Tag: Nation

Google gives $23M to spur innovation in charities

Brett Zongker · December 4, 2012 10:16 am

NJ mayor Booker set for food stamp challenge

Washington Examiner · December 4, 2012 7:25 am

FILE - In this combo image made of May 8, 2012, file photos, State Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, left, and David Pickup, a licensed marriage and family therapist, address lawmakers in favor and opposition, respectively, of a bill to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight during a hearing at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A federal judge on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law, SB1172, that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors, but he limited the scope of his order to just the three providers who have appealed to him to overturn the measure. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Judge temporarily blocks Calif. gay therapy law

Lisa Leff · December 4, 2012 5:50 am

FILE - In this combo image made of May 8, 2012, file photos, State Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, left, and David Pickup, a licensed marriage and family therapist, address lawmakers in favor and opposition, respectively, of a bill to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight during a hearing at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A federal judge on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law, SB1172, that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors, but he limited the scope of his order to just the three providers who have appealed to him to overturn the measure. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Calif. gay therapy ban sparks competing rulings

Lisa Leff · December 4, 2012 5:00 am

Penn studies African-American athlete graduations

Washington Examiner · December 4, 2012 4:59 am

U.S. Marine Sgt. William Soutra Jr. wears the Navy Cross during a ceremony held at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Soutra Jr. was awarded the medal for his heroism while serving in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Marine special operations team members honored

Julie Watson · December 4, 2012 4:20 am

Anxious parents crowd the entrance to Brown Middle School where students were brought after being evacuated from Finch Elementary School in Atlanta Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. Officials say at least 31 people were taken to hospitals after apparently being overcome by carbon monoxide at Finch Elementary School in Southwest Atlanta. Firefighters responding shortly after school began detected high and unsafe levels of carbon monoxide near a furnace at the school, said Atlanta fire Capt. Marian McDaniel. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution,Bob Andres) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

Carbon monoxide sickens 42 kids at Ga. school

Jeff Martin · December 4, 2012 3:26 am

Magnitude 5.8 quake shakes Anchorage, Alaska

Mark Thiessen · December 4, 2012 3:20 am

Sex scion pleads guilty to masturbating in NY park

Washington Examiner · December 4, 2012 2:44 am

In this hospital surveillance photo released by the Phoenix Police Department on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, a woman is seen with her 11-year-old daughter, a leukemia patient who had her arm amputated and a heart catheter inserted due to an infection. Authorities say the woman inexplicably took the girl from the hospital last week. Police say that if the catheter is left in too long it could lead to a deadly infection. The familyâs identity is being withheld but they are calling the girl Emily. (AP Photo/Phoenix Police Department)

Police: Girl may die if not returned to hospital

Brian Skoloff · December 4, 2012 2:11 am

CORRECTS DATE OF CRASH TO SUNDAY, NOT MONDAY - In this Aug. 29, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a Rescue Helicopter from Airs Station Los Angeles conducts a close fly-by of the Coast Guard Cutter Halibut. A smuggler's vessel rammed a small U.S. Coast Guard boat deployed by the cutter Halibut, off the Southern California coast early Sunday Dec. 2, 2012, killing one Coast Guard member and injuring another, authorities said. The cutter was conducting an investigation into suspected smuggling near the Channel Islands west of Malibu. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard/Steve Lee)

California sea smuggling claims Coast Guard life

Elliot Spagat · December 4, 2012 1:50 am

Traffic moves west along Interstate 80 west of Reno, Nev., as a heavy, wet storm hits Northern Nevada on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012. A powerful storm delivered more snow and less rainfall Sunday to the Sierra than forecast, blunting the flooding danger on the Truckee River in California and Nevada, forecasters said. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison)

More heavy rain expected to hit drenched Calif.

Terry Collins · December 4, 2012 1:29 am