AP Online back issues from Wednesday, August 29:
DOD: 364 Military Deaths in Afghan Area
Aug 29, 2007 ...As of Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007, at least 364 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to ...
Defeding Champ Sharapova Cruises at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she'd won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
McCain Jokes With Leno About Campaign
Aug 29, 2007 ...BURBANK, Calif. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday the public is yearning to hear the truth from politicians, and he didn't spare his troubled campaign from a critical ...
Artful Web Designs Push Artistic Limits
Aug 29, 2007 ...As a canvas, a Web site or a flash player can offer seemingly infinite possibilities for online graphic design. Here are a handful of sites with inventive visuals.- The World's Highest ...
Defeding Champ Sharapova Cruises at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Teen Loses Prosthetic Hand Left on Bike
Aug 29, 2007 ...LONDON - Teenager Jack Baker had only planned to visit his girlfriend for 10 minutes. So he parked his motorcycle outside her home and left his prosthetic hand gripped to its handlebar....
Winds Fan Wildfire Near Idaho Ski Lodge
Aug 29, 2007 ...KETCHUM, Idaho - Gusty winds pushed a wildfire closer to Sun Valley Resort's ski area on Tuesday, while hundreds more homes were ordered evacuated in the valley below.The fire has burned ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I have never been ...
Israeli Museum Launches Art Database
Aug 29, 2007 ...JERUSALEM - Israel's national museum has launched an Internet catalog of more than 1,000 pieces of art looted by the Nazis to allow Holocaust survivors and their heirs to identify and reclaim ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I never have been ...
Burning Man Torched Early; Artist Held
Aug 29, 2007 ...SAN FRANCISCO - Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday, and a San Francisco performance artist was arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the counterculture ...
Nautilus Inventor Arthur Jones Dies
Aug 29, 2007 ...OCALA, Fla. - Arthur Jones, whose invention of Nautilus exercise equipment offered a more-targeted approach to strength training and changed the idea of a workout, died Tuesday. He was 80....
Defeding Champ Sharapova Cruises at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Police: NY Robber Refuses $10, Takes $4
Aug 29, 2007 ...GREENBURGH, N.Y. - A knife-wielding robber needed only $4, so he refused to take a $10 bill from his victim and waited while the man made change at a pizza parlor, police said Tuesday.He ...
NASA Report Due on Alcohol, Astronauts
Aug 29, 2007 ...WASHINGTON - NASA is set to release results of an internal investigation into whether a couple of astronauts were drinking heavily just before launch, but no one expects new details to emerge. ...
Artful Web Designs Push Artistic Limits
Aug 29, 2007 ...As a canvas, a Web site or a flash player can offer seemingly infinite possibilities for online graphic design. Here are a handful of sites with inventive visuals.- The World's Highest ...
Defeding Champ Sharapova Cruises at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Prison-Yard Pot Plagues Japanese Lockup
Aug 29, 2007 ...TOKYO - A Japanese prison is scrambling to eradicate marijuana plants that keep sprouting up on its exercise ground, officials said Tuesday.The marijuana plants started sprouting at ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I never have been ...
Police: NY Robber Refuses $10, Takes $4
Aug 29, 2007 ...GREENBURGH, N.Y. - A knife-wielding robber needed only $4, so he refused to take a $10 bill from his victim and waited while the man made change at a pizza parlor, police said Tuesday.He ...
Atlanta Baggy-Pants Ban Debate Drags On
Aug 29, 2007 ...ATLANTA - Striped underpants peeked out of 19-year-old Jae Cripe's outfit as she took a stand Tuesday at an Atlanta City Council meeting next to a sign that proclaimed: "Clothes are not a ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I never have been ...
National Poverty Rate Declines
Aug 29, 2007 ...WASHINGTON - Five years into a national economic recovery, the share of Americans living in poverty finally dropped.The nation's poverty rate was 12.3 percent in 2006, down from 12.6 ...
Pirates Beat Reds 6-4 on Sanchez Slam
Aug 29, 2007 ...PITTSBURGH - Freddy Sanchez kept his hot August going with a grand slam and five RBIs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended the Cincinnati Reds' six-game winning streak with a 6-4 victory Tuesday in a ...
Sharapova Cruises at U.S. Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she'd won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
McCain Jokes With Leno About Campaign
Aug 29, 2007 ...BURBANK, Calif. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday the public is yearning to hear the truth from politicians, and he didn't spare his troubled campaign from a critical ...
Mrs Edwards: Democrats Ignore South
Aug 29, 2007 ...NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Democratic Party has ignored Southern voters in the past and it's unlikely two of the major Democratic presidential candidates - Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama - ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I never have been ...
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she'd won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Winds Fan Wildfire Near Idaho Ski Lodge
Aug 29, 2007 ...KETCHUM, Idaho - Gusty winds pushed a wildfire closer to Sun Valley Resort's ski area on Tuesday, while hundreds more homes were ordered evacuated in the valley below.The fire has burned ...
Katie Couric to Report From Iraq, Syria
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Katie Couric plans to leave Wednesday for an ambitious reporting trip to Iraq and Syria - the CBS anchor's first time in the war zone - in anticipation of a crucial military report on ...
U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,731
Aug 29, 2007 ...As of Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2007, at least 3,731 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes ...
Sharapova, Hingis, Hewitt Win at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she'd won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
NASA Report Due on Alcohol, Astronauts
Aug 29, 2007 ...WASHINGTON - NASA is set to release results of an internal investigation into whether a couple of astronauts were drinking heavily just before launch, but no one expects new details to emerge. ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I never have been ...
Crews Working to Get Camera Inside Mine
Aug 29, 2007 ...SALT LAKE CITY - A robotic camera lowered into a mountain became stuck 10 feet from its target, forcing crews to come up with another route to attempt getting video of an area where six miners ...
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Texas Gives Mack Brown Raise, Extension
Aug 29, 2007 ...AUSTIN - Texas coach Mack Brown on Tuesday got a two-year contract extension, a raise and a pair of hefty bonuses to come later. He also got a promise of a good job if he ever decides to quit ...
Burning Man Torched Early; Artist Held
Aug 29, 2007 ...SAN FRANCISCO - Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday, and a San Francisco performance artist was arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the counterculture ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I have never been ...
Woman Sentenced in Aiding Prison Escape
Aug 29, 2007 ...KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A woman who helped a convicted murderer escape from prison in a dog crate was sentenced Tuesday to 27 months in federal prison.A judge ruled that Toby Young's federal ...
Ailing S.D. Sen. Johnson: 'I Am Back'
Aug 29, 2007 ...SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sen. Tim Johnson, speaking slowly and slurring some words more than eight months after experiencing a life-threatening brain hemorrhage, announced Tuesday to state residents: ...
Winds Fan Wildfire Near Idaho Ski Lodge
Aug 29, 2007 ...KETCHUM, Idaho - Gusty winds pushed a wildfire closer to Sun Valley Resort's ski area on Tuesday, while hundreds more homes were ordered evacuated in the valley below.The fire has burned ...
Prison-Yard Pot Plagues Japanese Lockup
Aug 29, 2007 ...TOKYO - A Japanese prison is scrambling to eradicate marijuana plants that keep sprouting up on its exercise ground, officials said Tuesday.The marijuana plants started sprouting at ...
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she'd won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
National Poverty Rate Declines
Aug 29, 2007 ...WASHINGTON - Five years into a national economic recovery, the share of Americans living in poverty finally dropped.The nation's poverty rate was 12.3 percent in 2006, down from 12.6 ...
Katie Couric to Report From Iraq, Syria
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Katie Couric plans to leave Wednesday for an ambitious reporting trip to Iraq and Syria - the CBS anchor's first time in the war zone - in anticipation of a crucial military report on ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I have never been ...
Sharapova, Hingis, Hewitt Win at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Ailing S.D. Sen. Johnson: 'I Am Back'
Aug 29, 2007 ...SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Sen. Tim Johnson, speaking slowly and slurring some words more than eight months after experiencing a life-threatening brain hemorrhage, announced Tuesday to state residents: ...
Craig Says 'I Am Not Gay,' Did No Wrong
Aug 29, 2007 ...BOISE, Idaho - A defiant Sen. Larry Craig denied any wrongdoing Tuesday despite his guilty plea this summer in a men's room police sting, emphatically adding, "I am not gay. I never have been ...
Teen Loses Prosthetic Hand Left on Bike
Aug 29, 2007 ...LONDON - Teenager Jack Baker had only planned to visit his girlfriend for 10 minutes. So he parked his motorcycle outside her home and left his prosthetic hand gripped to its handlebar....
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Katie Couric to Report From Iraq, Syria
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Katie Couric plans to leave Wednesday for an ambitious reporting trip to Iraq and Syria - the CBS anchor's first time in the war zone - in anticipation of a crucial military report on ...
Metal-Bat Ban Found Constitutional
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - A judge on Tuesday upheld New York's ban on metal bats in high school baseball games, saying it was not his place to overturn a law that was approved by a local government with the ...
Sanchez's Slam Helps Pirates Slow Reds
Aug 29, 2007 ...PITTSBURGH - Freddy Sanchez kept his hot August going with a grand slam and five RBIs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended the Cincinnati Reds' six-game winning streak with a 6-4 victory Tuesday in a ...
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Texas Gives Mack Brown Raise, Extension
Aug 29, 2007 ...AUSTIN - Texas coach Mack Brown on Tuesday got a two-year contract extension, a raise and a pair of hefty bonuses to come later. He also got a promise of a good job if he ever decides to quit ...
National Poverty Rate Declines
Aug 29, 2007 ...WASHINGTON - Five years into a national economic recovery, the share of Americans living in poverty finally dropped.The nation's poverty rate was 12.3 percent in 2006, down from 12.6 ...
Sanchez's Slam Helps Pirates Slow Reds
Aug 29, 2007 ...PITTSBURGH - Freddy Sanchez kept his hot August going with a grand slam and five RBIs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended the Cincinnati Reds' six-game winning streak with a 6-4 victory Tuesday in a ...
Defending Champ Sharapova Coasts at Open
Aug 29, 2007 ...NEW YORK - Maria Sharapova shanked a backhand wide, prompting her opponent to leap in the air and pump her fist and smile as though she won the match - or, indeed, the U.S. Open championship ...
Burning Man Torched Early; Artist Held
Aug 29, 2007 ...SAN FRANCISCO - Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday, and a San Francisco performance artist was arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the counterculture ...
NASA Report Due on Alcohol, Astronauts
Aug 29, 2007 ...WASHINGTON - NASA is set to release results of an internal investigation into whether a couple of astronauts were drinking heavily just before launch, but no one expects new details to emerge. ...