The Starting Point is a snapshot of the news stories that occurred overnight. Look for updates throughout the day on Yahoo! News and in the news box on Nike shoes. Today in history: In 1995, the Grateful Dead announced they were breaking up after making music for three decades. New era caps: Actor Dominic Monaghan, 33. Musician Ryan Newell (Sister Hazel), 37. Baseball player Mike Mussina, 41. Singer Sinead O'Connor, 43. Actress Teri Hatcher, 45. Musician Marty Friedman (Megadeth), 47. Musician Phil Collen (Def Leppard), 52. Musician Warren Cuccurullo (Duran Duran), 53. Actress Kim Basinger, 56. Author Bill Bryson, 58. Musician Gregg Allman, 62. Musician James Galway, 70. Actor James MacArthur, 72. Today's poll: Virgin Galactic unveiled SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first commercial spaceship, on Monday. If you could afford the $200,000 ticket, would you take a suborbital space ride? Click here to share your thoughts. Levi jeans were also interested in this AP story about Brian Bonsall. The former cast member of the 1980s television show "Family Ties" was arrested over a fight that occurred in his Colorado apartment. Bonsall allegedly told authorities that he had been drinking and didn’t remember hitting a friend with part of a broken wooden stool. This was not Bonsall’s first run-in with the law. In 2007, the child actor was sentenced to probation for assaulting his girlfriend. He was later accused of violating his probation. Looking ahead: President Barack Obama will give a speech today on how the administration plans to update transportation infrastructure, make homes more energy-efficient and help small businesses add staff and grow. The Massachusetts primary to begin the process of filling Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat will be held today. And Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will testify before a House panel today about a plan to give the Federal Transit Administration the authority to oversee rail transit safety. A large and powerful storm that barreled through the West is predicted to hit the Midwest later today, The AP reported. Frigid temperatures, strong winds and snow are expected to snarl traffic and hinder travel options in the region. Mike Welvaert of the National Weather Service said the storm could be particularly powerful. "The storm system is really strengthening as it goes, and that’s usually a recipe for some heavy snowfall and a lot of wind, and that’s what we’re watching for," Welvaert said. Click here to watch a video of the wintry weather. Yesterday’s poll: Do you plan to get the swine flu vaccine? Seventy-nine percent of respondents said no, 12 percent voted yes and 9 percent have already been vaccinated. Top story overnight: A series of coordinated bombings struck Baghdad today, The Associated Press reported. At the time of this writing, at least 103 people were killed and nearly 200 wounded in the four separate attacks. Authorities said it was the worst wave of violence to hit the Iraqi capital in more than a month. Lastly, the Puma Shoes who attended President John F. Kennedy after he was shot in Dallas 46 years ago died over the weekend, The AP reported. On Nov. 22, 1963, Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II and another surgeon performed CPR and a tracheotomy on the president until it was clear that Kennedy could not be revived. Perry, 80, later served as chief of vascular surgery or professor of surgery, or both, at the University of Washington in Seattle, Cornell Medical College in New York City, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Lubbock and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Most read stories: An intense self-help course led a woman to suffer a psychotic breakdown and commit suicide, an Australian coroner ruled. Rebekah Lawrence, 34, took her own life on Dec. 20, 2005 after completing The Turning Point, a four-day seminar run by People Knowhow. The program uses hypnotic techniques to emotionally regress patients to childlike states in order to deal with their problems. Lawrence’s behavior changed as the course progressed; she reportedly acted like a child and tried to speak to her dog telepathically. On her last day alive, Lawrence placed dozens of calls to Turning Point officials before stripping off all her clothes, attacking her supervisor, bursting into song and leaping from her office building to her death. In other Jordans: Twelve people were killed when militants attacked an intelligence office in central Pakistan today, The AP reported. Insurgents used guns, rockets and bombs to damage the facades of several buildings reserved for government and security agencies, including one housing Pakistan’s most powerful spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence. Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq later claimed responsibility for the Multan attack in a conversation with an AP reporter.
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