http://news.yamour.com News headlines from all sources http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079052/Britney-Spears--ex-sentenced-to-jail.html LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib is being sent to jail for 45 days for leaving the scene of an accident.... Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079051/Q-amp-A--Debut-CD-from-Wale-taps-into-his-emotions.html NEW YORK (AP) -- Wale wanted to infuse his debut album with a woman's touch, so the rapper recruited singing divas like Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Chrisette Michele and Jazmine Sullivan to get that feeling across.... Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079050/Fans-mourn-end-of--Oprah-.html Car giveaways, tearful interviews and couch-jumping are in the past -- and fans wonder what's next. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079049/Google-Chrome-OS--A-Simple-FAQ-------PC-World--.html PC World - Everyone's all a-twitter over Google's newly announced operating system, Google Chrome OS. Some swear it'll be a hit; others are convinced it's destined for failure. Love it or hate it, though, this puppy's one tough piece of software to ignore. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079048/Moody-s-downgrades-Liberty-Media-LLC-ratings-------AP--.html AP - Moody's Investors Service downgraded ratings for Liberty Media Corp. subsidiary Liberty Media LLC on Friday. The changes come shortly after shareholders approved the formation of a new company out of DirecTV Group Inc. and some of Liberty's entertainment businesses. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079047/Qualcomm-s-Updated-3G-Chipset-Coming-to-ThinkPads-------PC-World--.html PC World - Lenovo will offer Qualcomm's latest Gobi multimode 3G (third-generation) mobile data chipset on ThinkPad laptops, allowing users to connect to the world's two major types of 3G networks and use assisted GPS for location-based services. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079046/Two-Approaches-to-NFC-Battle-for-French-Hearts-and-Mobiles-------PC-World--.html PC World - Two competing approaches to equipping mobile phones with contactless communications capabilities vied for supporters at the Cartes exhibition in Paris this week. Either approach could turn phones into self-service electronic tour guides, travel tickets or secure payment terminals. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079045/California-s-Plasma-TV-Ban-Could-Be-Costly--CEA-Warns-------NewsFactor--.html NewsFactor - California's ban on plasma-screen televisions to reduce energy consumption could cost as much as $50 million per year in sales taxes because consumers are free to buy the sets online or in other states. At a time when the state of California is facing its worst money crisis in history, this is going to be disastrous, said Jennifer Bemisderfer, a spokesperson for the Consumer Electronics Association, which lobbied against the ban. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079044/Lester-leads-Hofstra-past-Yale-68-63-------AP--.html AP - Nathaniel Lester scored 19 points and Hofstra held off Yale 68-63 in the first round of the NIT Season Tip-Off on Monday night. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079043/Valero-shuts-another-oil-refinery.html Valero Energy announces it is permanently closing its oil refinery in Delaware City, with the loss of 550 jobs. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079042/Bogus-callers-in-council-tax-scam.html Bogus callers posing as council staff are luring homeowners into a council tax scam, say council leaders. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079041/Hershey--mulls--17bn-Cadbury-bid-.html US chocolate maker Hershey considers launching a solo bid of at least $17bn (£10bn) for UK firm Cadbury, reports say. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079040/Banks--are-charging-sneaky-fees-.html Banks are still finding sneaky ways to make money out of people, says the consumers' association Which?. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079039/Chase-drops-arbitration-from-card-contracts.html BOSTON (AP) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. said Friday it is dropping a clause from its credit card contracts that required disputes with customers to be handled through binding arbitration, a move that could lead to consumers filing class-action and other lawsuits.... Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079038/Barnes---Noble-Nook-E-Reader-Will-Arrive-After-Christmas-------NewsFactor--.html NewsFactor - In what may remind many consumers of the Amazon Kindle's early days, Barnes & Noble expects shipments of its nook e-book reader to be delayed. On Friday, the giant book retailer said it has sold out its first batch of nooks amid high demand -- and new shipments won't be available until after the holiday shopping season ends. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079037/New-Hampshire-AG-seeks-bankruptcy-for-mortgage-co--------AP--.html AP - The New Hampshire attorney general's office wants to force a mortgage company that closed suddenly into bankruptcy. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079036/A-look-at-economic-developments-around-the-globe-------AP--.html AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079035/Hershey-mulls--17-billion-solo-bid-for-Cadbury--source-------Reuters--.html Reuters - U.S. chocolate maker Hershey Co is considering launching a bid of at least $17 billion for British chocolatier Cadbury Plc as it seeks to trump a hostile offer by Kraft Foods Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079034/Russia-s-Latest-YouTube-Craze--Exposing-Police-Corruption-------Time-com--.html Time.com - Russia has pledged to clean up its police forces -- again -- after whistleblowers posted videos online complaining of corruption, low pay and poor working conditions Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079033/Is-imam-a-terror-recruiter-or-just-an-incendiary-preacher--------McClatchy-Newspapers--.html McClatchy Newspapers - CAIRO, Egypt — The Yemeni-American imam who's been under renewed scrutiny after the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, preaches against alcohol, birthday parties, black magic and extramarital sex. He also supports armed struggle — jihad — against the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has encouraged extremist insurgents in Pakistan and Somalia. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079032/Tories-say-would-pull-troops-out-of-Germany-------AFP--.html AFP - Opposition Conservatives, tipped to win power in an election next year, said Saturday they would pull the country's 25,000 troops out of Germany as part of a reorganisation of NATO forces. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079031/Museum--Galileo-s-fingers--tooth-are-found-------AP--.html AP - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079030/Researcher--Faint-writing-seen-on-Shroud-of-Turin-------AP--.html AP - A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079029/Blackwater-guard-charges-to-drop.html US prosecutors ask for charges against one of five Blackwater guards accused of killing up to 17 Iraqi civilians to be dropped. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079028/Fight-is-on-between-pro-fish-camp--mine-defenders.html ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The fight is on between backers of an Alaska mine being developed near the world's most productive wild salmon streams and 13 Seattle restaurants.... Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079027/Resort-island-reels-after-deadly-attack-by-gunman-------AP--.html AP - After going on a shooting rampage that left a trail of victims on the Pacific resort island of Saipan, the gunman drove to a scenic, rocky cliff where untold numbers of Japanese men, women and children plunged to their deaths to avoid capture during World War II, according to police and witness accounts. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079026/Robbery-motive-in-deaths-of-5-in-rural-Arkansas-------AP--.html AP - Police say thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079025/NYC-TV-newsman-guilty-of-attempted-assault-on-wife-------AP--.html AP - Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079024/Bond-increased-for-man-accused-of-taping-reporter-------AP--.html AP - A judge has increased bond to $100,000 for an Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079023/Police--NC-girl-raped--killed-on-day-she-was-taken-------AP--.html AP - A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly weeklong search that ended when the girl's body was found dumped off a rural road. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079022/Former-Marine-charged-in--Cathouse--star-s-death-------AP--.html AP - A former Marine was charged Friday with six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, including a prostitute featured on the HBO reality series Cathouse. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079021/Oprah-s-departure-presents-problem-for-TV-stations-------AP--.html AP - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079020/Fired-therapist--Stressed-Marines-get-shoddy-care-------AP--.html AP - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079019/Burned-Florida-teen-having-skin-graft-surgery.html A Florida teenager attacked and set on fire last month, allegedly by five teenage friends, was undergoing skin graft surgery Friday, the first procedure in his recovery, a hospital spokeswoman said. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079018/Manslaughter-charge-against-one-Blackwater-guard-dropped.html Federal prosecutors in Washington announced Friday they will dismiss a manslaughter charge against one of the Blackwater contractors charged in a high-profile shooting incident in Baghdad, Iraq, two years ago. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079017/Fired-therapist--Stressed-Marines-get-shoddy-care.html CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.... Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079016/Top-10-News-Readers-Judged-by-Mashable-Readers.html Each Friday we choose a Lunchtime Poll topic to get a sense of how Mashable readers feel about the chosen topic of the week. Below are the results from last Friday’s poll, where we asked for your favorite news reader. Is your favorite app or service not represented in the list? Let us know in the comments! And to make sure your vote counts next time, be sure to vote in this week’s Lunchtime Poll, where we want to know your favorite video-sharing service. A surprising number of readers in the top 10 were Mac apps, and enough of you said you’d switched to using Twitter as your primary news source to propel it to #5. Google Reader was far and away the winner though, with over three times the number of votes for the 2nd place finisher Feedly. Top 10 Mashable Reader News Readers 10. Reeder (iPhone) [warning: iTunes link] 9. Times (Mac) 8. Klipfolio 7. Shrook (Mac) 6. NetNewsWire (Mac) 5. Twitter 4. FeedDemon (Windows) 3. NetVibes 2. Feedly 1. Google Reader Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ericsphotography Reviews: Google Reader, Twitter, feedly, iStockphoto Tags: google reader, lunchtime poll, news readers, polls, rss, twitter Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079015/Droid-Does--A-Price-Drop.html When it was released earlier this month, the retail price for the Motorola Droid was $200 for new activations on Verizon. Although Verizon is staying firm with that price point for now, it appears that some of its retailers are not. Specifically, Amazon and Dell have both cut prices on the smartphone to $150 and $120, respectively. The news comes just one day after news broke of price cuts by online retailers on other devices not named iPhone: the Palm Pre and Pixi. Of course, the device cost shouldn?t really play a huge role in consumer?s decision given the total costs of ownership for all of them are well into the thousands of dollars over the life of the wireless contract. Nonetheless, if retailers are slashing prices, meaning they?re making less on each sale, it could be a sign that these iPhone alternatives aren?t selling as well as anticipated. So far, it?s been estimated that the Droid sold about 100,000 handsets in its first weekend and 250,000 in its first week on the market. Tags: droid, Mobile 2.0, Motorola, smartphones, verizon Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079014/Swine-flu--Is-the-worst-behind-us-.html Nov. 20: New numbers on reported swine flu cases show the epidemic may have reached its peak in the U.S. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.  (Nightly News) Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079013/Smear-campaign--New-Pap-test-guidelines.html Nov. 20: In the second big change in women's cancer screening guidelines to be issued this week, a prominent physicians group says young women do not need a cervical cancer screening test before age 21. NBC Chief Medical Editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports.  (Nightly News) Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079012/Senate-Democrats-under-pressure-to-pass-health-reform.html Nov. 20: Senate leaders need complete loyalty from Democrats in Saturday’s vote, but as of late Friday two moderate Democrats had not yet committed. NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports.  (Nightly News) Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079011/Argentina-forces-dirty-war-orphans-to-provide-DNA.html Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago — even when they don't want to know their birth parents. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079010/Fired-therapist--Stressed-Marines-get-shoddy-care.html Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079009/Fate-of-black-teacher-in-Mo--case-rests-with-jury.html A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079008/Pricey-gift--MLB-offers-Series-film-set-for--2-229.html Major League Baseball has the perfect gift to bust a budget in a recession. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079007/Southwest-Airlines-changes-board-election-rules.html Southwest Airlines Co. said Friday it will require uncontested candidates for its board of directors to win a majority among shareholder votes cast to be elected, instead of just a plurality. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079006/Going-Rogue-is-going-big.html Going Rogue is going big. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079005/FAA-says-equipment-outage-caused-819-flight-delays.html The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079004/Tenn--Martin-holds-off-Harris-Stowe-79-67.html Reuben Clayton scored 21 points to lead Tennessee-Martin in a 79-67 win over Harris-Stowe, notching the first career victory for new coach Jason James on Friday. Yamour News - breaking News http://news.yamour.com/breaking_news_journal/1079003/NFL-union-pans-reporting-on-teammates--concussions.html The NFL Players Association opposes commissioner Roger Goodell's call for players to tell their teams' medical staffs if they think a teammate shows symptoms of a concussion, saying that is not an adequate solution. Yamour News - breaking News