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Texas bus crash survivors honor emergency helpers - Added 6 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:TXSHE101-1005081409 -->Pilgrims who survived a bus crash and relatives of those who died returned to the area Sunday to celebrate Mass and honor city officials for their help, declaring that a bond had formed...

Obituaries in the news - Added 6 weeks ago

Ted Briggs LONDON (AP) _ Ted Briggs, the last survivor of the World War II sinking of British battle cruiser HMS Hood, died Saturday. He was 85. He died in a hospital in Portsmouth, England, said HMS Hood Association...

Americans eye bailout, and continue cutting back - Added 6 weeks ago

Relief on Wall Street over the hard-won passage of a $700 billion bailout package for the financial system apparently hasn't yet trickled down to the pubs, storefronts, car lots and malls of Main Street. Many Americans...

4 Nevada teens arrested after dress code violation - Added 6 weeks ago

Four Nevada high school students have been arrested after one of them refused to adhere to the dress code. Churchill County High School Principal Robbin Pedrett says a 17-year-old refused to turn over his bandana to a...

British Airways flight diverted to Chicago O'Hare - Added 6 weeks ago

Officials say a British Airways flight from London to Houston has made an emergency landing at Chicago's largest airport. Chicago Aviation Department spokesman Gregg Cunningham says Flight 195 landed Sunday at O'Hare...

Police blow up suspicious backpack at Texas mosque - Added 6 weeks ago

Police have blown up a suspicious backpack outside a Texas mosque and arrested a man who claimed it contained a bomb. Austin police Lt. Cedric Hudson says 46-year-old Azzam Baytie threatened the North Austin Muslim...

Justices attend Red Mass before new term - Added 6 weeks ago

The law is a guide to an orderly society, an American cardinal said an a church service Sunday that included five Supreme Court justices ahead of the start of their new term. At the annual Red Mass, Cardinal John...

Contest pairs horse trainers with wild mustangs - Added 6 weeks ago

As a Johnny Cash tune played over the loudspeakers, horse trainer Gary Main Jr. coaxed Victory through a display of discipline and skill inside the Wyoming State Fair arena. Hundreds of potential horse buyers looked on...

Rice: US not trying to undermine Russia - Added 6 weeks ago

U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this energy-rich former Soviet republic are not meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. "We don't see any of this as a...

Tropical Storm Norbert forms off southern Mexico - Added 6 weeks ago

The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Norbert is strengthening off Mexico's southern Pacific coast and could become a hurricane in the next 24 hours. The center says Norbert is centered 215 miles (345...

Mortgage forgiven for woman, 90, who shot herself - Added 6 weeks ago

Mortgage finance company Fannie Mae said it is forgiving the mortgage debt of a 90-year-old woman who shot herself in the chest as sheriff's deputies attempted to evict her. Addie Polk's plight was cited by Rep. Dennis...

Fossett plane recovery might not resume this year - Added 6 weeks ago

California officials say recovery efforts around the site of adventurer Steve Fossett's downed plane might not resume until summer. Snowfall ended the search in the Sierra Nevada on Friday. Madera County Sheriff's...

'Smoot' measurement reaches new heights at MIT - Added 6 weeks ago

The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago. Oliver Smoot was...

NM balloon fiesta limits hot air from campaigns - Added 6 weeks ago

Hundreds of thousands of potential voters will pass through Albuquerque over the next several days. Their purpose: to eat too many breakfast burritos as they sip hot chocolate and take in the spectacle of the annual...

Emotions connect old OJ acquittal, new conviction - Added 6 weeks ago

Jurors had been told to ignore what they knew about O.J. Simpson's past, but for many observers, the line connecting the former NFL star's murder acquittal last decade and his new conviction for robbing memorabilia...

Cool reunion as Sen. Stevens' ex-friend testifies - Added 6 weeks ago

Bill Allen affectionately referred to the outings as "boot camp." It was a time when he and Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, would retreat together to a desert location where they gave up hard liquor and heavy food for wine...

Rice says US not trying to undermine Russia - Added 6 weeks ago

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia. "This is not a...

Carp die-off in Clear Lake creates stench - Added 6 weeks ago

Thousands of dead carp in Clear Lake in California have Lake County residents holding their noses. Officials are testing the fish for disease to try to determine the cause of the die-off, which began about a week ago...

Gay elders' distinctive challenges get closer look - Added 6 weeks ago

Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment. As an 86-year-old gay man,...

Salmonella sickens people in 12 states - Added 6 weeks ago

The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning. The health warning by the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited frozen...

Today in History - Oct. 5 - Added 6 weeks ago

Today is Sunday, Oct. 5, the 279th day of 2008. There are 87 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Oct. 5, 1947, President Truman delivered the first televised White House address. Speaking on the...

Some on Simpson jury disagreed with 1995 acquittal - Added 6 weeks ago

The jurors in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping trial claimed a mixture of opinions about his acquittal on murder charges more than a decade ago, but all told attorneys they could set aside their feelings. ...

Sheriff: National death toll from Ike climbs to 70 - Added 6 weeks ago

A Texas sheriff's official says the national death toll from Hurricane Ike has hit 70 after two bodies were found near where the storm came ashore. A search team made the discovery Saturday on an island off the...

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Key anti-govt protest leader in Thailand taken away by police after arrest warrant issued. ...

Edwards: Passion for health reform keeps me going - Added 6 weeks ago

Elizabeth Edwards said Saturday that her passion for reforming the nation's health care system has been "a great refuge" for her during the recent turmoil over her husband's extramarital affair. Edwards, who has...

Obituaries in the news - Added 6 weeks ago

Eletra Casadei LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Fashion designer Eletra Casadei, whose collections were carried in boutiques and department stores across the nation and were seen on such TV shows as "The Golden Girls" and "Dynasty,"...

Farmer carves out Calif. record with huge pumpkin - Added 6 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:LA103-1004081435 -->That's a lot of pumpkin seeds. A Canadian farmer has won a contest in California with a pumpkin that weighs more than 1,500 pounds. Jake van Kooten of British Columbia collected more than...

Like mountains that stole Fossett, mystery looms - Added 6 weeks ago

The sky was clear that morning, the wind light. Steve Fossett took off alone from hotel magnate Barron Hilton's ranch about 70 miles southeast of Reno in a blue and white stunt plane with orange stripes and blue...

Former Clinton neighbor convicted of murder in NY - Added 6 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:NYR104-1120060107 -->A disbarred attorney who lived three doors down from Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton in suburban New York was convicted Saturday of murdering his wife in what prosecutors said was an...

Affirmative action before voters in Colo., Neb. - Added 6 weeks ago

University of Colorado freshman Darian Salehy loves college life so far _ except for one thing. "It's all white people," Salehy mused on the Boulder campus lawn recently, looking at fellow students headed to class. ...

'Smoot' measurement reaches new heights at MIT - Added 6 weeks ago

The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned Saturday to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years ago. Oliver Smoot was...

NM balloon fiesta limits hot air from campaigns - Added 6 weeks ago

Hundreds of thousands of potential voters will pass through Albuquerque over the next several days. Their purpose: to eat too many breakfast burritos as they sip hot chocolate and take in the spectacle of the annual...

Blog on meat plant was astroturf, not grassroots - Added 7 weeks ago

As Agriprocessors Inc. was getting stung by criticism after a federal immigration raid snared hundreds of its workers, "a blog by people who live and work in Postville" appeared in its defense in May. The blog defended...

President makes quick, long-awaited return home - Added 7 weeks ago

President Bush almost made it through his two terms without visiting his boyhood hometown. He broke the more than 7-year, 8-month streak on Saturday for a quick and lucrative fundraising stop in this West Texas oil...

Black businessman spars against affirmative action - Added 7 weeks ago

When it comes to Ward Connerly, the California businessman on a state-by-state war against affirmative action, it's hard for many people on either side of the issue to be colorblind. If he were white, his message that...

Islanders who insisted on staying died in Ike - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:TXPS101-0930081029 -->The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long. This storm wasn't like the others, the ones that left nothing worse than a...

Civilian nuclear deal lauded by US, Indian envoys - Added 7 weeks ago

The top American and Indian diplomats lauded a new agreement that opens up U.S. nuclear trade with India, but they stopped short of signing the deal Saturday. Some private U.S. arms control experts said the pact...

Gay elders' distinctive challenges get closer look - Added 7 weeks ago

Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment. As an 86-year-old gay man,...

Report faults FAA over maintenance outsourcing - Added 7 weeks ago

Nine major U.S. airlines are farming out aircraft maintenance at twice the rate of four years ago and now hire outside contractors for more than 70 percent of major work, the government says. Contractors overseas...

Politics scuttles plan to put US diplomats in Iran - Added 7 weeks ago

The Bush administration has shelved plans to set up a diplomatic outpost in Iran, in part over fears it could affect the U.S. presidential race or be interpreted as political meddling, The Associated Press has learned. ...

Major Supreme Court cases for the new term - Added 7 weeks ago

Highlights of some high-profile cases that the Supreme Court will take up in its term that begins Monday: _Drug maker liability: Vermont musician Diana Levine won a $6.8 million judgment against drugmaker Wyeth after...

High court term begins quietly in campaign season - Added 7 weeks ago

The Supreme Court is doing its best to stay out of the spotlight in the final days of the presidential campaign and while the other two branches of government struggle to deal with turmoil in the financial markets. The...

Rice sets sights on energy-rich ex-Soviet republic - Added 7 weeks ago

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is leading U.S. efforts to court energy-rich Kazakhstan, the former Soviet republic balancing close relations with Russia and openings to the West after Moscow's invasion of Georgia. ...

US and Indian diplomats laud nuclear deal - Added 7 weeks ago

The top American and Indian diplomats on Saturday lauded a new agreement that opens up U.S. nuclear trade with India, but they stopped short of signing the deal, which some private U.S. arms control experts say is...

Teen athlete's killing lamented in Ice Cube video - Added 7 weeks ago

The unlikely stars of Ice Cube's new video are the grieving relatives of a 17-year-old high school football star who was shot to death outside his home. The song "Why Me?" speaks out against senseless violence and gun...

Newspapers get complaints for DVD ad on Muslims - Added 7 weeks ago

Newspapers that carried an advertising supplement in recent weeks containing a DVD critical of radical Muslims have faced complaints from readers and questions about whether newspapers should offer a platform to...

Ex-police officer in Ohio wants new murder trial - Added 7 weeks ago

A former police officer sentenced to life in prison for killing his pregnant lover is seeking a new trial, arguing that the jury handed down contradictory verdicts. Attorneys for Bobby Cutts Jr. filed the appeal Friday...

A look at the 9 men in the O.J. Simpson case - Added 7 weeks ago

Nine men, including O.J. Simpson, were involved in an armed robbery on Sept. 13, 2007, in a cramped Palace Station casino hotel room. Six were initially charged in the case. Four pleaded guilty to lesser crimes and...

Obituaries in the news - Added 7 weeks ago

Eddie Brinkman CHICAGO (AP) _ Eddie Brinkman, a record-setting shortstop with a 15-year career in major league baseball, has died. He was 66. Brinkman died Tuesday in his hometown of Cincinnati. The Chicago White Sox,...

Family suspects cover-up in airman's death on base - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:TXWIC112-1003081145 -->!!-- pobj:TXWIC113-1003081145 -->!!-- pobj:TXWIC111-1003081145 -->Hours after Senior Airman Blanca Luna was found with a knife in her neck in her room at Sheppard Air Force Base,...