WASHINGTON – President Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to come up with short-term spending cuts and revenue increases that...
Brown's attorney calls DA's report scurrilous
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Brown's attorney says a motion seeking to revoke the singer's probation is shameful and he intends to seek sanctions against prosecutors because it is defamatory.Mark Geragos says the Los Angeles district attorney's office has ignored sworn statements by police in Virginia that Brown's community service was supervised. He says he intends to seek sanctions against the prosecutor's...
SciTimes Update: Recent Developments in Science and Health News
Label: HealthRed Bull Stratos/European Pressphoto AgencyFelix Baumgartner of Austria jumps from 24 miles up in Roswell, New Mexico. Tuesday in science, sharks with an image problem, good teeth get more dates, dog geniuses and remembering your dreams. Check out these headlines and other science news from around the Web. Supersonic Skydiver: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought...
California accuses S&P of deception in $4-billion lawsuit
Label: Business California has filed suit against Wall Street's biggest credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s, charging the firm with...
Feb
04
Suspected child molester left L.A. archdiocese for L.A. schools
Label: World A former priest and suspected child molester left employment with the Los Angeles archdiocese to work for the L.A. Unified School...
Second-generation iPad mini could pack a display with 324 pixels per inch
Label: TechnologyApple (AAPL) may be about to make up for delivering a disappointingly low resolution for its first-generation iPad mini display. BrightWire reports that supply chain sources have told Chinese website My Drivers that the next-generation iPad mini will indeed feature a 7.9-inch Retina display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, or 324 pixels per inch. For comparison, consider...
Super Bowl falls short of ratings record
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — With a partial power outage, an overly excited quarterback and a game that suddenly turned from snoozer to sizzler, CBS had its hands full at the Super Bowl. The game fell short of setting a viewership record, but it stands as the third most-watched program in U.S. television history.The Nielsen Co. said an estimated 108.4 million people watched the Baltimore Ravens' 34-31 victory...
Well: Expressing the Inexpressible
Label: HealthWhen Kyle Potvin learned she had breast cancer at the age of 41, she tracked the details of her illness and treatment in a journal. But when it came to grappling with issues of mortality, fear and hope, she found that her best outlet was poetry.How I feared chemo, afraidIt would change me.It did.Something dissolved inside me.Tears began a slow drip;I cried at the news storyOf a lost boy found in the...
Southern California gasoline prices soar 23 cents in a week
Label: Business Expect a bit of a shock if you fill up your gas tanks in Southern California this week.The average price of a gallon of regular...
Feb
03
L.A. County removing metal detectors from some hospital facilities
Label: World It was typically chaotic in the emergency room at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center that February day in 1993. Richard May...
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