[U.S.] Authorities search for Florida man after massive sinkhole swallows bedroom

Authorities search for Florida man after massive sinkhole swallows bedroom
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2013/03/01/tampa-area-man-swallowed-by-sinkhole
A large sinkhole opened under the bedroom of a house near Tampa, trapping a 36-year-old man in the rubble. The home collapsed late Thursday in a Seffner neighborhood.

Congress Leaders to Meet With Obama as US Budget Cuts Begin
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/questions-answers-sequester/story?id=18623605
President Barack Obama's meeting with congressional leaders today won't yield a breakthrough to avert $85 billion in federal spending cuts set to start before midnight, members of both parties say.

White House vs. Woodward
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/01/173225968/woodward-white-house-dislikes-being-challenged-or-crossed
For committing a cardinal sin of liberals - blaspheming the current occupant of the White House - this hero to journalists, the man who brought down Richard Nixon, is now being called a “laughingstock.

Tips for dealing with workplace bullying
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/growing-push-halt-workplace-bullying-18625977
More than a third of U.S. workers have experienced workplace bullying, the repeated mistreatment by a boss or co-workers, which includes verbal abuse, threatening conduct, intimidation, harassment or social exclusion, according to the Workplace Bullying ...

Bradley Manning Says He Leaked To Wikileaks To Spark Public Debate
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Army-GI-says-he-leaked-secrets-to-spark-war-debate-4319607.php
FORT MEADE, Md. -- After almost three years in custody, the Army private accused in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S.

Scalia's slam of the Voting Rights Act is a bar-stool rant
http://www.kentucky.com/2013/03/01/2536982/contempt-for-congress.html
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his comments during oral arguments over a challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act displayed all the mental acuity of a third-tier talk radio ...

Gay-rights groups, others react to the Obama administration's Prop 8 filing
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/1/gay-rights-groups-others-react-obama-administratio/
Gay rights groups erupted with praise as the Obama administration entered the legal battle over California's ban on same-sex nuptials late Thursday - a development that dismayed supporters of traditional marriage.

Massachusetts woman sues FedEx after marijuana package, followed by ...
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/02/28/55278.htm
PLYMOUTH, Mass. - A Massachusetts woman is suing FedEx, saying the company erroneously sent her a package containing seven pounds of marijuana, then gave her address to the intended recipients who later showed up at her door.

Michelle Obama On That Oscar Cameo
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/03/01/michelle-obama-addresses-cameo-at-the-oscars/
The White House: First Lady Michelle Obama announces the Best Picture Oscar to “Argo” live from the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, in this February 24, 2013.

Army Chief on budget cuts: "I can't train 80% of my units"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57571995/army-chief-on-budget-cuts-i-cant-train-80-of-my-units/
(CBS News) Congressional leaders from both parties will meet with President Obama Friday but there is little sign an agreement will be reached to avoid the heavy, automatic spending cuts known as the sequester.

Rothfus Refuses to Expand Violence Against Women Act
http://nation.time.com/2013/02/27/whats-wrong-with-the-violence-against-women-act/
If you read the press release from Congressman Keith Rothfus's office, you would believe that he thinks it is “important to prevent and prosecute violence against women.

Why Women (and Media) Love to Pick on Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer
http://www.thestar.com/life/2013/02/28/facebook_coo_sheryl_sandberg_and_the_coming_lean_in_moment.html
I recently heard a crazy rumor about President Obama. According to unnamed sources, he works from home. In fact, these sources claim that throughout his first term most of his time in Washington was spent in his great, big, taxpayer-funded White House, ...

Two arrested in shooting at Dudley Square T stop
http://www.wggb.com/2013/03/01/1-dead-2-charged-in-shooting-at-boston-bus-stop/
Two men are under arrest after Thursday night's deadly shooting at an MBTA bus stop in Roxbury, the Boston Police Department said.

French Montana Shooting, Air Bag Thefts, NJ Charter Schools to Close
http://iradiophilly.com/conversation.php?idConversation=2011
A shooting after a rap concert at the TLA last night left one man dead and one hospitalized. Rapper, French Montana left the TLA in his tour bus after the show headed for the Holiday Inn Express on Columbus near Race Street.

Field Poll: California voters favor legalizing pot for recreational use
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Legal-pot-favored-in-new-California-poll-4312545.php
California voters favor legalizing pot for recreational use, strongly support the existence of medical marijuana dispensaries and want the feds to butt out of the California cannabis business.