| Company tied to W.Va. water contamination files for bankruptcy Posted: 17 Jan 2014 01:19 PM PST  Freedom Industries, the unfortunately named company whose chemical leak contaminated the water supply for parts of West Virginia, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reports official company papers from the meeting estimate their debt at roughly $10 million, which does not include the impending clean-up costs and lawsuits, which will no doubt be immense.
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| Vatican on abuse: 400 priests defrocked in 2-year span Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:21 PM PST  VATICAN CITY - A document obtained by The Associated Press shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for molesting children.
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| Happy birthday for Michelle Obama, who turns 50 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:21 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama is celebrating her 50th birthday Friday.
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| Riddle of King Alfred the Great's remains may be solved Posted: 17 Jan 2014 12:21 PM PST  LONDON - Researchers say they may have discovered remains of King Alfred the Great, the 9th-century royal remembered for protecting England from the Vikings and educating an untutored nation.
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| Crews chase flare-ups in California fire Posted: 17 Jan 2014 11:17 AM PST  GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters were chasing flare-ups Friday morning in a damaging wildfire that was largely tamed but kept thousands of people from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles.
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| California fire burns in dry windy week, arid year Posted: 17 Jan 2014 11:17 AM PST  GLENDORA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters had largely tamed a tower of flame and smoke that obscured the sun and drove thousands from their homes in the foothill suburbs northeast of Los Angeles, but a week of dangerously windy wildfire conditions and a year of historic dryness meant that this blaze and inevitable ones to come remained a major threat.
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| Inspired by Mandela, Serena Williams rethinks tournament boycott Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:54 AM PST  World number one Serena Williams Friday said she could end her 13-year boycott of the Indian Wells tournament after being inspired by Nelson Mandela. The American 32-year-old and her sister Venus have not played the event in the California desert since being booed in 2001. The capacity crowd was livid and made their feelings clear during the final against Kim Clijsters, booing Venus and her father Richard as they entered the stadium and Serena throughout the match.
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| Hefty price: New federal budget bill cost to $3 million per word Posted: 17 Jan 2014 08:39 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Talk about words more costly than gold.
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| SKorea jails hundreds for refusing military stints Posted: 17 Jan 2014 07:06 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The young dentist was uncuffed and led to his seat in the courtroom. A few rows back, his mother watched motionlessly, her hands gently clasped together as if in prayer.
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| Record number of rhinos poached in South Africa in 2013 Posted: 17 Jan 2014 06:20 AM PST  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 1,000 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in 2013, a record number and an increase of over 50 percent from the previous year, the country's department of environmental affairs said on Friday. The data is sure to ring conservation alarm bells about a downward population spiral in a country that is home to almost all of Africa and the world's rhinos, and it may bring renewed pressure on the government to do something to halt the slayings. In 2013, 1,004 of the massive animals were illegally killed in South Africa, compared with 668 the previous year and 448 in 2011. Most of the killings are taking place in South Africa's flagship Kruger National Park, which lost 606 rhinos last year and 425 in 2012.
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| Ohio executions face obstacles after unusual death Posted: 17 Jan 2014 05:53 AM PST  LUCASVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's capital punishment system likely faces new challenges following an unusually long execution in which the condemned man appeared to gasp several times.
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| Explosion hits protesters in Bangkok, 22 wounded Posted: 17 Jan 2014 04:03 AM PST BANGKOK (AP) — More than 20 people were wounded in Thailand's capital Friday when an explosion hit anti-government demonstrators marching through the capital, the city's emergency services center said. |
| Google contact lens could be option for diabetics Posted: 17 Jan 2014 02:47 AM PST  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a hair-thin antenna. Together these remarkable miniature electronics can monitor glucose levels in tears of diabetics and then wirelessly transmit them to a handheld device.
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| Japan WWII soldier who hid in jungle until 1974 dies Posted: 17 Jan 2014 02:01 AM PST  A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades, refusing to believe World War II was over until his former commander returned and persuaded him to surrender, has died in Tokyo aged 91. Hiroo Onoda waged a guerilla campaign in Lubang Island near Luzon until he was finally persuaded in 1974 that peace had broken out. Leaflet drops and other efforts to convince him the Imperial Army had been defeated were unsuccessful, and it was only a visit from his former commanding officer, who ordered him to lay down his arms, that brought an end to his one-man war. He and three other soldiers continued to obey that order long after Japan's 1945 defeat.
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| Google develops contact lens glucose monitor Posted: 16 Jan 2014 11:09 PM PST MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google unveiled Thursday a contact lens that monitors glucose levels in tears, a potential reprieve for millions of diabetics who have to jab their fingers to draw their own blood as many as 10 times a day. |
| Mexico gov't warns vigilantes could copy cartel Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:09 PM PST  TANCITARO, Mexico (AP) — Armed vigilantes who have taken control of territory in lawless Michoacan could turn into the very sort of organized crime forces they're fighting, a Mexican official assigned to clean up the violence-wracked state said Thursday.
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| Newtown gunman apparently called radio in 2011 Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:09 PM PST  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The man who carried out the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre apparently called a radio station a year earlier to discuss the 2009 mauling of a Connecticut woman by a chimpanzee.
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| L.A.-area wildfire partly contained Posted: 16 Jan 2014 10:09 PM PST Authorities plan to reopen evacuated neighborhoods after winds die down. |
| In three-horse Oscar race, who's the favorite? Posted: 16 Jan 2014 08:34 PM PST  In a hydra-headed Oscar race, "American Hustle," ''12 Years a Slave" and "Gravity" all have legitimate claims to favorite status. And that's a good thing.
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| For Obama, NSA review a quest for public trust Posted: 16 Jan 2014 07:32 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with Edward Snowden's first leaks about the government's sweeping surveillance apparatus, President Barack Obama's message to Americans boiled down to this: trust me.
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| MLB approves expanded replay starting this season Posted: 16 Jan 2014 06:47 PM PST  PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Ever since the game was invented, before television or even radio existed, baseball counted on the eyes and ears of umpires on the field. Starting this season, many key decisions will be made in a studio far away.
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| Syria allows aid into 2 contested areas Posted: 16 Jan 2014 05:13 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government allowed supplies to enter two contested front-line areas near the capital, a relief official said Thursday. Activists said the death toll from two weeks of infighting in the north between rebel forces and an al-Qaida-linked group climbed to more than 1,000 people.
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| Senate easily passes $1.1 trillion spending bill Posted: 16 Jan 2014 04:11 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year's automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October's partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest.
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| Calif. wildfire burns homes, 2,000 evacauated Posted: 16 Jan 2014 03:27 PM PST  3 arrested for allegedly starting blaze by tossing paper into a campfire in hills north of L.A.
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| Barbara Bush does not want her son Jeb to run for president Posted: 16 Jan 2014 02:25 PM PST  The wife and mother of past presidents says it's time for a new family to run for the White House.
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