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More documents released in NJ bridge scandal

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 12:41 PM PST

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie leaves City Hall Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in Fort Lee, N.J. Christie traveled to Fort Lee to apologize in person to Mayor Mark Sokolich. Moving quickly to contain a widening political scandal, Christie fired one of his top aides Thursday and apologized repeatedly for the TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey legislative committee investigating politically influenced traffic jams that led to a public apology by Gov. Chris Christie has released hundreds of pages of documents.

Jordan Valley settlements hit by boycott campaign

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 12:11 PM PST

In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 photo, a Thai worker sits in a back of a truck load with flowers in the fields of the West Bank Jordan Valley Jewish settlement of Petsael. For Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley, an international campaign to boycott settlement products has turned almost overnight from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality. The export-driven income of growers in the valley's 21 settlements dropped by 15 percent, or $29 million dollars, last year because Western European supermarket chains trying to avoid political entanglements largely stopped buying the valley's grapes, dates and sweet peppers. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)NETIV HAGDUD, West Bank (AP) — An international campaign to boycott Israeli settlement products has rapidly turned from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality for Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley.

Target: Breach affected millions more customers

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:25 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2013, file photo, a passer-by walks near an entrance to a Target retail store in Watertown, Mass. Target says that personal information — including phone numbers and email and mailing addresses — was stolen from as many as 70 million customers in its pre-Christmas data breach. That was substantially more customers than Target had previously said were affected. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Target's pre-Christmas security breach was significantly more extensive and affected millions more shoppers than the company reported last month.

Google apologizes for Berlin map with Third Reich gaffe

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 10:25 AM PST

A screenshot made on January 10, 2014 from the Google Maps website shows an online map of Berlin with Theodor Heuss-Plazt Square resulting from a search of its Nazi-era name Google issued an apology after it was discovered a popular spot in Berlin had been temporarily and inexplicably renamed after Adolf Hitler on the company's online map service.

Niagara Falls sparkles after windy deep freeze

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 09:09 AM PST

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — It hasn't frozen over, but Niagara Falls has become an icy spectacle, thanks to a blast of arctic wind and cold that blew around and froze the mist on surfaces and landscaping.

Bond denied, trial set in Ala girl's running death

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 09:09 AM PST

FILE -- This combo made from file photos provided by the Etowah County Sheriff's Department shows Joyce Hardin Garrard, 46, left, and Jessica Mae Hardin, 27. A judge refused bond Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 for Garrard, jailed for nearly two years while awaiting trial on charges she killed her granddaughter by making 9-year-old granddaughter Savannah Hardin run around their Etowah County home for about three hours for lying about eating a candy bar. The girl collapsed and died three days later. Garrard faces a capital murder charge. The girl's stepmother, Jessica Mae Hardin, who faces a charge of murder, is free on $150,000 bond.. Both women say they are innocent. (AP Photo/Etowah County Sheriff's Deptartment, File)GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — A judge refused bond Friday for an Alabama woman jailed for nearly two years while awaiting trial on charges she killed her 9-year-old granddaughter by making the child run until she collapsed and died.

French president angry over report on love life

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:18 AM PST

FILE - This Sunday, May 6, 2012, file photo shows French president-elect Francois Hollande kissing his companion, Valerie Trierweiler, after greeting crowds gathered to celebrate his election victory in Bastille Square in Paris. Hollande is threatening legal action over magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with a French actress. The magazine Closer published images Friday Jan.10, 2014 showing his bodyguard and a helmeted man it says is Hollande visiting what it says is the apartment of the actress. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande threatened legal action Friday over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an actress, the latest breach in the French media's practice of turning a blind eye to presidential love affairs.

Shipwrecked Concordia to be removed in June

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 07:03 AM PST

FILE - This Sept. 18, 2013 file photo shows the Costa Concordia cruise ship after it was lifted upright, on the Tuscan Island of Giglio, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. During a press conference in Rome on Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, officials announced the shipwrecked Costa Concordia will be removed from its watery graveyard off Tuscany in June and taken to a port to be dismantled, the final phase of an unprecedented 600 million-euro ($817 million) salvage effort. The announcement came just days before the second anniversary of the Jan. 13, 2012, grounding that killed 32 people. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, file)ROME (AP) — The Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck will be removed in June from its watery graveyard off Tuscany and taken to a port to be dismantled, the final phase of an unprecedented 600 million-euro ($817 million) salvage effort.

U.S. job growth weakest in three years

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 06:34 AM PST

Job seekers stand in line to meet prospective employers at a career fair in New York CityBy Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers hired the fewest workers in almost three years in December, but the setback was likely to be temporary amid signs that cold weather conditions might have had an impact. Nonfarm payrolls rose only 74,000 last month, the smallest increase since January 2011, and the unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage point to 6.7 percent, the Labor Department said on Friday. The unemployment rate was the lowest since October 2008 and in part reflected people leaving the labor force. Construction employment fell for the first time since May and leisure and hospitality payrolls rose marginally, suggesting that cold weather in some parts of the country had held back hiring.

Target: Data breach caught up to 70M customers

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 06:02 AM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — Target says that personal information — including phone numbers and email and mailing addresses — was stolen from as many as 70 million customers in its pre-Christmas data breach. That was substantially more customers than Target had previously said were affected.

Iraqi troops clash with al-Qaida militants in west

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 06:02 AM PST

Gunmen patrol in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Tribal leaders in Fallujah have warned al-Qaida fighters there to leave to avoid a military showdown, and there were signs that residents of Fallujah were trying to restore a sense of normalcy, however precarious.(AP Photo)BAGHDAD (AP) — Fierce clashes erupted Friday between Iraqi special forces and al-Qaida-linked militants in a village in the embattled western Anbar province, officials said.

Chemical spill shuts down much of W.Va. capital

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 05:46 AM PST

Crews clean up a chemical spill along the Elk River in Charleston, W.Va., which compromised the public water supply of eight counties on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Tyler Evert)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Schools and restaurants closed, stores sold out of bottled water, and legislators canceled business after a chemical spill in the Elk River in Charleston affected about 300,000 people and shut down much of the city and surrounding counties.

C. African Republic president, PM stepping down

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 05:46 AM PST

FILE _ This is a Thursday Dec. 19, 2013 file photo of Michel Djotodia, Central African Republic's president, as he walks back to the Chadian armored vehicle he arrived in following his meeting with US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power at the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic. Djotodia, agreed to resign Friday Jan. 10, 2014 along with his prime minister, regional officials announced. The move comes following growing pressure for Djotodia to step aside and should help placate the armed militias who have used to violence to seek his ouster. However, his departure could also create an even greater power vacuum in a land that has long known coups and dictatorship. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Michel Djotodia, the rebel leader who seized control of Central African Republic only to see the desperately poor country tumble toward anarchy and sectarian bloodshed, agreed to resign Friday along with his prime minister, regional officials announced.

Indian diplomat's return could defuse tensions

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 04:28 AM PST

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2013 file photo, photo shows Devyani Khobragade, who served as India's deputy consul general in New York, during the India Studies Stony Brook University fund raiser event at Long Island, New York. In a move that could cool a smoldering diplomatic dispute, the U.S. allowed Khobragade to leave the country Friday after she was indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury, giving both countries a way to claim victory. (AP Photo/Mohammed Jaffer, File)NEW DELHI (AP) — In a move that could cool a smoldering diplomatic dispute, an Indian envoy was allowed to fly home to India on Friday after being indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury, giving both countries a way to claim victory.

US employers may post a 5th month of solid hiring

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:56 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — Healthy U.S. economic growth in the second half of last year has raised expectations that 2013 ended with a fifth straight month of solid hiring.

W.Va. chemical spill declared federal disaster

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:42 AM PST

Crews clean up a chemical spill along the Elk River in Charleston, W.Va., which compromised the public water supply of eight counties on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Tyler Evert)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal disaster declaration has been issued for a West Virginia chemical spill that may have contaminated tap water and prompted officials to order residents in nine counties not to bathe, brush their teeth or wash their clothes.

Town's love-hate bond to span at heart of scandal

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:42 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, second left, arrives at Fort Lee, N.J., City Hall. Christie traveled to Fort Lee to apologize in person to Mayor Mark Sokolich. Many people have known little about Fort Lee until a political scandal centering on Christie enveloped the borough. Now for residents of the New York City bedroom community defined by both a feisty pride and frustration over the mixed blessings of proximity to the George Washington Bridge, the scandal is the reminder they did not need of how the bridge dictates the rhythm of everyday life. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — When Mayor Mark Sokolich's annual Christmas card showed up in mailboxes a few weeks ago, some residents took careful note of the photo selected for the front: the steely silhouette of this borough's treasured, and sometimes detested, George Washington Bridge — and a Revolutionary War cannon firing off a shot, as if to warn off unseen enemies who might try to threaten it.

For Indonesian jihadists, Syrian civil war beckons

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 10:44 PM PST

In this Sunday, June 9, 2013 photo, militants who claim that they are ready depart to fight the war in Syria, perform martial art techniques during a show of force in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. While security agencies in Europe and beyond are worried about militants returning from Syria, Indonesia knows only too well how foreign battlefields, training opportunities and contact with al-Qaida can lead to deadly results. Indonesian anti-terror officials estimated there were around 50 Indonesian militants fighting against the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria and the number is expected to grow. Writings in Arabic on the banner read: JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The young Indonesian was raised in an extremist household and graduated from a boarding school notorious for teaching generations of terrorists. So it was perhaps no surprise that when Muhammad Fakhri Ihsani left to study in Pakistan, the lure of jihad proved inescapable.

Fired aide was on Christie's team from the start

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 06:18 PM PST

In this Sept. 12, 2013 photo provided by the Office of the Governor of New Jersey, Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, right, stands with Gov. Chris Christie, left, during a tour of the Seaside Heights, N.J. boardwalk after it was hit by a massive fire. Christie fired Kelly Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, and apologized over and over for his staff's TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The aide fired by Gov. Chris Christie as an investigation widened into traffic tie-ups she orchestrated had been part of his administration from the start and has a solid background in New Jersey politics.

Indian diplomat indicted, expected to leave US

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 05:16 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — An Indian diplomat accused of lying about how much she paid her housekeeper was asked to leave the United States on Thursday after she was indicted on two criminal charges and Indian authorities refused to waive immunity, authorities said.

Trapped trucker survives hours in subzero temps

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 05:02 PM PST

CORRECTS TO EIGHT HOURS STUCK, INSTEAD OF SIX - Truck driver Tim Rutledge talks with the media after being released from the hospital, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in Indianapolis. Rutledge was trapped under his truck for about eight hours during the height of the cold snap that struck Indiana earlier this week. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tim Rutledge's eyelid had frozen shut. His voice was hoarse after competing for hours with bitter-cold wind and humming truck engines while screaming for help. He was losing consciousness, pinned under his rig in sub-zero temperatures at an Indiana truck stop.

Lawyer says indicted Indian diplomat remains in US

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 03:13 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — The lawyer for an Indian diplomat accused of lying about how much she paid her housekeeper says she's still in the United States, despite a prosecutor's claim that she left.

Indian diplomat indicted in NY, leaves US

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 01:23 PM PST

NEW YORK (AP) — An Indian diplomat accused of lying about how much she paid her housekeeper has been indicted in New York City.

Mo. man accused of rape pleads to lesser charge

Posted: 09 Jan 2014 01:23 PM PST

In this photo provided by the Nodaway County, Mo., Sheriff's Department is Matt Barnett. The 19-year-old, accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolmate when he was 17, was charged Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 with a misdemeanor child endangerment charge. He is scheduled to be arraigned later Thursday. (AP Photo/Nodaway County Sheriff's Department)MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolmate when he was 17 pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor child endangerment — a far less serious crime than the rape charges the girl and her family had been pursuing.
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