http://www.702.co.za Talk Radio 702 - The Podcasts en-us 2006 07 February 2012 2 702webmaster@702.co.za US closes Syrian embassy as diplomacy collapses Monday in a new Western push to get President Bashar Assad to leave power and halt the murderous grind in Syria. New York Giants were still savouring one of the most improbable stretch runs to a championship in NFL history. And Police say a central Pennsylvania father was drunk when he drove to a police station to pick up his even drunker son who had been arrested for drunken driving after he was found passed out in his car. Eli Manning rallied Giants to another Super Bowl victory when they defeated the New England Patriots, 21-17, for the second time in four years last night. Mitt Romney has won the Nevada Republican caucuses by a sizable margin, giving him his third victory in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. And US police tasered a mother after she cut into the drive-through line at McDonald's and refused to move after she was denied service. John Robbie crosses to Harley Carnes every morning for the US report. Harley is a CBS Radio News anchor and correspondent, based in New York. Indiana became the Rust Belt's first right-to-work state in a move that is sure to embolden advocates seeking to curtail union rights across the country. Engineers in the US have invented a bullet that directs itself to a target like a tiny guided missile and can hit a target more than 1.6km away. A southern Minnesota man was arrested after allegedly driving a Zamboni drunk. Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, today took an inaccessible lead over his nearest rival in the Florida primary, which brought him a step closer to bagging the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Barack Obama in November presidential elections. It’s the last day of campaigning ahead of the Florida primary tomorrow. An Indiana Senate committee Monday approved a so-called Right-to-Work bill, and Gov. Mitch Daniels said he will sign it as soon it the legislature enacts it. And a federal trial is set for May in a lawsuit brought by a man who says Beaufort County sheriff's deputies broke his neck when they arrested him two years ago. John Robbie crosses to Harley Carnes every morning for the US report. Harley is a CBS Radio News anchor and correspondent, based in New York. Joe Paterno was remembered at a public memorial as a coach, educator, philanthropist, devoted family man and a hero wronged. Leading economic indicators suggest modest growth ahead. FedEx employee charged for bomb joke on Army base. A 12-year-old Klein ISD student is facing one month in an alternative campus as punishment for relieving himself in a water bottle after his teacher refused to let him leave class to use the restroom, according the boy's attorney. President Barack Obama used his annual State of the Union address to denounce America’s economic inequality. And a US Navy SEAL team rescues hostages from Somali pirates