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Obituaries in the news - Added 7 weeks ago

Osborn Elliott NEW YORK (AP) _ Former Newsweek Editor Osborn Elliott, widely credited with making the magazine competitive with archrival Time magazine, died Sunday. He was 83. He died of complications from cancer,...

Midnight in the Capitol: 'Finally,' a deal - Added 7 weeks ago

The government effort to yank control of the sagging economy from Wall Street began to jell a half-hour before midnight Saturday in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Capitol office. Even Republicans credit her, however...

Hawaii judge stops doomsday lawsuit over collider - Added 7 weeks ago

A federal judge in Hawaii has dismissed a lawsuit trying to stop the world's largest atom smasher. U.S. District Judge Helen Gilmor says in a ruling issued Friday that federal courts don't have jurisdiction over the...

Ill. foundation acquires Holocaust letter exhibit - Added 7 weeks ago

The faded papers hint at stark details in the lives of Nazi concentration camp inmates. Letters secretly carried by children through the sewers of Warsaw, Poland, during the 1944 uprising. A 1933 card from a Dachau...

Longtime Newsweek Editor Elliott dies in NYC at 83 - Added 7 weeks ago

Former Newsweek Editor Osborn Elliott, widely credited with making the magazine competitive with archrival Time magazine, died Sunday at age 83. He died of complications from cancer, his family told Newsweek. Elliott,...

Bush: Rescue needed to keep economy from breakdown - Added 7 weeks ago

President Bush is welcoming the $700 billion financial rescue deal reached by congressional leaders and his administration. He says the measure would help protect the nation's economy from a systemwide breakdown. Bush...

Vacationers, residents watch Kyle roll their way - Added 7 weeks ago

The threat of a hurricane drew wave-watchers Sunday to West Quoddy Head, a 151-year-old lighthouse at the nation's easternmost tip. About a dozen people watched the water lapping on the rocks and snapped pictures of...

Congress approves Great Lakes clean-up bill - Added 7 weeks ago

Congress is sending President Bush a bill that would extend for two years a federal program to clean up areas of pollution and contaminated sediment around the Great Lakes. The House voted 411-9 Sunday in favor of the...

Urban school superintendents hard to hang onto - Added 7 weeks ago

St. Louis is looking for its eighth school superintendent since 2003. Kansas City is on its 25th superintendent in 39 years. Despite good salaries and plenty of perks, a recent study found that the average urban...

NY new-gun database has yet to lead to prosecution - Added 7 weeks ago

New York's 7-year-old database of handgun "fingerprints" has yet to lead to a criminal prosecution, and questions linger about its effectiveness. Still, state police remain committed to the database, saying more time...

Farmers bet 'green' eatery will catch on - Added 7 weeks ago

North Dakota farmers have spent $6 million to open a pair of Washington restaurants, one just blocks from the White House, to showcase food from family farms. The newer eatery aims to be "Washington's greenest...

Couple say home's ex-owner tried to scare them out - Added 7 weeks ago

John and Jamie Petree couldn't believe their luck. The home they bought in this Columbus suburb was near family and quality schools. Its huge backyard promised years of afternoon fun for their 2-year-old daughter and...

NYC museum ship Intrepid coming home shipshape - Added 7 weeks ago

Almost two years after being pried ignominiously from the mud by a phalanx of huffing tugboats and towed off to a shipyard for a major overhaul, the historic aircraft carrier Intrepid is returning home. Freshly painted...

Cars sell for nearly $1 million at Maine auction - Added 7 weeks ago

Winning bidders at an auction of vintage vehicles and memorabilia in Maine have bought a 1910 Mercedes four-seat Tourabout for $887,000 and a 1913 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost for $832,000. The auction on Friday and...

Gotti arrest recalls Fla. mob history - Added 7 weeks ago

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UCLA group discovers humongous prime number - Added 7 weeks ago

Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize. The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75...

Calif. lapdogs can stay just that in moving cars - Added 7 weeks ago

Hollywood celebrities can continue to drive with animals nestled in their laps. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is vetoing a bill to fine motorists $35 for sharing the driver's seat with lapdogs or other animals. ...

Senate sends big spending bill to Bush to sign - Added 7 weeks ago

Automakers gained $25 billion in taxpayer-subsidized loans and oil companies won elimination of a long-standing ban on drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as the Senate passed a sprawling spending bill...

Up to 7 stabbed in NYC nightclub fight, 2 critical - Added 7 weeks ago

Police say as many as seven men were stabbed during a quarrel at a nightclub in New York City. Two are in critical condition. The bloody fight erupted around 4 a.m. Sunday inside the Tahona club in the Queen's...

Vintage NYC subway taking Mets fans to Shea game - Added 7 weeks ago

Mets fans are getting a vintage New York City subway car for their last nostalgic ride to the final regular season home game at Shea Stadium. Trains board in Times Square just after 11 a.m. Sunday, arriving at Shea at...

House approves nuclear pact with India - Added 7 weeks ago

The House voted overwhelmingly Saturday to approve a landmark pact that would allow the U.S. to provide nuclear materials to India. The deal still faces obstacles in the Senate, making prospects uncertain for passage...

Ex-governor to GOP: Fight Schwarzenegger recall - Added 7 weeks ago

Former Gov. Pete Wilson urged his fellow Republicans on Saturday not to make light of a recall drive against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He told delegates at the California Republican Party's fall convention that they...

Texas homeowner acquitted of killing teen intruder - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:TXLAR101-0923080915 -->!!-- pobj:TXLAR102-0923080931 -->A Texas jury acquitted a man accused of killing a boy who broke into his home looking for a snack _ a case that sparked outrage in this border city,...

Hunting-dog owners try to keep opponents at bay - Added 7 weeks ago

In a state considered the American birthplace of hunting with hounds, George Washington's favorite sport has become a target for some Virginia landowners who say baying dogs and their owners are trampling property...

Officials: Korean nuclear mission for US envoy - Added 7 weeks ago

A senior American diplomat plans to visit North Korea in the coming week in a bid to salvage a faltering international effort to get the communist country to give up nuclear weapons, U.S. officials said Saturday. ...

Laura Bush, daughter Jenna read at book festival - Added 7 weeks ago

First lady Laura Bush and daughter Jenna took a lesson from their own book Saturday at the National Book Festival. The mother and daughter co-authors were about to read their new book, "Read All About It!" _ about a...

Woman wakes up, should have smelled the coffee - Added 7 weeks ago

It wasn't just the caffeine that gave an Iowa woman an extra jolt after she had her morning coffee. It was also the bat she found in the filter. The Iowa Department of Public Health says the woman reported a bat in her...

Calif. lapdogs can stay just that in moving cars - Added 7 weeks ago

Hollywood celebrities can continue to drive with animals nestled in their laps. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is vetoing a bill to fine motorists $35 for sharing the driver's seat with lapdogs or other animals. ...

Obituaries in the news - Added 7 weeks ago

Larry Birleffi CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) _ Larry Birleffi, a television and radio broadcaster known for more than 50 years as the "Voice of the Wyoming Cowboys," died Saturday. He was 90. He died at Davis Hospice Center in...

Coroner to the stars, Ronald Kornblum, dies at 74 - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:CALOS201-0927081722 -->Ronald N. Kornblum, a former Los Angeles County coroner who performed autopsies on such celebrities as John Belushi, Natalie Wood and Truman Capote, has died. He was 74. Kornblum served...

2 young brothers die in Louisiana apartment fire - Added 7 weeks ago

Two brothers _ an infant and a toddler _ have been found dead in the smoldering ruins of a Louisiana apartment building that caught fire. Fire officials in Reserve, about 40 miles west of New Orleans, say the building...

Nephew: Ind. bus driver grieving students' deaths - Added 7 weeks ago

The driver of a school bus struck by two dump trucks in rural northern Indiana is devastated that the four special-needs students she was taking home died in the crash, a relative said Saturday. Debbie DuVall, 46, of...

Man arrested at Denver airport after bomb threat - Added 7 weeks ago

Officials at the Denver airport say a passenger is in custody after claiming to have explosives on a Northwest Airlines plane. Airport spokesman Chuck Cannon says no explosives were found Saturday after the plane was...

House approves nuclear pact with India - Added 7 weeks ago

The House voted overwhelmingly Saturday to approve a landmark pact that would allow the U.S. to provide nuclear materials to India. The deal still faces obstacles in the Senate, making prospects uncertain for passage...

Federal loans to automakers could flow in 6 months - Added 7 weeks ago

By as early as next spring, U.S. automakers will be able to tap into a $25 billion low-interest line of credit from the government to help them modernize their plants to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. The Energy...

Senate sends $612 billion defense bill to Bush - Added 7 weeks ago

Troops would get a pay raise in a defense bill that Congress sent President Bush on Saturday. Even before passage, lawmakers had backed away from an election-season showdown with the administration over Iraq. ...

Feds: Judge should ax Pa. Muslim scientist's suit - Added 7 weeks ago

A federal judge does not have the jurisdiction to second-guess security clearance decisions and should throw out a lawsuit by a Muslim scientist who claims he wrongly lost his clearance _ and his job _ at a nuclear...

Memorial to slain gay student dedicated in Wyo. - Added 7 weeks ago

The nation _ and the city of Laramie _ has become more accepting of gays and lesbians in the 10 years since a gay University of Wyoming student was beaten, lashed to a lonely fence and left to die, his mother said...

Anti-bear spray discharge closes Alaska airport - Added 7 weeks ago

The airport serving Alaska's capital city doesn't have to worry about bears coming around anytime soon. Juneau International Airport had to be evacuated Friday afternoon because of an accidental discharge of anti-bear...

Belarus voting watched by US for signs of opening - Added 7 weeks ago

The United States is looking to the conduct of parliamentary elections in Belarus this weekend for signs that a government it has denounced as a dictatorship wants improved relations. The two countries have been...

Texas homeowner acquitted of killing teen intruder - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:TXLAR101-0923080915 -->!!-- pobj:TXLAR102-0923080931 -->A Texas jury acquitted a man accused of killing a boy who broke into his home looking for a snack _ a case that sparked outrage in this border city,...

Pakistan looms large for next US administration - Added 7 weeks ago

At the White House, President Bush welcomed the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan this week. Along their borders, safe havens for anti-U.S. militants, their troops exchanged fire, deepening a foreign policy challenge...

US senior centers plan for boom of 'boomers' - Added 7 weeks ago

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Oil flowing from offshore spigot still years away - Added 7 weeks ago

The welcome sign is going out to oil and gas companies off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. A quarter-century ban on offshore exploration expires in this coming week, but don't expect to see a chain of drilling...

Hurricane Ike remnants dump $500M damages on Ohio - Added 7 weeks ago

Damages caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike in Ohio could hit $500 million or higher, making it one of the state's costliest natural disasters. The Ohio Insurance Institute says $500 million is a preliminary figure...

Highlights of offshore drilling, budget measure - Added 7 weeks ago

Highlights of the spending bill sent to President Bush on Saturday that would end a freeze on more offshore oil drilling and provide money for federal agencies in the budget year that begins Wednesday. OFFSHORE...

Philly high school football player dies of MRSA - Added 7 weeks ago

Philadelphia school district officials say a high school football player has died of a drug-resistant staph infection. The officials say tests on Friday confirmed that 17-year-old Saalen Jones had the contagious germ...

Chicago Muslims devastated by investment scam - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:CX301-0924081355 -->!!-- pobj:CX302-0924081355 -->Between the prayers that fill the holy month of Ramadan, during the long fasts that stretch from dawn to dusk, Muslims have been meeting to discuss the...

18th-century viola left in cab returned to owner - Added 7 weeks ago

A New York City taxi driver has hit all the right notes by returning an 18th-century viola worth thousands of dollars to a passenger who left it in the back seat of his car. New Jersey Symphony violist Ann Roggen says...

Birleffi, 'Voice of the Cowboys,' dies at 90 - Added 7 weeks ago

Larry Birleffi, a television and radio broadcaster known for more than 50 years as the "Voice of the Wyoming Cowboys," died Saturday. He was 90. Son-in-law Phil Noble said he died at Davis Hospice Center in Cheyenne. ...