Gingrich uses precious time to get on Va. ballot (AP)

ARLINGTON, Va. ? Newt Gingrich is frantically playing catch-up in the Republican presidential race, spending precious time trying to get on Virginia's primary ballot while his rivals campaign in crucial Iowa and New Hampshire.

The former House speaker is paying a price for his late start in organizing. Gingrich had to leave New Hampshire on Wednesday and race to Virginia, where he needs 10,000 valid voters' signatures by Thursday to secure a spot on the March 6 ballot.

Virginia is an afterthought for most campaigns at this early stage. They are intensely focused on the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses and the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary, which will be followed by primaries in South Carolina and Florida.

But Gingrich's early-December rise in several polls gave him renewed hopes of carrying his campaign deep into the primary season. Failure to compete in Virginia, which is among the "Super Tuesday" primaries, would deal a huge blow to any contender who had not locked up the nomination by then.

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning congressman from Texas, want to knock Gingrich out long before Virginia. Their campaigns and allied groups are saturating the Iowa airwaves with anti-Gingrich ads.

The tone has gotten so nasty that Gingrich is calling on Romney to halt the ads, or at least defend them in a 90-minute Iowa face-off. Gingrich also mounted a separate petition drive, seeking signatures from voters who don't want to see Republican candidates ripping into each other.

"Attacking fellow Republicans only helps one person: Barack Obama," the petition says.

Republican insiders see Romney, in particular, as having the money, experience and organization needed to survive a long campaign. That makes it urgent for Gingrich to get on all the big-state ballots if he hopes to win the party's nod.

Gingrich said Wednesday he had enough ballot signatures, but he wanted to come to Virginia to deliver them personally. Taking no chances, his volunteers asked everyone to sign petitions before entering Gingrich's rally Wednesday night in Arlington, just across the Potomac River from Washington.

Gingrich, who arrived more than an hour late, planned to campaign Thursday in Richmond with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has endorsed none of the nomination-seekers.

Romney, meanwhile, continued his bus tour of New Hampshire, the closest thing to a must-win state for him. For the most part, Romney is letting hard-hitting ads from the Restore Our Future "super PAC" do the ruffian's work against Gingrich. The PAC is made up of former Romney advisers.

On Wednesday, Romney taunted Gingrich, who has objected to the attacks as he falls in several polls.

"I'm sure I could go out and say, `Please, don't do anything negative,'" Romney told Fox News. "But this is politics. And if you can't stand the heat in this little kitchen, wait until Obama's Hell's Kitchen turns up the heat."

Gingrich shot back from Manchester, N.H., "If he wants to test the heat, I'll meet him anywhere in Iowa next week." He said Romney could "bring his ads and he can defend them."

In Arlington, Gingrich mocked Romney for saying he can't tell Restore Our Future to halt its ads because campaign laws require candidates and PACs to operate independently of each other. If Romney publicly announced his desire to see the ads stop, Gingrich said, those airing them probably would hear of it.

Gingrich vowed to stay positive, even as he said Romney had "no willingness to stand up and tell the truth."

Paul is campaigning this week in Iowa, a wide-open state he potentially could win. He drew large crowds at several town hall meetings in eastern Iowa on Wednesday.

But few campaign veterans think Paul, whose strong libertarian views give him an intense but limited following, can draw enough support nationwide to win the nomination.

Gingrich hopes to do well enough in the first two contests to make it to South Carolina and Florida. They border Georgia, which he represented in Congress for 20 years, ending in 1999.

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Latest developments in Arab world's unrest (AP)

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SYRIA

Government forces surround residents of a restive Syrian village and kill all those trapped inside ? more than 100 people ? in a barrage of rockets, tank shells, bombs and gunfire that lasts for hours, The attack pushes the death toll for two days of violence across Syria to more than 200, and is one of the deadliest single events of the entire nine-month uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian rule. The White House reacts by renewing its call for Assad to step down.

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EGYPT

Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood, leading in parliament elections, refuses to join calls by secular and liberal activists for the ruling military to move up its handover of power to civilians. Activists are seeking to capitalize on anger over the military's heavy-handed crackdown on protesters in Cairo the past week to pressure the ruling generals to step down before the current target of the end of June.

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YEMEN

Nearly 200 people, among them 15 foreigners, have been killed in clashes over the past few weeks between an ultraconservative Islamist group and former Shiite rebels in northern Yemen. Four Russian citizens are among the dead. The tension between the Salafi Islamists, who are Sunni, and the former Hawthi rebels, who are Shiite, escalated in late November just as Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a U.S.-backed proposal to transfer power to his vice president in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Saleh agreed to step down after a 10-month uprising.

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LIBYA

Moammar Gadhafi's captured son and one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, is being treated well but has not had access to a lawyer, an international rights group says after visiting the prisoner. Seif al-Islam, who has been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, was captured in November by fighters from the town of Zintan in Libya's western mountains. Libya's national leadership in Tripoli is insisting on trying him at home, though they have yet to establish a functioning court system.

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BAHRAIN

The U.N.'s top human rights official urges Bahrain to release political detainees as a step toward reversing "deepening mistrust" between authorities and anti-government protesters. Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, says Bahraini authorities must unconditionally release those convicted in military tribunals or awaiting trial merely because they exercised their "fundamental rights" of expression and assembly.

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LONDON 2012: Aerial photos show Olympic Park is 90 percent completed

Posted: Thursday 22nd December 2011 | 23:51

By Sportsbeat staff

LONDON 2012's Olympic Park is over 90 percent complete, with new aerial photos showing the progress of the multi-billion project just over seven months before next year's Games.

PROGRESS: Aerial photos show the progress made at London 2012's Olympic Park with just over seven months to go until the Games (Locog via Getty Images)

Six of the seven competition venues, including the main stadium, aquatic centre and velodrome, are completed while the ?1bn Olympic Village is on course to be handed over to organisers early next year.

The two-year planting programme completed last month has created the UK's largest new urban park for more than a century, with 4,000 semi-mature trees, over 300,000 wetland plants and more than ten football fields worth of meadows planted.

?The building of the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Games is well over 90 per cent complete," said Olympic Delivery Authority chairman John Armitt.?

"It is thanks to the expertise of the construction industry that this has been achieved ? transforming a run-down area into the setting for the world?s greatest sporting event and creating new communities that will live and thrive long after the athletes have gone home.?

The year drawing to a close was the ODA?s busiest, with the workforce peaking and the bulk of the project delivered - on time and within budget.?

"In 2012 we will complete our task, finishing the Olympic Village, Water Polo Arena, shooting venue at Woolwich and parklands, as we work alongside the Organising Committee to prepare for next summer.?

Meanwhile, Locog chairman Seb Coe will look to upcoming early New Year test events on the park, including cycling's UCI World Cup and the British Gas Swimming Championships, as key indicators of his organisation's preparedness for the Games.

?A huge amount has been achieved over the past 12 months with iconic new venues completed and test events bringing world-class sport to the Olympic Park for the first time," he said.?

"We still have much to do but there is growing excitement as we count down to the Games next summer."

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Lithia Sells Auto Dealership To McGrath Automotive - Last News

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa ? McGrath Automotive Group of Cedar Rapids has acquired Buick GMC Cadillac of North Cedar Rapids and Kia of North Cedar Rapids from a initial inhabitant automobile dealership sequence to enter a Corridor market.

McGrath Automotive Group took over a dealerships during I-380 and Boyson Road in Hiawatha on Monday=. The dealerships will be operated as McGrath Buick GMC Cadillac and McGrath Kia. The physique emporium will be McGrath Collision South.

The dealerships were acquired from Lithia Motors of Medford, Ore., a publicly traded dealership sequence that had entered a Cedar Rapids marketplace 5 years ago by appropriation resources of Allen Motor Co. Terms were not disclosed, though McGrath will continue as Lithia had to authorization a skill of a dealership.

McGrath Automotive Group was meddlesome in appropriation a Hiawatha dealership in sequence to offer all 4 GM brands ? Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac and Buick, President Pat McGrath said. The association owns Pat McGrath Chevyland, Pat McGrath Dodge Country, McGrath Powersports, and a Westdale, Marion and Coralville Used Car Superstores. It has over 400 employees, a series that has doubled in a past 5 years.

?The categorical reason we wanted it is a continued expansion of a family business and to move these stores behind to internal people who live in a community,? Pat McGrath said. He combined that ?We?re really vehement about a Kia brand. It?s one of a hottest brands going since of their value-priced product.?

Lindsay McGrath, who before oversaw used automobile operations during Pat McGrath Chevyland, will be ubiquitous manager of a newly combined GMC, Cadillac, Buick and Kia dealerships.

One of McGrath Automotive?s goals is to keep a existent staff of a 4 dealerships, Lindsay McGrath said. It purchased a few acres of skill adjacent to a existent dealerships that will move a sum formidable to about 19 acres. An existent building on that skill will turn a McGrath worker training facility.

McGrath Automotive Group done a initial offer to acquire a dealership from Lithia in tumble of 2009, and reopened a discussions with Lithia this fall.

?It was really reasonable to do this,? Pat McGrath said. ?Lithia?s been really good to understanding with.?

General Motors had to approve a deal. Pat McGrath pronounced one of a pivotal considerations was McGrath?s high patron compensation scores.

A Lithia orator did not lapse calls seeking information on a sale progressing this month. Rumors had circulated in early 2010 that a dealership was shutting since of low register levels, though a association announced in May that an agreement with General Motors to extend a authorization of a Hiawatha dealership would concede it to feed inventories.

Local tenure is critical to customers, Pat McGrath added, observant McGrath Automotive Group will essay for a high standards for that Allen Motor Co., a strange owners of a Hiawatha dealership, was known. He pronounced McGrath Automotive Group is a personality in hospitality among internal dealerships, and internal tenure keeps some-more income present in a internal economy.

The McGrath Automotive Group began roughly 60 years ago, and now has had 4 generations of family members involved. Mike McGrath, boss of McGrath Powersports, pronounced appropriation a Buick dealership brings a association full round to a roots as a Buick dealership operated by H.B. McGrath in Eau Claire, Wis.

H.B. McGrath changed to Cedar Rapids in 1957, handling McGrath Pontiac in a downtown area. In 1974. H.B. and hermit Bruce McGrath changed a Pontiac dealership to a stream plcae of a Pat McGrath Dodge Country dealership during 4610 Center Point Road NE. In 1975, a Pontiac dealership became Bruce McGrath Pointiac. In successive years, a association acquired Mazda and Jeep dealerships. It after sole a Mazda dealership.

In 1991, a association acquired a Chevrolet dealership that had been Rapids Chevrolet, and in tumble 2009, a association combined a Chrysler and Dodge lines.

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UK media inquiry a lesson in tabloid skullduggery (AP)

LONDON ? Hacking into celebrity phones was just the sleazy tip of the iceberg.

Britain's media ethics inquiry, set up in response to illegal eavesdropping by a Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid, has turned out to be a masterclass in skullduggery that has exposed the murky practices of the U.K.'s muckraking press.

This week, witnesses described how Murdoch's company had destroyed their lives and that of their families, with reporters targeting critics for spying and negative coverage, and sullying the name of an innocent man.

"We have a press that has just become frankly putrid in many of its elements," Alastair Campbell, former tabloid journalist and longtime communications aide to former Prime Minister Tony Blair, told the tribunal this week.

Few would disagree after listening to the nationally televised testimony describing the excesses of a callous, sometimes criminal, press.

The judge-led inquiry was set up after it emerged that Murdoch's News of the World had for years illegally eavesdropped on the voicemail messages of celebrities, public figures and crime victims. The scandal forced Murdoch to shut down the 168-year-old tabloid. A dozen Murdoch employees have been arrested in the case, which also cost the jobs of several of his top executives, two senior police officers and Prime Minister David Cameron's communications chief.

The inquiry has put Murdoch's empire on trial, as witnesses described their treatment at the hands of an organization they viewed as unassailably powerful, ruthless and feared.

Former child singing sensation Charlotte Church described how she was invited to perform at Murdoch's wedding on a yacht in New York when she was 13. She said she was offered a 100,000 pound (roughly $160,000) payment, but was told if she waived the fee that Murdoch's papers would look favorably on her.

Church, now 25, told the inquiry that she really wanted to take the money, but was told by her managers it would be worthwhile to give up the fee ? which would have been her highest payment ever then ? to cultivate Murdoch's support.

She said she was told "that he was a very, very powerful man" who could do her career a world of good ? if he wanted to.

But any tabloid goodwill she earned was short-lived. Church said media scrutiny increased to unbearable levels as she entered her teens. As she approached her 16th birthday, she said Murdoch's The Sun tabloid featured on its website a "countdown clock" timed to the day when she would be able to legally have sex ? an allegation the newspaper denies.

Later, a tabloid reported that Church was pregnant before she had even told her parents, news she felt had to come from reporters hacking into her phone. On another occasion the News of the World reported on her father's extramarital affair under the headline "Church's three in a bed cocaine shock." Church said her mother had attempted suicide partly as a result of this invasion of privacy.

Murdoch's News International has denied Church's version of events surrounding her performance at Murdoch's wedding, and her agent at the time, Jonathan Shalit, said she was not offered a choice between a fee and good press.

He said Church was not offered a fee and performed for free, as she had done for Prince Charles and President Bill Clinton. But he said publicity from these appearances helped launch her career in the United States, which was his plan.

"When you sing for these people you get added benefits for your career," he said.

Church was one of a slew of celebrities, including actor Hugh Grant, "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling and actress Sienna Miller, who have sat in the witness box at London's Royal Courts of Justice and described stakeouts and snatched photos, leaked medical details and midnight pursuits ? all justified, in the tabloids' eyes, because the people they were pursuing were famous.

Ian Hargreaves, professor of digital economy and former director of the journalism school at the University of Cardiff, said the hearings have had a profound impact on the public psyche ? and on Britain's political class ? by revealing so much about how part of British press works.

"It's been a process of revelation, based on firsthand testimony," he said. "A lot of journalists feel it has been one-sided, but processes that have been known about and talked about in private are suddenly being talked about on a big public stage."

Hearings continue into the new year, and justice Brian Leveson and his panel hope to issue a report by late 2012 that could recommend major changes to Britain's system of media self-regulation.

So far, the most strident defense of tabloids ? and the week's most jaw-dropping testimony ? came from unrepentant former News of the World journalist Paul McMullan. He described chasing celebrities' cars as "good fun," called phone hacking "a perfectly acceptable tool" of the trade and dismissed privacy as "the space bad people need to do bad things in."

He also said celebrities should stop complaining and be grateful for the attention of paparazzi.

The inquiry has also shown that it's not just celebrities who find themselves in the tabloids' sights. The parents of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who was abducted and murdered in 2002, described how the News of the World's hacking of Milly's phone, and the deletion of voicemail messages, had given them false hope that their daughter was still alive.

This week Christopher Jefferies, a retired teacher arrested on suspicion of murder in a high-profile case a year ago, described how his life had been wrecked by "smears, innuendo and complete fiction" in articles that painted him as a voyeuristic eccentric, or worse.

Jefferies was released without charge, and another man has been convicted of the killing. Jefferies successfully sued eight newspapers ? including Murdoch's The Sun tabloid ? for libel, but said he would "never fully recover from the events of the last year."

"There will always be people who don't know me who will retain the impression that I'm some sort of weird character who is probably best avoided," he said.

The inquiry has also heard claims the Murdoch empire used negative articles and even espionage against its critics. Former TV host Anne Diamond recounted how she had asked Murdoch during a 1980s interview "how could he sleep at night" knowing his newspapers ruined people's lives.

She said after that "there were consistent negative stories about me in Mr. Murdoch's newspapers."

One glaring example was a story in The Sun headlined "Anne Diamond killed my father," about a fatal road accident she had been involved in years before. The same newspaper took pictures of Diamond carrying the coffin of her infant son at his funeral, despite her plea for the press to stay away out of respect for the family's grief.

Mark Lewis, a lawyer who has represented high-profile hacking victims, testified that he was put under surveillance by a private investigator working for Murdoch's News International. The surveillance, apparently in search of material to discredit him, included following and filming his 14-year-old daughter.

"That was truly horrific, that my daughter was videoed, was followed by a detective with a camera," Lewis said. "That shouldn't happen to anybody's child."

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Associated Press writer Robert Barr contributed to this report.

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PFT: Eagles continue search for rock bottom

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Congratulations, Steelers.? Your use of a term other than ?concussion? has officially given the condition the same stigma as herpes, HIV, and leprosy.

Why else would safety Troy Polamalu refuse to say on Friday whether he suffered a concussion five nights earlier against the Chiefs?? Andrew Stockey of WTAE asked the question, and Polamalu took the fifth on whether he has sustained his eighth known concussion.

Regardless of the reason, it?s bizarre that a team and a player would be so defiant when it comes to acknowledging what anyone who has had fewer than 50 concussions realizes:? Against the Chiefs, Troy Polamalu sustained a concussion.

The mere fact that he refused to answer the question confirms it.

Perhaps the Steelers have avoided the ?C? word in order to keep a truly independent neurologist out of the team?s and the player?s business.? Or maybe the goal is to subtly influence players to try to conceal their ?concussion-like symptoms? whenever and wherever possible, as part of facing down the demons inherent to the sport.

?That?s the fear, I think, that any player faces, and that?s the fear that anybody, any individual faces ? overcoming any certain fears of being a coward, you know, or letting your teammates down or turning down a hit,? Polamalu said regarding whether he?s concerned about a hit to the head that could cause long-term damage.? ?That?s the beautiful thing about sports, is these fears are right in your face and it?s pretty obvious if you turn them down or not.? I have the fear.? No question about it.? But I?m willing to fight it, for sure.?

I continue to believe that football players who are lucid and capable of making informed decisions should be permitted to assume all risks associated with playing football, even if they are still suffering from concussion-like (or concussion-actual) symptoms.? For now, the issue is whether the Steelers will fully embrace and respect the league?s current rules, which contemplate a full tearing down of the wall that resides between ?rubbing dirt on it? and acknowledging that serious, long-term damage could be done to a fairly vital organ.

Those rules entail encouraging players to be candid, not secretive, about the condition of their brains.? Polamalu?s simple refusal to admit the obvious shows conclusively that, within the Steelers organization, there?s an implicit understanding that confronting the fear of serious injury includes shrugging off the blows to the head that don?t create serious problems in the short term.

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9 men deny plot to mount London bomb attacks (AP)

LONDON ? Nine men have denied plotting to launch bomb attacks on landmarks including Britain's Parliament and busy shopping areas.

The men were detained in several British cities Dec. 21 in the country's largest counterterrorism raids for two years.

The British suspects, aged between 20 and 29, pleaded not guilty Friday to preparing for acts of terrorism and conspiring to cause explosions.

Prosecutors accuse the men of agreeing on targets, discussing materials and methods, carrying out reconnaissance, attending operational meetings and downloading and researching files "containing practical instruction for a terrorist attack."

Several also are accused of having copies of the al-Qaida magazine Inspire.

They are due to stand trial Jan. 23 at London's Woolwich Crown Court.

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Authorities get the OK to take McCready's son

A Florida judge signed an order on Thursday allowing authorities to take custody of country singer Mindy McCready's 5-year-old son, Zander, and bring him back to Florida if they can find him.

The order came a day after Florida officials said a missing person's report had been filed for Zander and that McCready had been ordered to return the boy. But the singer had countered that her son was safe with her.

The singer said Thursday she would not bring her son back from Tennessee to Florida, despite violating a custody arrangement and a judge's order.

McCready took the boy during a recent visit at her father's southwest Florida home and a judge signed an order Thursday ordering authorities to take the boy into custody and return him. It's not yet clear whether she could face criminal charges.

"I'm doing all this to protect Zander, not stay out of trouble," McCready wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Thursday. "I don't think I should be in trouble for protecting my son in the first place."

McCready says she is in Tennessee and it is looking less likely that she will bring her son back to Florida. She says she cannot travel because she's nearly seven months pregnant with twins.

Representatives for the singer said on Wednesday that Zander has been with her for more than 30 days, and that he was safe and healthy, adding that law enforcement officials spoke with Zander and saw him on Tuesday via the online video conferencing program Skype.

McCready and her mother have had a long custody battle over the boy. Until recently, the boy was living with McCready's mother. Her mother was awarded guardianship in 2007. McCready says her son has suffered abuse at her mother's house; her mother, Gayle Inge, denies the abuse allegations.

"Once the child is located, we will pick him up and bring him back to Florida," said Terri Durdaller, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Children and Families. "Although these circumstances are unfortunate for a young child, his safety and well-being are our number one priority."

Durdaller said any criminal charges would come at the discretion of law enforcement or the Lee County (Fla.) State Attorney's office.

McCready provided a series of e-mails to the AP with Lee County Judge James Seals' ruling to return the boy and correspondence with her attorney. Seals wrote to McCready's lawyer that once the boy is back in Florida "we'll pick up the pieces."

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"Mom has violated the court's custody order and we are simply restoring the child back into our custody," the judge wrote. "Nothing more. Nothing less. The court makes no judgment about whether Mom will or will not competently care for the child while in her custody. It only wants the child back where the court placed him."

McCready was born in Florida and found fame in Nashville as a singer in the mid-1990s, including a No. 1 hit, "Guys Do It All the Time." She has lived a complicated life in recent years.

In August, she filed the libel suit in Palm Beach County against her mother and the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc., over a story published in the tabloid newspaper that quoted Inge.

In July 2007, she was accused of scuffling with Inge and resisting arrest at her mother's home in Florida. She was sentenced to jail for 60 days for a probation violation and released; she served 30 days in jail. She also lost custody of her son.

And in 2008, McCready was admitted to a Nashville hospital after police said she cut her wrists and took several pills in a suicide attempt.

During the TV show "Celebrity Rehab 3" in 2010, McCready came off as a sympathetic figure, and host Dr. Drew Pinsky called her an angel in the season finale.

Also in 2010, police went to Inge's home for a report of an overdose, and McCready was taken to a Florida hospital. However, neither the hospital nor McCready's publicist would say why the singer was hospitalized.

McCready also fought the release of a tape in which she reportedly talked about former Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens, with whom she had an affair as a teenager.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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