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At Least 85 Dead as Tornadoes Devastate South
By not in system - AOL NewsTUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Fierce storms obliterated large swaths of land from Mississippi to Georgia, wiping out homes and businesses, causing a nuclear power plant to use backup generators and even forcing the evacuation of a National Weather Service office. The death toll was staggering - at least 85 people killed in five states, including 61 in Alabama alone, a number that was likely to increase. One of the hardest-hit areas was Tuscaloosa, a city of more than 83,000 and home to the University of Alabama. The city's police and other emergency services were devastated, the mayor said, and ...
Body of Missing Maine Woman Found in NH Pond
By not in system - AOL NewsCONWAY, N.H. -- The body of a missing Maine woman whose car was abandoned at a ski area with her toddler unharmed inside was recovered Wednesday from a nearby pond. Divers retrieved the body of Krista Dittmeyer about a quarter-mile from where her car was found idling early Saturday in the parking lot of Cranmore Mountain ski area in Conway, a town of 10,000 people. Police said previously that they believed Dittmeyer, 20, was a victim of a crime, but Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young said Wednesday that the case was being investigated as a "suspicious death." She declined ...
Americans Royally Celebrate William and Kate's Wedding
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsNancy Withbroe rose before the sun on July 29, 1981, to watch Lady Diana Spencer, she of the tremendous white train, marry Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne. She joined her sister and mother in front of the television in their Arlington, Mass., home to watch the nuptials taking place across the Atlantic. "I was 13 ... ripe for romantic fantasies," she told AOL News. "I'm sure we had scones, tea, strawberries and jam. That may even have been my first introduction to clotted cream." Now a fundraiser at a Washington, D.C.-area nonprofit and, like the late Diana, mother of two ...
UK Police: Royal Wedding Guests to Face Security Checks
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- British police say guests at the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton will have to pass through security checks to enter Westminster Abbey. Indigo / Getty Images Security checks will be required for guests at Friday's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey. Police would not say what methods will be used. Some 5,000 police will be deployed at the wedding and 60 people have been barred as part of their bail conditions from entering the area. Metropolitan Police Commander Christine Jones said Wednesday that there is no ...
Sony: Credit Data Risked in PlayStation Outage
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Sony Corp. said Tuesday that the credit card data of PlayStation users around the world may have been stolen in a hack that forced it to shut down its PlayStation Network for the past week, disconnecting 77 million user accounts. Some players brushed off the breach as a common hazard of operating in a connected world, and Sony said some services would be restored in a week. But industry experts said the scale of the breach was staggering and could cost the company billions of dollars. "Simply put, one of the worst breaches we've seen in several years," said Josh Shaul, chief ...
Experts: Proposition 8 Judge's Sexual Orientation Is Non-Issue
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO -- The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban insist they are not trying to disqualify the federal judge who struck down Proposition 8 because he is gay. Instead, they argue the judge's decade-long relationship with another man poses a potential conflict because they might want to get hitched themselves. Elaine Thompson, AP The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban say the recent disclosure by Judge Vaughn R. Walker that he is in a long-term relationship with another man has given them new grounds to appeal the ruling that struck down Proposition 8 ...
Teleprompter Inventor Hubert Schlafly Dies in Conn. at 91
By not in system - AOL NewsHARTFORD, Conn. -- Hubert "Hub" Schlafly, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter and rescued decades' worth of soap opera actors, newscasters and politicians from the embarrassment of stumbling over their words on live television, has died. He was 91. Stamford Advocate / AP Hubert Schlafly, shown here in 2008, died last week at age 91. The Emmy Award-winning inventor was best known for developing the teleprompter. Schlafly died April 20 at Stamford Hospital after a brief illness, according the Leo P. Gallagher & Son Funeral Home, which handled the arrangements. A ...
Couric Confirms She's Leaving 'CBS Evening News'
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Katie Couric has confirmed that she's leaving her anchor job at the "CBS Evening News." Couric also told People magazine in a story published Tuesday on its website that she hasn't decided what she's doing next. But she says she is "looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling." The Associated Press reported three weeks ago that Couric's tenure as CBS anchor would end just short of five years in the job. Her contract expires June 4. CBS has not set an exit date but is expected to appoint Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" as her ...
Kate Middleton Mix-Up: Facebook Deletes Boston Woman's Account
By not in system - AOL NewsCONCORD, Mass. -- Yes, she really is Kate Middleton. Kate Middleton, the Boston bicycle enthusiast, that is. But that hasn't stopped the 32-year-old from being confused with the woman who is about to marry Prince William. Recently, Facebook accused the Boston Middleton of being an impostor and deleted her account. Various media reporters also keep showing up at ATA Cycle, a Concord, Mass. bicycling shop where she works, and asking her to speak in a British accent. "I'm really not interested in pretending I'm British," said Middleton, who is originally from Louisville, Ky. "And I'm ...
Trump Bashes Obama, Questions Qualifications for Ivy League
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended. Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, offered no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate. "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I'm thinking about ...
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