COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State Univeristy football coach Jim Tressel has resigned as the NCAA investigates the Buckeyes for possible rules violations. As the university announced the resignation Monday, a statement from Tressel said he met with university officials and agreed that it is in Ohio State’s best interest that he resign. Luke Fickell, an [...]
Archives: May 2011
May 31, 2011
May 31, 2011
Schumer Targets Rental Car Recalls
ALBANY, N.Y. — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said he will introduce a bill to stop car rental agencies from renting automobiles that are under recalls for problems that aren’t yet fixed. The industry this month proposed a two-tiered system in which cars would be kept off the road if the recall involved [...]
May 31, 2011
Cowboy Outlaw’s Gun Upstages Capone’s at Auction
Call it the shootout at the gun auction corral: One of 20th-century Al Capone’s guns is expected to sell for up to $115,000 next month. But a sidearm of a marauder from the previous century is expected to shoot down the price for the Chicago mobster’s Colt .38, according to news reports about a private [...]
May 31, 2011
CBS: Vermont Enacts Single Payer Health Law
This past week, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill creating a single-payer healthcare plan for the Green Mountain State – making it the first state to do so, according to a report by CBS News. At the signing ceremony, Shumlin announced: “This law recognizes an economic and fiscal imperative – that we must control [...]
May 31, 2011
Pentagon Opposes Plan to End Missile Defense System
The House is making some moves to cut defense spending in an effort to rein in the exploding budget deficit. But the Pentagon isn’t too happy about some of that effort, The Hill reports. In particular, the Defense Department has come out against a House-approved proposal that possibly would end a missile defense system the [...]
May 31, 2011
Cantor: Cut Budget Elsewhere to Pay for Joplin Aid
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor supports government efforts to help Missouri after nearly 150 people were killed in Joplin when a massive tornado leveled much of the city this month. But other areas of the budget should be cut to make up for that assistance, The Hill reports him as saying. Congress will approve federal [...]
May 31, 2011
OMB Forced Out Report Critical of GOP Budget
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) took a swipe at a budget plan offered by House Republicans three months ago. And now it has been discovered that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) counteracted that move, The Hill reports. On Feb. 18, an NLRB official published a press release titled, “Top NLRB officials respond [...]
May 31, 2011
Army General Laments Suicide Risk Among Troubled Soldiers
Memorial Day marks a holiday when Americans recall sacrifices troops have made to keep the country free. They also are saluting those who have served and continue to serve the country during 10 years of brutal fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli expressed his particular concern [...]
May 31, 2011
Giffords’ Staffers Strive to Fulfill Her Vow of Service
The January shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has put an added burden on her staff as it works to meet her goal of having the best constituent services in Congress. Her office received about four times more constituent requests than the average for other offices in the 111th Congress, Democratic House leaders estimated, according [...]
May 31, 2011
May 30, 2011
Children of Fallen Troops Turn to Each Other
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than 4,300 children have lost a parent in the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. Many of these kids say it’s difficult in part because they live in an area where no one else they know has lost someone in the recent wars. Several hundred of them have gathered for Memorial Day [...]
May 30, 2011
Churches Aim to Restore Organ after Terror Attacks
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — A pipe organ that had been housed inside a New York church ruined by dust from the Sept. 11 terror attacks may soon have a new home in Georgia. The massive pipe organ from Trinity Wall Street is being donated to Johns Creek United Methodist Church outside Atlanta. It hasn’t [...]
May 30, 2011
May 30, 2011
Mars Colonization Attracts Popular Support
A one-way ticket to Mars does not seem like something that would get many takers. However, when two scientists brought up the idea in the Journal of Cosmology, more than 1,000 people said they would be willing to help colonize the Red Planet, The Washington Post reports. Paul Davies of Arizona State University and Dirk [...]