Snow brings Southern cities to standstill
Feb 12, 2010 North America, USA
State offices and schools shut down, flights were grounded, and cities put emergency crews on standby Friday throughout much of the South as a powerful winter storm marched across the region. STORM TRACKER: Radar, warningsTags: Emergency Crews, Flights, Radar Warnings, Southern Cities, State Offices, Storm Tracker Radar, Winter Storm
Bill Clinton released from hospital
Feb 12, 2010 North America, USA
Former President Clinton left a New York hospital early Friday, less than a day after doctors performed a procedure to restore blood flow in one of his coronary arteries.Tags: Bill Clinton, Blood Flow, Coronary Arteries, Doctors, Former President Clinton, New York Hospital, President Clinton
Gov. Paterson: Somebody is after me
Feb 12, 2010 North America, USA
Those lurid rumors flying around about New York Gov. David Paterson? "None of this is true. It's a flat-out lie," he said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Larry King on Thursday night.Tags: Cnn, David Paterson, Larry King, Thursday Night, York Gov
Astronauts install new node on space station
Feb 12, 2010 North America, USA
Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour are in the midst of the first of three spacewalks scheduled for their two-week mission.Tags: Midst, Node, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Space Station Astronauts, Spacewalks
Authorities to review security rules after transit beating
Feb 11, 2010 North America, USA
Video of unarmed transit guards watching a girl being beaten on a bus tunnel platform has prompted Seattle authorities to review guidelines that kept the guards from intervening.Tags: Authorities, Bus Tunnel, Seattle, Security Rules, Security Video, Transit Guards
Police investigating mosque vandalism as hate crime
Feb 11, 2010 North America, USA
A spray-painted anti-Muslim message was discovered Thursday morning on the front of the Al-Farooq Islamic Center in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, according to police. A written note disparaging Islam also was left at the mosque, police said.Tags: Al Farooq, Hate Crime, Islam, Islamic Center, Mosque, Muslim, Nashville Tennessee, Thursday Morning, Vandalism
Bill Clinton in good spirits after heart procedure
Feb 11, 2010 North America, USA
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton underwent a successful heart procedure on Thursday to open a blocked artery in his heart with two stents after he had experienced chest discomfort, his spokesman said.Tags: Bill Clinton, Chest Discomfort, domesticNews, Former President Bill Clinton, Heart Procedure, Heart Stents, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, Reuters, Spirits, Spokesman
TSA’s handling of high-level security badge questioned
Feb 11, 2010 North America, USA
Does giving a second chance create a double standard?Tags: Level Security, Second Chance, Security Badge, Tsa
Suicide bomber strikes U.S. base
Feb 11, 2010 North America, USA
Five U.S. soldiers were wounded Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a U.S. base, an Afghan official told CNN.Tags: Afghan, Cnn, Suicide Bomber
Call for clean slate on health reform divides U.S.
Feb 11, 2010 North America, USA
DALLAS (Reuters) - Americans are deeply divided over demands by U.S. Republicans that bills backed by President Barack Obama to reform the $2.5 trillion health system be scrapped and the whole process be started again from scratch.Tags: Barack Obama, Clean Slate, domesticNews, Health Reform, Health System, Republicans, Reuters, Scratch, Trillion
