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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 ...
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 ...
Texas May Strip Away Transgender Marriage Rights
By not in system - AOL NewsAUSTIN, Texas -- Two years after Texas become one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock. Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar transgendered people from getting married smacks of discrimination and would put their legally-granted marriages in danger of being nullified if challenged in court. One of the Republican sponsors of the legislation said he's simply trying to clean up the 2009 law in a state that bans same-sex marriage under the ...
Giffords Standing on Own, Trying to Improve Gait
By not in system - AOL NewsPHOENIX -- Doctors say Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk a little and is even trying to improve her gait. But the report Sunday in The Arizona Republic adds the congresswoman herself is planning to "walk a mountain." Giffords uses her left side and has begun making limited use of her right arm and leg, a common effect of a bullet wound on the left side of the brain, said Dr. Gerard Francisco, chief medical officer at Houston's TIRR Memorial Hermann who works with Giffords daily. "Her left side is perfect," said Pia Carusone, her legislative chief of staff. "She can do whatever you can ...
Sony Chairman Credited With Developing CDs Dies
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Opera singer Norio Ohga complained about the quality of Sony tape recorders before he was hired by the company, developed the compact disc and championed its superior sound. Love of music steered the former Sony chairman's career and in turn, he transformed the Japanese electronics maker into a global software and entertainment empire. The company president and chairman from 1982 to 1995, Ohga died Saturday in Tokyo of multiple organ failure, Sony said. He was 81. The flamboyant music connoisseur steered his work through his love of music. A former opera singer, Ohga insisted the CD ...
83-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Finally Celebrates Bar Mitvah
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsWhen he was just 11 years old, Morris Glass's childhood was ripped away from him when the Nazis invaded his homeland of Poland. This past Saturday, the 83-year-old Glass was able to finally celebrate his bar mitzvah, an important Jewish rite of passage that was denied him because at 13 years old he was living in a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto. "In the ghetto, I had no chance for a bar mitzvah," Glass told CNN. "We were not allowed to have any books." Now a resident of Raleigh, N.C., Glass has made it his mission to speak about his experiences during the Holocaust to schools and community ...
Libyan Rebels Report Gains in Misrata Fighting
By not in system - AOL NewsTRIPOLI, Libya -- Rebels battled Moammar Gadhafi's troops Thursday for control of central Misrata, driving dozens of snipers from tall buildings in hours of urban warfare and gaining a tactical advantage in the only major city held by the opposition in western Libya, witnesses said. The Libyan government, meanwhile, ramped up its rhetoric against NATO, warning that "it will be hell" for the alliance if it sends in ground troops, even though Britain's prime minister said the Western nations were not moving toward such a deployment. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said President ...
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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