2012年7月12日星期四

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Detroit-Windsor Tunnel reopens after bomb threat

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 03:14 PM PDT

Authorities meet during a investigation of a bomb threat at the Detroit Windsor Tunnel Thursday, July 12, 2012. The tunnel was closed to traffic after the threat was called in on the Canadian side, tunnel chief executive Neal Belitsky told The Associated Press. The call was made some time after 12:30 p.m. to the duty free shop on a plaza on the tunnel's Windsor side, tunnel executive vice president Carolyn Brown said. The underwater tunnel stretches about a mile beneath the Detroit River, which is one of North America's busiest trade crossings. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)An international commuter tunnel connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, was closed for nearly four hours Thursday after a bomb threat was phoned in on the Canadian side. No explosives were found.


Foreign diplomats head to a different kind of summit

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 01:35 PM PDT

A moose grazes on aquatic plants just east of Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyo. (Mead Gruver/AP)Mitt Romney isn't the only VIP heading to Wyoming. Ambassadors from 22 countries are trading the stuffy formality of Washington for the open spaces of the country's least-populated state on Friday for a three-day trip organized by the State Department to promote America overseas. No word on whether the diplomats will cross paths with the [...]


Interviews, crime scene photos released in Zimmerman murder case

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 12:10 PM PDT

File photo of Zimmerman making his first appearance on murder charges in SanfordThe mound of evidence, released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey, is part of the public pretrial records filed in the criminal case.


U.S. government records $904.2B deficit through June

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 25, 2012, file photo, the U.S. Capitol is seen on the eve of the Supreme Court arguments on President Obama's health care legislation, in Washington. A new poll finds that Americans overwhelmingly want the president and Congress to get to work on a new bill to change the health care system if the Supreme Court strikes down President Barack Obama's 2010 law as unconstitutional. That doesn't seem to be in either party's plans on the verge of the high court's verdict on the law that was aimed at extending health insurance to more than 30 million Americans who now lack coverage. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)The U.S. budget deficit grew by nearly $60 billion in June, remaining on track to exceed $1 trillion for the fourth straight year.


Harry Reid: Romney ‘couldn’t be confirmed as a dog catcher’

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 11:34 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 5, 2012 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Uniforms for U.S. Olympic athletes are American red, white and blue _ but made in China. That has members of Congress fuming. Republicans and Democrats railed Thursday about the U.S. Olympic Committee's decision to dress the U.S. team in Chinese manufactured berets, blazers and pants while the American textile industry struggles economically with many U.S. workers desperate for jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies have launched a sustained attack this week over Mitt Romney's refusal to release additional tax returns, suggesting the Republican nominee is trying to "hide" something from the American people. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid suggested Romney would never win Senate confirmation for a Cabinet position because [...]


Dustbowl: U.S. declares drought largest disaster area ever

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Steve Niedbalski chops down his drought and heat stricken corn for feed Wednesday, July 11, 2012 in Nashville Ill. Farmers in parts of the Midwest, dealing with the worst drought in nearly 25 years, have given up hope for a corn crop and are mowing over their fields and baling the heat withered plants for livestock feed. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)The United States Department of Agriculture has declared natural disaster areas in more than 1,000 counties and 26 drought-stricken states, making it the largest natural disaster in America ever.


Woman assaulted with steak sauce over ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:14 AM PDT

Controversial Book Returns To Shelves In BrevardThe sauciness of "Fifty Shades of Grey"--the titillating trilogy that millions of women around the world are reading this summer--turned literal late last month, when a 31-year-old British man, apparently upset that his girlfriend was one of them, assaulted her with a bottle of steak sauce. According to authorities in Carlisle, U.K., Raymond Hodgson was [...]


Giant sinkhole caused by abandoned, century-old railroad tunnel

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 09:57 AM PDT

A giant sinkhole that caused part of a highway near the top of a Colorado mountain pass to be shut down earlier this week was caused by thawing soil in an abandoned, century-old railroad tunnel, engineers there said: The Colorado Department of Transportation was forced to close part of U.S. 24 between Red Cliff and [...]

Family makes good on dying man's last wish: Leave $500 tip

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 11:39 AM PDT

A dying man's last wish was to make someone else's day. After his death, the family of Aaron Collins fulfilled his wish to go have pizza and leave their server a $500 tip. The story surfaced on the blog Fark: 30-year-old Collins, a computer technician who died July 7, had no money to make his [...]

Video: Shark steals woman’s first catch

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:34 AM PDT

In the Cherry Grove inlet near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Sarah Brame and her family got the surprise of a lifetime. As her fiancé, William Moore, filmed her catching her first fish, something unexpected happened. As Brame stands on a dock and begins reeling in [...]

1 chimp dead, 1 tranquilized after Vegas escape

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 02:03 PM PDT

Two chimpanzees escaped a Las Vegas backyard Thursday, with at least one of them jumping on a police car before officers killed one primate and tranquilized the other, authorities said.

Tortured Texas dog recovering; $35,000 reward offered

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 12:32 PM PDT

A dog found tortured in Texas earlier this week is recovering from her injuries, and authorities are offering a $35,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in what the Dallas Morning News described as "one of the worst cases of animal cruelty ever reported in the county." The pug mix—who's been nicknamed Hope by [...]

Group begins selling first Christian tablet

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 12:05 PM PDT

If you've been wanting a tablet but thought the options currently out on the market are just too heathenish for your tastes, your wait is over. A group called Family Christian announced the sale of Edifi, which it claims is … Continue reading →

Is Facebook driving people to plastic surgery?

Posted: 12 Jul 2012 10:05 AM PDT

It's no secret that a large number of Americans are unhappy with their image. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, there's been a dramatic rise in the number of cosmetic procedures performed over the last 15 years. But … Continue reading →
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