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Quake risk to reactors far higher than realized The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought â€" a quarter of reactors may need safety improvements, nuke regulator says. Perry pushed bill that could boost doctor's firm Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who underwent an experimental stem cell treatment, pushed through a bill paving the way for a company co-owned by his doctor to be the first state-approved "bank" to store such cells for medical treatment. Crews work to contain Texas wildfire Firefighters work to keep a Texas wildfire from threatening any more neighborhoods before the typically busy unofficial end-of-summer weekend. Professor allegedly led gang, drug ring A university professor suspected of leading a motorcycle gang and methamphetamine drug ring is wanted for arrest in California, authorities say. Tropical warnings for US Gulf coast over storm New Orleans initiated emergency procedures after forecasters warned that a weather system in the Gulf could dump up to 10 inches on the flood-prone city, and up to 20 inches elsewhere. Slum transformed in 9/11 victim's memory A once-notorious slum in Manila, Philippines, is now an orderly village after 9/11 victim Marie Rose Abad's husband decided to help the people there in her memory. Virginia city limits Confederate flag-flying A rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson are buried voted to limit the flying of the Confederate flag on poles on several downtown streets. What's in a name for Casey Anthony? Lies and imaginary friends permeated Casey Anthony’s first-degree murder trial this summer. Now that it’s over and Anthony roams free, the fantasies are coming back to haunt her. 9/11 firefighters have higher cancer risk Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center have a 19 percent higher risk of getting cancer of all kinds than colleagues who were not exposed, U.S. researchers said Thursday. Sister: Naked hanging in mansion ruled suicide Investigators have ruled that a woman who was found hanging naked from a second-floor balcony at a historic California mansion with her wrists and ankles bound committed suicide, the woman's sister said Thursday. Group hacked Texas law enforcement sites The group known as Anonymous claims it briefly took over the website of a Texas police chiefs group and hacked into the email accounts of more than two dozen Texas law enforcements agencies or officials. Restaurant's $48,000 giveaway now $800,000 White House Restaurant owner Bruno Serato planned to only give away 12 luncheons, but he decided to award luncheons to nearly every non-profit organization that applied. Hacker gets 6-year sentence in 'sextortion' case A Southern California man was sentenced Thursday to six years in prison for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatening to put them online unless they provided him with more. Mistrial declared in CA gay student killing trial At the outset, prosecutors presented it as a slam-dunk case of murder: Brandon McInerney, driven by homophobic rage, shot a gay classmate in the back of the head during a school class. GOP gun raffle in Giffords' county draws criticism The Republican Party in Representative Gabrielle Giffords' home county is raising eyebrows by raffling off a Glock handgun â€" the same brand handgun with which Giffords, a Democrat, was shot through the head in January. Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032524/device/rss/rss.xml

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