IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 05/05/2013

Officials: Israel launches airstrike into Syria

FILE - In this June 3, 2012 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. Israel launched an airstrike into Syria, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said Friday night, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Israel apparently targeted a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said.

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Boston bomb suspect died of gunshot wounds, blunt trauma

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2010, photo, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, smiles after accepting the trophy for winning the 2010 New England Golden Gloves Championship in Lowell, Mass. Tsarnaev, the older of the brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing, died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, his death certificate says. (AP Photo/The Lowell Sun, Julia Malakie, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday.

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Southern Calif. wildfire threatens 4,000 homes

Resident Bryan Bonsant battles flames as the Springs Fire nears a neighbor's barn in Malibu

Firefighters have built containment around about 20 percent of the fire, which has hit more than 43 square miles.

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Newtown board mulls plans for Sandy Hook school

FILE - This Dec. 14, 2012 aerial file photo shows Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman shot 27 people dead, including 20 children. The Sandy Hook School Building Task Force meets Friday night, May 3, 2013, to debate whether to renovate or rebuild on the existing school site, or to construct a new school building on nearby property. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Newtown officials struggled Friday night to move toward a decision on what to do with the elementary school.

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Pressure on Bangladesh, retailers to fix factories

A clothes tag lies in the rubble of a garments factory that collapsed in Savar near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 3, 2013. More than 500 bodies have been recovered from the debris of the building, even as the Bangladeshi government suspended Savar's mayor and arrested an engineer who had called for the building's evacuation last week, but was also accused of helping the owner add three illegal floors to the eight-story structure. (AP Photo/Ismail Ferdous)

The country's garment manufacturers may face a choice of reform or perish.

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Obama: Same-sex provision shouldn't derail immigration move

U.S. President Obama speaks during a joint news conference with Costa Rica's President Chinchilla after their meeting at Casa Amarilla in San Jose

A proposal by Sen. Patrick Leahy has cast uncertainty into the process of reaching a compromise.

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Space Mountain reopens at Disneyland
One of Disneyland's most popular rides has reopened after the company declined to appeal a workplace safety case.

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'Mockingbird' author Lee sues over copyright in N.Y.
Harper Lee, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," filed a lawsuit to re-secure the copyright to it.

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Witness recants story in stabbing murder of Calif. third-grader
The mystery deepened on Friday over the death of an 8-year-old girl who was stabbed to death last week in her northern California home while left alone with her 12-year-old brother.

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NRA official: It's a 'culture war' more than gun rights

NRA attendee Janet Bero waits to have her German Luger appraised during the NRA's Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase during the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Houston. NRA's Antiques Guns and Gold Showcase is a television show that runs on the Sportsman Channel.The 2013 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits runs from Friday, May 3, through Sunday, May 5. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)

The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday.

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Jodi Arias murder trial goes to jury

Defendant Jodi Arias looks to her family during closing arguments during her trial on Friday, May 3, 2013 at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)

The group will ponder the evidence and Arias' ever-changing version of events.

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PepsiCo cuts sponsorship ties with Lil Wayne

The rapper made a crude reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a song.

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Spider bite may have aided Slayer guitarist death

This 2009 publicity photo provided courtesy of Slayer shows, from left, Dave Lombardo, Kerry King, Jeff Hanneman and Tom Araya. Hanneman, 49, a founding member of the heavy metal band Slayer, has died. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Hanneman died Thursday morning, May 2, 2013, of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Slayer, Mark Seliger)

Jeff Hanneman was bitten by the insect while in a friend's hot tub.

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Soccer league hires security after punch on ref

Johana Portillo, center, and her sister Ana Portillo hold hands while Dr. Shawn Smith looks on during a news conference Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. Ricardo Portillo, a Utah soccer referee, is in a coma after being punched by a teenage player unhappy with one of his calls _ and his family says their only hope is for a miracle. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

A game official in Utah was punched by a teen player and sent into a coma.

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No charges for Calif. teacher accused of tying toddler
Prosecutors in Northern California have decided not to pursue any criminal charges against a former teacher accused of tying up a 2-year-old girl when she worked at a preschool.

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U.S. orders new visa reviews for international students
The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa.

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Saturday, May 4, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 05/05/2013

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