped two feet of snow on the Denver area marched eastward on Saturday, buffeting the Central Plains with heavy snowfall and wind gusts of 25 miles per hour.
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In Miramonte, questions amid a sense of betrayal
(AP)
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 AP - Mr. Berndt's third-grade classroom was up on the second floor, tucked away at the rear of Miramonte Elementary School, its windows looking out onto a playground.
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Father: Beheading plot suspect a dedicated teacher
(AP)
- AP - Nevine Aly Elshiekh is a dog lover who teaches children with developmental disabilities. She is college-educated, well-respected by her neighbors and has no criminal record, not even a speeding ticket.
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Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'
(AP)
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 AP - The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: "black."
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Navy says 8 sailors discharged for hazing
(AP)
- AP - The Navy says eight sailors have been discharged after a hazing incident aboard a San Diego-based amphibious assault ship.
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Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget
(AP)
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 AP - When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so moved she sat in her car and wept.
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Police clear tents from Occupy site in DC; 7 held
(AP)
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 AP - Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation's last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing away tents they said were banned under park rules.
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Mushroom pickers found alive but hurt after 6 days
(AP)
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 AP - A family of three huddled on the edge of an old-growth Oregon forest for six days, lost and cold, unable to signal search helicopters flying low and slow overhead.
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Clinton: US, Europe must do more against tyrants
(AP)
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 AP - The Obama administration on Saturday called for stepped up U.S.-European cooperation to isolate tyrannies like the Assad regime in Syria, promote democracy in the Arab World and beyond and repair damage from the global financial crisis.
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Lives intersect on deadly stretch of Fla. highway
(AP)
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 AP - There was a single mom who loved to dance, in the car with a boyfriend who had moved from Virginia to be with her. A pastor and members of his family, originally from Brazil, returning home to Georgia from an Orlando church retreat. A father, his wife and his daughter headed south from the Panhandle for a family funeral. A young man coming home from bowling.
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Storm blankets Nebraska after dumping on Colorado
(AP)
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 AP - A powerful winter storm that covered parts of Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow crept east across the Plains Saturday, knocking out electricity to thousands in Nebraska as the blanket of heavy, wet precipitation downed power lines and made travel treacherous.
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11 injured in massive crowd for band LMFAO
(AP)
- AP - Overwhelming "human gridlock" in Indianapolis' Super Bowl Village is causing police to rethink crowd control before the game.
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Marine's wife killed in Calif. propane explosion
(AP)
- AP - The person killed in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern California training base was the wife of a U.S. Marine, and the two people seriously injured were a Navy corpsman and his wife, military officials said on Saturday.
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Dems want their candidate as Ind. elections chief
(AP)
- AP - While Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels held off Saturday on appointing a permanent replacement for the state elections chief convicted early that morning of voter fraud, Democrats said they planned to move quickly to wrest control of the politically powerful office from the GOP.
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AP Analysis: Border Patrol OT up as arrests drop
(AP)
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 AP - Border Patrol agents have racked up daily overtime at a cost of about $1.4 billion in the past six years while the number of arrests of illegal border crossers has fallen to the lowest level in nearly 40 years, an Associated Press analysis of agency records finds.
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