| NY court says gold tablet belongs to German museum Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:33 PM PST  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in World War II.
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| California lawmaker says he was asked to wear wire Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:17 PM PST  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Embattled state Sen. Ron Calderon says federal authorities wanted him to wear a wire and record conversations with the Senate leader and another lawmaker, and after he refused they tried to ruin his reputation by raiding his offices and leaking an FBI affidavit alleging he took money in return for promoting certain bills.
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| 60 Minutes' Benghazi 'witness' goes into hiding Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:58 AM PST  Dylan Davies, the disgraced contractor at the center of 60 Minutes' retreat on its story about the terror attack in Benghazi last year, has gone into hiding. 60 Minutes's October 27 report, since withdrawn, centered on Davies' tale of his actions that night: his sneaking into an Al Qaeda-controlled hospital, his striking a terrorist in the head with the butt of his rifle.
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| Texas town evacuated after pipeline explosion Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:44 AM PST  By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Chevron Corp pipeline exploded in rural Milford, Texas, on Thursday, shooting flames high into the air and prompting some people to evacuate, but no injuries were reported, the company and emergency officials said. The explosion was caused by a construction crew that accidentally drilled into a 10-inch liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) line, Tom Hemrick, director of Hill County Emergency Management, told KTVT-TV in Dallas. Chevron did not identify the line that exploded. But a state regulator said it was part of the West Texas LPG Pipeline Limited Partnership, a 2,295-mile common-carrier pipeline system that transports natural gas liquids from New Mexico and Texas to Mont Belvieu, Texas, for processing.
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| Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger sentenced to life Posted: 14 Nov 2013 11:24 AM PST  BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for his murderous reign in the 1970s and '80s, bringing to a close a case that exposed FBI corruption so deep that many people across the city thought he would never be brought to justice.
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| Should students learn cursive? Some states say yes Posted: 14 Nov 2013 10:13 AM PST  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman's pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms.
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| VW hit with massive vehicle global recall Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:58 AM PST  is recalling over 2.6 million cars, about a third of them in China, to fix a variety of problems, a blow to a group striving to overtake Toyota and General Motors The recall involves vehicles from the German group's five largest brands by volume, including luxury Audis and core VW passenger cars, and is one of the largest in its history. "Carmakers riding on strong growth like VW must be terribly careful that they don't pay dearly for that growth by conceding losses on quality," said Stefan Bratzel, head of the Center of Automotive Management, a private think-tank near Cologne. VW, which has twelve brands and has boosted deliveries by half over the past six years to 9.3 million cars, said on Thursday it was recalling 800,000 of its Tiguan compact sport-utility vehicle due to the risk of a partial malfunctioning of lights at models assembled between early 2008 and mid-2011.
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| Obama to allow sale of canceled plans Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:21 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) —
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| Claims on German art trove face legal hurdles Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:03 AM PST  BERLIN (AP) — When German tax authorities entered the home of a recluse collector and found a trove of art that could include works stolen by the Nazis, they stepped into a legal quagmire — one that may end up being resolved by politics as much as the law.
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| AP source: Obama to allow sale of canceled plans Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:43 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic official says President Barack Obama has decided to allow the sale of canceled individual health insurance policies to existing customers, part of a plan to satisfy public discontent with "Obamacare." |
| Actress convicted of stalking Alec Baldwin Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:27 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — A Canadian actress has been convicted of stalking Alec Baldwin in New York City.
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| Obama to make Obamacare statement at 11:35 a.m. Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:09 AM PST  The president will allow insurers to keep providing old plans, AP is reporting.
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| Watch live: Fed chair nominee Yellen stands by low interest rates Posted: 14 Nov 2013 07:51 AM PST  Janet Yellen said Thursday that the U.S. economy has regained ground lost to Great Recession but still needs the Federal Reserve's support because unemployment remains too high at 7.3 percent. Yellen made ...
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| To help typhoon victims, send money, not stuff Posted: 14 Nov 2013 07:33 AM PST  Faced with heartbreaking images of the typhoon-ravaged Philippines — the sea of corpses, communities reduced to rubble, mothers clutching their hungry children — the world is watching an epic tragedy unfold ...
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| Newtown group launches 'Parent Together' campaign Posted: 14 Nov 2013 07:17 AM PST |
| New app chronicles Lennon's sailing trip Posted: 14 Nov 2013 06:58 AM PST  NEW YORK (AP) — Six months before he died, John Lennon set sail from Newport, R.I., on an ocean adventure to Bermuda that awakened his desire to make music again and is now being chronicled in an electronic format he could not have conceived of.
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| Possible sinkhole reported in yard in Florida Posted: 14 Nov 2013 06:41 AM PST  DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Residents of several Florida homes have been evacuated due to a possible sinkhole that opened in a backyard near St. Petersburg early Thursday.
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| Kerry: Any Iran nuclear deal will be 'failsafe' Posted: 14 Nov 2013 06:25 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry says any deal negotiated with Iran will be "failsafe" and will guarantee that Tehran will not have the capacity to develop nuclear weapons. |
| Two Obama secret service agents 'removed over misconduct' Posted: 14 Nov 2013 06:05 AM PST  Two US Secret Service agents have been removed from President Barack Obama's security detail for alleged misconduct, The Washington Post has reported. The Post said that Ignacio Zamora Jr., who it said was in charge of about two dozen agents in the president's security detail, was allegedly found last spring trying to re-enter a woman's room at a luxury hotel near the White House after leaving behind a bullet from his service weapon. In a subsequent probe, the service found that Zamora and another supervisor, Timothy Barraclough, sent sexually suggestive e-mails to a female subordinate. It said the Secret Service has removed Zamora from his position.
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| Businesses cut full-time workers to meet Obamacare mandate, study says Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:53 AM PST  First, President Obama had to backtrack from his promise that if you like your health insurance plan, under Obamacare "you can keep it." Now, a new study is suggesting that, under Obamacare, "If you like your workweek, you can't necessarily keep it, either." About 30 percent of small franchises and 12 percent of other small businesses say they are cutting work hours – or swapping full-time for part-time workers – because of the law, according to a poll sponsored by business groups. The moves are part of a bid to control health-care expenses, and they are a sign of how the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was designed to greatly expand the number of Americans who have health insurance, could be having some unintended consequences in the job market. A key Obamacare incentive is an "employer mandate" that asks businesses to sponsor health insurance (or pay a penalty) if they have more than 50 full-time employees.
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| Ohio delays inmate's execution over organ donation Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:59 AM PST  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's governor delayed the execution of a condemned child killer to consider the inmate's unprecedented organ donation request, acknowledging that it's "uncharted territory" but expressing hope that the man might help save a life before losing his own.
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| Clippers beat Thunder 111-103 after scuffle Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:25 AM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Clippers are searching for defensive intensity under new coach Doc Rivers. They found it for the final 24 minutes against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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| Money preferred form of charity for typhoon relief Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:09 AM PST  Faced with heartbreaking images of the typhoon-ravaged Philippines — the sea of corpses, communities reduced to rubble, mothers clutching their hungry children — the world is watching an epic tragedy unfold and looking for ways to help. The big question is how.
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| 'Obamacare' enrollment low, Democrats unhappy Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:40 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — You can add rising Democratic discontent to the problems plaguing President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, now that first-month enrollment figures are out. |
| Boeing machinists reject contract proposal Posted: 13 Nov 2013 11:49 PM PST  SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing machinists in the Northwest rejected a contentious contract proposal Wednesday that would have exchanged concessions for decades of secure jobs.
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