http://www.centredaily.com/nation/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Centredaily.com en-us Copyright 2011 Centredaily.com Nation 60 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:43 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive Workbench support@centredaily.com http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912530/australian-waiving-extradition.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912530/australian-waiving-extradition.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:44 EDT An Australian fugitive wanted on charges of placing a fake bomb around a woman's neck is waiving extradition and is expected to return to his home country to face charges. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912038/tsa-officers-arrested-on-drug.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912038/tsa-officers-arrested-on-drug.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:59 EDT Three federal Transportation Security Administration officers and two other law enforcement officers were arrested on charges of accepting cash or gift cards in exchange for permitting prescription drug dealers to move tens of thousands of highly addictive painkiller pills and cash proceeds from the illegal sales through airports and highways. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912571/australian-waiving-extradition.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912571/australian-waiving-extradition.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:13 EDT An Australian fugitive wanted on charges of placing a fake bomb around a woman's neck in an attempt to extort money from her millionaire father plans to waive extradition and return to his home country to face charges. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912286/lightning-sets-southern-calif.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912286/lightning-sets-southern-calif.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:03 EDT Lightning strikes set palm trees ablaze in Southern California desert areas as thunderstorms quickly rolled across the region. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912030/4-face-arson-hate-crime-trial.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912030/4-face-arson-hate-crime-trial.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:08 EDT Four people have been ordered to stand trial on charges they torched an 11-foot cross outside the California central coast home of a black teenager. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912256/nypd-city-still-on-high-alert.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912256/nypd-city-still-on-high-alert.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:33 EDT New York City police say security measures put in place for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks have been scaled back. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911893/us-lifts-sanctions-on-israeli.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911893/us-lifts-sanctions-on-israeli.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:23 EDT The United States narrowed sanctions applied over an oil tanker sold to Iran last year by affiliates of an Israeli holding company, saying Tuesday that the affiliates should have known better. The sale caused an outcry in Israel, which counts Iran as its mortal enemy and has urged strong international trade and financial sanctions to restrict Iran's lucrative oil business and international trade. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912185/ufo-abduction-figure-dies-at-80.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912185/ufo-abduction-figure-dies-at-80.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:23 EDT Charles E. Hickson Sr., whose claimed 1973 abduction by a UFO drew widespread attention, has died. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912549/day-care-worker-charged-in-ohio.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912549/day-care-worker-charged-in-ohio.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:48 EDT Authorities say an Ohio home day-care worker has been charged with reckless homicide and child endangering in the death of a baby left in a parked sport-utility vehicle on a hot summer day. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911713/light-earthquakes-strike-near.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911713/light-earthquakes-strike-near.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:51 EDT A magnitude 4.0 earthquake has struck near the New Mexico-Colorado border, rattling residents in both states. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912069/senate-panel-approves-freeze-in.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912069/senate-panel-approves-freeze-in.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:49 EDT A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a freeze in defense spending at $513 billion for the next military budget, including a $1.6 billion cut in funds that the Pentagon says it doesn't need for Afghanistan security forces even as the U.S. Embassy in Kabul came under attack. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912395/boundary-waters-fire-hits-60000.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912395/boundary-waters-fire-hits-60000.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:18 EDT Residents of a small Minnesota town were braced for possible evacuation Tuesday after strong winds whipped a forest fire into a blaze that covered about 93 square miles in the northeastern part of the state. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911627/small-cities-struggle-to-pay-for.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911627/small-cities-struggle-to-pay-for.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:16 EDT The memorial started with a steel beam salvaged from the World Trade Center - a small piece of the terrorist attacks that the city of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was determined to honor in its own way. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912318/fbi-makes-arrest-in-ny-for-airline.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912318/fbi-makes-arrest-in-ny-for-airline.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:48 EDT A New York woman being treated for an undisclosed mental condition was charged with calling in a false bomb threat to an Arizona airport because she did not want her mother and brother to fly on a commercial airliner near Sept. 11, federal authorities said Tuesday. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912042/pa-woman-loses-job-after-donating.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912042/pa-woman-loses-job-after-donating.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:23 EDT A Philadelphia woman says she lost her job after taking off time to donate a kidney to her son. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912275/ag-holder-honors-victims-of-sept.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912275/ag-holder-honors-victims-of-sept.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:53 EDT Attorney General Eric Holder and other officials are paying tribute in Washington to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911974/ntsb-trucker-on-phone-at-time.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911974/ntsb-trucker-on-phone-at-time.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:28 EDT No cellphones while driving, period. That's the rule the National Transportation Safety Board wants for the nation's more than 2.8 million truckers and bus drivers. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912226/va-county-school-board-sued-over.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912226/va-county-school-board-sued-over.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:58 EDT Civil-liberties groups are suing a southwest Virginia school board for posting the Ten Commandments, contending that the display violates the Constitution's guarantee of separation of church and state. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912575/libyan-rebels-seek-un-representation.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2912575/libyan-rebels-seek-un-representation.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:18 EDT The new president of the U.N. General Assembly says Libya's rebel leaders sent a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon saying the National Transitional Council wants to represent the country at the United Nations. http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911860/illinois-teen-charged-in-parents.html http://www.centredaily.com/2011/09/13/2911860/illinois-teen-charged-in-parents.html Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:04 EDT Blood splattered the walls, ceiling and floor in the bedroom where a suburban Chicago couple were found dead after their son called 911. The teen told police he'd been home asleep, heard nothing during the brutal beating and awoke to the gruesome scene.