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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Birmingham Star.com http://www.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/420d9e49bcaa69d0/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:05:23 -0500 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:05:23 -0500 30 DENVER, Colorado - In a stunning upset, Republican hopeful Rick Santorum won in three major state caucuses, reviving his chances in the US presidential race and clouding front-runner Mitt Romney's win http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203334946/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:25:22 -0500 Birmingham Star.com http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203334946/cs/1/ PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least 10 suspected militants were killed in a pre-dawn US drone aircraft attack in a restive Pakistani tribal town, officials said Wednesday. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203334822/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:19:23 -0500 Birmingham Star.com http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203334822/cs/1/ SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo's chairman and three other board members have decided not to stand for re-election, giving in to the demands of its shareholders frustrated over the Internet company's declining http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203333913/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:41:42 -0500 Birmingham Star.com http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203333913/cs/1/ MELBOURNE - Global mining major BHP Billiton is planning a rethink on its focus areas for investments including the American shale gas venture, with weakening global commodity prices pulling down the http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203333726/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:33:16 -0500 Birmingham Star.com http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203333726/cs/1/ Several e-mails posted on the web site of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission show an agency struggling to figure out how to respond and deal with the American public while cutting through what one http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203350601/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:20:25 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203350601/cs/1/ America and Eurasia will crash into each other over the North Pole in 50-200 million years time, scientists have claimed. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203350593/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:20:11 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203350593/cs/1/ Former US military chief Admiral Mike Mullen has written a letter to the Pakistan Supreme Court to appear before the judicial commission investigating the Memo Gate scandal. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348738/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:40:13 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348738/cs/1/ A Chinese dad on a visit to New York made his 4-year-old son, dressed only in gym shoes and a pair of yellow underpants, run and do push-ups in the snow to develop a "masculine temperament". shocking http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348668/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:10:06 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348668/cs/1/ Shane Warne, who recently made headlines for his "metrosexual" makeover, made an unlikely appearance at the New York Fashion Week alongside Elizabeth Hurley and old pal Sarah Jessica Parker on Wednesd http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348642/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:20:36 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348642/cs/1/ John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as possible just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo, which subsequently made them illegal, it has been revealed. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348451/cs/1/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:00:03 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203348451/cs/1/ A senior US envoy scheduled to tour South Asia will make a stop in the Maldives Saturday, as the island nation is grappling with violence after a new president was sworn in, the State Department said. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203344723/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:50:08 -0500 IANS http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203344723/cs/1/ Argentine oil company YPF, a unit of Spain's Repsol-YPF, announced Wednesday that its investments in the South American country rose last year by 50 percent to a record 13.3 billion pesos ($3.06 billi http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203344720/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:50:02 -0500 IANS http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203344720/cs/1/ India underlined its commitment to implementing the landmark civil nuclear deal when Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai Wednesday met US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and held a series of meetings http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203332751/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:00:24 -0500 IANS http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203332751/cs/1/ A video clip of a four-year-old Chinese boy being forced to do push-ups, wearing just an underwear despite freezing temperature, on a road in the New York city of the US has evoked outrage. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203329210/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:40:01 -0500 IANS http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203329210/cs/1/ A New York City startup has started tapping into the intense water pressure at treatment plants, reservoirs and factories, converting the excess into electricity. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327686/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:30:14 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327686/cs/1/ Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is facing increased pressure in the United States after the FBI stepped-up its investigations into allegations of illegal bribing activity across the medi http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327234/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:58 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327234/cs/1/ The Central Intelligence Agency is expected to maintain a large clandestine presence in Iraq and Afghanistan after the withdrawal of conventional U.S. troops as part of the Obama administration plan t http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327231/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:49 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327231/cs/1/ The Obama administration is reportedly sending a senior American military commander to Pakistan this month in what is being seen as a first step towards getting a strategic relationship that has been http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327227/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:22 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327227/cs/1/ American authorities want to upgrade one of the charges against a former Indian-origin Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, who has been accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter w http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327226/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:00:02 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203327226/cs/1/ People of Boston are infuriated with Gisele Bundchen for slamming the New England Patriots team for their defeat at the hands of New York Giants in the Super Bowl. http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203324975/cs/1/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:20:08 -0500 ANI http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203324975/cs/1/ SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Young housewives and older moms who bought assault rifles from Texas gun dealers are among nearly two dozen charged in an alleged weapons smuggling ring that armed Mexican ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342072/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:09:45 -0500 Richmond Times-Dispatch http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342072/ Welcome to U.S. News's STEM Education resource center. Here, you'll find the latest news, opinions and thoughts about science, technology, engineering and math education. Also browse ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341791/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:05:02 -0500 U.S. News & World Report http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341791/ Next The 254-173 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill that gives the president the line-item veto, or authority to pick out specific items in spending bills for elimination. A ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341745/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:24 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341745/ This photo released Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 by the Cole County sheriff's office shows Alyssa Bustamante. Bustamante, 18, who confessed to murdering a young neighbor girl, was described as a ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341744/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:21 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341744/ HARRISBURG, Pa. -; A Pennsylvania lawmaker convicted of corruption said Wednesday he will follow tradition and step down from the House of Representatives when he is sentenced, but a colleague said ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341743/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:16 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341743/ LOS ANGELES -; The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341742/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:13 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341742/ MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. -; A father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged in the shooting deaths of the couple, authorities said ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203338512/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:11 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203338512/ MINEOLA, N.Y. -; The owner of one of Long Island's largest catering companies has been accused of seriously violating Jewish law by having workers prepare kosher and non-kosher meals in the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339456/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:05 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339456/ San Francisco is now in the decisive phase on hosting the America's Cup, a move that comes amid concern over the pace of fundraising to defray city costs and a fight over whether to include in ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341741/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:03 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341741/ WALSENBURG, Colo. -; One of the three Dougherty siblings accused in a multi-state crime spree has reached a plea deal with prosecutors, a spokesman for the Colorado court system said Wednesday. ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341747/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:56:01 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341747/ FILE - This March 28, 2007 file photo shows tourists walking on the glass-bottomed Skywalk that extends 70 feet over the edge of Grand Canyon West's Eagle Point, in Arizona. A northwestern ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341749/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:57 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341749/ AKRON, Ohio -; There won't be a trial soon for an Ohio man suspected in the shooting deaths of three men lured to a rural area by bogus job listings on Craigslist. Fifty-two-year-old ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341748/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:54 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341748/ FILE-This undated photo released by the Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Antun Lewis. Federal Judge Solomon Oliver in Ohio has granted a new trial for Antun Lewis, convicted in a ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341750/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:50 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341750/ American Standards are scheduled to perform on Sunday, February 12, at The Underground in Mesa. Hardcore bands are kind of like the Tea Party: Both have strong opinions and are keen on shoving ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342068/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:35 -0500 New Times http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342068/ February 8, 2012 at 3:44 pm 1)The Capitalistic system is THE Formula for a Disorganized Economy ! Hence it is Unpredictable in the medium ( one year ) and long term ( three years + ) , therefore I ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341820/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:18 -0500 Prison Planet http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341820/ February 8, 2012 A federal judge convicted a Chinese-born American Tuesday of stealing trade secrets but acquitted her of more serious charges of corporate espionage at a trial in Chicago that ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342038/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:49:04 -0500 NPR http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342038/ AFP/Getty Images January 2010: Muslim-Americans protest against terrorism outside a federal court building in Detroit, where "Christmas Day" bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342039/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:48:28 -0500 NPR http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342039/ San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich praised Minnesota Timberwolves’ rookie guard Rick Rubio’s rapid adjustment to NBA and American culture while criticising American arrogance and ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342074/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:46:27 -0500 National Turk http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342074/ A federal judge has dismissed an unprecedented lawsuit by an animal rights group seeking to grant constitutional protection against slavery to a group of orcas that perform at SeaWorld ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339771/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:44 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339771/ The Arab League suspended its Syria observation mission Saturday, saying it was too dangerous to continue, as battles between security and opposition forces raged just outside the capital, ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341011/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:40 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341011/ LEWISVILLE, Texas -- Friends recalled John and Wanda Casias as "spiritual soldiers" who gave their lives to God and hearts to Mexico, where the American missionaries were slain last ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341012/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:36 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341012/ A federal appeals court refused Thursday to unseal video recordings of a landmark trial on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban but said it needed more time to decide if ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341014/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:20 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341014/ Recently I spoke with the sister of a young man killed by the Miami Beach Police Department during Urban Beach Week. A few weeks earlier I spoke with the mother of a young man who was killed by ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341015/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:16 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341015/ A North Miami police officer has been fined after the Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust found probable cause that he profited from installing secret cameras in the mayor’s ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340164/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:43:11 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340164/ A 21-year-old man was arrested Sunday and accused of inappropriately touching several students inside their University of Miami dormitory rooms, according to Coral Gables ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342026/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:56 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342026/ CHICAGO -- A reputed mob boss known for his wide girth and reputation for violence was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday in a federal court in Chicago.Michael "The Large Guy" ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342027/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:52 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342027/ Prosecutors overseeing a child sex-abuse case involving three Roman Catholic priests can reference molestation claims against more than 20 other clergymen to try to establish a pattern of how such ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339772/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:48 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339772/ Charging that the National Park Service put the interests of off-road-vehicle riders over wildlife protection and other users, a group files suit to halt expanded access to the Big Cypress National ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342028/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:43 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342028/ RALEIGH, N.C. -- Federal election officials say John Edwards owes taxpayers more than $2.1 million in public matching funds improperly received after he dropped his 2008 run for the White House, ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342031/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:34 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342031/ Amazon is in talks with lawmakers about a tax-exemption deal that would encourage it to build distribution centers in Florida, hiring ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342030/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:30 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342030/ Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich recently offered to attend an NAACP convention to explain why African-Americans "should demand paychecks instead of food stamps." And he has ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339455/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:42:25 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339455/ The legal systems of Canada and the U.S. make no separate recognition of ';political prisoners.'; This encourages police malfeasance and a bending of the legal system to cope with ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341817/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:34:43 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341817/ Natural Society February 8, 2012 American veterans and the entire country of Viet Nam affected by Agent Orange have been shafted beyond imagination due to corruption within the US government and ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342073/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:34:16 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342073/ AN AMERICAN teenager who strangled and stabbed a nine-year-old neighbour because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone has been jailed for life.Alyssa Bustamante, 18, was 15 when she ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341802/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:33:40 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341802/ Click for full photo gallery: America's Most Disliked Athletes We've recently seen it by league, how about overall? Over the past few months we've looked at the most disliked players ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341792/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:28:12 -0500 Forbes http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341792/ Even with only about two percent of American exports going to Europe, a severe recession in the region would affect the US beyond the direct effect on ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339376/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:50 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339376/ The number of domestic terror cases fell to 20 in 2011, down from 26 in 2010 and 49 in 2009, according to a study released Wednesday. Yet for much of the public, anxieties remain ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341764/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:17 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341764/ For decades, the US manufacturing sector has shriveled, but President Obama now envisions it as an engine of a revived US economy. The basis of his optimism may be hopes for 'advanced' ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203338809/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:18:09 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203338809/ (CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Jay Carney scoffed at Republican primary candidate Mitt Romney's criticism of a new rule that will require all health insurance policies - except for ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342019/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:35 -0500 CNS News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342019/ The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The U.S. economic embargo on Communist-run Cuba, a near-total trade ban that turned 50 on Tuesday. ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341366/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:27 -0500 The China Post http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341366/ By David Beasley--Nine out of 10 American adults consume too much salt and the leading culprit is not potato chips or popcorn but slices of bread and dinner rolls, the Centers for Disease Control ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342057/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:14:57 -0500 China Post Online http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342057/ PARIS — Top-seeded Maria Sharapova defeated Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa 6-3, 6-1 Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Open GDF Suez. Sharapova broke for a 4-3 lead in the first ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342015/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:14:20 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342015/ reported a 7.4 percent growth in profits during 2011 though net sales and market share for the tobacco company dropped slightly for most of its brands. The news comes as the company is ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342035/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:11:04 -0500 Business Journal http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342035/ WASHINGTON — The White House is taking on GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney over his criticism of President Barack Obama's birth control coverage mandate. Press secretary Jay Carney ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342017/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:07:56 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342017/ By The Associated Press Resurgent Rick Santorum said his sweep of three GOP contests earned his shoestring campaign $250,000 overnight, cash he needs to take his upstart bid for the Republican ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342048/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:29 -0500 MSNBC http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342048/ By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer Democrats and Republicans agree: People with higher incomes must pay more. Democrats want upper-income people to pay more in taxes, but don’t ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342049/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:56:21 -0500 MSNBC http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342049/ NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Donald won't be moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But he is taking over an historic building four blocks away.The Trump Organization has been named the preferred ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342043/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:53:12 -0500 CNN Money http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342043/ "I FOUND myself in jeans and a sweatshirt underneath a 60,000-euro gown, sewing little pieces of feather," said Calla Haynes, whose first job in fashion was at the Paris house Rochas, working with ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340133/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:47:55 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340133/ On Tuesday the New York Times reported that the New York Police Department showed nearly 1,500 of its officers "The Third Jihad," a 72-minute documentary that casts Muslim Americans as ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203337474/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:33:53 -0500 New America Media http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203337474/ A study in the journal Proceedings Of The National Academy of Sciences links a drastic decline in raccoons and other mammals in the Florida everglades to the introduction of Burmese ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340155/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:54 -0500 The Onion http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340155/ WASHINGTON—Recent side-by-side photographic comparisons of Americans before and after he assumed the presidency have confirmed the stress of Barack Obama's time in the White House has ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340788/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:52 -0500 The Onion http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340788/ Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund , said that her organization would not get involved until more data was released.';We would have to look at any case that came to us to make sure ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341881/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:22:06 -0500 New York Times http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341881/ The whirlwind week for Palo Alto's Jeremy Lin continues spinning in strange directions. The Knicks guard now has a viral rap song/video about him -- couresy of rapper Mega Ran -- to go along ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340313/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:16:42 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340313/ Feb. 5:This advertisement provided by Chrysler Group LLC, shows actor Clint Eastwood, featured in an ad titled "It's Halftime In America," which aired during Super Bowl XVLI. Some ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339233/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:14:52 -0500 Fox News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339233/ Concertgoers and emergency personnel hold up stage rigging after it collapsed minutes before a concert by Sugarland at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis August 13, ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342003/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:23 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342003/ KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A Missouri teenager who described her experience of killing a 9-year-old girl as "pretty enjoyable" received a life sentence Wednesday, with a chance of ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342004/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:17 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342004/ OLYMPIA, Wash (Reuters) - The Washington state House of Representatives was expected to endorse gay marriage on Wednesday in a vote that puts the state on the cusp of becoming the seventh in the ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342005/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:12 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342005/ SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Nine Texas men and women have been sentenced to prison for purchasing firearms for Mexico's Los Zetas drug cartel, and a dozen others face charges linked to a Department ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342007/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:07 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342007/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A lawyer suing on behalf of three students who say they were sexually abused at a Los Angeles area school where two teachers have been arrested said Wednesday he represents ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342006/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:02 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342006/ STARKVILLE, Miss (Reuters) - A Mississippi man convicted of murdering two people during convenience store robberies was on track to be executed on Wednesday after a federal court overturned a stay ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342008/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:57 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342008/ After years of cutting workforces, executives complain they cannot find enough people with the skills needed to thrive in modern factories. Some 600,000 skilled manufacturing positions are unfilled ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342011/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:42 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342011/ MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Milwaukee's Roman Catholic archdiocese will ask a judge on Thursday to throw out hundreds of sexual abuse claims that have thrust it into bankruptcy, triggering a court ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342012/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:37 -0500 Reuters http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342012/ Japan , but as part of a 2006 deal, 8,000 Marines will move from Okinawa to Guam and other regions in the Pacific. Additionally, the United States agreed to move the Futenma airbase, currently in ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341345/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:19 -0500 IBTimes http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341345/ A controversial new book claims American moms and dads have a thing or two to learn from French parents when it comes to raising children. 'Bringing Up Bebe' author and American mother ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339483/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:09:50 -0500 IBTimes http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339483/ AIDS Awareness Day," which aims to address the disparity of infection rates in black communities. Tuesday Feb 7th marked the 12th annual "National Black ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341185/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:08:45 -0500 IBTimes http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341185/ Iran issued a verbal warning to the United States on Wednesday, claiming that the country has the military capabilities to attack American forces around the globe. Iran's ambassador ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341679/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:08:10 -0500 IBTimes http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341679/ A depressed teenager was sentenced to life for the murder of her nine-year-old neighbour in Missouri. Alyssa Bustamante admitted strangling, stabbing and slitting the throat of her sister's ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341823/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:09 -0500 IBTimes http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203341823/ M IAMI -- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is in the United States with full diplomatic immunity, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s legal adviser has written the Pentagon, and should not ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339794/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:05:44 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339794/ (CBS/AP) CAIRO - Egyptian judges say the evidence collected in the case against 19 Americans referred to court for their alleged involvement in banned political activity through nonprofit groups ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340925/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:03:23 -0500 CBS News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340925/ (Credit: istockphoto) (CBS/AP) Americans get too much sodium, according to a new government report. That fact may not come as a shock to a fast food nation, but what's surprising is where ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340748/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:01:47 -0500 CBS News http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203340748/ Barack Obama 's Global Development Policy will: "Harness the energy, idealism, and expertise of university students and faculty to generate, implement, and evaluate new solutions to ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342033/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:34 -0500 Business Journal http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203342033/ In an apparent change of heart, banks are offering $20,000 or more to troubled homeowners to avoid costly foreclosures. Lenders are offering the incentives to spur a short sale, in which a home is ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339261/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:00:02 -0500 Business Journal http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339261/ Follow this company finished 2011 on a strong note, posting $4.94 million in net income for the three months that ended Dec. 31. The fourth-quarter results, which amounted to 63 cents a ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339255/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:59:56 -0500 Business Journal http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339255/ Follow this company will shutter its Music Row office later this year, according to a letter sent last week to customers. The bank will close the doors to its space at 1013 ... http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339238/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:57:58 -0500 Nashville Business Journal http://story.birminghamstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/420d9e49bcaa69d0/id/203339238/