Posts Tagged ‘finds’

Jury finds Afghan family guilty in honor killings (AP)

Mohammad Shafia reacts as he his led away from the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ont., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012, after being found guilty of first degree murder of his three daughters and childless first wife. A jury took 15 hours to find Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder in a case so shocking it has riveted Canadians from coast to coast. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)AP – A jury on Sunday found three members of an Afghan family guilty of killing three teenage sisters and another woman in what the judge described as “cold-blooded, shameful murders” resulting from a “twisted concept of honor,” ending a case that shocked and riveted Canadians.


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NASA finds 26 new planets

The known universe just got a little bigger.

Scientists at NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission announced the discovery of 26 planets in 11 differet solar systems on Thursday, Reuters reports.

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Council finds states weakening teacher tenure (AP)

AP – America’s public school teachers are seeing their generations-old tenure protections weakened as states seek flexibility to fire teachers who aren’t performing. A few states have essentially nullified tenure protections altogether, according to an analysis being released Wednesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.

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Ship search finds 12th body, captain’s documents (AP)

An Italian fireman descends from an helicopter to the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. The cruise captain who grounded the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast with 4,200 people on board did not relay correct information either to the company or crew after the ship hit rocks, the cruise ship owner's CEO said as the search resumed for 21 missing passengers. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP – Divers plumbing the capsized Costa Concordia’s murky depths pulled out the body of a woman in a life vest Saturday, while scuba-diving police swam through the captain’s cabin to retrieve a safe and documents belonging to the man who abandoned the cruise liner after it was gashed by a rocky reef on the Tuscan coast.


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Dustin Hoffman finds ‘Luck’ on television

Dustin Hoffman, the latest in a growing army of major movie actors who are doing television shows or series, says the reason is that movies no longer let actors do “their best work.”

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King James finds his queen: LeBron gets engaged

LeBron James proposed to his long-time girlfriend Savannah Brinson at a party to celebrate New Year’s Eve and his 27th birthday, which was Friday, The Associated Press reports.

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Audit: NYC city not monitoring school food contracts  Controller finds $400,000 in waste 

The city spends a lot of cheddar on overpriced school food, a city controller’s audit has found.

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