News http://newshourly.net/us/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:11 +0100 Continental CEO: We will cancel flights before being fined (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934493.html FILE - In this June 5, 2008 file photo, a Continental Airlines jet lands at George Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers, CEO Jeff Smisek said Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)AP - Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers.


]]> FILE - In this June 5, 2008 file photo, a Continental Airlines jet lands at George Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers, CEO Jeff Smisek said Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)AP - Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:33:09 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934493.html Jobless aid measure clears Senate hurdle (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934494.html Job seekers during a career fair in San Diego, California, in January 2010. The United States lost fewer jobs than expected in February and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the government said Friday, cautioning the data may be skewed by winter storms.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Sandy Huffaker)AP - Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year has won key GOP support that means it will soon pass the Senate.


]]> Job seekers during a career fair in San Diego, California, in January 2010. The United States lost fewer jobs than expected in February and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the government said Friday, cautioning the data may be skewed by winter storms.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Sandy Huffaker)AP - Legislation to give additional months of unemployment benefits to people who have been out of a job for more than half a year has won key GOP support that means it will soon pass the Senate.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:33:09 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934494.html Peru lifts some Machu Picchu claims against Yale (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934492.html FILE - In this Sept. 12, 1997 file photo, tourists visit the Machu Picchu ruins in the Peruvian Andes. Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago, The Associated Press reports Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Choy Kifox, File)AP - Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.


]]> FILE - In this Sept. 12, 1997 file photo, tourists visit the Machu Picchu ruins in the Peruvian Andes. Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago, The Associated Press reports Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ricardo Choy Kifox, File)AP - Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ago.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:33:07 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934492.html Pa. coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934385.html FILE - In this April 1981 file photo, U.S. Bureau of Mines' John Stockalis, right, and Dan Lewis drop a thermometer through a hole on Main Street in Centralia, Pa., to measure the heat from a shaft mine blaze that burns under the town. The few remaining residents of the Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a 'massive fraud' is being perpetrated against Centralia by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coal. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)AP - The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a "massive fraud" is being perpetrated by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of anthracite coal.


]]> FILE - In this April 1981 file photo, U.S. Bureau of Mines' John Stockalis, right, and Dan Lewis drop a thermometer through a hole on Main Street in Centralia, Pa., to measure the heat from a shaft mine blaze that burns under the town. The few remaining residents of the Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a 'massive fraud' is being perpetrated against Centralia by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of coal. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis, File)AP - The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a "massive fraud" is being perpetrated by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of anthracite coal.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:06 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934385.html Tenn. woman pleads guilty to faking breast cancer (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934386.html wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:06 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934386.html Feds: Calif. man ran student visa fraud ring (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934384.html This photo released Monday March 8, 2010 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows evidence of fake test scores and California identification cards after they were confiscated from a California man who was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorities said. (AP Photo/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)AP - Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of other students.


]]> This photo released Monday March 8, 2010 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows evidence of fake test scores and California identification cards after they were confiscated from a California man who was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorities said. (AP Photo/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)AP - Eamonn Higgins has never earned a college degree in his own name, but prosecutors allege that for the past seven years the 46-year-old has been going to school non-stop for dozens of other students.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:02 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934384.html Class-action lawsuits could cost Toyota $3B-plus (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934279.html FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, a 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at Toyota dealership in San Francisco. In the lawsuits, Toyota owners suing the company contend they paid far more for their vehicles than they were worth, and that Toyota knew all along about these problems but concealed them from buyers. They point to evidence such as Kelley Blue Book's decision earlier this month to lower the resale value of recalled Toyotas an average of 3.5 percent, ranging from $300 less for a Corolla to $750 for a Sequoia. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.


]]> FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2010 photo, a 2010 Toyota Corolla is shown at Toyota dealership in San Francisco. In the lawsuits, Toyota owners suing the company contend they paid far more for their vehicles than they were worth, and that Toyota knew all along about these problems but concealed them from buyers. They point to evidence such as Kelley Blue Book's decision earlier this month to lower the resale value of recalled Toyotas an average of 3.5 percent, ranging from $300 less for a Corolla to $750 for a Sequoia. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)AP - Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:27:05 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934279.html Future of whale that killed trainer still unknown (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934280.html Animal activist Ric O'Barry (L) and director Louie Psihoyos accept Best Documentary Feature award for AP - SeaWorld has not decided whether a whale that killed its trainer by dragging her into the water will keep performing, an official said Tuesday.


]]> Animal activist Ric O'Barry (L) and director Louie Psihoyos accept Best Documentary Feature award for AP - SeaWorld has not decided whether a whale that killed its trainer by dragging her into the water will keep performing, an official said Tuesday.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:27:05 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934280.html 2 of oldest people in US die: in NH 114, Mich. 113 (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934278.html FILE - This May 17, 2006 file photo shows Mary Josephine Ray during her 111th birthday party in Westmoreland, N.H. She died Sunday, March 7, 2010 in Westmorland at age 114. The Gerontology Research Group says that until her death, Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest person in the world. (AP Photo/Keene Sentinel, Steve Hooper, File)AP - Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.


]]> FILE - This May 17, 2006 file photo shows Mary Josephine Ray during her 111th birthday party in Westmoreland, N.H. She died Sunday, March 7, 2010 in Westmorland at age 114. The Gerontology Research Group says that until her death, Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest person in the world. (AP Photo/Keene Sentinel, Steve Hooper, File)AP - Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.


]]> wiadomosci_en Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:27:02 +0100 http://newshourly.net/us/news_934278.html Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking (AP) http://newshourly.net/us/news_934151.html A vacant house near City Airport is seen Feb. 23, 2010 in Detroit. After decades of decline that gutted many once-vibrant neighborhoods, Detroit is preparing a radical renewal effort on a scale never attempted in this country: returning a large swath of the city to fields or farmland, much like it was in the middle of the 19th century. Under plans now being refined, demolition crews would move through the most desolate and decayed areas of urban Detroit with building-chomping excavators, reducing houses to rubble. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.


]]> A vacant house near City Airport is seen Feb. 23, 2010 in Detroit. After decades of decline that gutted many once-vibrant neighborhoods, Detroit is preparing a radical renewal effort on a scale never attempted in this country: returning a large swath of the city to fields or farmland, much like it was in the middle of the 19th century. Under plans now being refined, demolition crews would move through the most desolate and decayed areas of urban Detroit with building-chomping excavators, reducing houses to rubble. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.


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