Archive for February, 2010

Marie Osmond’s son, Michael Blosil, left note saying he was depressed before committing suicide

Before Marie Osmond’s 18-year-old son leaped to his death, he texted a friend tell her there was a note waiting for her in his apartment.

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White House OK on health care with or without GOP (AP)

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, Democrat leaders, from left, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., with Vice President Joe Biden, and President Barack Obama take part in health care reform meeting at the Blair House in Washington.  Obama, Democrats and Republicans fought about a health care overhaul they've debated for a year. They broke no new ground and the gridlock that has paralyzed Washington, and infuriated the public, was on full display. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP – The White House’s top health care official is optimistic that Democrats will have the votes to pass a major health care overhaul.


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Iraqi PM defends ban of candidates before vote (AP)

Iraqi Christians protest in Baghdad to denounce violence against Christians in Mosul. Dozens of Christians demonstrated to vent their anger over poor security in the wake of a series of killings of Christians in northern Iraq.(AFP/Sabah Arar)AP – Iraq’s prime minister on Sunday defended a decision to ban hundreds of candidates from the upcoming election, saying the decision was not intended to target the country’s minority Sunni population.


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Al-Qaida bomber calls for attacks on Jordan spies (AP)

This image provided by IntelCenter Sunday Feb. 28, 2010 shows Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi in a posthumous video message posted on extremist Web sites Sunday. The al-Qaida double agent that killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian spy called for jihad in Jordan and attacks on its intelligence agency said he had only expected to kill his Jordanian handler, Ali bin Zeid, but the addition of the CIA members was a windfall. (AP Photo/IntelCenter) MANDATORY CREDITAP – An al-Qaida double agent that killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian spy called for jihad in Jordan and attacks on its intelligence agency in a posthumous video message posted on extremist Web sites Sunday.


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Rescuers struggle to save lives after Chile quake (AP)

Firemen work on a destroyed building in Concepcion, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, after a devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday Feb. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)AP – Rescuers edged their way toward residents trapped in a toppled apartment block early Sunday and survivors huddled around bonfires in the rubble of their homes as the death toll in Chile continued to rise after one of the strongest earthquakes in history.


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Tsunami warning lifted; Waves reach Japan, Russia (AP)

Houses are flooded in seawater in a section of Kesennuma, northern Japan on Sunday Feb. 28, 2010. Japan, fearing the tsunami could gain force as it moved closer, put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert Sunday and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves generated by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP – The tsunami from Chile’s deadly earthquake hit Japan’s main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Hawaii and other Pacific islands were also spared.


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Dozen hurt at party as atrium collapses

An atrium weighed down with snow and ice collapsed Saturday during a ritzy midtown party showering hundreds of revelers with glass, cops and witnesses said.

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