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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 ...
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 ...
Top Organizer of India's Commonwealth Games Jailed for Corruption
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW DELHI -- The spiraling investigation into India's troubled Commonwealth Games landed its chief organizer behind bars on Monday - a long-anticipated arrest after months of allegations and cries of corruption over the event. India had hoped the two-week international sporting competition in October would highlight its rapid development and boost its role on the world stage. Instead, it was deeply embarrassed by accusations of graft, construction delays and cost overruns as the games' budget ballooned by billions of dollars beyond the $412 million price tag organizers initially ...
5 Killed in New Syria Clashes, Witnesses Say
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIRUT -- Syrian troops backed by tanks stormed at least three towns early Monday and snipers fired from rooftops, killing at least five people as the crackdown intensifies on a five-week uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, witnesses and activists said. The most serious violence appeared to be in the southern city of Daraa, where the protest movement kicked off more than a month ago after authorities arrested a group of teenagers who scrawled anti-regime graffiti on a wall. Since then, more than 300 people have been killed across the country as the anti-government ...
St. Louis Area Cleans Up After Devastating Tornado
By not in system - AOL NewsST. LOUIS -- Debris from splintered homes covered the ground in neighborhoods around St. Louis, while topped trees and overturned cars littered lawns and driveways. From the air, one home looked like a dollhouse that had had its roof lifted off. Looking down, the dining room table and other contents could be seen, damp in lingering rain. Amid such damage, officials appeared awed that a tornado that roared through the area Friday night, striking the airport and several nearby suburbs, hadn't seriously injured anyone. "It almost feels like a little bit of divine intervention when you look at ...
Letters Trace Civil War for Writer's Forebears
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON (AP) - Alone in his hotel room after a solemn dinner with his brother, the newly enlisted Army surgeon took up pen and paper to make the first installment on his promise. "I have a few moments," he wrote to his wife, just 10 miles up the coast in Lynn. "I am in such a whirl that I can hardly think much less write." Just four days earlier, on April 12, 1861, Confederate artillery had fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, igniting the Civil War. On April 15, President Abraham Lincoln issued an urgent appeal "to all loyal citizens," seeking 75,000 volunteers to quell the ...
Die-Hard Tupac Impersonator Prepares for Big-Screen Audition
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsIf you saw Josh Harraway walking down the street, you might think you'd just seen a ghost. A very famous ghost. That's because Harraway, an actor and filmmaker living in Los Angeles, looks exactly like slain '90s rapper Tupac Shakur, right down to the facial features, height, weight and clothes. The uncanny resemblance doesn't go to waste. Since 2005, Harraway has been cashing in on his looks by moonlighting as a professional Tupac impersonator, performing at parties, bars and events as the iconic rapper. Courtesy of Josh Harraway Joshua Harraway is a professional Tupac Shakur ...
Judge Sends Lohan to Jail in Necklace Theft Case
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Lindsay Lohan was ordered taken into custody and led out of a courtroom Friday, returning again to a Los Angeles County jail after being sentenced to 120 days for violating her probation by taking a designer necklace. It was a déjà vu day for the starlet, who was admonished by a judge - the fourth she's faced in nearly a year - who said she thought the actress had intentionally taken the $2,500 necklace from an upscale Venice store and shown poor judgment in not trying to return it until police became involved. But by reducing the actress' charge from felony grand ...
Calif. GOP Leader Says Offensive Obama Email Sender Should Resign
By not in system - AOL NewsFULLERTON, Calif. -- The head of Orange County's Republican Party is vowing to keep up the pressure on a local GOP official to resign for sending an offensive email about President Barack Obama. "This issue will not go away until she has taken 100 percent responsibility for sending out a racist email that offended millions," Chairman Scott Baugh said. He commented by telephone on Wednesday after Marilyn Davenport, speaking for the first time, said she will not resign and had no racist intentions when she sent the email. The message depicts Obama's face superimposed over a baby chimp's. The ...
Two Western Photojournalists Killed in Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsMISRATA, Libya -- Two Western photojournalists, including an Oscar-nominated film director, were killed Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces. Two others working alongside them were wounded. British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops. Outpost Films / ...
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