IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 11/02/2013

LAPD to reopen probe into fugitive ex-cop's firing

San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies gather at the command post in Big Bear Lake, Calif, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. Clear skies allowed aircraft with heat-sensing technology to aid scores of officers searching in the snow-covered San Bernardino Mountains for Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of killing three people in a vengeance-fueled rampage aimed at those he blames for ending his career. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

The hunt in the snowy mountains for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings continued Saturday as police announced they will reopen the disciplinary proceedings that led to the fugitive's firing. Read More ...

New England digging out after epic snow

April Palmieri digs out her car in front of her home, background left, on 17th Street after a snow storm on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013 in Bayville, N.Y. Palmieri had five feet of water in her basement as result of the rains from Superstorm Sandy. A howling storm across the Northeast left the New York-to-Boston corridor shrouded in 1 to 3 feet of snow Saturday, stranding motorists on highways overnight and piling up drifts so high that some homeowners couldn't get their doors open. More than 650,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach motorists stranded on Long Island after a huge storm. Read More ...

Obama to lay out economic growth plan in State of Union speech

U.S. President Obama speaks from the briefing room of the White House in Washington

President Barack Obama will describe his plan for spurring the economy in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Read More ...

Boeing conducts test flight of 787 Dreamliner

The Boeing 787 lands in Everett, Washington travelling with crew only from Fort Worth, Texas

Boeing Co completed what it called an uneventful flight on Saturday of a test 787 Dreamliner, its first since the airplanes were grounded more than three weeks ago after a series of battery-related problems. The test flight to gather detailed information on the airplane's lithium-ion batteries lasted two hours and 19 minutes, taking off from and returning to Boeing Field in Seattle, Boeing said. "The crew reports that the flight was uneventful," Boeing said in a statement. ... Read More ...

Shovels, skis or a wedding: Tales from a snowstorm

A woman prepares to launch her child down a snow-covered street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. The Boston area received about two feet of snow from a winter storm. A howling storm across the Northeast left the New York-to-Boston corridor shrouded in 1 to 3 feet of snow Saturday, stranding motorists on highways overnight and piling up drifts so high that some homeowners couldn't get their doors open. More than 650,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

From New Jersey to Maine, millions of people, many with Superstorm Sandy still fresh in their minds, dug out from underneath mounds of snow Saturday. Read More ...

Report: France's Renault recalling more than 60,000 cars in China

French carmaker Renault has started recalling over 60,000 cars exported to China due to problems with their fuel level sensors, state news agency Xinhua quoted the Chinese consumer watchdog as saying. Read More ...

First lady among hundreds mourning slain Chicago girl

FILE - This undated file family photo provided by Damon Stewart shows 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton of Chicago who was was shot Jan. 29, 2013 while she talked with friends in a park about a mile from President Barack Obama’s Chicago home. First Lady Michelle Obama will join some of Illinois’ most recognizable politicians and clergy to mourn the 15-year-old honor student whose death has drawn attention to staggering gun violence in the nation’s third-largest city. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Damon Stewart, File)

The national debate over gun violence took a highly personal turn for first lady Michelle Obama when a Chicago girl was slain near Obama's family home just days after she performed at the presidential inauguration in Washington. The first lady and top federal, state and city officials joined hundreds of mourners on Saturday at the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, 15, who was killed at a park near her Chicago high school, casting the bitter national debate over gun violence in personal terms for the Obamas. ... Read More ...

France, Britain promise punishment in horsemeat scandal

A recall notice for frozen meals which had tested positive for horse meat is seen at an Aldi supermarket in northwest London

The French and British governments promised on Saturday to punish those found responsible for selling horsemeat in beef products at the heart of a growing scandal that started in Britain but is quickly spreading to France. French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said an investigation had found that the horsemeat had originated in Romania, although there were links with French, Dutch and Cypriot firms and a factory in Luxembourg. ... Read More ...

Slain Texas prosecutor remembered as fighter for justice

This undated handout photo provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff's office shows assistant district attorney Mark Hasse, 57, who was shot and killed Thursday morning, Jan. 31, 2013, in Kaufman, Texas. Authorities said they were searching for two suspects that attacked him as he exited his vehicle in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex where he worked. (AP Photo/Kaufman County Sheriff)

A Texas prosecutor gunned down by an unknown assailant outside Dallas last month was remembered as a tenacious advocate for justice at a memorial service on Saturday attended by hundreds of former colleagues and law enforcement officials. Mark Hasse, 57, relished putting criminals away and despite the threats he faced as a prosecutor, enjoyed his walk to work from a parking lot a block from his courthouse, said Justin Lewis, an investigator for the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office where Hasse served as a prosecutor. ... Read More ...

Bacon enthusiasts converge in Iowa for festival

Bonnie, a Berkshire breed pig about 2 1/2 months old, waits for Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to pardon her outside the governor's mansion Friday, Feb. 8, 2013 in Des Moines, Iowa. The pardon is a first for the governor and a celebration of the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival that begins this weekend at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. (AP Photo/Barbara Rodriguez)

The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa's capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat. Read More ...

The sound of N.Y. Fashion Week: Smartphones snapping

A model walks the runway at the presentation of the Prabal Gurung Fall 2013 fashion collection during Fashion Week, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Remember clapping? As in when a fashion designer puts on his runway finale and then takes a bow before an adoring crowd. Read More ...

NASA rover Curiosity drills into Martian rock

For the first time, NASA's rover Curiosity used its on-board drill to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the U.S. space agency reported on Saturday. Drilling down 2.5 inches into a patch of sedimentary bedrock, Curiosity collected the rock powder left by the drill and will analyze it using its own laboratory instruments, NASA said in a statement. This is the first time a robot has drilled to collect a Martian sample. Images of the hole, along with a shallower test hole nearby, can be seen at http://www.jpl.nasa. ... Read More ...

American adoptive mothers get their Russian kids

Jeana Bonner, left, of South Jordan, Utah, and Rebecca Preece from Nampa, Idaho, sit with their adopted children at a hotel in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013. After weeks of anxiety, plodding through the opaque Russian legal system and suffering wallet-thinning expenses, two U.S. women have custody of their adopted Russian children and are preparing to take them home to start a new life together. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

After weeks of anxiety plodding through the opaque Russian legal system, two U.S. women have custody of their adopted Russian children and are preparing to take them home to start a new life together. Read More ...

Chinese raucously welcome Year of the Snake

A security guard sits in front of a stage during the temple fair in Ditan Park, also known as the Temple of Earth, in Beijing

Celebrations will carry on into Sunday, the first day of the Lunar New Year. Read More ...

Egypt court orders YouTube blocked for a month

Egyptian protesters throw fire bombs and stones at the presidential palace during a demonstration in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Egypt has witnessed a fresh cycle of violence over the past two weeks since the second anniversary of the 2011 uprising that deposed longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak with clashes across the country that have left scores dead and hundreds injured. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the YouTube website for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world, but the ruling can be appealed and based on precedent may not be enforced. Read More ...

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IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 11/02/2013

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