US News - News April 28, 2011

Seven reported dead, 30 injured in Catoosa County; region declared... (Walker County Messenger)
Seven reported dead, 30 injured in Catoosa County; region declared emergency area by governor because of tornado damage Note: The Catoosa County News office, which is near downtown Ringgold, is without power.

Bernanke: Treasury prices cut losses after Fed meeting (businessweek)
Government bond prices pared earlier losses Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Short-term Treasurys continued to edge up after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters that the central bank wouldn't raise rates as long as unemployment remained high.

Corps preps for levee blast as legal tussle looms (KSRO-AM Santa Rosa)
As ominous as a floating hearse, twin barges creep up the Mississippi River carrying a payload of explosives bound for southeast Missouri and a levee facing the prospect of being sacrificed to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just upriver.

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President Heads To Big Apple For Big Bucks (FOXReno)
If you are looking for a good place to raise campaign contributions, New York City is pretty much the smartest and most lucrative choice.

247 people on terror watch list buy guns in 2010 (1340wgau)
More than 200 people suspected of ties to terrorism bought guns in the U.S. last year legally, FBI figures show.The 247 people who were allowed to buy weapons did so after going through required background checks as required by federal law. It is not illegal for people listed on the government's terror watch list to buy weapons. For years, that has bothered Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who is trying again to change the law to keep weapons out of the hands of terrorists.

Philadelphia: 3 cops arrested in steroids ring (philly)
As federal prosecutors tell it, Philadelphia Police Detective Keith Gidelson had a lucrative side business running a network that illegally distributed anabolic steroids and human growth hormone.

Army Corps prepares to blast levee to save Cairo (chicagotribune)
Elmer Lynn Hauldren created the Empire Man character and wrote the carpet company's nationally recognized jingle, which made a lasting imprint of a phone number: "5-8-8, 2-300, Empire!" It had long been believed that the disease was passed only from human to human.

Boehner won't commit to time for debt limit vote (content.usatoday)
House Speaker John Boehner is being non-committal about scheduling a vote on raising the nation's debt limit before early July, when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said the United States could start defaulting on its financial obligations.

Yes, the birth certificate is real (imao.us)
Yes, the birth certificate is real Now that Barack Obama has finally released his birth certificate, you would think that people would get back to more important things.

138 Tornadoes Kill 178 In South (theyeshivaworld)
Another devastating, deadly tornado outbreak that started in Mississippi Wednesday afternoon continues across the Southeast with more tornadoes touching down.

Marines get trained on accepting gay recruits (WCIV)
If a Marine spots two men in his battalion kissing off-duty at a shopping mall, he should react as if he were seeing a man and woman.

Petraeus to move from war command to Cabinet post (KansasCity)
Army Gen. David Petraeus - who's credited with turning around the war in Iraq and is close to turning a corner in Afghanistan - is about to take command of America's spy agency and edge his way onto the political scene.Petraeus' ascendency to CIA director and member of President Barack Obama's Cabinet comes after months of insisting he had no ...

State of emergency declared in storm-hit US South (Irish Examiner)
US President Barack Obama declared an emergency today after a wave of tornado-spawning storms tore through the South, splintering buildings and killing more than 70 people in four states.

Gova t asks food companies to limit youth marketing (KAAL-TV Austin)
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is planning to ask food companies and restaurants to cut back on advertising unhealthy foods to children.

Indiana is poised to cut Planned Parenthood funding (The Post-Standard)
Gov. Mitch Daniels speaks at the Feb. 11 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington.