Spurs’ Tony Parker Suing NYC Club For $20M Over Eye Injury
June 22, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker is suing a New York City club and its operators for $20 million over a scratched cornea he says he suffered during a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake’s entourage.
The suit was filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday. It says the W.i.P club in SoHo and its operators were negligent in security and supervision, which allowed the fight to take place.
Chris Brown, his girlfriend and his bodyguard were among eight injured during the fight inside the club last week. Police say members of Drake’s entourage stopped Brown as he was leaving. The fight escalated and bottles were thrown.
By Graham Moore
Scriptwriter
24 June 2012
If Alan Turing had not existed, would we have had to invent him? The question seems to answer itself: Alan Turing very much did exist, and yet we have persisted in inventing him still.
Of all the roles Turing played during his all-too-brief life, there is one he played only after his all-too-early death - that of fictional character.
Obama marks 1972 law lifting education barriers to girls
WASHINGTON | Sat Jun 23, 2012 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, marking the 40th anniversary of landmark legislation that lifted barriers to girls and women in education and school sports, said on Saturday the law had achieved far-reaching gains in improving equality between the sexes.
In an op-ed piece published in Newsweek magazine, Obama said the legislation known as Title IX, signed in 1972 by President Richard Nixon, fostered a spirit of competition that has also helped girls and women succeed off the sports fields.
"Today, thanks in no small part to the confidence and determination they developed through competitive sports and the work ethic they learned with their teammates, girls who play sports are more likely to excel in school," he wrote.
Former foe of gay marriage in California now favors unions
LOS ANGELES | Sat Jun 23, 2012
(Reuters) - A key witness for lawyers seeking to defend California's ban on same-sex marriage in federal court in 2010 has changed his view on the subject, and pronounced his support for giving gay unions social recognition.
David Blankenhorn, founder of the Institute for American Values think tank, wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Times he now believes the time for "denigrating or stigmatizing same-sex relationships is over."
June 23, 2012 - The Tygrrrr Express by Eric Golub LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2012 — By now the entire world has heard of Karen Klein and the savage treatment she received from some teenagers.
Ms. Klein was sitting on a school bus fulfilling her responsibilities as a monitor when the students began verbally abusing her. They ridiculed her weight, and suggested that she was alone because her relatives killed themselves. Sadly, she did lose a child to suicide a decade earlier.
The only good that came out of this horrible situation was that in this digital age, a videotape of the occurrence surfaced. The outrage at the student bullies was swift and severe. They have received death threats.
By JODI RUDOREN and FARES AKRAM
June 23, 2012
TEL AVIV — Despite a pledged cease-fire agreement between Hamas and Israel, strikes resumed on both sides of the Gaza border on Saturday, killing at least two Palestinian men and a 6-year-old boy in Gaza, and wounding an Israeli man in Sderot, officials said.
Signaling the seriousness of the renewed fighting, the chief of the Israel Defense Forces called an urgent meeting of senior military officials during the Sabbath to “determine the next course of action,” according to a military spokeswoman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Snooki: I Was Scared to Tell My Dad I Was Pregnant
BY LESLEY MESSER
Saturday June 23, 2012
When reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi found out she was pregnant last winter, she was nervous it would affect her plans for a Jersey Shore spinoff with castmate Jenni "JWOWW" Farley. However, as nerve-wracking as it was to 'fess up to her best friend, Polizzi says telling her father, Andy, was an even bigger ordeal.
"Oh, I was scared to tell my dad, of course!" says the 24-year-old, whose pregnancy was unplanned.
But these days her family is behind her 100 percent. "[My dad] is excited now. I think [my parents] are more excited than we are," Polizzi tells PEOPLE.
"I'm their only child and this is going to be their [first] grandchild."
For now, Polizzi, whose MTV spinoff Snooki & JWOWW premiered Thursday, is at the beach, filming the latest season of Jersey Shore. However, the one-time wild-child is showing a more relaxed, serious side as she focuses on the health of her baby boy and her engagement to student Jionni LaValle.
Want to try Surface? Find a Microsoft store, if you can
If Microsoft limits Surface distribution to its stores, as it has said, initial sales likely won't go through the roof.
by Brooke Crothers June 23, 2012
After all of the hoopla this week, you would think the Surface tablet was the end of the PC industry as we know it.
Not so fast, say analysts. What we know so far is that Surface will be sold through Microsoft Stores
Posted Jun 21, 2012
From buzzfeed.com Mitt Romney has adopted what top Republicans describe as a Cold War strategy to defeat President Barack Obama: To spend him into oblivion.
As Ronald Reagan's expensive defense build up stretched the Soviet Union thin, the Romney campaign's massive ad buys are aimed as much at broadening the playing field as at persuasion, forcing Obama and his allies to spread their resources thin and to play defense in formerly safe states. Wednesday, there were early signs that the strategy is working, as Obama reported a "burn rate" far in excess of the Republican's.
By Associated Press
June 23, 2012
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Debby formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, interfering with oil and gas production and putting officials on alert for flooding and strong winds from Texas to Florida.
At least one tornado linked to the storm touched down in southwest Florida, but no injuries were reported. The storm's outer rain bands were pounding parts of the state.
Debby was about 220 miles (354 kilometers) south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 kph).
The center of Debby was expected to linger over the northern Gulf during the next few days with no landfall in the immediate forecast.
By Dan Gallagher | MarketWatch
Jun 22, 2012
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. defended its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility at its annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, saying its purchase of the wireless phone maker was about more than simply gaining access to its broad portfolio of patents.
Reuters Google chairman Eric Schmidt, shown here in a speech from Nov. 15, 2011, addressed shareholders on Thursday.
The meeting, held at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., drew questions from shareholders curious about the company’s past acquisitions as well as areas such as mobile advertising, privacy and online video offerings.
Posted on June 22, 2012 - 04:44 by Emma Woollacott Astronomers have discovered two neighboring planets - one a bigger version of Earth - orbiting closer to each other than any planets discovered before.
The team, from the University of Washington and Harvard University, used data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, which measures dips in the brightness of more than 150,000 stars, to search for transiting planets.
Ronaldo header lifts relentless Portugal to semifinals
By Raf Casert | ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNE 22, 2012
WARSAW - Cristiano Ronaldo scored on a powerful header in the 79th minute, sending Portugal to the European Championship semifinals with a 1-0 victory over the Czech Republic on Thursday.
Ronaldo hit the post twice, then finally delivered. He headed a cross by Joao Moutinho straight at the ground and up past the flailing hands of Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech.
This was Ronaldo’s third goal in two games and it rewarded the Portuguese for the relentless pressure they applied all match.
You can say that on television? FCC throws out cursing, nudity fines, but avoids broader ruling
June 22, 2012 By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Broadcasters anticipating a major constitutional ruling on the government's authority to regulate what can be shown and said on the airwaves instead won only the smallest of Supreme Court victories Thursday.
The justices unanimously threw out fines and other penalties against Fox and ABC television stations that violated the Federal Communications Commission policy regulating curse words and nudity on television airwaves.
Forgoing a broader constitutional ruling, however, the court concluded only that broadcasters could not have known in advance that obscenities uttered during awards show programs on Fox stations and a brief display of nudity on an episode of ABC's "NYPD Blue" could give rise to penalties. ABC and 45 affiliates had been hit with proposed fines totaling
Have ax, will kill: 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter'
Published: Friday, June 22, 2012 By Clint O'Connor, The Plain Dealer
You hear it all the time: "Why aren't there more movies about legendary presidents killing a slew of vampires with an ax?"
If only.
You probably need to be in the right mood, if there is one, for "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," the new executive-branch slasher film that opens nationwide Friday. If nothing else, it's a winning title that sprang from the mind of the man who also gave us "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," author Seth Grahame-Smith. (His Jane Austen-and-the-living-dead saga is slated to become a film next year.)
Because we are so oversaturated with vampires in movies and television, you would assume this film would need to offer some fresh twist on the bloodsuckers. But the gimmick here is Lincoln -- an honest, well-spoken serial avenger. The vampires are not that interesting. Whenever they kick into I'm-going-to-bite-you-big-time mode, they all start looking the same, more like fractured piranhas than undead devils.
Twitter says outage wasn't hackers or Euro 2012, but a software fault
Two-hour failure in system blamed on 'cascading bug' that tripped up system and caused worldwide lockout, explains senior engineer – while hacking claims are dismissed
Charles Arthur
guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 June 2012
It wasn't hackers, or excitement over Euro 2012, nor avatars using the Gif image format that knocked Twitter over so thoroughly on Thursday that it couldn't even display its famous fail whale, which usually indicates problems at the site.
Bird flu pandemic just "three mutations" away, scientists show
A bird flu pandemic may be close to being a real threat after scientists discovered the virus is already just "three mutations" away from evolving into a strain which would be able to pass from human to human. By Richard Alleyne, and Nick Collins 22 Jun 2012
Avian H5N1 influenza can currently only be transmitted to humans from birds, meaning it cannot spread quickly through the air between large groups of people.
But a recent study at Cambridge University shows that there are strains already existing which are just "three mutations" away from being passable form one human to another.
It suggests the airborne strain could evolve naturally in the wild – even in one person.
Prof Derek Smith, one of the Cambridge researchers, said the study had shown that the risk – like an
22 Jun 2012
By: Catherine Boyle
Staff Writer, CNBC.com The mass downgrades of major global banks by ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service Thursday night don’t appear to have caused the downwards market movements one might have expected.
While the stocks of the banks affected, including Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, HSBC, and Goldman Sachs, fell slightly across the board yesterday, they didn’t suffer the huge plunges some feared, suggesting that much of the risk of a downgrade was already factored into the price. Some stocks actually rose in after-hours trading.
U.S. banks’ credit spreads were tighter following the downgrade with Morgan Stanley’s bond spreads around 25 basis points tighter — usually a positive sign for the stock’s future.
By the CNN Wire Staff
Fri June 22, 2012
(CNN) -- A national park ranger fell to his death on Mount Rainier Thursday afternoon while assisting in the rescue of four injured climbers.
Climbing Ranger Nick Hall fell about 3,700 feet down the northeast side of the mountain as he helped prepare the other climbers for extrication by helicopter, said Kevin Bacher, a Mount Rainier National Park spokesman.
The climbers from Waco, Texas, had to be rescued after they slipped down the Emmons Glacier after a successful summit of the mountain. All of them were tied together.
Their plunge down the mountainside left two of them dangling in a crevasse. They called for help with
Mexican marines capture man believed to be drug kingpin's son
Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar,26, said to been taking on an increasing leadership role in Mexico's most powerful drug cartel
Associated Press in Mexico City guardian.co.uk, Friday 22 June 2012
Mexican marines have detained a man they believe is one of the sons of Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel.
The presumed son, identified by the navy as Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar, 26, was allegedly taking on an increasing leadership role in Mexico's most powerful drug cartel and purportedly served as the administrator of his father's fortune, estimated by Forbes magazine at about $1bn (£640m).
Nintendo Announces Jumbo 3DS With Double the Screen Size, Longer-life Battery
By Jay Alabaster, IDG News Jun 22, 2012 1:10 am
Nintendo will launch a new, jumbo-sized version of its 3DS handheld from next month, with a screen nearly twice the size of the current model, the Japanese company said Friday.
The main screen of the "3DS LL" will be 1.9 times larger than the current version, and a bigger battery will allow up 6.5 hours of playing time when using 3DS games, versus 5 hours on the standard DS. The device also comes with a 4GB SD memory card, double the capacity of the one included currently.
June 22, 2012
By Brian Montopoli
It's going to be a big weekend in the world of big conservative money: Both Mitt Romney and billionaire industrialist brothers David and Charles Koch are holding hush-hush events with wealthy donors designed to keep the dollars coming in.
Romney's three-day retreat, which is being held at the Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, is an opportunity for about 700 Romney's biggest fundraisers to get some face time with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. (Many of them are "bundlers" - wealthy and well-connected individuals who call on their family, friends and associates to max out their contributions to Romney
Believe It Or Not J.C. Penney’s Strategy Is Working, Says Analyst
By Henry Blodget | Daily Ticker Jun 21, 2012
J.C. Penney's (JCP) stock got clobbered yesterday after the company announced the sudden departure of its president, Michael Francis.
Yesterday's drop only added to the woes of J.C. Penney's shareholders, who have seen the value of the company nearly cut in half over the last three months. The stock has also hit the lowest level it has seen since Apple's former retailing guru, Ron Johnson, joined the company last fall.
China manufacturing weakens further: HSBC
By Chris Oliver | MarketWatch
Jun 21, 2012
Reuters Employees process radiator components at a factory in Suining, China.
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — China’s manufacturing activity deteriorated in June, according to preliminary HSBC data released Thursday that registered a seven-month low, indicating that global problems have taken a mounting toll on China’s export-dependent industries.
The inital, or “flash,” version of the manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index dropped to 48.1 for
One of the biggest banks in the world wants the president’s favorite banker muzzled.
The banker, Robert Wolf, a top UBS executive in New York, is among President Obama’s leading fund-raisers, building more than more than $500,000 for his re-election so far this year.
A regular presence at big campaign fund-raisers, Mr. Wolf, who is 50, golfs and vacations with Mr. Obama and is known for e-mailing friends photos of himself with the president.
While such a close relationship might have been envied by other bankers in 2008, when much of Wall Street was infatuated with Mr. Obama and donated heavily to his presidential bid, it has been making other UBS executives uneasy of late.
At least 9 dead after Indonesian air force plane crashes in capital
Published June 21, 2012 Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia – An Indonesian air force plane slammed into homes and ignited a fireball in the crowded capital while trying to land Thursday, killing at least nine people, a military official said.
The turboprop plane crashed into eight houses, killing at least three people on the ground, said military spokesman Rear Adm. Iskandar Sitompul. Raging orange flames were seen jumping several feet into the air as a huge column of black smoke billowed.
Hendra, a resident in the air force housing complex in eastern Jakarta who uses only one name, said
By Dennis Dodd | Senior College Football Columnist June 21, 2012
CHICAGO – As playoff talk continues to grow, be glad that at least the name “BCS” is all but dead.
College football's 14-year old postseason label will go away when the new playoff structure is determined, according to a source intimately involved in the process. While that move was largely expected at some point, the commissioners have been busy first determining the playoff structure itself.
One source indicated that the old name couldn't be attached to a playoff that will “eventually” be
By Paul White, USA TODAY june 21,2012
WASHINGTON – For all of the rhetoric tossed around Nationals Park after Tuesday's ejection of Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Joel Peralta for excessive pine tar on his glove, the definitive comment came from manager Joe Maddon.
"There's also reading between the lines in some situations," Maddon said.
That came in response to Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson's suggestion that Maddon "read the rulebook" if he has issues with the Nationals asking for an inspection of Peralta's glove as he entered the game in the eighth inning.
By MIKE HALE
Published: June 20, 2012 IT’S a windy May morning on the Rockefeller Center plaza where the stars of NBC’s “Today” periodically gather to perform in the open air, and for some reason Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are wearing hospital gowns, like a latter-day Lucy and Ethel embarked on some crazy scheme. Ms. Gifford’s explanation — it has something to do with a segment on plastic surgery — requires dramatic gestures, and with one of them she knocks a batch of notecards out of the hands of the show’s co-host Ann Curry.
ATHENS, Greece June 21, 2012
Greek stocks have dipped following nearly a week of gains and a day after conservative leader Antonis Samaras was sworn in the new prime minister, ending protracted political uncertainty.
Samaras, who will head a three-party government with the Socialist PASOK and the smaller Democratic Left party will confer with coalition partners later Thursday.
This is a message for Emma Stone: Maybe Jim Carrey, in all his creepy, close-up goodness, was onto something when he called her "all-the-way beautiful" in his YouTube love letter.
The actress has been casting her web of attraction around the world as she helps roll out the much-anticipated "The Amazing Spider-Man." Alongside her onscreen superhero and real life boyfriend Andrew Garfield, we've seen Stone walk the red carpet for premieres in Tokyo, Seoul, Moscow, London, Paris and Berlin so far.
Oil Drops Below $80 to 8-Month Low on U.S. Supply, Europe Crisis
By Grant Smith and Moming Zhou on June 21, 2012
Bloomberg News
Oil tumbled below $80 a barrel for the first time in eight months as U.S. inventories surged amid concern that the European debt crisis will drag down the global economy, reducing fuel demand.
Futures dropped as much as 1.9 percent in New York to $79.92 a barrel, the lowest intraday level since Oct. 6. Prices have slumped 27 percent from this year’s settlement high as U.S. stockpiles rose to the most in almost 22 years and growth slowed in the U.S., Europe and China. Federal Reserve policy makers lowered the outlook for U.S. economic growth and employment, while an index of Chinese manufacturing by HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics pointed to a contraction for an eighth month.
20 co-winners of Powerball jackpot go to court to keep IDs secret
Who are these mystery winners of the $241 million Powerball jackpot?
That was a lingering question on Wednesday after 20 gleeful workers from the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids claimed the biggest prize in the history of the Iowa Lottery.
Nearly all of them appeared in front of TV cameras at an Iowa Lottery news conference in Des Moines. But they refused to disclose their identities, other than a few who provided their first names.
Samsung and Carphone Warehouse are investigating
By Carly Page
Thu Jun 21 2012 IT'S NOT GOOD NEWS for Samsung today, as reports have surfaced that one of its flagship Galaxy S3 smartphones caught on fire.
The phone's owner, forum user dillo2k10, said his HSPA+ Samsung Galaxy S3 that he bought from UK retailer Carphone Warehouse caught alight while in an in-car holster - reminiscent of the Iphone catching fire incident in July 2010.
"So I driving along today with my Galaxy S3 in my car mount when suddenly a white flame sparks and a bang came out of the phone," he said. "I pulled in to look at my phone, the phone burned from the inside out. Burned through the plastic and melted my case to my phone. The phone kept working but without any signal."
By Brian Montopoli June 21, 2012
The Obama campaign has $146.6 million in cash on hand at the start of June, according to newly-released filings with the Federal Election Commission.
The total includes the cash held by Obama for America, the Democratic National Committee, the Obama Victory Fund (a joint fundraising committee) and the Swing State Victory Fund.
One potential cause of concern for the Obama camp: Obama for America spent more money in May ($44.6 million) than it raised ($39.1 million).
Obama Education Chief: Complacency Caused U.S. to Slip to 16th in World College Graduation Rates
By The Daily Ticker | Daily Ticker
By David Chalian Jun 20, 2012
Mitt Romney has said he would like to possibly fold the federal Department of Education into another agency or, at the very least, significantly shrink its size, but that doesn't stop President Barack Obama's Education Secretary form agreeing with Romney that education is the "civil rights issue of our era."
By Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published June 19, 2012 Fossil turtles have been caught having sex, the first known case of animals with backbones found copulating in the fossil record, researchers say.
The mating turtles may have been caught in a death trap as they sank to deeper layers of the lake, where they were having sex nearly 50 million years ago, the researchers speculate. The lake's deep layers may have held deadly volcanic gases or other toxins.
Scientists made their discovery at the Messel Pit in Germany, which once was a deep volcanic crater lake in a wet, tropical environment. The pit was a
June 20, 2012 By Joy R. Absalon, US PRESSWIRE Tampa Bay Rays relief pitcher Joel Peralta was ejected from Tuesday night's game against the Washington Nationals before ever throwing a pitch.
Peralta, who entered the game in the eighth inning to relieve David Price, was approached by home plate umpire and crew chief Tim Tschida to examine his glove.
The glove was investigated and confiscated by the umpiring crew and Peralta was immediately ejected from the game.
Tschida said there was a 'significant amount of pine tar' on Peralta's glove.
President Obama is out today with two new ads slamming Mitt Romney's record, charging him with raising taxes and shipping jobs overseas while he was governor of Massachusetts.
NEW YORK — Another anger mismanagement allegation has arisen against Alec Baldwin, this time on his way to the altar.
A newspaper photographer filed a complaint with police on Tuesday accusing the "30 Rock" star of punching him outside a marriage license bureau.
No charges had been filed, and the actor vehemently denied throwing any punches.
Happy Birthday, Edward Cullen! Sparkling Vampire Turns 111
by TEAM TRUTH June 20,2012 It's been quite the busy year for Edward Cullen. Not only did the bloodsucking babe marry his high school sweetie (that'd be Bella Swan), but he knocked her up, they had a semi-immortal daughter and old Eddie turned his nearly dead newlywed into a vampire too.
Oh yeah, and he personally inspired the raunchiest franchise to hit bookshelves in decades.
Jeez, with Fifty Shades of excitement like all that, you wonder how the Twilight hunk could possibly top it to celebrate his birthday. Because, as you may not know, the sparkling stud turns 111 today!
WATCH NOW: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in New 10-Second Breaking Dawn Part 2 Trailer Teaser!
The next big Samsung smartphone is here -- and it’s a giant.
The newest version of the wildly popular line -- called the Galaxy S III -- is a gorgeous, complex, amazing device. And it goes on sale as early as Thursday with some major service provider at $199, a price bound to fire up sales.
Samsung, which has sold more than millions of Galaxies to date, is sure to buil on that runaway success with this model: The T-Mobile version of the Galaxy S III features an immense slab of superstrong Gorilla Glass that seems almost too big to fit comfortably in your pocket -- particularly
More wind and heat could hamper Colorado wildfire fight
June 20, 2012 By the CNN Wire Staff
Forecasters are expecting warmer than normal temperatures and gusty winds Tuesday in a northern Colorado area already ravaged by a wildfire, not a good combination for the legion of firefighters trying to extinguish the blaze.
The High Park Fire had consumed 59,500 acres of woodland by Tuesday, but it was about 50% contained, authorities reported.
Weather: Soggy weather kicks off first day of summer
June 20 2012
BY ANDREA ASUAJE
The first day of summer is South Florida will be much more soggy than sunny.
A 100 percent chance of heavy rain is expected Wednesday, with a high in the low 80s, according to the National Weather Service.
The chance of rain will drop to 50 percent Wednesday night and temperatures will also lower to the high-70s.
Wet weather will continue on Thursday through Sunday with a 50 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms during the day and 40 percent chance of rain and storms at night.
Heat rally from 17 down to 104-98 victory, within one win of NBA title
June 20, 2012|By Ira Winderman, South Florida Sun Sentinel
MIAMI — One more victory. One more victory for validation.
Perhaps Thursday at AmericanAirlines Arena in Game 5 of these NBA Finals, when the celebration would be at its most robust, 20,000 believers along for the ride.
Or perhaps in one of this best-of-seven series' final two games, at Chesapeake Energy Arena, if needed.
But the Miami Heat are on the verge of turning those July 2010 promises of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh into reality.
Rio+20: the Earth Summit diaries, Wednesday 20 June
From Rio de Janeiro, Jo Confino provides behind the scenes insight of all that's going on from a business perspective at the Earth Summit
A tale of two conferences
Jo Confino, in Rio de Janeiro Guardian Professional, Wednesday 20 June 2012
Wednesday June 20 07.30am
Would businesses have a better chance of saving the world if they had more fun?
Progressive companies have recognised that it is no longer true that the business of business is not business.
Now they could do with learning that the art of life is to enjoy yourself and not to take everything so seriously. Paradoxically you get far more done if you don't suck lemons all day.
Feds Probe Hepatitis C Outbreak in New Hampshire CONCORD, N.H. June 19, 2012 (AP) The U.S. attorney's office in Concord has joined an investigation into a hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire. A hospital worker and 19 patients at its cardiac catheterization lab have tested positive for the liver-destroying disease since the investigation began last month. State health officials suspect a lab employee's misuse of drugs led to the outbreak.
Pat Riley wins Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award
By Ben Bolch June 19, 2012
MIAMI -- Pat Riley, who won four of his five NBA titles as a coach with the Lakers, received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award before Game 4 of the Finals on Tuesday.
“The Lakers years made me,” said Riley, who won 1,210 games in 24 years as a coach with the Lakers, New York Knicks and Miami Heat and is now President of the Heat. “I didn’t know what I was doing in the ‘80s, and they waited for me to become a good coach, and I thank Magic Johnson for that and Jerry West and Jerry Buss. They had tremendous patience with me the first three or four years.”
June 19, 2012
By FRANK LOVECE. Special to Newsday After issuing a denial and lambasting the media last month for reporting that he and partner Vanessa Paradis were splitting after 14 years, Johnny Depp Tuesday confirmed the couple's breakup.
"Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis have amicably separated," his publicist said in a statement to "Entertainment Tonight." "Please respect their privacy and, more importantly, the privacy of their children."
In January, People magazine reported Depp, 49, and French actress-singer Paradis, 39 -- the mother of their children Lily-Rose, 13, and Jack, 10 -- were on the verge of breaking up. The couple has not appeared together on a red carpet for more than a year, and Depp has gone solo to several events including the Golden Globe Awards and the Paris premiere of his film "The Rum Diary."
Paradis denied breakup rumors in January, telling the British newspaper The Sun, "Yes, they are false."
The couple began dating in 1998, shortly after Depp, in France shooting Roman Polanski's "The Ninth Gate," saw Paradis in a hotel lobby and the two recalled
Facebook Will Allow App Developers to Offer Subscriptions
By Cameron Scott, IDG News Jun 19, 2012
Facebook said on Tuesday that it would begin allowing app developers on its platform to charge users for subscriptions but would require them to stop using Facebook Credits for in-app purchases, according to a blog post.
By Alina Selyukh
WASHINGTON | Wed Jun 20, 2012 (Reuters) - The Super PAC backing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Tuesday it would launch a $7.6 million television ad sweep across nine states, its latest contribution to the growing media presence of outside spending groups in the U.S. election.
The purchase comes after weeks of silence from Restore Our Future, the independent spending group that emerged as the deep-pocketed heavyweight that barraged Romney's Republican competitors in the race to become their party's nominee.
By JAMES KANTER and PAUL GEITNER Published: June 19, 2012
BRUSSELS — As Greece’s political parties maneuvered to form a new government Tuesday, the country’s creditors were signaling a willingness to discuss revised terms for Greece’s bailout package to reflect its rapidly deteriorating economy. The newfound willingness to talk, while probably requiring Greece to stick to long-range targets for reducing its debt and making structural changes in its economy, follows the elections Sunday in which the center-right party New Democracy, led by Antonis Samaras, won a narrow victory over the hard-left Syriza party. Syriza had demanded a complete renegotiation of the bailout deal Greece struck this year with a trio of international institutions.
The prospect that Mr. Samaras would lead the new government brought a sigh of relief in Brussels, as he had pledged to stick in principle to the bailout deal, averting an imminent and messy Greek exit from the euro zone. But Mr. Samaras has also made it clear that he will seek some concessions on the terms of the €130 billion, or $165 billion, rescue his country secured in March from the so-called troika of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Tue Jun 19, 2012
* Euro rises against the dollar as Fed awaited
* European stocks shrug off weak ZEW index
* Brent crude touches 16-month lows on demand outlook
By Richard Hubbard
LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - The euro rose against the dollar and shares gained on Tuesday as Europe's worsening debt crisis and its impact on global growth encouraged talk of a policy response by the world's major central banks.
The U.S. Federal Reserve begins a two-day policy setting meeting later in the day, with attention focused on whether it will unveil any more stimulus to support a flagging recovery.
Hamas claims responsibility for firing rockets at Israel
June 19, 2012
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Hamas has claimed responsibility for firing at least three rockets into southern Israel.
The rockets fired late Monday night landed in Ashkelon, but did not cause any damage or injuries. The Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported that the rockets fired by Hamas's armed wing, Izzaddin al- Kassam, were targeting a nearby military base. Hamas controls the Gaza Strip.
Following the attack, the Israeli Air Force fired early Tuesday morning on what it called a terrorist cell planting explosives near Israel's border with Gaza; Ma'an reported that two 16-year-old boys were killed in the strike.
U.S. seeks to return Tyrannosaurus skeleton to Mongolia
June 19, 2012
By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley, CNN
(CNN) -- Federal authorities have filed a civil complaint seeking the forfeiture of a stolen dinosaur skeleton and its return to Mongolia, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar was looted from Mongolia's Gobi Desert and brought to the United States illegally, the U.S. Attorney's Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a joint statement Monday.
