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AP Top News at 8:00 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
AP Top News at 8:07 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
Judge: Speeding Not 'As Bad' in Miles
Nov 01, 2007; ... When police caught driver David Clarke flying down a road at 180 kilometers per hour this month, he looked likely to lose his license. But a country judge reduced the charge and let the 31-year-old information technology worker stay on the road after concluding the speed did not look ...
Killer Storm Heads Toward the Bahamas
Nov 01, 2007; ... Tropical Storm Noel triggered mudslides and floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, pushing the death toll to 81 on Wednesday and forcing some parents to choose which of their children to save from the surging waters. The storm was slowly moving away from the north coast of Cuba ...
Rowling Sues to Block Harry Potter Book
Nov 01, 2007; ... Author J.K. Rowling and the maker of the "Harry Potter" films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard. The suit, filed Wednesday by the author and Warner Bros. in federal court in ...
Scientists Decode Most of Mo. Cat's DNA
Nov 01, 2007; ... An Abyssinian cat from Missouri, named Cinnamon, has just made scientific history. Researchers have largely decoded her DNA, a step that may aid the search for treatments for both feline and human diseases. The report adds cats to the roughly two dozen mammals whose DNA has been ...
Tropical Storm Death Toll Rises to 81
Nov 01, 2007; ... Tropical Storm Noel triggered mudslides and floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, pushing the death toll to 81 on Wednesday and forcing some parents to choose which of their children to save from the surging waters. The storm was slowly moving away from the north coast of Cuba ...
French Police Arrest 20 for Child Porn
Nov 01, 2007; ... French police arrested 20 suspects as part of a Europe-wide crackdown on child pornography over the Internet, authorities said Wednesday. Three of those arrested also were suspected of having abused children during overseas trips, French police officials said, speaking on condition of ...
3 Guilty of Mass Murder in Madrid Attack
Nov 01, 2007; ... Spain's National Court convicted the three main suspects in the Madrid commuter train bombings of mass murder Wednesday and sentenced them to tens of thousands of years in prison for Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. But the verdict was a mixed bag for prosecutors, who saw four ...
Papers Show Churchill Disputes on H-Bomb
Nov 01, 2007; ... Winston Churchill had bitter disputes with his Cabinet during the Cold War about building the hydrogen bomb and conducting private diplomacy with the Soviet Union _ even threatening to resign at one point, declassified documents showed Thursday. The aging British prime minister ...
Flashing Rude Tattoo Costs Pa. Man
Nov 01, 2007 ... A man accused of kicking an argument with his neighbor up a notch by removing his shirt to reveal a two-word expletive tattoo faces 90 days probation and a $50 fine. Jason Kaminski pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a summary charge of disorderly conduct. Neighbor Chris Carr said ...
U.S. Deaths in Afghanistan, Region
Nov 01, 2007; ... As of Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007, at least 387 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 the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Oct. 27, 2007, at 10 a.m. EDT. ...
Only Female Ump in Pro Baseball Released
Nov 01, 2007; ... She's out! Ria Cortesio, pro baseball's only female umpire, was released by the minor leagues this week. Earlier this season, she became the first woman in nearly 20 years to call a major league exhibition game. "I've been prepared for it, to some extent, for a long time," ...
Colleges Pledge to Cut Achievement Gaps
Nov 01, 2007; ... In a coordinated stab at one of higher education's most pressing problems, some of the country's largest university systems pledged Wednesday to cut in half the achievement gaps for minority and low-income students on their campuses over the next eight years. The announcement comes at ...
AP Top News at 8:37 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
Campbell Joins Chavez at Political Rally
Nov 01, 2007 ... Supermodel Naomi Campbell left the glitz and bright lights of the fashion world behind Wednesday and joined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a political rally and toured government-funded housing projects. Chavez warmly greeted Campbell, planting a kiss on her hand as she arrived ...
AP Top News at 8:05 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case
Nov 01, 2007; ... A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Albert Snyder of ...
Army Needs More Contracting Personnel
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Army, stung by a contracting fraud scandal that has generated more than 80 criminal investigations, needs 1,400 more personnel to deal with the demands of supplying troops in combat, said U.S. officials familiar with a report by federal procurement experts. The group's report, to ...
Polygamist Leader Said He Was 'Immoral'
Nov 01, 2007; ... Sitting in jail awaiting trial, the leader of a polygamous sect renounced his role as a prophet and said he had been "immoral" with a sister and daughter decades ago, newly unsealed documents show. Warren Jeffs' attorneys included those statements in documents they filed in ...
NY Mayors See Route to White House
Nov 01, 2007; ... Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, back-to-back mayors of New York, use nearly identical sales pitches as they try to market themselves to a nation often wary of city folks. Being New York City mayor "is about as good a preparation for being president as exists," Giuliani ...
'Jacob the Jeweler' Pleads Guilty
Nov 01, 2007; ... A celebrity jeweler who put diamonds on celebrities from Sir Elton John to Kanye West pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying records and giving false statements to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring. Terms of the plea deal call for Jacob Arabov of New York to serve up ...
Iowa Governor Gives Pumpkins a Reprieve
Nov 01, 2007 ... Pumpkins have won a Halloween reprieve from the tax man. After a backlash from many pumpkin growers who feared a new tax would cut into their profits, Gov. Chet Culver on Wednesday ordered the Department of Revenue "to do the common sense thing" and offer refunds for anyone affected by ...
Californians Reminded of Danger to Come
Nov 01, 2007; ... The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay area in years was a seismic throat-clearing of sorts, compared with the magnitude-7.0 quake that experts anticipate will hit the region in the next 25 years. Tuesday's magnitude-5.6 quake, centered about 9 miles northeast of San ...
AP Top News at 8:06 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
Israel Says Hezbollah Can Hit Tel Aviv
Nov 01, 2007; ... Israel alleges that Hezbollah militants in Lebanon have rearmed with new long-range rockets capable of hitting Tel Aviv and tripled their arsenal of land-to-sea missiles since last summer's war, the United Nations secretary-general said in a report Wednesday. Ban Ki-Moon said the ...
Iowa Pumpkin Fans Get Tax Treat
Nov 01, 2007 ... Pumpkins have won a Halloween reprieve from the tax man. After a backlash from many pumpkin growers who feared a new tax would cut into their profits, Gov. Chet Culver on Wednesday ordered the Department of Revenue "to do the common sense thing" and offer refunds for anyone ...
DA's Resignation Welcomed in New Orleans
Nov 01, 2007; ... High-profile murder cases fell apart. High-powered prosecutors left. High numbers of cases were dropped altogether. In the end, it wasn't just a $3.7 million racial discrimination verdict that did in New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan. His office had become a symbol of utter ...
Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case
Nov 01, 2007; ... A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Albert Snyder of ...
Summary: Parents and Raising Kids
Nov 01, 2007; ... FAMILY TIME: Parents are taking a more active role in raising their children than they did a decade ago, setting greater restrictions on TV watching and reading more to youngsters, the government reported Wednesday. TEEN ACTIVITIES: Teenagers are participating in more extracurricular ...
Wednesday's Sports Scoreboard
Nov 01, 2007; ... All Times Eastern National Football League No games today. National Basketball Association Milwaukee 55, Orlando 55 ...
AP Top News at 9:00 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
NASA Promises to Release Safety Survey
Nov 01, 2007; ... Abandoning its secrecy claims, NASA promised Congress on Wednesday it will reveal results of an unprecedented federal aviation survey which found that aircraft near collisions, runway interference and ...
AP Top News at 8:14 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
AP Top News at 8:38 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
AP Top News at 8:56 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
AP Top News at 8:06 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
GOP State Rep Resigns Amid Sex Scandal
Nov 01, 2007; ... A state lawmaker who has voted against gay rights resigned Wednesday, days after he was quoted in police reports as saying a man he had sex with after they met at an erotic video store was trying to blackmail him. Rep. Richard Curtis, 48, said he ...
Bird Stomped During Utah Football Game
Nov 01, 2007 ... An assistant high school football coach was cited for misdemeanor animal cruelty after stepping on a pheasant that two boys released on the field as a prank during a game. The boys, whose names were not identified by police, face juvenile charges after allegedly releasing the ...
Campbell Joins Chavez at Political Rally
Nov 01, 2007 ... Supermodel Naomi Campbell left the glitz and bright lights of the fashion world behind Wednesday and joined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a political rally and toured government-funded housing projects. Chavez warmly greeted Campbell, planting a kiss on her hand as she arrived ...
IBM Plans Major Security Initiative
Nov 01, 2007; ... IBM Corp. plans to announce Thursday that it will boost what it spends developing computer security products to $1.5 billion in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus for the company. IBM executives would not say how much they used to spend. But analyst Charles King of Pund-IT ...
Wednesday's Sports Scoreboard
Nov 01, 2007; ... All Times Eastern National Football League No games today. National Basketball Association Orlando 44, Milwaukee 42 ...
AP Top News at 8:38 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
Man Who Caused JFK Scare Went to Smoke
Nov 01, 2007 ... A passenger who caused an evacuation at John F. Kennedy International Airport has told law enforcers that he breached security after going outside to smoke and then misplacing his boarding pass. William Contreras Ramos, 20, of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, told authorities that he was ...
Army Needs More Contracting Personnel
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Army, stung by a contracting fraud scandal that has generated more than 80 criminal investigations, needs 1,400 more personnel to deal with the demands of supplying troops in combat, said U.S. officials familiar with a report by federal procurement experts. The group's report, to ...
Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case
Nov 01, 2007; ... A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist ...
Kitna Regrets 'Naked Coach' Costume Flap
Nov 01, 2007; ... Detroit Lions quarterback Jon Kitna and his wife dressed up as a naked man and a fast-food drive-through attendant at a teammate's Halloween party, depicting an embarrassing moment for one of the team's assistant coaches. Now Kitna is getting some flak on local TV and in a newspaper ...
Cameron Suspended for Banned Stimulant
Nov 01, 2007; ... Mike Cameron always had a squeaky-clean image. He was best-known for hitting four homers in a game in 2002 and for a frightening, face-to-face collision with a teammate in the outfield three seasons later. He was a family man, and his kids would hang out in the San Diego clubhouse ...
Calif. Offenders Say They Are Homeless
Nov 01, 2007; ... Hundreds of California sex offenders who face tough new restrictions on where they can live are declaring themselves homeless _ truthfully or not _ and that's making it difficult for the state to track them. Jessica's Law, approved by 70 percent of California voters a year ago, bars ...
Fed Cuts Rate to Help Ease Housing Slump
Nov 01, 2007; ... ANOTHER CUT: The Federal Reserve sliced an important interest rate Wednesday _ its second reduction in the last six weeks _ to help the economy survive a deepening housing slump that is likely to crimp growth in coming months. HOW MUCH: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and all but one of his ...
U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,842
Nov 01, 2007; ... As of Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007, at least 3,842 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 seven military civilians. At least 3,128 died as a result of hostile action, according to the ...
Sex-Sting Arrest at Ohio Statehouse
Nov 01, 2007; ... A former children's services lawyer was arrested in an Internet child-sex sting Wednesday in the basement of the Ohio Statehouse, minutes after the investigator who lured him there testified two floors above in favor of a bill that would increase penalties for such crimes. Barry ...
Rowling Sues to Block Harry Potter Book
Nov 01, 2007; ... Author J.K. Rowling and the maker of the "Harry Potter" films are suing a small publisher in Michigan over its plans to release a book version of a popular Web site dedicated to the boy wizard. The suit, filed Wednesday by the author and Warner Bros. in federal court in ...
AP Top News at 8:07 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
Fed Cuts Rate to Help Ease Housing Slump
Nov 01, 2007; ... ANOTHER CUT: The Federal Reserve sliced an important interest rate Wednesday _ its second reduction in the last six weeks _ to help the economy survive a deepening housing slump that is likely to crimp growth in coming months. HOW MUCH: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and all but one of his ...
Cameron Suspended 25 Games for Stimulant
Nov 01, 2007; ... Mike Cameron always had a squeaky-clean image. He was best-known for hitting four homers in a game in 2002 and for a frightening, face-to-face collision with a teammate in the outfield three seasons later. He was a family man, and his kids would hang out in the San Diego clubhouse ...
Wednesday's Sports Scoreboard
Nov 01, 2007; ... All Times Eastern National Football League No games today. National Basketball Association Orlando 90, Milwaukee 65 ...
IBM Plans Major Security Initiative
Nov 01, 2007; ... IBM Corp. plans to announce Thursday that it will boost what it spends developing computer security products to $1.5 billion in 2008, reflecting an intensifying focus for the company. IBM executives would not say how much they used to spend. But analyst Charles King of Pund-IT ...
AP Top News at 8:09 p.m. EDT
Nov 01, 2007 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ General manager Ned Colletti acknowledged Wednesday he had spoken with Joe Torre about managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. While Colletti insisted they had not agreed on a contract, he indicated the former New York Yankees manager was the leading ...
Kitna Regrets 'Naked Coach' Costume Flap
Nov 01, 2007; ... Detroit Lions quarterback Jon Kitna and his wife dressed up as a naked man and a fast-food drive-through attendant at a teammate's Halloween party, depicting an embarrassing moment for one of the team's assistant coaches. Now Kitna is getting some flak on local TV and in a newspaper ...
Tens of Thousands Flee Mexico Flooding
Nov 01, 2007; ... A week of heavy rains unleashed massive flooding Wednesday in southeastern Mexico, where tens of thousands fled the rising waters for shelters in Tabasco and Chiapas states. At least 20,000 people had sought shelter in Tabasco's oil-rich capital of Villahermosa, where floodwaters ...
Philly Officer Shot in Head in Holdup
Nov 01, 2007; ... A patrolman on his morning coffee run walked in on a holdup at a doughnut shop and was shot in the forehead Wednesday, authorities said, the city's third officer in four days to be wounded by gunfire. The hooded robber spun from the counter at the Dunkin' Donuts and fired at veteran ...
Army Needs More Contracting Personnel
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Army, stung by a contracting fraud scandal that has generated more than 80 criminal investigations, needs 1,400 more personnel to deal with the demands of supplying troops in combat, said U.S. officials familiar with a report by federal procurement experts. The group's report, to ...
Malaysian Arrested for Needless Bribe
Nov 01, 2007 ... A Malaysian man apparently fearing he had too much to drink tried to play it safe by bribing a policeman to avoid a breath analyzer test. It turned out he passed the test, but was fined for bribery. Aw Cheng Fatt offered a police officer 50 ringgit ($15) after his car was stopped at a ...
Naomi Campbell Meets Venezuela's Chavez
Nov 01, 2007 ... Supermodel Naomi Campbell left the glitz and bright lights of the fashion world behind Wednesday and joined Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a political rally and toured government-funded housing projects. Chavez warmly greeted Campbell, planting a kiss on her hand as she arrived ...