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California backs off on plan to resume executions this year
California officials have backed off a drive to resume executions this year, asking a federal judge to delay until at least January his review of revised lethal injection procedures. The delay means that the state will have gone at least six years without executing any condemned prisoners, who now number 713. The California Department of […]
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U.S. spies dig into data from bin Laden raid
U.S. intelligence officers are digging through a cache of computer equipment and data taken in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in hopes it will yield leads on other al Qaeda leaders and plots, according to American officials. White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said the U.S. commandos who stormed the northern Pakistan compound […]
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Young son held in killing of white supremacist
Jeff Russell Hall, a neo-Nazi who once ran for public office, dies after being shot in the chest. One of his five children is in custody in the killing. Riverside police say that an avowed white supremacist and onetime water district board candidate was shot to death in his home […]
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Bin Laden is Dead, President Obama Says
Obama Announces Killing of Osama bin Laden WASHINGTON —President Obama announced late Sunday that Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, was killed in a firefight during an operation he ordered Sunday inside Pakistan, ending a 10-year manhunt for the world’s most wanted terrorist. American officials were in […]
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Man killed in possible gang shooting in Southwest L.A.
A man was shot to death in Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw on Thursday evening during a possible gang-related argument, police said. Two men began arguing about 5:30 p.m. in 3500 block of Coco Avenue when one of them pulled out a handgun and fired multiple rounds, according to […]
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Conn. mom pleads not guilty over school enrollment
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) — A homeless single mother who lives in her van pleaded not guilty Wednesday to stealing nearly $16,000 worth of education for her son by enrolling the kindergartener in her baby sitter’s school district. Tanya McDowell, 33, was arraigned in Norwalk, where she was arrested April […]
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LAUSD to remove chocolate, strawberry milk from schools, superintendent says
During an appearance with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, LAUSD Supt. John Deasy says the Los Angeles school system will stop offering high-sugar chocolate and strawberry milk. By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times April 28, 2011 Los Angeles schools will remove high-sugar chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk from their lunch and breakfast […]
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Obama, frustrated by ‘this silliness,’ produces detailed Hawaii birth certificate
After refusing for more than two years to indulge the most corrosive of conspiracy theories questioning his legitimacy, President Obama finally decided that he’d had enough. He was frustrated and annoyed that questions about where he was born — once the province of the political fringe […]
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Judge ends lockout; owners file appeal
MINNEAPOLIS — Seven weeks into the NFL lockout, players have an early triumph over the owners in court. U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson ordered an immediate end to the lockout Monday, siding with the players in their bitter fight with the owners over how to […]
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Tai Chi Benefits Heart Patients
Tai Chi Exercise Improves Mood and Health of Heart Failure Patients, Study Finds By Bill Hendrick WebMD Health News April 25, 2011 — Tai chi, often called “meditation in motion,” appears to improve the quality of life in people with heart failure, say researchers at Harvard Medical School. The ancient Chinese exercise of tai chi […]
