Slab City: Living Off the Grid in California’s Badlands (Time.com)
Feb 7, 2012 US
Time.com – Deep in the badlands of California is a squatters’ camp that many are increasingly calling home — and a paradise of sorts
U.S. judge grants more time for accused Tucson (Reuters)
Feb 7, 2012 US
Reuters – A federal judge has granted prison doctors four more months to attempt to restore the mental competency of the man charged with a deadly shooting spree in Arizona that gravely wounded then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords last year.
Former intern reveals 18-month affair with JFK (Reuters)
Feb 7, 2012 US
Reuters – A former White House intern is speaking out about an 18-month affair she had with President John F. Kennedy while he was in office, revealing intimate details in a new book to be published on Wednesday.
"Intentional" explosion kills husband, two sons of missing woman (Reuters)
Feb 7, 2012 US
Reuters – An “intentional” house explosion on Sunday near Tacoma, Washington killed the husband and two sons of a Utah woman missing since December 2009, fire department officials said.
Parents urge more tests as twitches spread at New York school (Reuters)
Feb 5, 2012 US
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.
Indianapolis officials urge Super Bowl crowds to play it safe (Reuters)
Feb 5, 2012 US
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.
Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control (Reuters)
Feb 5, 2012 US
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.
Law enforcement websites under attack by hackers (AP)
Feb 4, 2012 US
AP – Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective known as Anonymous.
Killer of Fla. girl found in landfill gets life (AP)
Feb 4, 2012 US
AP – Minutes after a man pleaded guilty to kidnapping, raping and murdering 7-year-old Somer Thompson, who was dumped in a trash bin and later found in a landfill, the little girl’s twin brother addressed his sister’s killer.
Occupy activists to protest right-to-work at Super Bowl (Reuters)
Feb 4, 2012 US
Reuters – Anti-Wall Street activists said on Friday they will march to protest Indiana’s new anti-union “right-to-work” law in downtown Indianapolis this weekend, where the New England Patriots and New York Giants will face off in the Super Bowl on Sunday.