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Thousands line up for right to work legally in US

Written by Amy Taxin - ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 18:27

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Nathaly Uribe has all the papers she needs to get a work permit — something the 17-year-old daughter of a construction worker only dreamed of growing up as an illegal immigrant in the United States. The high school senior said she hopes a federal program beginning Wednesday that defers deportation for illegal immigrants will make it easier to get a decent job and help pay for college. "This is my country. It's where my roots are," said Uribe, who moved from Chile when she was a toddler and lives in Glen Burnie, Md. "It feels…

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Parents, players concerned about football program

Written by Brad Zimanek - ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:26

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — St. Jude's football program has had recent success, but not without charges of questionable conduct leveled against football coach Wade Manora and principal Wanda Twitty by parents and former players. In the past two years, Manora has had events in which players have signed "scholarships" to colleges that had not offered scholarships, had not recruited the players and in and least one instance, had never heard of St. Jude or Manora. "I have no knowledge of that happening," Twitty said. When specific instances of the questionable scholarship signing occurring were outlined for Twitty, she said she…

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2 sheriff's deputies dead, 2 hurt in La. shootout

Written by Kevin McGill - ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:24

LAPLACE, La. (AP) — Two sheriff's deputies in Louisiana were shot to death and two others were injured in an early morning shootout west of New Orleans, authorities said Thursday. The sheriff in St. John the Baptist Parish said five people are in custody. A tearful Sheriff Michael Tregre said the incident started when a gunman opened fire for unknown reasons on a deputy working an off-duty traffic detail along a highway that connects U.S. Highway 61 with the busy industrial corridor along the Mississippi River. That deputy was wounded. Tregre said someone called deputies with a description of a…

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Report: Drought intensifies in Kansas, Nebraska

Written by Jim Suhr - AP BUSINESS WRITER Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:22

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rains that eased or stabilized parched conditions in some key farming states haven't helped growers and ranchers in Kansas or Nebraska, where the severity of the drought continues to spike, a climate monitoring center showed Thursday. Storms that rolled through swaths of the nation's midsection last week offered some respite to farmers punished for months by the widest U.S. drought in decades. Nonetheless, rainfall so late in the growing season might not meaningfully improve yield expectations that the federal government has downgraded for two straight months. The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday showed that the…

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Romney campaign presses Medicare, Obama 'division'

Written by Ken Thomas and Steve Peoples - ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:20

NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is staying on the offensive in the increasingly heated debate over the future of Medicare, the health care program relied upon by millions of seniors. "The president was talking about Medicare yesterday. I'm excited about this," Romney's running mate, Paul Ryan, said Thursday. "This is a debate we want to have, this is a debate we need to have and this is a debate we're going to win." The Wisconsin congressman's addition to the GOP ticket this past weekend drew immediate scrutiny to a budget proposal he drafted that proposes…

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Firefighters progressing against So. Cal wildfires

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:15

RANCHITA, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters are making good progress against Southern California wildfires threatening more than 100 rural homes but a chance of afternoon thunderstorms is making them nervous. Thursday afternoon storms in the mountains and deserts could bring lightning and erratic winds. In San Diego County, a cluster of lightning fires is about 60 percent contained early Thursday after destroying more than 24 square miles of brush. However, evacuation orders remain in effect for more than 100 homes in Ranchita and San Felipe. In neighboring Riverside County, evacuation orders were lifted Wednesday for nearly 50 homes in the foothills…

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Justice Dept approves Verizon-cable deals

Written by Pete Yost and Peter Svensson - ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:44

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department's antitrust division on Thursday approved deals between Verizon Wireless and four of the nation's largest cable companies but applied conditions. Most significantly, the agency said it will not allow Verizon Wireless stores to sell cable TV and broadband services from Comcast Corp., Time Warner Cable Inc., Bright House Networks and Cox Communications in areas where its parent company, Verizon Communications Inc., sells its own TV and broadband service, FiOS. When it comes to home broadband, Verizon's FiOS provides the only significant competition to cable in many areas. Yet FiOS is costly to build out,…

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UN council OKs new Syria office after observers go

Written by Edith M. Lederer - ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:40

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council will let the U.N. military observer mission's mandate in Syria expire Sunday and will back a new civilian office there to support U.N. and Arab League efforts to end the country's 18-month conflict. France's U.N. Ambassador Gerard Araud, the current Security Council president, said Thursday that members agreed to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's proposal for a liaison office. Araud said the council agreed that conditions set for possibly extending the mission of the unarmed observers past Sunday were not met. He says there was no halt to the Syrian government's use of heavy…

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Pathologist: Drew Peterson's 3rd wife was murdered

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:38

JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A pathologist who performed a second autopsy on Drew Peterson's third wife years after she was found dead in her bathtub says the only plausible explanation for her death is that she was murdered. Larry Blum described to jurors Thursday how Kathleen Savio had a gash on the back of her head and fresh bruises on her front. He says an accidental fall couldn't have caused injuries on both sides of her body. Peterson has pleaded not guilty to killing Savio in 2004. Authorities initially ruled her death accidental. Blum performed his autopsy after Peterson's fourth…

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Facebook hits new low as IPO lock-up ends

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:33

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's stock plunged to a new low Thursday after the expiration of a ban that had prevented some early investors and insiders from dumping millions of additional shares they own in the social-networking leader. Firms ranging from Accel Partners to Goldman Sachs, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and Facebook board members James Breyer, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman were among those free to sell stock they own, after the lifting of a ban known as a lock-up period. If many of them took advantage of that, Facebook's stock could decline because the market would be flooded with…

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