samedi 11 mai 2013

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Texas man held on pipe bomb charge denies role in fertilizer blast

Posted: 11 May 2013 01:39 PM PDT

McClennan County Sheriff's Office booking photo of Bryce ReedA paramedic accused of possessing pipe bomb components will plead not guilty to that charge and denies any involvement in causing the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Bears, glaciers: Show pits man against Alaska

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:07 PM PDT

In this 2012 photo released by National Geographic Channels and Brian Catalina Entertainment, Dallas Seavey, center, shoots at a target as Tyrell Seavey, left, and Willi Prittie watch in Strandline Lake, Alaska. Dallas Seavey, who became the youngest Iditarod champion ever when he won the race in 2012, is among eight mushers or outdoor adventurers featured in the latest reality show set in Alaska. Dallas Seavey knows what it's like to mush across the wilds of Alaska. Now it remains to be seen how he survives being dropped off in the middle of that wilderness without his dog team.

Prince Harry in Colo for wounded vet Warrior Games

Posted: 11 May 2013 09:31 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry talks with a guest at a reception at the Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia, Colo., south of Denver on Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, Pool)Britain's Prince Harry is meeting with wounded service members competing in the Paralympic-style Warrior Games in Colorado.

Chrysler recalls almost 470,000 Jeep SUVs

Posted: 11 May 2013 09:15 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, June 16, 2005 file photo, the 2006 Jeep Commander sits on display at Chelsea Proving Grounds in Chelsea, Mich. Chrysler is recalling 469,000 Jeep SUVs worldwide because they can shift into neutral without warning, the company announced Saturday, May 11, 2013. The recall affects 2005 to 2010 Grand Cherokees and 2006 to 2010 Commanders. (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza, File)Chrysler is recalling 469,000 Jeep SUVs worldwide because they can shift into neutral without warning on startup.

Spacewalking astronauts hunt for big station leak

Posted: 11 May 2013 07:43 AM PDT

In this image made from video provided by NASA, astronauts Chris Cassidy, foreground, and Tom Marshburn prepare for a possible spacewalk from the International Space Station on Friday, May 10, 2013. NASA will decide later Friday if the two astronauts will step outside the station to work on a leaking coolant line. The line chills power systems but power was rerouted and is operating normally. The six-member crew is not in danger. (AP Photo/NASA)Two astronauts took a hastily planned spacewalk Saturday to find and, possibly, fix a serious leak at the International Space Station.

For Cleveland women, ordeal of recovery begins now

Posted: 11 May 2013 07:27 AM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, May 9, 2013 file photo, a Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare.

Man kills passerby with pickaxe in Milan, 4 wounded

Posted: 11 May 2013 07:27 AM PDT

This undated photo made available Saturday, May 11, 2013 by Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police shows a man identified as Kabobo Mada, 21, from Ghana. Police say an immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack. Carabinieri paramilitary police in Milan said the attacker was taken into custody shortly after the attacks Saturday morning in a neighborhood on the northern outskirts of the city. Slain was a 40-year-old man who was struck on the head with the pickaxe, then, while lying wounded on the ground on his back, suffered pickaxes blows to the abdomen, police said. (AP Photo/Italian Carabinieri police, ho)An immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police said.

Woman found alive in Bangladesh rubble recovering

Posted: 11 May 2013 06:55 AM PDT

In this photo taken by a mobile phone camera, survivor of a collapsed building Reshma Begum lie down on a bed as she receives treatment at a hospital in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Begum was working in a factory on the second floor of Rana Plaza when the building began collapsing around her April 24. For 17 days, the 19-year-old seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-30s Celsius (mid-90s Fahrenheit) and was finally rescued on Friday. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)A woman found alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago is recovering in a hospital, but has trouble sleeping and sometimes grips the nurses' hands in panic, doctors said Saturday.

Police: Armed man holding hostages in Trenton, NJ

Posted: 11 May 2013 06:40 AM PDT

An armed man with multiple hostages was barricaded inside a home Saturday morning in a standoff that began Friday afternoon, and police are continuing to negotiate with him, authorities said.

Smoke forces evacuation of White House West Wing

Posted: 11 May 2013 06:09 AM PDT

District of Columbia Fire department trucks and personnel are seen parked between the The Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the West Wing as they respond to a call at the White House, Saturday, May 11, 2013, in Washington. The West Wing including the media area were evacuated because of smoke according to Secret Service Uniformed Division. Journalists were sent outside shortly after 7 a.m. while firefighters inspected the West Wing. They were allowed back into the building about an hour later. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)Reporters and photographers were evacuated from the West Wing of the White House early Saturday because of smoke from a faulty piece of equipment.

Joy, disbelief as relatives embrace rescued Bangladesh factory worker

Posted: 11 May 2013 04:37 AM PDT

Rescue workers rescue a woman from the rubble of the Rana Plaza building 17 days after the building collapsed in SavarReshma Begum's family cherished one modest prayer: that hers would be the next body to be excavated from the rubble.

Police: Armed man holding hostages in Trenton

Posted: 11 May 2013 03:19 AM PDT

Police say an armed man with multiple hostages is barricaded inside a Trenton home in a standoff that has lasted approximately 12 hours.

Pakistanis go to polls as 16 killed in attacks

Posted: 11 May 2013 02:48 AM PDT

Pakistani women line up to enter a polling station and cast their ballots, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, May 11, 2013. Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday to vote in a historic election pitting a cricket star-turned-politician against an unpopular incumbent and a two-time prime minister, but twin bombings killing nine people and wounding dozens underlined the dangers voters face. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But attacks that killed 16 people and wounded dozens more underlined the risks many people took just casting their ballots.

Control towers at 149 small airports to stay open

Posted: 11 May 2013 01:15 AM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, March 8, 2013 file photo, the control tower at Coleman A. Young International Airport is shown in Detroit. The Federal Aviation Administration will keep open for now the 149 control towers at small airports, including Young, that were slated to close as the result of government-wide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress, the Transportation Department said Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)The Federal Aviation Administration is keeping open for now the 149 control towers at small airports that were slated to close as the result of governmentwide automatic spending cuts imposed by Congress.

GOP ready to push Benghazi case into 2014, beyond

Posted: 11 May 2013 01:00 AM PDT

FILE - This June 7, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice listening during a news conference at the UN. Senior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice used after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya last September, expressing concerns that Congress might criticize the Obama administration for ignoring warnings of a growing threat in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base.

Some Pa. state schools allow guns amid review

Posted: 11 May 2013 12:30 AM PDT

This Friday, May 10, 2013 photo shows a sign on the Kutztown University campus in Kutztown, Pa. Kutztown is one of at least five Pennsylvania state-owned universities now allowing guns on campus. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam)Students on some Pennsylvania college campuses might be carrying more than their books.

Va. woman has no regrets over role in burial

Posted: 10 May 2013 11:58 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by Chris Owens, Martha Mullen, right, of Richmond, Va., prepares to arm wrestle an opponent, in Richmond, Va. Mullen in Virginia told The Associated Press in a brief telephone interview that she offered to help in the burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a rural cemetery in Virginia, after seeing news reports about the refusals. She said she is not the only person who helped with arrangements. Tsarnaev was killed April 19 in a getaway attempt after a gun battle with police. (AP Photo/http://www.chrisowensphoto.com, Chris Owens)The Virginia woman whose actions led to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev being buried about 30 miles north of her Richmond home said the angry backlash from local officials, some cemetery neighbors and online critics has been unpleasant, but she has no regrets.

Carbon dioxide level crosses milestone at Hawaii site

Posted: 10 May 2013 09:41 PM PDT

In this Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 photo, a flock of Geese fly past the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets near Emmett, Kan. Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday, May 10, 2013. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station in Hawaii which sets the global benchmark. The last time the worldwide carbon level was probably that high was about 2 million years ago, said Pieter Tans of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)The amount of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hits a record.

Panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild

Posted: 10 May 2013 08:10 PM PDT

FILE - This Dec. 14, 2012 aerial file photo shows Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman shot 27 people dead, including 20 children. The Sandy Hook School Building Task Force meets Friday night, May 3, 2013, to debate whether to renovate or rebuild on the existing school site, or to construct a new school building on nearby property. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)A task force recommends tearing down the school and rebuilding on the same site.

N.C. man sentenced in plot to behead witnesses

Posted: 10 May 2013 07:09 PM PDT

A North Carolina man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families.

Prince Harry gets Olympic welcome in Colo.

Posted: 10 May 2013 06:08 PM PDT

England's Prince Harry visits Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery, Friday, May 10, 2013. The British soldier-prince is spending most of his week in the U.S. honoring the wounded and the dead of war. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)Britain's Prince Harry mingled on Friday with Olympians including Missy Franklin, British business executives, students and military officers living in Colorado before cheering on wounded servicemen and women at the Warrior Games.

Northern Calif. manhunt for suspected killer expands

Posted: 10 May 2013 05:52 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the Shasta County Sheriff's office shows Shane Miller, 45, who is suspected of a triple homicide at his home in rural Northern California. Shasta County Sheriff's Lt. Tom Campbell said Miller remained on the loose on Wednesday, May, 8, 2013, a day after the killings six miles west of Shingletown. (AP Photo/Shasta County Sheriff)The manhunt for a Northern California man suspected of killing his wife and two young daughters continues to expand as law enforcement officials ask for help from neighboring agencies.

Ex-dictator of Guatemala convicted of genocide

Posted: 10 May 2013 05:52 PM PDT

Guatemala's former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt wears headphones as he listens to the verdict in his genocide trial in Guatemala City, Friday, May 10, 2013. The Guatemalan court convicted Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison. The 86-year-old former general is the first former Latin American leader ever found guilty of such a charge. The war between the government and leftist rebels cost more than 200,000 lives and ended in peace accords in 1996. (AP Photo/Moises Castilo)Efrain Rios Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison.

Lose your weed in Seattle? Check lost-and-found

Posted: 10 May 2013 05:52 PM PDT

Marijuana plants are displayed for sale at Canna Pi medical marijuana dispensary in SeattlePot left on buses can be claimed by its owner, just like an umbrella left behind.

White House rebuffs Boehner on Benghazi-related emails

Posted: 10 May 2013 04:19 PM PDT

Boehner demands release of Benghazi emailsPresident Barack Obama's standoff with congressional Republicans over Benghazi escalated on Friday as the White House rebuffed House Speaker John Boehner's demand that it turn over unclassified internal emails linked to the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attack. Press secretary Jay Carney rejected the request and again accused Republicans of trying to milk the tragic death [...]
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