AP Online back issues from Saturday, November 3:
Seagate Settles Capacity-Dispute Lawsuit
Nov 03, 2007; ... Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse potentially millions of customers and pay up to $1.79 million in plaintiff's attorney fees to settle a lawsuit accusing the world's largest maker of hard drives of overstating the data-storage capacity of those devices, court records show. ...
Fact Check: Giuliani's Cancer Stats
Nov 03, 2007; ... No one argues that Rudy Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer, underwent treatment and survived. Yet there is a dispute about the statistics he quotes about his chances of survival. In a radio ad running this week in New Hampshire, Giuliani says: "My chance of surviving ...
Device Created for 'Red Wine Headache'
Nov 03, 2007; ... The effects are all too familiar: a fancy dinner, some fine wine and then, a few hours later, a racing heart and a pounding headache. But a device developed by University of California, Berkeley, researchers could help avoid the dreaded "red wine headache." Chemists working ...
AP Top News at 9:00 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
A&E Pulls 'Dog' Series From Schedule
Nov 03, 2007; ... Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's show has been pulled from the air indefinitely by A&E, two days after a private phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly was posted online. "In evaluating the circumstances of the last ...
Study Ties Time Shift, Pedestrian Deaths
Nov 03, 2007; ... After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight savings time translates into about 37 more U.S ....
Remnants of Atlantic Storm Drench Haiti
Nov 03, 2007; ... U.N. helicopters were waiting out driving rain that lashed Haiti on Friday before they could assess flood damage from Tropical Storm Noel, which killed at least 48 here and left thousands homeless. The new showers from Noel's outer bands raised fears of further deaths in a country ...
Hollywood Writers Set to Strike
Nov 03, 2007; ... Film and TV writers prepared to go on strike Monday for the first time in two decades to break what has become a high-stakes stalemate with the world's largest media companies over profits from DVDs and programming on the Internet. Writers Guild of America board members voted ...
Verplank Leads at Disney Golf Tourney
Nov 03, 2007; ... Scott Verplank and Tag Ridings are separated by one shot atop the leaderboard at Disney and by more than $2.76 million in season earnings. One is playing out the season and enjoying time with his family, the other is fighting for a job. That could be one difference that separates a ...
Warner Stays Out of Online Store Deal
Nov 03, 2007; ... Nokia Corp.'s new Britain-based online music service launched this week with more than 2 million songs, including tracks from every major record label except one: Warner Music Group Corp., home to artists such as Green Day, Linkin Park and Red Hot Chili Peppers. New York-based Warner ...
Poll: Most OK Birth Control for Schools
Nov 03, 2007; ... People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed. Sixty-seven percent support giving contraceptives to students, according to an Associated ...
Hollywood Writers Set to Strike
Nov 03, 2007; ... Film and TV writers prepared to go on strike Monday for the first time in two decades to break what has become a high-stakes stalemate with the world's largest media companies over profits from DVDs and programming on the Internet. Writers Guild of America board members voted ...
AP Top News at 8:00 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ Andy Reid is digging in. The Philadelphia Eagles coach insisted he will not resign Friday, a day after a judge sentenced Reid's two sons to prison and likened his home to a ...
Warner Stays Out of Online Store Deal
Nov 03, 2007; ... Nokia Corp.'s new Britain-based online music service launched this week with more than 2 million songs, including tracks from every major record label except one: Warner Music Group Corp., home to artists such as Green Day, Linkin Park and Red Hot Chili Peppers. New York-based Warner ...
Foreign Drug Makers Face Few Inspections
Nov 03, 2007; ... Two-thirds of the foreign drug manufacturers subject to inspection by the Food and Drug Administration may never have been visited by agency inspectors, a government watchdog reported to Congress Thursday. The FDA this year listed 3,249 foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers subject to ...
Hollywood Writers Set Strike for Monday
Nov 03, 2007; ... Film and TV writers prepared to go on strike Monday for the first time in two decades to break what has become a high-stakes stalemate with the world's largest media companies over profits from DVDs and programming on the Internet. Writers Guild of America board members voted ...
Seagate Settles Capacity-Dispute Lawsuit
Nov 03, 2007; ... Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse potentially millions of customers and pay up to $1.79 million in plaintiff's attorney fees to settle a lawsuit accusing the world's largest maker of hard drives of overstating the data-storage capacity of those devices, court records show. ...
AP Top News at 8:14 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Comet Draws Scientific, Amateur Interest
Nov 03, 2007 ... A comet that has unexpectedly brightened in the past couple of weeks and now is visible to the naked eye is attracting professional and amateur interest. Paul Lewis, director of astronomy outreach at the University of Tennessee, is drawing students to the roof of Nielsen Physics ...
AP Top News at 8:52 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Hundreds of Thousands Flee Mexico Floods
Nov 03, 2007; ... Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fled a flooded region of the Gulf coast Friday, jumping from rooftops into rescue helicopters, scrambling into boats or swimming out through murky brown water. President Felipe Calderon called the flooding in Tabasco state one of Mexico's worst recent natural ...
AP Top News at 8:06 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
AP Top News at 8:22 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Friday's Sports Scoreboard
Nov 03, 2007; ... All Times Eastern National Football League No games today. National Basketball Association Detroit 80, Orlando 70...
Ex-Boyfriend Wants in on Smith's Estate
Nov 03, 2007; ... An ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith who is serving a six-year sentence for making criminal threats against her wants a piece of her inheritance, according to documents filed with Los Angeles Superior Court. Mark Hatten, who lists his current address as the Pleasant Valley State ...
Doctor to Fix Space Station's Torn Wing
Nov 03, 2007; ... The astronaut chosen to make emergency repairs on the space station's ripped solar wing _ a dangerous and unprecedented electrical job _ is actually an emergency medical doctor and mountaineer whose specialty at NASA just happens to be spacewalks. What's more, Scott Parazynski is 6-foot-2 and ...
Bush Attorney General Nominee Gets Boost
Nov 03, 2007; ... Michael Mukasey drew closer to becoming attorney general Friday after two key Senate Democrats said they would vote for him despite his refusal to say whether waterboarding is torture. The decision by Sens. Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein to back President Bush's nominee came ...
Romney, Obama Air New TV Ads in NH
Nov 03, 2007; ... Democrat Barack Obama promoted his tax relief plan and Republican Mitt Romney likened Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's experience to an internship in television ads that the two presidential candidates began airing Friday in New Hampshire. Romney, a former venture capitalist ...
A&E Pulls 'Dog' Series From Schedule
Nov 03, 2007; ... Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's show has been pulled from the air indefinitely by A&E, two days after a private phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly was posted online. "In evaluating the circumstances of the last ...
Canada Deporting Escaped Killer to US
Nov 03, 2007 ... A convicted killer who was recaptured in Canada last week after a third escape will be deported to the United States, Canada's immigration board ruled Friday. Richard Lee McNair, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man during a 1987 burglary at a Minot, N.D., grain ...
Arrest in Abuse Case at Oprah School
Nov 03, 2007 ... A former employee of Oprah Winfrey's school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa has been arrested on charges of abuse and sexual assault, police said Friday. A police spokesman, Supt. Lungelo Dlamini, said the 27-year-old woman, a former dormitory matron at the Oprah Winfrey ...
Morales Says Rich Nations Must Pay
Nov 03, 2007; ... The world's richest nations must be made to pay for the damage their profligate use of natural resources has caused in Bolivia and other developing countries, President Evo Morales said Friday. "It's not possible that some in the industrialized world live very well economically ...
Time Switch a Road Risk, Say Scientists
Nov 03, 2007; ... After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S ....
A&E Pulls 'Dog' Series From Schedule
Nov 03, 2007; ... Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's show has been pulled from the air indefinitely by A&E, two days after a private phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly was posted online. "In evaluating the circumstances of the last ...
Deputy's Injury at Spears Hearing Probed
Nov 03, 2007 ... Officers are investigating how a sheriff's deputy was injured as Britney Spears was leaving a downtown courthouse last week, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Friday. "We are aware that Britney Spears was leaving the courthouse," said Officer Jason Lee, a police ...
McCain: Rivals Lack Military Experience
Nov 03, 2007; ... John McCain, a Vietnam war prisoner, argued Friday that his top rivals for the GOP nomination aren't qualified to deal with issues like torture _ or to be president in wartime _ because they never served in the military. The Arizona senator's position on an interrogation technique ...
2 Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
Nov 03, 2007 ... A U.S.-led coalition soldier and an Afghan soldier were killed Friday in clashes with insurgents in southern Afghanistan, a coalition statement said. Both soldiers died during combat operations in Uruzgan province, the statement said, without giving other details. Afghan ...
AP Top News at 8:04 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
AP Top News at 8:21 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Police Search for Missing Ill. Woman
Nov 03, 2007 ... State police sent divers into a retention pond Friday near the home of a suburban Chicago police sergeant whose wife disappeared Sunday and whose former wife was found dead in her bathtub in ...
Spurs' Tim Duncan Signs Extension
Nov 03, 2007 ... The San Antonio Spurs announced Friday that Tim Duncan has signed a contract extension that likely means the NBA superstar will end his career in Texas. The Spurs, citing club policy, didn't release any specifics, calling it a "multiyear contract extension." It has been ...
AP Top News at 8:08 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
AP Top News at 8:24 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Clinton Says Criticism Goes With Lead
Nov 03, 2007; ... Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday her status as the Democratic presidential front-runner _ not her gender _ has led her male primary rivals to intensify their criticism of her. "I don't think they're piling on because I'm a woman. I think they're piling on because I'm ...
AP Top News at 9:09 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
A&E Pulls `Dog' Series From Schedule
Nov 03, 2007; ... Television bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman's show has been pulled from the air indefinitely by A&E, two days after a private phone conversation in which the reality star used a racial slur repeatedly was posted online. "In evaluating the circumstances of the last ...
Hundreds of Thousands Flee Mexico Floods
Nov 03, 2007; ... Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fled a flooded region of the Gulf coast Friday, jumping from rooftops into rescue helicopters, scrambling into boats or swimming out through murky brown water. President Felipe Calderon called the flooding in Tabasco state one of Mexico's worst recent natural ...
Teacher, Student May Have Fled to Mexico
Nov 03, 2007; ... A female teacher and a 13-year-old boy believed to be on the run may have crossed the California border into Mexico, a police investigator said Friday. Paul Schwarz of the Lexington Police Department in Nebraska said the white Pontiac owned by 25-year-old Kelsey Peterson crossed into ...
Arrest in Abuse Case at Oprah School
Nov 03, 2007 ... A former employee of Oprah Winfrey's school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa has been arrested on charges of abuse and sexual assault, police said Friday. A police spokesman, Supt. Lungelo Dlamini, said the 27-year-old woman, a former dormitory matron at the Oprah Winfrey ...
Guard Jet Crashes in Mo., Pilot Hurt
Nov 03, 2007; ... An Air National Guard F-15C crashed Friday in rural south-central Missouri after the pilot ejected, authorities said. The pilot was flown to a St. Louis hospital and was in serious condition, a hospital spokeswoman said. The fighter jet crashed in a wooded area near Boss ....
AP Top News at 8:24 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Ex-Boyfriend Wants in on Smith's Estate
Nov 03, 2007; ... An ex-boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith who is serving a six-year sentence for making criminal threats against her wants a piece of her inheritance, according to documents filed with Los Angeles Superior Court. Mark Hatten, who lists his current address as the Pleasant Valley State ...
AP Top News at 9:10 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Evidence Against Former Astronaut Tossed
Nov 03, 2007; ... A judge agreed Friday to toss much of the evidence against Nowak, a former astronaut accused of making a diaper-assisted, 1,000-mile drive to confront a woman vying for the affections of the same space shuttle pilot. Investigators took advantage of 44-year-old Lisa Nowak, who had not ...
AP Top News at 8:25 p.m. EDT
Nov 03, 2007 ... NEW YORK (AP) _ The Yankees were told by agent Scott Boras that they could not meet with Alex Rodriguez unless they presented an extension offer that guaranteed the star $350 million "as a floor." Boras' remarks, first ...
Study Ties Time Shift, Pedestrian Deaths
Nov 03, 2007; ... After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S ....
Pipe Bomb Locks Down Ariz. Nuke Plant
Nov 03, 2007; ... Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, authorities said. The Department of Homeland Security said there was no known terrorism link to the incident at Palo Verde Nuclear ...
Pipe Bomb Locks Down Ariz. Nuke Plant
Nov 03, 2007; ... Security officials at the nation's largest nuclear power plant detained a contract worker with a small pipe bomb in the back of his pickup truck Friday, and investigators were searching his apartment, authorities said. It didn't appear to be an act of terrorism, authorities said, but ...
FBI Knew of O.J. Simpson Plan in Advance
Nov 03, 2007; ... Federal agents learned three weeks in advance that O.J. Simpson and a memorabilia dealer planned an operation to retrieve personal items Simpson said were stolen from him, according to FBI reports obtained Friday by The Associated Press. Dealer Thomas Riccio said he reported to the FBI a ...
Time Switch a Road Risk, Say Scientists
Nov 03, 2007; ... After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S ....
Friday's Sports Scoreboard
Nov 03, 2007; ... All Times Eastern National Football League No games today. National Basketball Association Detroit 100, Orlando 80 ...
Friday's Sports Scoreboard
Nov 03, 2007; ... All Times Eastern National Football League No games today. National Basketball Association Detroit 64, Orlando 55...
Rice to Face Subpoena in Espionage Case
Nov 03, 2007; ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some of President Bush's top foreign policy advisers must testify about their conversations with pro-Israel lobbyists, a federal judge ruled Friday in a trial over the misuse of classified information. Two former American Israel Public Affairs ...
Anbar Officials: U.S. Should Stay
Nov 03, 2007; ... Declaring near-victory against al-Qaida, Sunni officials from Iraq's Anbar province laid out Friday what they want now from the United States: money to rebuild its battle-damaged cities, help expanding its police force by a third and private U.S. investment in its oil reserves. ...
Study Ties Time Shift, Pedestrian Deaths
Nov 03, 2007; ... After clocks are turned back this weekend, pedestrians walking during the evening rush hour are nearly three times more likely to be struck and killed by cars than before the time change, two scientists calculate. Ending daylight saving time translates into about 37 more U.S. pedestrian deaths ...