Morning Newspapers 08.12.10

1. Florida Immigration Bill Aims to Outdo Arizona 
   Under the proposed legislation, immigrations would face twenty days in jail for not carrying their documents, and could receive harsher sentences for committing the same crimes as legal residents.
   Read original story in Miami Herald | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

2. Illegal Immigrants Account for More U.S. Births 
   A new study finds that while illegal immigrants account for only 4 percent of the U.S. adult population, their children made up 8 percent of all babies born in the U.S. in 2008.
   Read original story in The Wall Street Journal | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

3. Bin Laden Cook Gets Fourteen Years in Prison, Will Probably Serve Two 
   Ibrahim al-Qosi's trial hit a snag on Wednesday when prosecutors realized that there was no plan specifying where Guantanamo detainees would actually serve their sentences.
   Read original story in The Guardian | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

4. Thousands Gather in Atlanta for Federally Subsidized Housing 
   At temperatures hit the low '90s, around 30,000 people showed up at an Atlanta shopping mall yesterday to get on the waiting list for low-income public housing.
   Read original story in Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

5. Bank Chairman in Waters' Ethics Case Has Questionable Past 
   Kevin Cohee, the CEO of the bank at the center of Rep. Maxine Waters' congressional ethics investigation, urged investors to spend their money wisely. Too bad he didn't follow his own advice.
   Read original story in The Washington Post | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

6. Blagojevich Jury Stuck in Deadlock 
   After eleven days of deliberations, the jury still can't come to a decision about Chicago's charismatic former governor. 
   Read original story in Chicago Tribune | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

7. Feds Nabs 'Granddad Bandit' in Louisiana 
   "We really didn't know him. (His wife) would always say he was going out of town, and now that I think about it, everywhere he went, banks were robbed," a neighbor told the press.
   Read original story in Associated Press | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

8. Did an Iowa Wal-Mart Make Employees Work During a Flood? 
   Thirty Wal-Mart workers had to be rescued by firefighters on Wednesday, and Consumerist wonders if it's because they weren't allowed to leave.
   Read original story in Consumerist | Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010

9. Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski Dies at 82 
   The Illinois congressman was one of the most powerful people in the House, before he was jailed on corruption charges.
   Read original story in The Washington Post | Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010

10. Did Humans Give Up Easy Sex for Easy Beer? 
    One author believes our ancestors started farming for beer, not bread. But agriculture leads freewheeling hunter-gatherers toward monogamy, creating a "troubling existential question": more sex or more beer?
    Read original story in Gizmodo | Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010

11. Stocks Slide As Recovery Slows 
    The day after the Fed acknowledged that the recovery has slowed, the Dow, the Nasdaq, and the S&P 500 all fell into negative territory.
    Read original story in The Wall Street Journal | Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010

12. Reid: How Could Any Hispanic Vote Republican? 
    The Senate majority leader had a one-word answer when asked why the federal government has failed to deal with immigration reform: "Republicans."
    Read original story in The Las Vegas Review Journal | Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010