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Help at hand when elderly relative's health fails

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By JIM FITZGERALDAssociated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Marnie Schwartz was in California, a lawyer raising two toddlers. She was in no position to move across the country to care for her mother, who was living alone in New York and whose health was beginning to decline. Schwartz's dilemma

Annual bird counts give scientists climate clues

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTIAssociated Press MAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) - Armed with flashlights, recordings of bird calls, a small notebook and a stash of candy bars, scientist Rich Kostecke embarked on an annual 24-hour Christmastime count of birds along the Texas Gulf Coast. Yellow rail. Barn owl.

Crowd-funding draws donations for Sandy relief

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By BRETT ZONGKERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, some who lost their homes or businesses have turned to crowd-funding websites to elicit a faster and more direct response than they could expect from the government or traditional charities. While

Bay of Pigs veterans remember release from Cuba

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

MIAMI (AP) - Veterans from the failed Bay of Pigs invasion are celebrating 50 years since their release from Cuba. The first planeload of prisoners arrived at Homestead Air Force Base on Dec. 23, 1962. Some survivors from those flights planned a reunion Saturday at the Bay of Pigs Museum in Miami

Don't be fooled by January pay _ higher taxes loom

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By STEPHEN OHLEMACHERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Workers probably won't feel the full brunt of next year's tax increases in their January paychecks, but don't be fooled by the temporary reprieve. No matter what Congress does to address the year-end fiscal cliff, it's already

2 bombers target mobile phone firms in Nigeria

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By SALISU RABIU and YINKA IBUKUNAssociated Press KANO, Nigeria (AP) - Authorities blame a radical Islamist sect for twin suicide car bombings targeting two major mobile phone companies, an official said Saturday, blacking out a top operator's network in most of Nigeria's northern commercial

Feds, shuttered NM peanut butter plant reach deal

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By JERI CLAUSINGAssociated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A peanut butter plant shuttered by a widespread salmonella outbreak has been given the go ahead to start harvesting a bumper crop of prized eastern New Mexico Valencia peanuts next week under an agreement that ends a tense, monthslong

2 adults fatally shot inside Alabama nightclub

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) - A police captain says two people have been shot to death inside a nightclub in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala. Hoover police Capt. Jim Coker tells Al.com (http://bit.ly/UPLtlX ) that the two people were pronounced dead at the scene. The shootings happened around 11:30 p.m. EST at

Predicting who's at risk for violence isn't easy

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By LINDSEY TANNERAP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) - It happened after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo., and now Sandy Hook: People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible - partly because as

Over the fiscal cliff: Soft landing or dizzy dive?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 22nd

By CONNIE CASSAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Efforts to save the nation from going over a year-end "fiscal cliff" were in disarray as lawmakers fled the Capitol for their Christmas break. "God only knows" how a deal can be reached now, House Speaker John Boehner declared. President Barack Obama