Monday, April 1, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 02/04/2013







Shooting at Ohio church after Easter mass
This image provided by WKYC, Channel 3, shows the scene outside a church in Ashtabula, Ohio, on Sunday, March 31, 2013. Police in northeast Ohio are investigating a shooting outside the church that has reportedly left one man dead after an Easter service. (AP Photo/WKYC)Police in northeast Ohio are investigating a shooting outside a church that a parishioner says left one man dead after an Easter service.



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The Final Four is set after blowouts, surprises
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino directs his team during the second half of the Midwest Regional final against Duke in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 31, 2013, in Indianapolis. Louisville won 85-63 to advance to the Final Four. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)An inspired Louisville squad vs. the surprising Shockers.



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Four hurt in crash, attack at California Walmart
Police cars maintain a perimeter around a San Jose, Calif., Walmart after a motorist drove through a store entrance and began assaulting shoppers on Sunday, March 31, 2013. Four people sustained injuries during the attack according to a police spokesman. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)Four people were hurt Sunday when a driver crashed his vehicle into a Wal-Mart and then assaulted customers inside, police said.



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Egyptian TV satirist released after questioning
A bodyguard secures popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, as he enters Egypt's state prosecutors office to face accusations of insulting Islam and the country's Islamist leader in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Government opponents said the warrant against such a high profile figure, known for lampooning President Mohammed Morsi and the new Islamist political class, was an escalation in a campaign to intimidate critics. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)Egypt's most popular television satirist, who every week skewers the Islamist president and hard-line clerics on his Jon Stewart-style show, was released on bail Sunday but could face charges of insulting the country's leader and Islam.



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Two in China first known deaths from H7N9 bird flu
A vendor waits for customers near chicken cages at a market in Fuyang city, in central China's Anhui province, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain, and Chinese authorities said Sunday that it wasn't clear how they were infected, but that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. A third person, a woman in the nearby province of Anhui, also contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu and was in critical condition, China's National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a report on its website. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTTwo Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain, and Chinese authorities said it wasn't clear how they were infected but there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.



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Iran sanctions spur boom for Pakistani diesel smugglers
A man sits on top of plastic canisters of petrol that he says was brought from Iran, as he prepares to unload them from a van at a roadside shop near a Pakistan and Iran borderBy Hamdan Albaloshi JOGAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Some of the contraband is spirited across the mountains in Pepsi bottles carried by child smugglers. Yet more is loaded into pick-up trucks or siphoned into barrels and strapped onto mules. So lucrative are the returns that even seasoned opium traffickers are abandoning their traditional cargo to grab a share of Pakistan's closest thing to an oil boom: a roaring trade in illicit Iranian diesel. ...



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Alaska Troopers helicopter crashes during rescue
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska State Trooper helicopter carrying two troopers and a rescued snowmobiler crashed Saturday night in the south-central part of the state, and no survivors have been found, an agency spokeswoman said.

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Suspect sought in L.A. abduction of 10-year-old girl
A transient with a long criminal record is being sought in the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl who was snatched from her San Fernando Valley home before dawn last week and abandoned hours later in front of a hospital.



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Margin notes shed new light on Renaissance anatomy masterpiece
Margin Notes Shed New Light on Renaissance Anatomy MasterpieceWhen the Renaissance physician and expert dissector Andreas Vesalius first published "De humani corporis fabrica" in 1543, he provided the most detailed look inside the human body of his time.



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S.C. man who apologized for racist past dies
Elwin Wilson, the former Ku Klux Klan supporter who publicly apologized for years of violent racism, including the beating of a black Freedom Rider who went on to become a Georgia congressman, has died. He was 76.



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Texas D.A. slain in his home; had armed himself
This undated photo taken from the Kaufman County, Texas, website shows Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland. McLelland and his wife were found killed in their house, Saturday, March 30, 2013, two months after one of his assistants was gunned down near their office, authorities said. (AP Photo/Kaufman County)Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland took no chances after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down two months ago. McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere he went and was extra careful when answering the door at his home.



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U.S. face-transplant recipient marries burn victim: report
Dallas Wiens, the United States' first full face transplant patient, speaks to reporters at a news conference at Brigham and Women's Hospital in BostonFace-transplant recipient Dallas Wiens married a fellow burn victim on Saturday in the same church where his face was melted in an electrical accident, the Dallas Morning News reported. In 2011, Wiens received the first full face transplant ever performed in the United States.



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Mark Kelly: Mental health background check could’ve prevented Tucson
En esta fotografía de archivo del 30 de enero de 2013, el ex astronauta Mark Kelly da su testimonio en una audiencia ante la Comisión Judicial del Senado en Washington, D.C. La hija de Kelly paseaba a su perro Shiner en la playa de la isla Goff cuando éste salió corriendo repentinamente, llevándose consigo la correa con la que ella lo conducía y atacó a un león marino bebé sobre la arena el sábado 23 de marzo de 2013. (Foto AP/J. Scott Applewhite, archivo)Mark Kelly, retired astronaut and husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, told "Fox News Sunday" that gun control legislation currently being discussed in Congress needs to include a background check that carries better mental health screening.



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Oops: Macy’s marks down $1,500 necklace to $47
Attention, unemployed copyeditors: Macy's may soon have a job opening for you. The department store giant mailed a catalog to customers earlier this month which mistakenly offered a $1,500 sterling silver and 14-karat gold necklace for just $47. The heading: "SUPER BUY." The actual sale price was supposed to be $479, but Macy's printed the [...]

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Letters From a 'Lost' Marilyn Monroe, Angry John Lennon to Be Auctioned
Letters From a 'Lost' Marilyn Monroe, Angry John Lennon to Be AuctionedA letter from a “lost” Marilyn Monroe to mentor Lee Strasberg and one from an irritated John Lennon to Linda and Paul McCartney are among hundreds of historical objects set to be auctioned on May 30. It is part of the second in a series...



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Signed Iconic Beatles Album Auctioned for $290,500
Signed Iconic Beatles Album Auctioned for $290,500A copy of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album autographed by all four band members has shattered expectations at auction. The iconic album was sold Saturday for $290,500 by Heritage Auctions in Dallas. It had been listed at $30,000 before the sale....



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Study shows Shakespeare as ruthless businessman
FILE - This is a Monday March 9, 2009 file of a then newly discovered portrait of William Shakespeare, presented by the Shakespeare Birthplace trust, is seen in central London, New research depicts William Shakespeare as a grain hoarder, moneylender and tax dodger who became a wealthy businessman during a time of famine.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)LONDON (AP) — Hoarder, moneylender, tax dodger — it's not how we usually think of William Shakespeare.



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