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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Houston Mirror.com http://www.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/10/id/154063713fe5da1f/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:19:27 -0500 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:19:27 -0500 30 DAMASCUS - The West voiced its ire over Russia and China's veto of the UN Security Council resolution on Syria even as more clashes and deaths were reported in the violence-wracked country. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203276650/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:51 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203276650/cs/1/ NEW YORK - Citigroup's Chinese subsidiary has been granted permission to offer its credit cards in China, becoming the first US based bank and the second foreign bank to receive the nod. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203280818/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:59:05 -0500 Houston Mirror.com http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203280818/cs/1/ The United Kingdom was forced to plead with the US to take part in the flotilla challenging Iranian power in the Gulf after American commanders decided the British military had nothing to contribute t http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203294991/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:50:14 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203294991/cs/1/ The U.S. has imposed a fresh set of sanctions on the Iranian government to pressure the latter to halt its nuclear program. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203294437/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:30:01 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203294437/cs/1/ Ricky Martin, who is in New York these days getting ready for his return to the Broadway stage, will play a Spanish teacher in a popular television series "Glee". http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291174/cs/1/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:40:01 -0500 IANS http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291174/cs/1/ US President Barack Obama has ordered the freezing of Iran's property under American jurisdiction, including that of the country's central bank, the White House said. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286214/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:10:01 -0500 IANS http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286214/cs/1/ A Mysore-born Indian public affairs specialist has been charged with revitalising the Muslim Public Service Network (MPSN) that grooms young American Muslims for public service and to take on civic le http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203275600/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:20:02 -0500 IANS http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203275600/cs/1/ American aid to Egypt, which is estimated at an average of two billion dollars a year, is reportedly in peril with U.S. lawmakers threatening to block assistance in response to Egypt's crackdown on pr http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203267665/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:02 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203267665/cs/1/ Online dating has not only shed its stigma but has surpassed all forms of matchmaking in the United States apart from meeting through friends, a new study has revealed. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203265717/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:10:07 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203265717/cs/1/ British Olympic boxing medallist Amir Khan recently took his fiancee Faryal Makhdoom for a tour of his hometown Bolton, England. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203265716/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:10:05 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203265716/cs/1/ Katy Perry, who performed her first U.S. concert since splitting from Russell Brand in Indianapolis on Saturday night, dedicated a song to Tim Tebow at the pre-Super Bowl Concert. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203263975/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:00:15 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203263975/cs/1/ The New York Giants have won their second Super Bowl title in four years and fourth overall after beating the New England Patriots in the final. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203263958/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:40:10 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203263958/cs/1/ Gerard Depardieu will star as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a film by US director Abel Ferrara about the New York sex scandal that caused the former IMF chief to resign. http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203262648/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:10:17 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203262648/cs/1/ In a tell-all memoir, President John F Kennedy's teenage mistress describes how she lost her virginity to the former U.S. President when he seduced her in his wife's bedroom following a pool party wit http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203262644/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:10:09 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203262644/cs/1/ Egypt will prosecute 44 non-governmental organization workers, including 19 American nationals, on charges of allegedly receiving foreign funds illegally and being involved in banned activities in the http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203262642/cs/1/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:10:07 -0500 ANI http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203262642/cs/1/ By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON - Candidate committees can rack up cash in a hurry, especially during a high stakes race. And provisions in election law allow campaigns to invest ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292609/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:06:52 -0500 Wisconsin Reporter http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292609/ Snow has been missing in action for much of the United States the past couple of months. But it's not just snow. It's prtactically the entire winter season that's gone ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293246/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:01:05 -0500 Chicago Sun-Times http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293246/ In this courtroom drawing Raja Lahrasib Kahn, 56, appears before U.S. Magistrate Judge Geraldine Soat Brown in federal court, Tuesday, March 30, 2010, in Chicago. Raja Lahrasib Kahn, a Chicago ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293247/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:52 -0500 Chicago Sun-Times http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293247/ WASHINGTON - Perhaps the most attention-getting Super Bowl ad -- other than that dog blackmailing his owner with tortilla chips to keep quiet over a felinicide, of course -- was Clint ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291335/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:59:34 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291335/ In this Aug. 19, 2011 photo, Josh Powell plays with his son Braden in a park near his home, in Puyallup, Wash. Powell had long been a person of interest in his wife's disappearance from their ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292064/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:58 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292064/ TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -; A federal judge has ordered the return of a 16th Century Baroque painting depicting Christ carrying the cross to the heirs of a Jewish man who died shortly before the German ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291745/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:51 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291745/ In this Aug. 19, 2011 photo, Josh Powell plays with his son Braden in a park near his home, in Puyallup, Wash. Powell had long been a person of interest in his wife's disappearance from their ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291702/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:47 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291702/ FILE - This file photo released on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, by the Anaheim Police Dept. shows Itzcoatl Ocampo. Southern California prosecutors say Ocampo, already accused of killing four homeless ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292465/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:44 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292465/ This photo taken Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, shows artist and free speech blogger Christopher Drew in his studio in Chicago. Drew was charged under the Illinois eavesdropping law on Dec. 2, 2009, after ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292466/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:42 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292466/ GOLD BEACH, Ore. -; In a Feb. 5 story about the rescue of three family members lost while mushroom picking, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the helicopter pilot who found them had ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292467/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:34 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292467/ BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas -; Officials at Big Bend National Park in West Texas are looking for a mountain lion that attacked and injured a 6-year-old boy as he walked with three other ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292468/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:58:30 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292468/ The non-profit arm of the city’s transportation agency has painted one of its historical streetcars red and embellished it with the TTC logo to honour Toronto’s dedication to the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293248/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:49:10 -0500 Metro Toronto http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293248/ LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles school superintendent says the entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292446/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:40:13 -0500 Fox News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292446/ SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. -- An American substitute teacher learned a hard - and costly - lesson when she took a wrong turn in the Michigan Sault and ended up at the Canadian border. Shelly Hamlin was ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292480/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:19:29 -0500 C News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292480/ A few days before the release of The Best of Soul Train DVD set Soul Train founder, creator and impresario Don Cornelius was asked what it was that made Soul Train the hit that was. Cornelius ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293240/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:11:05 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293240/ A poll conducted by Latino Decisions for Univision News and ABC News and released January 25, 2012 accurately predicted Mitt Romney would hold more than a 20-point lead among Latino Republicans in ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293239/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:11:01 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293239/ new study from economist Dr. Samuel Addy, the director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama, provides the latest conclusive evidence that HB 56 has been, and ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291371/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:59 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291371/ Wilde Media Network, a new national cable TV network aimed at American bi-cultural Latinos, today announced that it is officially available online at WildeMediaTV.com and will be available in major ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291767/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:54 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291767/ The Break the Silence Mural Project to travel to Palestine and collaborate with local artists on the creation of public murals depicting local water conditions. We painted 8 murals in 8 days at ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291895/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:51 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291895/ Image: Texas health officials linked several mercury poisoning cases to Crema Aguamary, a cosmetic produced in Mexico. There could be a dark side to skin-lightening creams often found in stores that ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292061/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:48 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292061/ All my life I’ve been taught to despise the police, and for that matter, any other law enforcement official. I even had a saying: "From the Pigs to the Feds, may they all drop dead." ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291690/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:45 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291690/ Seattle, Wa - Tuyet Thi Mai, 69, already receives state public assistance, but still cannot afford rent. She is among the poorest and most vulnerable of the Asian Pacific American (APA) ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293241/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:10:41 -0500 New America Media http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293241/ February 6, 2012 Not only was Obama's appointment of Richard Cordray to the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional, but the newly minted federal leviathan itself ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291530/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:07:09 -0500 Infowars Ireland http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291530/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate approved a $63 billion bill on Monday that funds U.S. aviation programs for four years and authorizes new steps for the government to modernize the air traffic ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292589/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:05:10 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292589/ An article in Tuesday’s issue of The Times reports that New York City’s plans for a parade to celebrate the Giants’ Super Bowl victory have upset some returned Iraq veterans, who ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292171/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:04:12 -0500 New York Times http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292171/ SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Latin American currencies are on fire across the region. The Colombian peso, the Mexican peso and the Brazilian real are some of the strongest global currencies ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291503/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:02:20 -0500 CBS Marketwatch http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291503/ NEW YORK -- Mike D'Antoni shook his fists in the air as Jeremy Lin's clutch shot fell through the net. It wasn't just the basket that had D'Antoni giddy. It's the feeling ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291808/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:10 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291808/ American Apparel Inc. reported strong preliminary sales for January. The retailer, known for colorful basics and racy ads, said total sales last month rose 14% from a year earlier to $41.4 ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291864/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:05 -0500 Associated Press http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291864/ The Obama administration on Monday rejected California's plan to charge low-income Medi-Cal patients new copays for doctor and hospital visits beginning Oct. 1.The decision won praise from ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292581/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:02 -0500 Oakland Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292581/ White House someday, but he may face an uphill battle just staying in office back in Texas. The governor and his wife, Anita Perry, in their first interview since Perry dropped out of the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292611/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:59:26 -0500 Fox News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292611/ SEATTLE (Reuters) - The two young sons of a man who blew up his Washington state home, killing himself and his children, had recently begun to speak about their mother's 2009 disappearance, ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292582/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:25 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292582/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist at the center of a U.S. bribery scandal six years ago, said on Monday he does not want to publicly identify former associates because he ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292583/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:19 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292583/ (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has nominated Air Force Lieutenant General Janet Wolfenbarger to become the service's first woman four-star general, military officials said on ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292584/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:14 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292584/ Jared Lee Loughner the suspect in the attempted assassination of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, is shown in this Pima County Sheriff's Forensic Unit handout photograph released to ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292585/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:09 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292585/ (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday allowed the state of Texas to begin enforcing a law requiring abortion providers to show or describe to a woman an ultrasound image of her fetus, but criticized ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292586/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:57:03 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292586/ (Reuters) - A Michigan Republican Senate candidate's campaign ad showing an Asian actress speaking in halting English drew fire from Asian-American and civil rights groups on Monday who said ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292587/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:56:57 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292587/ MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A 27-year-old Ohio man pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges of helping raise money for al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia, prosecutors ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292588/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:56:52 -0500 Reuters http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292588/ The Transportation Security Administration took over aviation security after the attacks of Sept. 11. Bob Orr takes a rare look inside the training of the federal air marshals who were given the job ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293244/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:40 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293244/ Despite this winter shaping up to be one of the warmest in half a century, the cost of heating a home with oil is on the rise. Michelle Miller finds out ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293243/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:37 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293243/ With a landslide victory in Nevada, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has all the momentum he needs to propel him to a possible nomination. But as Jan Crawford reports, former ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293245/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:35 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293245/ As protestors clashed with Egyptian police, 17 Americans are facing charges of encouraging the unrest that has engulfed the country for nearly a year. Norah O'Donnell spoke with one of the ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292251/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:51:32 -0500 CBS News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292251/ Follow this company got more bad news Monday when a federal judge approved class-action status for a lawsuit accusing the bank and some of its senior executives and directors of ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291585/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:49:57 -0500 San Francisco Business Times http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291585/ Federal prosecutors say a Torrance, Calif.-based seafood corporation has been ordered to pay $1 million in fines and community service donations for falsely labeling frozen catfish fillets as ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292605/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:48:22 -0500 ABC News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292605/ Jahmell Crockam took a look around the courthouse, couldn't find his lawyer, then went home. He went to a friend's home in Lakewood, where he had a conversation with that friend's ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292607/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:48:17 -0500 ABC News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292607/ Milwaukee - MILWAUKEE -- Miller Brewing Company announced today it will donate up to $1 million to the American Red Cross to aid with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Miller will be donating ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292601/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:45:55 -0500 dBusiness News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292601/ NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (CBS) - The detainee who is seen being roughly treated by a North Chicago police officer in widely circulated surveillance video is speaking out for the first time. Whenever ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291267/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:44:56 -0500 CBS 2 Chicago http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291267/ Ritchie Capital Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund that says it lost hundreds of millions of dollars in the Petters Ponzi scheme, is suing Petters' outside legal firm, Minneapolis-based ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291746/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:40:07 -0500 Pioneer Press http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291746/ Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans hopes that continued discussions between the Catholic Church and the White House can break the current deadlock over the contraception mandate."I do ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292602/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:26:18 -0500 EWTN http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203292602/ The federal government took important steps to combat tobacco use in 2011, including extending quit-smoking benefits to federal employees, providing partial payment for states that offer tobacco ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291879/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:20:50 -0500 Amed News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203291879/ terms of a new EUR130bn bail-out , saying there would be no further rescue unless all Greek political parties signed up to the deal. Leaders of the three political parties in Greece's national ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293238/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:17:06 -0500 Financial Times http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203293238/ In its strongest language yet, the state has objected to plans for reconfiguring the center of Balboa Park and asked the National Park Service to intervene.Milford Wayne Donaldson, a former San ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287958/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:54:34 -0500 Sign on San Diego http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287958/ Clint Eastwood that played up the auto industry’s resurgence and called on the nation to come together and rebuild - a message taken in some quarters as an implicit endorsement of ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287959/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:29 -0500 Washington Times http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287959/ Washington o Targeting Iran's economy, the U.S. ordered tough new penalties Monday to further pinch the country's financial system and encourage Israel to give sanctions more time before ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287726/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:47:53 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287726/ Get ready for another round of pain at the pump: gas at $4 (or higher) a gallon. After rising 19 cents a gallon in the past four weeks, regular unleaded gasoline now averages $3.48 a gallon, vs. ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203288611/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:45:47 -0500 Chicago Sun-Times http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203288611/ POOF GO THE PROFITS: Companies in the S&P 500 earned an estimated 5.8 percent more last quarter than a year ago. Since the start of 2010, profits have grown five times as fast in an average ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286400/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:44:25 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286400/ CORRECTS SPELLING OF PETA ON SECOND REFERENCE- Jeffrey Kerr, general counsel for PETA, talks outside the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Courthouse in San Diego where a judge agreed to weigh the merits ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286968/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:30 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286968/ An American aid worker rescued by Navy SEALs in Somalia last month says she's thankful for the support she's received. Thirty-two-year-old Jessica Buchanan was rescued last month along ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287782/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:28 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287782/ NEWARK, N.J. -; A northern New Jersey man has admitted carjacking a 65-year-old grandmother, who was seriously injured when she became entangled in a seat belt and was dragged by the vehicle for ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287783/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:25 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287783/ NEW YORK -; A Brooklyn police officer trying to make extra money to buy a house pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy charges, admitting his central role in a smuggling case that involved guns, ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286321/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:20 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286321/ SAN FRANCISCO -; A federal appeals court plans to announce whether it thinks California's same-sex marriage ban violates the civil rights of gays and lesbians, and if the trial judge who ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287785/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:15 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287785/ In this undated photo provided by Chuck and Judy Cox, Chuck Cox plays with his grandsons, Charlie, right, and Braden, left. Charlie and Braden were killed along with their father, Josh Powell, on ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286909/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:06 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286909/ Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was convicted in 2006 on charges of fraud, corruption and conspiracy, speaks at Public Citizen, a consumer rights advocacy group, in Washington, Monday, Feb. 6, ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286826/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:43:02 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286826/ PORTLAND, Maine -; A tent city that's among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287786/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:42:58 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287786/ Havana (Prensa Latina) Facing the current international situation, with an euro zone in crisis and the US practically stagnant economically, the South American countries closed 2011 with better ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287794/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:39:23 -0500 Prensa Latina http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287794/ February 6, 2012 According to the libertarian social scientist Charles Murray, America is "coming apart at the seams." Class strain has cleaved society into two groups, he argues in his ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287789/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:37:42 -0500 NPR http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287789/ Most schools donate money and food to help the less fortunate.But nine teachers and administrators from Miami Lakes Middle School wanted to a bit more to help: They slept in front of the school in ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287509/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:34:29 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287509/ American Airlines may not know for weeks how many South Florida employees will lose their jobs under a proposal to lay off 13,000 people across the company, representatives said Monday.In a meeting ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286669/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:34:03 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203286669/ Former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz has been selected as one of four honorary regional chairmen for NewDEAL, a national network that seeks to highlight innovative ideas from stat and local elected leaders ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203288613/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:27:10 -0500 Hispanic Business Magazine http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203288613/ President Obama said he wants to exhaust all non-military means and lower the heat in the Mideast. "We have done extensive planning on all our various options in the Gulf. We are prepared to ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287759/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:23:56 -0500 Fox News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287759/ Clint Eastwood talking up Detroit and declaring "It's halftime in America." But as much as the extended ad tried to cast the Motor City in an uplifting light, Chrysler apparently ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287758/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:23:52 -0500 Fox News http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287758/ By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2012 – President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will honor Iraq War veterans and their ... http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287454/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:56 -0500 Defense Link http://story.houstonmirror.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/203287454/