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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Baton Rouge Post.com http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/10/id/154063713fe5da1f/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:09 -0500 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:09 -0500 30 PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least 10 suspected militants were killed in a pre-dawn US drone aircraft attack in a restive Pakistani tribal town, officials said Wednesday. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203334822/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:19:23 -0500 Baton Rouge Post.com http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203334822/cs/1/ SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo's chairman and three other board members have decided not to stand for re-election, giving in to the demands of its shareholders frustrated over the Internet company's declining http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203333913/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:41:42 -0500 Baton Rouge Post.com http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203333913/cs/1/ The Human Rights Watch has called on the United States to pressure the Pakistan government to curb crimes in Balochistan province, including extra-judicial killings, torture, illegal detention, disapp http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203347116/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:10:01 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203347116/cs/1/ A senior US envoy scheduled to tour South Asia will make a stop in the Maldives Saturday, as the island nation is grappling with violence after a new president was sworn in, the State Department said. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203344723/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:50:08 -0500 IANS http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203344723/cs/1/ Argentine oil company YPF, a unit of Spain's Repsol-YPF, announced Wednesday that its investments in the South American country rose last year by 50 percent to a record 13.3 billion pesos ($3.06 billi http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203344720/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203344720/cs/1/ U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday met with Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille, who is visiting Washington for talks on his country's post-earthquake reconstruction efforts. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337296/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:55 -0500 VoA - Americas http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337296/cs/1/ One of the top U.S. commanders in Afghanistan is defending the progress coalition troops are making in Afghanistan, after a U.S. Lieutenant Colonel publicly countered U.S. assertions the allied campai http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337292/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:32 -0500 VoA - USA http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337292/cs/1/ India underlined its commitment to implementing the landmark civil nuclear deal when Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai Wednesday met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and held a series of meetings http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203332751/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:00:24 -0500 IANS http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203332751/cs/1/ A video clip of a four-year-old Chinese boy being forced to do push-ups, wearing just an underwear despite freezing temperature, on a road in the New York city of the US has evoked outrage. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203329210/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:01 -0500 IANS http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203329210/cs/1/ A New York City startup has started tapping into the intense water pressure at treatment plants, reservoirs and factories, converting the excess into electricity. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327686/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:30:14 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327686/cs/1/ Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is facing increased pressure in the United States after the FBI stepped-up its investigations into allegations of illegal bribing activity across the medi http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327234/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:58 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327234/cs/1/ The Central Intelligence Agency is expected to maintain a large clandestine presence in Iraq and Afghanistan after the withdrawal of conventional U.S. troops as part of the Obama administration plan t http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327231/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:49 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327231/cs/1/ The Obama administration is reportedly sending a senior American military commander to Pakistan this month in what is being seen as a first step towards getting a strategic relationship that has been http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327227/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:22 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327227/cs/1/ American authorities want to upgrade one of the charges against a former Indian-origin Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who has been accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter w http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327226/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:02 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327226/cs/1/ The U.S. State Department's Acting deputy spokesman Mark Toner has said that the Pakistan Supreme Court's decision to possibly convict Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on February 13 is their interna http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327061/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:41:04 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203327061/cs/1/ People of Boston are infuriated with Gisele Bundchen for slamming the New England Patriots team for their defeat at the hands of New York Giants in the Super Bowl. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203324975/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:20:08 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203324975/cs/1/ Scarlett Johansson co-hosted a fashion-themed fundraiser for Barack Obama's re-election in New York on Tuesday along with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323121/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:50:06 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323121/cs/1/ Kate Winslet has revealed in an interview that she had trouble getting former President Bill Clinton to take part in her latest charity project. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323073/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:30:14 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203323073/cs/1/ An American federal appeals court has rejected California's same-sex marriage ban, setting the stage for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown as early as next year. http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203322513/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:40:14 -0500 ANI http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203322513/cs/1/ SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Young housewives and older moms who bought assault rifles from Texas gun dealers are among nearly two dozen charged in an alleged weapons smuggling ring that armed Mexican ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342072/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:09:45 -0500 Richmond Times-Dispatch http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342072/ Clinton, N.C. - Police said Wednesday that they have charged a Sampson County store owner with selling fake urine for people to pass drug tests, as well as prescription drugs from out of the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339754/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:08:10 -0500 WRAL http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339754/ Welcome to U.S. News's STEM Education resource center. Here, you'll find the latest news, opinions and thoughts about science, technology, engineering and math education. Also browse ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341791/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:05:02 -0500 U.S. News & World Report http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341791/ The Ford Shelby 500 GT is introduced by Hau Thai-Tang during the 2012 Chicago Auto Show media preview at McCormick Place Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, in Chicago. | John J. ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203338843/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:59:14 -0500 Chicago Sun-Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203338843/ Next The 254-173 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill that gives the president the line-item veto, or authority to pick out specific items in spending bills for elimination. A ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341745/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:24 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341745/ CHICAGO -; Chicago has axed the winning design for its 2012-13 vehicle registration sticker, contending some may believe it depicts street gang signs. Chicago requires residents with vehicles to ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343533/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:23 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343533/ This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 by the Cole County sheriff's office shows Alyssa Bustamante. Bustamante, 18, who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl, was described as a ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341744/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:21 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341744/ HARRISBURG, Pa. -; A Pennsylvania lawmaker convicted of corruption said Wednesday he will follow tradition and step down from the House of Representatives when he is sentenced, but a colleague said ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341743/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:16 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341743/ LOS ANGELES -; The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341742/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:13 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341742/ MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. -; A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203338512/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:11 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203338512/ MINEOLA, N.Y. -; The owner of one of Long Island's largest catering companies has been accused of seriously violating Jewish law by having workers prepare kosher and non-kosher meals in the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339456/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:05 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339456/ San Francisco is now in the decisive phase on hosting the America's Cup, a move that comes amid concern over the pace of fundraising to defray city costs and a fight over whether to include in ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341741/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:03 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341741/ WALSENBURG, Colo. -; One of the three Dougherty siblings accused in a multi-state crime spree has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, a spokesman for the Colorado court system said Wednesday. ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341747/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:01 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341747/ FILE - This March 28, 2007 file photo shows tourists walking on the glass-bottomed Skywalk that extends 70 feet over the edge of Grand Canyon West's Eagle Point, in Arizona. A northwestern ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341749/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:57 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341749/ AKRON, Ohio -; There won't be a trial soon for an Ohio man suspected in the shooting deaths of three men lured to a rural area by bogus job listings on Craigslist. Fifty-two-year-old ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341748/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:54 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341748/ FILE-This undated photo released by the Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Antun Lewis. Federal Judge Solomon Oliver in Ohio has granted a new trial for Antun Lewis, convicted in a ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341750/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:50 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341750/ American Standards are scheduled to perform on Sunday, February 12, at The Underground in Mesa. Hardcore bands are kind of like the Tea Party: Both have strong opinions and are keen on shoving ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342068/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:35 -0500 New Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342068/ February 8, 2012 at 3:44 pm 1)The Capitalistic system is THE Formula for a Disorganized Economy ! Hence it is Unpredictable in the medium ( one year ) and long term ( three years + ) , therefore I ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341820/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:18 -0500 Prison Planet http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341820/ February 8, 2012 A federal judge convicted a Chinese-born American Tuesday of stealing trade secrets but acquitted her of more serious charges of corporate espionage at a trial in Chicago that ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342038/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:49:04 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342038/ Beautiful , takes its name from a former synagogue that hosted punk-rock shows in the late '70s and early '80s; it was next door to the temple overseen by cult leader Jim Jones. That may ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343491/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:48:44 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343491/ AFP/Getty Images January 2010: Muslim-Americans protest against terrorism outside a federal court building in Detroit, where "Christmas Day" bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342039/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:48:28 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342039/ San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich praised Minnesota Timberwolves’ rookie guard Rick Rubio’s rapid adjustment to NBA and American culture while criticising American arrogance and ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342074/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:46:27 -0500 National Turk http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342074/ May 18, 2010: In the latest installment of the Made in America series, msnbc.com looks at how the Viking Range Corp. is vital to Greenwood, Miss.'s economy. John Makely ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341769/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:45:30 -0500 MSNBC http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341769/ A Sumatran tiger cub is photographed by a hidden camera. WWF says the cup was walking through a corridor being cleared by Asia Pulp and Paper in ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343487/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:44:28 -0500 Newsweek http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343487/ The legal systems of Canada and the U.S. make no separate recognition of ';political prisoners.'; This encourages police malfeasance and a bending of the legal system to cope with ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341817/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:34:43 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341817/ Natural Society February 8, 2012 American veterans and the entire country of Viet Nam affected by Agent Orange have been shafted beyond imagination due to corruption within the US government and ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342073/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:34:16 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342073/ In part three of the Haaretz expose of emails leaked from the account of the Syrian president's media adviser, former American Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk tried his best to bring ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343483/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:31:45 -0500 Haaretz http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343483/ Click for full photo gallery: America's Most Disliked Athletes We've recently seen it by league, how about overall? Over the past few months we've looked at the most disliked players ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341792/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:28:12 -0500 Forbes http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341792/ Feb. 8, 2012: Newt Gingrich speaks during a campaign stop at Jergens, Inc., in Cleveland. Rick Santorum's banner election performance Tuesday night has exposed the risk in Newt ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341700/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:28:08 -0500 Fox News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341700/ Modern-day treasure hunters say they've found a sunken ship off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., holding one of the biggest fortunes ever discovered in the ocean depths. "There's 71 ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341701/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:28:05 -0500 Fox News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341701/ Microsoft will pull the covers off Windows 8 -- a radical rethinking of the operating system that runs most of the world's computers. And it has one clear goal in sight: the iPad. The software ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341702/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:27:59 -0500 Fox News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341702/ Democratic Party has combed through records going all the way back to Lugar's first year in the Senate, 1977. The hundreds of pages of itemized travel expenses were passed along to Fox News. ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341703/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:27:56 -0500 Fox News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341703/ United States is struggling to thaw the standoff that has snagged several Americans.  After the Egyptian government announced over the weekend it would refer dozens of NGO workers, including ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341704/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:27:52 -0500 Fox News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341704/ Even with only about two percent of American exports going to Europe, a severe recession in the region would affect the US beyond the direct effect on ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339376/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:50 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339376/ The number of domestic terror cases fell to 20 in 2011, down from 26 in 2010 and 49 in 2009, according to a study released Wednesday. Yet for much of the public, anxieties remain ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341764/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:17 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341764/ For decades, the US manufacturing sector has shriveled, but President Obama now envisions it as an engine of a revived US economy. The basis of his optimism may be hopes for 'advanced' ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203338809/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:09 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203338809/ As Chicago prepares for thousands of protesters and journalists for the G8 and NATO summits this May, an Illinois law declaring a felony the audio recording of police officers is coming under the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339746/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:50 -0500 Common Dreams http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339746/ (CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney scoffed at Republican primary candidate Mitt Romney's criticism of a new rule that will require all health insurance policies - except for ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342019/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:35 -0500 CNS News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342019/ By David Beasley--Nine out of 10 American adults consume too much salt and the leading culprit is not potato chips or popcorn but slices of bread and dinner rolls, the Centers for Disease Control ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342057/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:14:57 -0500 China Post Online http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342057/ Follow this company has found a buyer for its Miami Heart Institute site: Miami-based Lionheart Capital. Lionheart on Wednesday announced the closing of the deal for the waterfront site, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343490/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:11:22 -0500 Business Journal http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343490/ reported a 7.4 percent growth in profits during 2011 though net sales and market share for the tobacco company dropped slightly for most of its brands. The news comes as the company is ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342035/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:11:04 -0500 Business Journal http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342035/ WASHINGTON — The White House is taking on GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney over his criticism of President Barack Obama's birth control coverage mandate. Press secretary Jay Carney ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342017/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:07:56 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342017/ CHICAGO  — Birth and abortion rates among U.S. teens fell to record lows in 2008 as increased use of contraceptives sent the overall teen pregnancy rate to its lowest level since at least ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343498/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:26 -0500 MSNBC http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343498/ By msnbc.com staff and news services SEATTLE - A 34-year-old Lakewood police officer was charged with embezzling more than $120,000 from a fund for families of four slain colleagues, then spending ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343499/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:23 -0500 MSNBC http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343499/ Chicago Sun-Times she's not only concerned about the morality of the club, but the legality of it, specifically whether it was built too close to the nuns’ property line."What are we ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343500/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:20 -0500 MSNBC http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343500/ By Karen Franklin, NBCMiami.com MIAMI -- Authorities say a man is in critical condition Tuesday after he tried to set his wife on fire, but burned himself ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343501/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:13 -0500 MSNBC http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343501/ be replaced after two teachers were jailed last week for alleged sexual abuse. now outraged parents have pulled their kids out of school in the wake of these arrests and some parents say only bad ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343502/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:01 -0500 MSNBC http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343502/ George Huguely V arrives at the Charlottesville Circuit courthouse for the start of his trial in Charlottesville, Va, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Huguely, is charged with the murder ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343503/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:55:56 -0500 MSNBC http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343503/ NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Donald won't be moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But he is taking over an historic building four blocks away.The Trump Organization has been named the preferred ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342043/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:53:12 -0500 CNN Money http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342043/ "I FOUND myself in jeans and a sweatshirt underneath a 60,000-euro gown, sewing little pieces of feather," said Calla Haynes, whose first job in fashion was at the Paris house Rochas, working with ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340133/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:47:55 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340133/ WASHINGTON -- As the story of sexual abuse at an elementary school in Los Angeles continues to shock the nation, Spanish-language media is reporting another tragic development. Parents of some ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339642/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:34:13 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339642/ Editor’s Note: On Tuesday, an appellate court ruled that California’s Proposition 8 -- the voter-approved initiative that banned same-sex marriage -- is unconstitutional. But the ruling ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343479/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:34:11 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343479/ PHOENIX, Ariz.--Lisa Marie Cookingham, an OBGYN doctor at several hospitals in Maricopa County, often sees cases of incarcerated patients being shackled to their beds during labor-a practice, she ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343480/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:34:05 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343480/ NEWMAN, Calif.--When Bernice Arnett accepted a school nurse position with the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District seven years ago, people suggested the job would entail little more than ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340697/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:34:02 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340697/ MANILA--Thousands of Filipino World War II veterans or their family members last year received $214.4 million in benefits and services from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), according to ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343164/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:59 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343164/ On Tuesday the New York Times reported that the New York Police Department showed nearly 1,500 of its officers "The Third Jihad," a 72-minute documentary that casts Muslim Americans as ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337474/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:53 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337474/ RICHMOND, Calif.--It is 8 o’clock on a Thursday night, and inside a commercial kitchen at Veterans Hall members of the Liberty Ship Cafe, a new workers’ cooperative in Richmond, Calif., ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340055/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:50 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340055/ claimed that "more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history." The Gingrich campaign quickly released a commercial the next day touting the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339437/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:46 -0500 New America Media http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339437/ A study in the journal Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences links a drastic decline in raccoons and other mammals in the Florida everglades to the introduction of Burmese ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340155/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:54 -0500 The Onion http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340155/ The whirlwind week for Palo Alto's Jeremy Lin continues spinning in strange directions. The Knicks guard now has a viral rap song/video about him -- couresy of rapper Mega Ran -- to go along ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340313/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:42 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203340313/ Ray McDonald, a fifth-year defensive lineman for the 49ers, was arrested early Wednesday morning in Sunnyvale for an outstanding warrant, stemming from his 2010 arrest for suspicion of driving under ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343481/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:38 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343481/ SAN FRANCISCO -- Prosecutors want to use the testimony of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's former girlfriend at his upcoming trial on domestic violence charges. The District ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337475/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:29 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203337475/ Feb. 5:This advertisement provided by Chrysler Group LLC, shows actor Clint Eastwood, featured in an ad titled "It's Halftime In America," which aired during Super Bowl XVLI. Some ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339233/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:14:52 -0500 Fox News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339233/ Just to the other side of the sisters of St. Charles Borromeo Convent's prized vegetable garden, a million-dollar strip club is being built that will feature naked women and a hi-tech 3D ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343530/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:14:42 -0500 Fox News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203343530/ Concertgoers and emergency personnel hold up stage rigging after it collapsed minutes before a concert by Sugarland at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis August 13, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342003/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:23 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342003/ KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Missouri teenager who described her experience of killing a 9-year-old girl as "pretty enjoyable" received a life sentence Wednesday, with a chance of ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342004/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:17 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342004/ OLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) - The Washington state House of Representatives was expected to endorse gay marriage on Wednesday in a vote that puts the state on the cusp of becoming the seventh in the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342005/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:12 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342005/ SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Nine Texas men and women have been sentenced to prison for purchasing firearms for Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel, and a dozen others face charges linked to a Department ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342007/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:07 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342007/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer suing on behalf of three students who say they were sexually abused at a Los Angeles area school where two teachers have been arrested said Wednesday he represents ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342006/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:02 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342006/ STARKVILLE, Miss (Reuters) - A Mississippi man convicted of murdering two people during convenience store robberies was on track to be executed on Wednesday after a federal court overturned a stay ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342008/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:57 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342008/ After years of cutting workforces, executives complain they cannot find enough people with the skills needed to thrive in modern factories. Some 600,000 skilled manufacturing positions are unfilled ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342011/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:42 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342011/ MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Milwaukee's Roman Catholic archdiocese will ask a judge on Thursday to throw out hundreds of sexual abuse claims that have thrust it into bankruptcy, triggering a court ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342012/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:37 -0500 Reuters http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203342012/ Japan , but as part of a 2006 deal, 8,000 Marines will move from Okinawa to Guam and other regions in the Pacific. Additionally, the United States agreed to move the Futenma airbase, currently in ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341345/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:19 -0500 IBTimes http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341345/ A controversial new book claims American moms and dads have a thing or two to learn from French parents when it comes to raising children. 'Bringing Up Bebe' author and American mother ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339483/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:09:50 -0500 IBTimes http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339483/ Iran issued a verbal warning to the United States on Wednesday, claiming that the country has the military capabilities to attack American forces around the globe. Iran's ambassador ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341679/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:08:10 -0500 IBTimes http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341679/ A depressed teenager was sentenced to life for the murder of her nine-year-old neighbour in Missouri. Alyssa Bustamante admitted strangling, stabbing and slitting the throat of her sister's ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341823/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:09 -0500 IBTimes http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203341823/ M IAMI -- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is in the United States with full diplomatic immunity, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s legal adviser has written the Pentagon, and should not ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339794/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:05:44 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339794/ Brown had been playing just hours before. The Chicago toddler was playing in the upstairs apartment in the 11300 block of South Edbrooke Avenue around 1 p.m. when he "tagged" the TV, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339847/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:05:24 -0500 Chicago Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203339847/