Death by merger: Almost time to say bye-bye to Continental
How do airlines die? Somewhat slowly but surely, in the case of Continental Airlines.
The October 2010 merger with United Airlines means Continental planes and flight codes are on their way to the aviation graveyard alongside Pan Am, TWA and other big-time carriers. (Nostalgia buffs take heart: the "Pan Am" TV series is set to start 10 p.m. Sept. 25 on ABC.)
United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson explains what happens next.
First planes get rebranded as United (which has been ongoing), then the Federal Aviation Administration issues a "single operating certificate" (which should happen by the end of the year) and finally Continental's reservation website and flight codes will cease to exist (end of the first quarter 2012).
NASA launches moon research mission
CNN) -- After a couple of weather delays, NASA finally launched its moon research mission Saturday morning.
Called GRAIL, the effort will study how the moon was formed. It will explore "the structure of the lunar interior, from crust to core... to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of the moon," NASA said.
Two lunar orbiters are aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The crafts -- GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B -- will eventually separate from the Delta rocket. GRAIL stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.
Once in orbit, the orbiters' speeds will increase when they pass over formations on the moon's surface, allowing scientists to measure those formations based on the distance between the two spacecraft.
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Drunken moose ends up stuck in Swedish apple tree
(CNN) -- It was a dark, windy and rainy night when Per Johansson returned from work to his home in Saro just south of Gothenburg, Sweden.
"It was raining really bad. In the wind I heard something screaming with a very dark voice," Johansson told CNN. "At first I wondered if it was the crazy neighbors, but then I heard it again and went and checked. I saw something really big up in a tree in my neighbors' yard and it was a moose. It must have been drunk after eating fermented apples and as it was reaching out for more fruit it must have slipped and fallen into the tree."
Johansson called the local fire and rescue department, which responded with a fire engine and a jeep with a winch.
"We got the alarm at 9.59 p.m. on September 6 that a moose was stuck in a tree," said Anders Gardhagen, spokesman at the Gothenburg Fire and Rescue Services.
"When we arrived we used the winch to bend down the apple tree so the moose could get himself out of the tree. Once free, the moose collapsed on the ground and fell asleep. So we let him sleep it off and went back home" Gardhagen told CNN.
Raiders’ Janikowski Charged With Assault
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: September 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM Est
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski was charged with assaulting a woman a year ago in Walnut Creek, the Contra Costa Times reported.
According to court records obtained by the newspaper (http://bit.ly/qCTvnp), the woman said the 33-year-old player used force against her on Sept. 24, 2010, but she did not report what happened at the time. The paper said Janikowski was charged with misdemeanor battery andfalse imprisonment.
"This incident occurred over a year ago, Sebastian was not arrested, we were aware of this matter and this is not news," Raiders CEO Amy Trask said in a statement.
Walnut Creek police Sgt. Lanny Edwards told The Associated Press on Saturday he had no information about the case. The District Attorney's office was closed.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 18 months behind bars and $3,000 fine. Attorneys for both parties had a pretrial conference Thursday and no trial date has been set, the Contra Costa Times said.
On Monday night, Janikowski tied an NFL record with a 63-yard field goal in Oakland's opener.
Thrills, chills at air show
The California Capital Airshow returned to Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova this weekend.
Featured attractions include the F-15 Strike Eagle and F/A-18 Hornet demonstration teams.
Attendees at Saturday's show were treated to a colorful salute by members of the Patriot Jet Team at the close of their aerobatic performance in sleek, black L-39 jets.
Action continues today with military and civilian performers, vintage aircraft in the air and displays on the ground at the former Air Force base.
Iran frees jailed US hiker 'spies' Bauer and Fattal
The hikers' release has been negotiated against a backdrop of tension between Washington and Tehran
A pair of Americans convicted as spies and jailed in Iran for two years have been released and emotionally reunited with their loved ones.
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, both 29, were flown to Oman after being freed on bail from Evin prison.
They were sentenced in September to eight years in prison on charges of spying.
They were arrested in 2009 after crossing into Iran from Iraq, where they said they were hiking.
Troy Davis executed in Georgia amid innocence protests
Death row inmate Troy Davis has been executed in the US state of Georgia for the fatal shooting of policeman Mark MacPhail in 1989.
Davis' death was delayed for hours while the US Supreme Court considered an eleventh-hour appeal for clemency.
The 42-year-old's case was heavily disputed after most of the witnesses recanted or changed their testimony.
White Supremacist Gang Member Executed for Dragging Texas Man
Published September 21, 2011
| Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS – A white supremacist gang member was executed Wednesday evening for the infamous dragging death slaying of a black man.
James Byrd Jr., 49, was chained to the back of a pickup truck and pulled whip-like to his death along a bumpy asphalt road in one of the most grisly hate crime murders in recent Texas history.
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, was asked if he had any final words, to which he replied: "No. I have no final statement." A single tear hung on the edge of his right eye.
Kaiser officials say they're ready for Thursday's nurses' strike
A top Kaiser official in Sacramento said her hospitals are prepared for the massive one-day nurses' walkout set for Thursday.
Some 17,000 Kaiser nurses are among the 23,000 nurses represented by the powerfulCalifornia Nurses Association expected to walk picket lines in the Bay area and Sacramento, in what union officials said is the nation's largest-ever nurses' strike.
Michele Bachmann Can't Win, HuffPost-Patch GOP Power Outsiders Say
WASHINGTON -- Less than six weeks after winning the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is all but finished as a viable contender in the eyes of politically-engaged Republican activists in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. That's the message of the latest Power Outsiders poll conducted by The Huffington Post and Patch.
Nearly half of the influential local Republicans we surveyed in the early primary states report a generally negative impression of Bachmann, and more than two thirds see little or no chance that Bachmann can either beat Barack Obama or win the Republican nomination.
This week, our HuffPost-Patch Power Outsiders poll of 160 political activists, party officials and officeholders in the early primary and caucus states focuses on Bachmann. The poll does not survey all Republican voters, but rather attempts to listen in on the "invisible primary" underway among influential local activists and political insiders that has historically driven the outcome of party nomination campaigns. This week, we heard from 38 Power Outsiders in Iowa, 57 in New Hampshire and 65 in South Carolina.
Italy crush Russia in Rugby World Cup as captain Sergio Parisse shines
• Italy 53-17 Russia
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The Italy captain Sergio Parisse was inspirational for his side as they comfortably beat Russia 53-17 in their Rugby World Cup Pool C match at Trafalgar Park.
Parisse was instrumental in at least three of Italy's six first-half tries, scoring the first and setting up two others as the clinical Italians dominated the forward exchanges to record 50 points for the first time in a World Cup match.
Parisse said after the final whistle: "We are very happy to take the victory and the five points. We scored some tries and we take confidence in our attack but our defence must improve because the USA and Ireland will be very hard."
Woman’s Cyber-Stalker
Turns Out to Be Own
Boyfriend
Ruth Jeffery, 22, a student at Loughborough University in England, spent years receiving detailed messages that lead her to believe she was being watched, receiving explicit photos and videos, and having her Facebook account hacked, according to The Guardian.
She never suspected the offender was her boyfriend Shane Webber, 22, and now she wants him in jail.
Sac State police investigate alleged indecent exposure in the Library
The Sacramento State Police Department is investigating an indecent exposure allegation that occurred Tuesday afternoon in the University Library.
The incident was reported at 2:30 p.m. when a female student informed campus police that a male in the library had exposed himself at approximately 1 p.m. that day.
The suspect was described to police as being 5 feet 6 inches tall, 180 pounds and in his early 20s with dark skin and buzzed dark hair. He was last seen wearing a forest green T-shirt, with white and blue plaid shorts and brown skate-style shoes.
Skydiver Robert Raecke Removes Parachute In Midair To Commit Suicide: Police
NORTHUMBERLAND, N.Y. (Associated Press / The Huffington Post) -- Police say a veteran skydiver left a suicide note before intentionally shedding his parachute in midair and falling to his death in a New York farm field.
Saratoga County Sheriff's Investigator Rick Capasso says 60-year-old Robert Raecke, of Duanesburg, unbuckled the chute after jumping from a plane at about 8,000 feet on Sunday. His body was found in a field in the Saratoga County town of Northumberland, 35 miles north of Albany.
Even though he endorsed the idea, Gov. Jerry Brown today vetoed one of the more innocuous bills of the legislative session, a measure to require the Department of Parks and Recreation to post information on its website before closing a state park.
That didn't need a law, Brown wrote in his veto message. He then criticized Senate Bill 386's author, Sen.Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach.
"What the parks do need is sufficient funding to stay open -- something I feel compelled to note the author and his colleagues refused to let the people vote on," the Democratic governor wrote.
Brown also vetoed two other bills -- Senate Bill 847, which would have restricted the location of medicinal marijuana dispensaries, and Senate Bill 715, which had to do with annuity transactions. In his veto messages, he wrote that decisions about dispensaries "are best made in cities and counties" and called the other bill "virtually identical" to one he had already signed.
Mom Shanla Sutherland Arrested When 3-Year-Old Fires Shotgun Into Car's Roof
A mother was arrested shortly after her 3-year-old busted up her drug deal by firing a 12-gauge shotgun into the roof of her companion's car in Marietta, Ga.
Shania Sutherland allegedly brought the toddler and a 5-year-old while she negotiated a deal for prescription pills in a parking lot on Sept. 6 when the tot picked up the Mossberg and blasted a hole in the roof of a Chrysler Town & Country minivan, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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