AP Online back issues from Thursday, February 21:
McCain: Bush Should Veto Torture Bill
Feb 21, 2008; ... Republican presidential candidate John McCain said President Bush should veto a measure that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects. McCain voted against the bill, which would restrict the CIA to using only the 19 ...
Lunar Eclipse to Occur Wednesday Night
Feb 21, 2008; ... The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurs Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full moon. Skywatchers viewing through a telescope will have the added treat of seeing Saturn's handsome rings. Weather ...
Texas' Complicated Rules May Favor Obama
Feb 21, 2008; ... Hillary Rodham Clinton has been waiting to get to Texas to begin her comeback against a surging Barack Obama. She might be more careful about what she wishes for. Clinton has been banking on the state's large Hispanic population _ typically about a quarter of the turnout in Democratic ...
Meatloaf the Cat Heads Home After Trek
Feb 21, 2008 ... A cat named Meatloaf who took a 3-week cross-country ride locked in a storage container is headed home to Florida. Arizona Humane Society officials say the 2-year-old gray cat apparently crawled into the large locker in Pompano Beach, Fla. as a man loaded it for a move to Phoenix. The ...
AP Top News at 7:07 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
Convictions Stand in Milan Airport Crash
Feb 21, 2008 ... Italy's top criminal court on Wednesday upheld prison sentences for five aviation officials convicted in a 2001 runway collision of two aircraft that killed 118 people, Italian news agencies reported. The Court of Cassation upheld the convictions of manslaughter and negligence and ...
Texas Rules Could Favor Obama
Feb 21, 2008; ... Hillary Rodham Clinton has been waiting to get to Texas to begin her comeback against a surging Barack Obama. She might be more careful about what she wishes for. Clinton has been banking on the state's large Hispanic population _ typically about a quarter of the turnout in Democratic ...
Soldier Guilty of Assault in Iraqi Death
Feb 21, 2008; ... A soldier who had been charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Iraqi was convicted by a military jury Wednesday of aggravated assault. Spc. Christopher Shore, based in Hawaii, had insisted that his platoon leader ordered him to kill the Iraqi man on June 23 near Kirkuk ...
Anti-US Cleric's Cease-Fire in Doubt
Feb 21, 2008; ... With deadly attacks against U.S. targets increasing around Baghdad, anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr raised the possibility Wednesday that he may not renew a six-month cease-fire widely credited for helping slash violence. The cease-fire is due to expire Saturday, and there ...
Microsoft Opens Game Development
Feb 21, 2008; ... Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will make Xbox 360 video games developed by players available for download through the console's online service. The new service will double the size of the Xbox 360 game library, to 1,000 games within a year of its launch, scheduled for this holiday ...
A-Rod Says He Expects Questions on Drugs
Feb 21, 2008; ... Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, especially in an era when all top athletes must prove they haven't ...
AP Top News at 7:56 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
Group Claims Iran Speeding Up Nuke Plans
Feb 21, 2008; ... An exiled Iranian opposition group claimed Wednesday that Tehran was speeding up a program to develop nuclear weapons. "The Iran regime entered a new phase in its nuclear project," said Mohammad Mohaddessin of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran. The NCRI ...
Microsoft Opens Game Development
Feb 21, 2008; ... Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will make Xbox 360 video games developed by players available for download through the console's online service. The new service will double the size of the Xbox 360 game library, to 1,000 games within a year of its launch, scheduled for this holiday ...
Full-Time RVers' Voting Suit Dismissed
Feb 21, 2008; ... A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by full-time RVers who were bumped from the Tennessee voter rolls because they live on the open road. Bradley County officials who dropped 286 RV owners from the rolls in 2006 did not violate their right to vote or their right to ...
Our Bill Says What?
Feb 21, 2008 ... First she waited 45 minutes to place her order. Then she waited more than an hour for the food. Then she saw the bill. Clare Watkin was out with a group of friends Friday at an Italian steak restaurant in the English town of Lichfield, about 125 miles north of London when she found ...
Consumer Prices Post Another Big Gain
Feb 21, 2008; ... Consumers paid more to fill up their gas tanks, buy groceries and go to the hospital in January as prices on a range of items climbed. Inflation was increasing even as the economy was slowing dramatically, a development certain to raise concerns at the Federal Reserve. The Fed has cut ...
Powerful Teamsters Union Endorses Obama
Feb 21, 2008; ... Sen. Barack Obama won an endorsement from the powerful Teamsters union on Wednesday, critical labor support for the Democratic front-runner with upcoming contests in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania. "There was very, very strong support for him" among the union's members, James ...
AP Top News at 7:27 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... MARANA, Ariz. (AP) _ Tiger Woods produced another incredible comeback in the desert Wednesday, playing the final five holes in 5-under par to turn what looked like certain defeat into an unlikely victory in the Accenture ...
$8,000? That's Our Water Bill?
Feb 21, 2008 ... A Danville family has received an $8,000 water bill for house they say they haven't lived in for more than two years. The granddaughters of Lurlene Gray say they are stuck with the high bill that covers part of January and February. Sherlene Tucker told WKYT in Lexington that she paid ...
Consumer Prices Post Another Big Gain
Feb 21, 2008; ... Consumers paid more to fill up their gas tanks, buy groceries and go to the hospital in January as prices on a range of items climbed. Inflation was increasing even as the economy was slowing dramatically, a development certain to raise concerns at the Federal Reserve. The Fed has cut ...
Gagne Told Season Over
Feb 21, 2008 ... Simon Gagne appears to be done for the season. The Flyers forward was told Wednesday to sit out the rest of the year because of lingering symptoms of three concussions suffered this season. Gagne visited a concussion specialist named James Kelly who suggested that Gagne not try and ...
Pilots Rescued After Fighter Jets Crash
Feb 21, 2008; ... Two fighter jets crashed into the Gulf of Mexico during a training mission Wednesday, but the pilots ejected and were later rescued, the Air Force said. Eglin Air Force Base spokeswoman Shirley Pigott said the pilots were rescued after their single-seat F-15C Eagles disappeared ...
Obama Raises $36 Million in January
Feb 21, 2008; ... Democrat Barack Obama's fundraising and spending report shows he raised $36 million last month and spent more than $30 million, setting himself up as the financial juggernaut in the presidential race. Overall, the Illinois senator finished the month with $25 million cash on hand, but ...
Goodell Hopes to Soon Speak to Walsh
Feb 21, 2008; ... NFL commissioner Roger Goodell hopes the NFL is close to an agreement that will allow former New England Patriots employee Matt Walsh to tell the league about the tapes he is said to have made of the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl. "The lawyers are still ...
3 Plead to Fraud in Post-9/11 Repairs
Feb 21, 2008 ... A former contractor pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a scheme to defraud the federal government in the reconstruction of the Pentagon after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Prosecutors said Thomas J. Cousar, 54, and two of his employees at Capco Contracting of McKeesport, near ...
Tiger Overcomes Holmes in Match Play
Feb 21, 2008; ... Tiger Woods produced another incredible comeback in the desert Wednesday, playing the final five holes in 5-under par to turn what looked like certain defeat into an unlikely victory in the Accenture Match Play Championship. Woods fell behind J.B. Holmes on the first hole when his tee ...
Meatloaf the Cat Heads Home After Trek
Feb 21, 2008 ... A cat named Meatloaf who took a 3-week cross-country ride locked in a storage container is headed home to Florida. Arizona Humane Society officials say the 2-year-old gray cat apparently crawled into the large locker in Pompano Beach, Fla. as a man loaded it for a move to Phoenix. The ...
'Hero' Girl Recovering After Shooting
Feb 21, 2008; ... Alexis Goggins climbed aboard a special tricycle and maneuvered through hospital hallways, beginning the months of physical therapy she needs to recover from six gunshot wounds. To many people, the soft-spoken 7-year-old is a hero after she threw herself across her mother just as a gunman was ...
Canadian Gets Reward for Returning Dog
Feb 21, 2008 ... At first, a Canadian was considered a hero for returning a missing dog to its heartsick owner. Now he's accused of dognapping. A dog walker left Huckleberry tied up outside a Toronto bakery on Saturday. A few minutes later, the chocolate lab was gone. The owner, Bert Clark, ...
A-Rod Says Expects Drug Questions
Feb 21, 2008; ... Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, especially in an era when all top athletes must prove they haven't ...
Final Sentence Given in Ca. Kidnappings
Feb 21, 2008; ... The last two of six defendants were sentenced Wednesday in a kidnapping case in which five wealthy Russian immigrants were killed even after their loved ones paid a ransom. Ainar Altmanis was sentenced to more than 23 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of ...
AP Top News at 7:04 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
Tiger Survives a First-Round Scare
Feb 21, 2008; ... Tiger Woods produced another incredible comeback in the desert Wednesday, playing the final five holes in 5-under par to turn what looked like certain defeat into an unlikely victory in the Accenture Match Play Championship. Woods fell behind J.B. Holmes on the first hole when his tee ...
Jury Convicts Soldier in Iraqi Death
Feb 21, 2008; ... A military jury in Hawaii has convicted a soldier of aggravated assault in the killing of an Iraqi man last year. The jury has found Army Spc. Christopher Shore not guilty of third-degree murder on Wednesday but guilty of the lesser charge. The soldier had blamed the June ...
Bush Assures Africa on US Intentions
Feb 21, 2008; ... In a country teeming with resources the world covets, President Bush sought Wednesday to soothe African fears about American interests on the continent. He said the U.S. isn't aiming to make Africa into a base for greater military power or a proxy battleground with China. The desire ...
Brazil Hosts Climate Change Forum
Feb 21, 2008; ... Encouraged that all major U.S. presidential candidates vow to protect the environment, lawmakers from industrialized nations and big emerging economies met Wednesday to craft solutions to global warming and rising deforestation. Scores of legislators and officials from China to ...
Military Hopes to Bring Down Satellite
Feb 21, 2008; ... The Pentagon counted down Wednesday toward an unprecedented effort to shoot down a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite, using a souped-up missile fired from a ship in the Pacific. The timing was tricky. For the best chance to succeed, the military awaited a combination of ...
Hospital 'Code Blue' Deadlier at Night
Feb 21, 2008; ... Many hospitals call it "code blue," a signal given over the intercom when a patient's heart has stopped. When code blue works well, a team speeds to the bedside and revives the patient. The graveyard shift is the worst time to call code blue, a new study finds. Patients who go into ...
NIU Community Wonders: Why Cole Hall?
Feb 21, 2008; ... Steven Kazmierczak was an academic star at Northern Illinois University. Nowhere was that more apparent than in the Cole Hall auditorium where he returned to carry out his deadly attack. Kazmierczak saw his academic career take off after taking his first sociology class at Cole. He ...
Brazil Hosts Climate Change Forum
Feb 21, 2008; ... Encouraged that all major U.S. presidential candidates vow to protect the environment, lawmakers from industrialized nations and big emerging economies met Wednesday to craft solutions to global warming and rising deforestation. Scores of legislators and officials from China to ...
AP Top News at 7:08 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
US Cancer Deaths Rose by 5,400 in 2005
Feb 21, 2008; ... U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society said in a report issued Wednesday. The group counted 559,312 people who died from cancer. The cancer death rate among the overall population ...
Rollins Replies to Beltran
Feb 21, 2008; ... Jimmy Rollins showed off a new pair of personalized red, white and blue Nike sneakers and answered a few questions before he got his first chance to reply to Carlos Beltran's boast. "Has anyone ever heard of plagiarism?" Rollins said, breaking into a laugh. The NL ...
NFL Union Prez: HGH Use Not Common
Feb 21, 2008; ... The use of human growth hormone is more of a problem in baseball than in football, the president of the NFL Players Association insists. "We feel it's not something that's common in our space," former defensive back Troy Vincent said Wednesday before the start of the NFL ...
AP Top News at 7:00 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
AP Top News at 7:09 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
US: States Better Prepared for Disasters
Feb 21, 2008; ... In the first report of its kind, U.S. health officials said the nation's states and cities made a strong effort to prepare for a flu pandemic, bioterrorism or other emergency health crises, but big challenges remain. "I think in terms of effort and progress, an 'A,'" said ...
Meatloaf the Cat Heads Home After Trek
Feb 21, 2008 ... A cat named Meatloaf who took a 3-week cross-country ride locked in a storage container is headed home to Florida. Arizona Humane Society officials say the 2-year-old gray cat apparently crawled into the large locker in Pompano Beach, Fla. as a man loaded it for a move to Phoenix. The ...
AP Top News at 7:03 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
Teamsters Union Endorses Obama
Feb 21, 2008; ... Sen. Barack Obama won an endorsement from the powerful Teamsters union on Wednesday, critical labor support for the Democratic front-runner with upcoming contests in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania. "There was very, very strong support for him" among the union's members, James ...
Salty Snacks Mean More Sodas for Kids
Feb 21, 2008; ... Kids who load up on salty meals and snacks get thirsty, and too often they turn to calorie-filled sodas. So maybe cutting back on the salt is a good way to cut the calories. That's the idea coming from a British study published Wednesday in an American Heart Association journal. Salt ...
Obama Raises $36 Million
Feb 21, 2008; ... Democrat Barack Obama's fundraising and spending report shows he raised $36 million last month and spent more than $30 million, setting himself up as the financial juggernaut in the presidential race. Overall, the Illinois senator finished the month with $25 million cash on hand, but ...
Strokes Among Middle-Aged Women Triple
Feb 21, 2008; ... Strokes have tripled in recent years among middle-aged women in the U.S., an alarming trend doctors blame on the obesity epidemic. Nearly 2 percent of women ages 35 to 54 reported suffering a stroke in the most recent federal health survey, from 1999 to 2004. Only about half a percent did in the ...
Wednesday's Sports Scoreboard
Feb 21, 2008; ... All Times Eastern National Basketball Association Cleveland 0, Indiana 0 -1 New York 0, Philadelphia 0 -1 ...
More Ammo Against Withdrawn Surgery Drug
Feb 21, 2008; ... Heart surgery patients were more likely to die if given the anti-bleeding drug Trasylol, two more U.S. studies have found, renewing the claims that the drug is dangerous. Bayer AG stopped selling the drug last fall, after a Canadian study was halted because of deaths among patients taking ...
AP Top News at 7:42 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
A-Rod Says He Expects Questions on Drugs
Feb 21, 2008; ... Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, especially in an era when all top athletes must prove they haven't ...
Clinton Faces Daunting Delegate Deficit
Feb 21, 2008; ... Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton must win 57 percent of the remaining primary and caucus delegates to erase Barack Obama's lead, a daunting task requiring landslide-sized victories by a struggling presidential candidate. Obama's victories in Wisconsin and Hawaii on Tuesday _ his ...
Study Shows Where New Diseases May Arise
Feb 21, 2008; ... New infectious diseases have been appearing more often, says a study that suggests "hot spots" where the next new germs are most likely to appear. "We need to be out there in the hot spot regions looking for the next HIV," said study co-author Peter Daszak. Daszak, ...
Wednesday's Sports Scoreboard
Feb 21, 2008; ... All Times Eastern National Basketball Association Cleveland 34, Indiana 30 -2 Philadelphia 46, New York 22 -2 ...
AP Top News at 7:03 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
AP Top News at 7:11 p.m. EST
Feb 21, 2008 ... TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Alex Rodriguez sat in the first-base dugout at Legends Field, surrounded by the usual circle of cameras, microphones and reporters. He knows the scrutiny will only increase as he approaches Barry Bonds' career home-run record, ...
Islamic Leader Appeals Extradition
Feb 21, 2008; ... An Islamic preacher accused of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon asked a British court on Wednesday to block his extradition to the United States. Earlier this month, Britain's Home Office approved the extradition of Abu Hamza al-Masri, who once led London's ...
Our Bill Says What?
Feb 21, 2008 ... First she waited 45 minutes to place her order. Then she waited more than an hour for the food. Then she saw the bill. Clare Watkin was out with a group of friends Friday at an Italian steak restaurant in the English town of Lichfield, about 125 miles north of London when she found ...