October 25, 2008

Overdose victim taken from Isiah Thomas’ NY home (AP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

A police car moves along Magnolia Drive in Purchase, NY, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. The private road eventually leads to the home of Isiah Thomas, former New York Knicks basketball coach, where authorities say an ambulance was called and someone from the home was taken to a hospital early Friday morning. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP - Authorities were called to the home of former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, where police said a 47-year-old man was taken to the hospital and treated for an accidental overdose of sleeping pills early Friday morning.


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Police: Man urinates on dog after owner spurns sex (AP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

AP - A 36-year-old man took revenge on his roommate after she refused to have sex with him by allegedly urinating on her dog, police said. Police said the man was arrested early Thursday morning on tentative charges of criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct related to domestic violence.

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Another dragging death in Texas raises tensions (AP)

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Jacquline McClelland poses with a photo of her son Brandon McClelland, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, in Paris, Texas. Brandon, a black man, was on a late-night beer run across state lines to Oklahoma with two white friends last month and ended up dead on a rural Texas road. Authorities say he was run over by a pickup and then dragged as far as 70 feet beneath the truck. Two white men have been charged with murder in the case. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)AP - In a gruesome case with powerful echoes of the dragging death of James Byrd a decade ago, a black man was killed underneath a pickup truck in East Texas and two white men have been charged with murder.


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2 greenhouse gases on the rise worry scientists (AP)

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This undated handout photo provided by the Scripps Institute shows Scripps geoscientists Ray Weiss, left, and Jens Muehle in San Diego, Calif., amid collection cylinders used to collect air samples from a variety of locations around the world. Weiss and Muehle led a study that found that the greenhouse gas nitrogen trifluoride, used in the manufacture of flat-panel monitors, escapes to the atmosphere at levels much higher than previously assumed. Two major and potent greenhouse gases are building in the atmosphere, raising an unexpected new threat for accelerating global warming, new studies show. The gases are methane and nitrogen trifluoride, and their levels are building faster than expected. (AP Photo/Scripps Institute, Robert Monroe)AP - Carbon dioxide isn’t the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases — one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology — are on the rise, too. And that’s got scientists concerned about accelerated global warming.


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Biden: McCain needs Halloween costume for change (AP)

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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden D- Del., rally supporters at Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, Va., Friday October 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)AP - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Friday that Republican John McCain would need a Halloween costume to convince voters that he would depart from the policies and divisive politics of President Bush. “I know Halloween is coming, but John McCain as the candidate of change?


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Traders relieved despite Dow ending down 3.6 pct. (AP)

anchorman wrote this mid-morning:

A pair of traders get together on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. Wall Street capped another difficult week with steep losses Friday, sending the major indexes to their lowest levels in more than five years as markets around the world skidded lower on the belief that a punishing economic recession is at hand. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - If ever a 300-point loss on Wall Street could be a good thing, it was Friday. Wall Street started the day with a nervous eye on how far stocks would have to fall before triggering emergency trading halts. They ended the session relieved, even though the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 312, or 3.6 percent, its lowest finish since the financial crisis began six weeks ago.


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Christian right intensifies attacks on Obama (AP)

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Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama walks past police officers as heads towards his campaign plane in Indianapolis, October 23, 2008. (Jim Young/Reuters)AP - Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts. All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.


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Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story (AP)

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Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, right, is buckled into a police car by a detective in Pittsburgh, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. Todd, who had told police that she was robbed at knife point, knocked to the ground by an assailant who scratched a backward letter 'B' into her face with a dull knife, told investigators on Friday she had made up the story, police said. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)AP - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her face in what she had said was a politically inspired attack, police said Friday.


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Palin testifies to investigator in ethics dispute (AP)

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Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks to a crowd during a rally at the Bass Pro Shop in Springfield, Mo. Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)AP - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified for two hours Friday in an abuse-of-power investigation that has been a distraction to her Republican vice presidential campaign. Palin’s leadership was questioned this month in a stinging but largely toothless legislative report that found she violated state ethics laws by letting a family dispute influence her decision-making.


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Hudson spox: Police probe deaths of mom, brother (AP)

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Police are seen near a home on Chicago's South Side, Friday, Oct. 24, 2008, where they are investigating the deaths of two people whose bodies were found at a home that is listed under the same name as the mother of Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson. (AP Photo/Mark Carlson)AP - The mother and brother of Jennifer Hudson were found shot dead Friday at a South Side home, and police were seeking a missing child who is the nephew of the singer and Oscar-winning actress.


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