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Indonesia air force says 78 killed in plane crash
(Reuters)
Reuters - An Indonesian military transport plane carrying 110 people crashed and burst into flames in East Java on Wednesday, killing at least 78 people, an air force official said.
McCullum may play for New South Wales in Champions League Twenty20 tourney
Sydney, May 26 : New South Wales Cricket are poised to offer Otago 250,000 American dollars for Brendon McCullum's services in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 tournament after losing David Warner to the Delhi Daredevils.
New York puts workforce development at heart of economic recovery strategy
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York on Thursday said that the city puts workforce development at the heart of the strategy for spurring recovery from the recession. Addressing delegates representin...
Gay Pride weekend events in New York City
Starting Sunday at noon, Gay Pride marchers will head down Fifth Avenue, from 52nd Street to the West Village. Here marchers are pictured in 2007.
Stop Those Harassing Debt Collectors
credit card company has called a friend of mine 24 times -- as quickly as 2 minutes apart. How do you get them to communicate with one another so they know they have contacted you? It has become very ...
American Reprographics Company Licenses MetaPrint Abacus Print Cost Recovery and Print Tracking Software
ARP ), the nation's leading provider of reprographics services and technology, today announced the general availability of MetaPrint Abacus™, the Company's print cost recovery and print tracki...
Feds Want Data On Paper's Web Commenters
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Small plane lands on suburban Atlanta highway
(AP)
AP - A small plane with two people on board has made an emergency landing on a highway in the northern Atlanta suburbs.
Alleged elevator urinator charged
DETROIT—An agent used surveillance cameras to confirm a smelly suspicion: Someone had been urinating in a freight elevator at an Internal Revenue Service data center in Detroit. Authorities file...
Feds dropping charges against pro-Israel lobbyists
(AP)
AP - Federal prosecutors moved Friday to dismiss espionage-related charges against two former pro-Israel lobbyists accused of disclosing classified defense information, ending a tortuous inside-the-Beltway legal battle rife with national security intrigue.
English gets millionth word on Wednesday
Web site estimates English got its millionth word at 5:22 a.m. Wednesday English accumulates new words from other languages and from its global reach Linguists question group's formula, which estimate...
Sanford Takes Heat from All Sides
S.C. Governor Mark Sanford said that he will reimburse the state for one of his trips to Argentina to visit his mistress. Many politicians urged him to resign. Kelly Cobiella reports.
Calif. high court upholds gay-marriage ban
(AP)
AP - California's Supreme Court upheld the state's gay-marriage ban Tuesday but said the estimated 18,000 same-sex weddings that took place before the prohibition passed are still valid — a ruling decried by gay-rights activists as a hollow victory.
Detention of journalists puts strain on media firm
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)People walk past the headquarters of Current TV in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Two American journalists sentenced by North Korea last week to 12 years of hard labor w...
Obama: Flu strain requires vigilance and readiness
(AP)
AP - The strain of influenza that is alarming the world is so new and poorly understood that it justifies the U.S. government's multi-pronged efforts to fight it, President Barack Obama said Saturday.
Orvis Releases Fly Fishing Reports Web Site That Covers Over 100 of the Best Fly Fishing Locations in North America
MANCHESTER, VT--(Marketwire - June 10, 2009) - One of the more disappointing things that can happen when planning a fishing trip is to arrive at your location for the weekend only to find that the r...
Oil Rises Above $71 Amid Falling Inventories
(AP) Oil prices rose above $71 a barrel Thursday, halting this week's decline as falling U.S. crude inventories suggested demand is improving in the world's largest economy. Benchmark crude for July...
Quick-thinking pizza man leads cops to rape victim
(AP)
AP - An alert deliveryman spotted a woman tied up inside a remote cabin in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains while dropping off a pizza, and police said his 911 call helped rescue the kidnapping and rape victim.
Precedents on choices for Supreme Court
As President Obama closes in on a successor to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, hislawyers are combing through the records and backgrounds of possible nominees. They develop a "short list" and sche...
8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband
(AP)
AP - An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday. Saudi Arabia has come under increasing criticism at home and abroad for permitting child marriages. The United States, a close ally of the conservative Muslim kingdom, has called child marriage a "clear and unacceptable" violation of human rights.
Science agency to review FBI's anthrax probe
(AP)
AP - The National Academy of Sciences will review the lab work the FBI did to conclude that Army scientist Bruce Ivins was responsible for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001.
Ex-friend says Wis. mother thought illness was sin
(AP)
AP - A former friend of a mother accused of homicide because she only prayed while her daughter died of untreated diabetes says the mother believed sickness is a sign of sin.
Mariah Carey dresses up like Eminem in new video
New York, July 1 : Pop star Mariah Carey took a dig at her ex-boyfriend Eminem, as she dressed up as the rapper in a new music video.
U.S. arrests 88 suspected gang members in huge sweep
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police and federal agents arrested 88 people linked to a notorious Southern California street gang in raids on Thursday that capped the largest such sweep by the U.S. Justice D...
Obama says health care changes must come this year
(AP)
AP - President Barack Obama warned Thursday that if Congress doesn't deliver health care legislation by the end of the year, the opportunity will be lost, a plea to political supporters to pressure lawmakers to act. "If we don't get it done this year, we're not going to get it done," Obama told supporters by phone as he flew home on Air Force One from a West Coast fundraising trip.
Air Force Probes General For Actions at Guantanamo
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct. 25 -- The Air Force is investigating a top official in the Guantanamo war crimes trials following complaints that he inappropriately sought to influence the prosecution of cases, military officials said Saturday.
Brazil finds Air France wreckage, all feared dead
(Reuters)
Reuters - Brazilian military planes found wreckage on Tuesday from an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean with 228 people aboard, the airline's worst disaster in its 75-year history.
Geithner sees China backing for U.S. policy response
(Reuters)
Reuters - Chinese officials are giving U.S. efforts to pump up its ailing economy a vote of confidence and understand why higher budget deficits are a temporary necessity, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday.
Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years
Madoff , addressing the court in a dark suit, white shirt and black tie for about six minutes, said that when he started the scam, he thought he'd be able to "work my way out." He said he lives in a t...
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