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and entertainment stories that appeared on the Web while you were sleeping. Each installment is meant to be read during the time it takes to finish a single cup of coffee.

09/09/2011

Today I published the final issue of Night Owl News. After seven months of breaking news overnight, I'm putting the site on an indefinite hiatus.

The reason is simple: I've been offered a job as the overnight editor of The Huffington Post. I’m very excited about this opportunity and look forward to bringing my “just the facts” style of journalism to such a respected news outlet.

Thank you for reading Night Owl News and for supporting my efforts. It has been an honor to serve you.

Jade Walker

09/09/2011
Economists give Obama's jobs plan mixed reviews

Economists give Obama's jobs plan mixed reviews

President Obama 's proposed $447 billion package of tax cuts and infrastructure spending immediately prompted comparisons Thursday to the Recovery Act passed in early, although the cost amounts to a little more than half of the stimulus.

09/09/2011
Officials: 20,000 evacuated from Binghamton

Officials: 20,000 evacuated from Binghamton

The worst is yet to come. That was the message stressed this afternoon by state and county officials during a news conference regarding the flood event that leaders are saying is of “historical proportions.̶ Officials are urging residents in evacuation areas to get out now.

09/09/2011
New Fossils May Redraw Human Ancestry

New Fossils May Redraw Human Ancestry

An apelike creature with human features, whose fossil bones were discovered recently in a South African cave, is the most plausible known ancestor of archaic and modern humans, the scientists who discovered the fossils say.

09/08/2011
Historic Medicare fraud bust

Historic Medicare fraud bust

A coordinated strike by federal law enforcement resulted in the largest Medicare fraud bust in U.S. history. Eight cities were involved, stretching from New York to Los Angeles, and more than 90 people were arrested.

09/08/2011
FACT CHECK: Perry, Romney twist records in debate

FACT CHECK: Perry, Romney twist records in debate

WASHINGTON (AP) -- When Mitt Romney and Rick Perry thumped their chests over their job-creation records as governor during the Republican presidential debate Wednesday night, they left the bad parts out.

09/08/2011
Romney, Perry spar on jobs in presidential debate

Romney, Perry spar on jobs in presidential debate

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) -- Eager to tangle, Republican presidential rivals Rick Perry and Mitt Romney each laid claim to a better job-creating record as governor Wednesday night in a lively campaign debate that marked a new turn in the race to pick a 2012 challenger to President Barack Obama.

09/08/2011
Russian hockey team in air crash

Russian hockey team in air crash

A chartered jet carrying Russian ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashes on take-off near the central city of Yaroslavl, killing 43 people.

09/08/2011
Bill Richardson seeks release of American in Cuba

Bill Richardson seeks release of American in Cuba

The Obama administration says former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is traveling to Cuba to seek the release of an American government subcontractor sentenced to 15 years in prison for bringing communications equipment into the island country.

09/07/2011
What happened overnight?: September 7, 2011 | Night Owl News

What happened overnight?: September 7, 2011 | Night Owl News

Forest service officials are calling on firefighters from outside agencies to help battle fast-moving wildfires in Texas. In the past week, the fires have destroyed more than 1,000 homes.

09/07/2011
CDC data shows adult smoking rate down slightly

CDC data shows adult smoking rate down slightly

CHICAGO (AP) -- Fewer U.S. adults are smoking and those who do light up are smoking fewer ci******es each day, but the trend is weaker than the government had hoped.

09/07/2011
Vt. gov. seeks vacation homes for flood victims

Vt. gov. seeks vacation homes for flood victims

The three-bedroom structure, which had an attached garage and sunroom, once sat in a low-lying clearing next to the White River in Royalton.

09/07/2011
Vancouver police release internal riot review - British Columbia - CBC News

Vancouver police release internal riot review - British Columbia - CBC News

Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu says an internal review of the Stanley Cup riot indicates the department's response to the Stanley Cup riot was justified and insists there was no way to know trouble was brewing in the city's downtown.

09/06/2011
Mubarak trial resumes with fistfights and surprise testimony

Mubarak trial resumes with fistfights and surprise testimony

During a day of fistfights and raucous courtroom antics, a former senior state security official surprised the prosecution in the trial of Hosni Mubarak on Monday, testifying that he knew of no orders to shoot protesters during the revolution that overthrew the Egyptian president last winter.

09/06/2011
Iran offers new nuclear deal

Iran offers new nuclear deal

Iran offered on Monday to open its nuclear program to five years of "full supervision" by the U.N. atomic energy agency if the world body lifts its sanctions, but made clear that it would forge ahead with its programs for uranium enrichment regardless.

09/01/2011
What happened overnight?: September 1, 2011 | Night Owl News

What happened overnight?: September 1, 2011 | Night Owl News

Heavy rains in southwestern Nigeria caused the Odo Ona River to overflow and the Eleyele dam to collapse. More than 100 people perished and several homes were swept away when the floodwaters submerged buildings in the city of Ibadan. Most of the victims were children.

09/01/2011
Earliest Homo Erectus Tools Found in Kenya

Earliest Homo Erectus Tools Found in Kenya

A new geological study, being reported in the journal Nature, showed that tools from a site near Lake Turkana in Kenya were made about 1.76 million years ago.

09/01/2011
Top NASA scientist arrested at White House protest

Top NASA scientist arrested at White House protest

James Hansen: NASA's climate change expert, James Hansen, was among those arrested Monday at a protest outside the White House to oppose an oil pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas.

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