WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will not allow the immediate closure of shipping locks to prevent invasive Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes. Read more at www.daily-journal.com
GENEVA (AP) — Red Cross federation estimates 45,000-50,000 dead in Haitian earthquake.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Source: Prosecutors will seek involuntary manslaughter indictment of Michael Jackson’s doctor.
KAILUA, Hawaii (AP) — Obama leaves golf abruptly for ’personal matter’; ambulance speeds to first family’s compound.
CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida in Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for attempted bombing of US airliner.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government and the window covering industry on Tuesday recalled more than 50 million Roman-style shades and roll-up blinds because of the risk children may be strangled by the cords.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said five deaths and 16 near-strangulations from Roman shades have been reported since 2006, while three deaths connected to roll-up blinds have been reported since 2001.
Roman shades can become dangerous, the CPSC said, if a child’s neck gets stuck between the exposed inner cord and the fabric on the backside of the blind, or if the cord gets wrapped around a child’s neck.
Roll-up blinds pose a strangulation threat if the lifting loop slides off the side of the blind and a child’s neck becomes entangled on it, or if a child neck’s gets between the lifting loop and the roll-up blind material. (more…)
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A person familiar with negotiations says Brian Kelly will be Notre Dame’s next football coach.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Official: Obama announcing that U.S. forces will start leaving Afghanistan in July 2011.
WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP) — Tiger Woods won’t play in his California golf tournament this week because of car crash injuries.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Person familiar with decision says Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis has been fired.
