AP Online back issues from Wednesday, April 30:
Bush says farm bill would not help with rising food prices
Apr 30, 2008; ... House and Senate negotiators late Tuesday scrambled to meet President Bush's demands on a multibillion-dollar farm bill, considering cutting subsidies for wealthy farmers. Earlier in the day, Bush had renewed his call to reduce such subsidies, saying the "massive, bloated" ...
Obama says he's outraged by former pastor's comments
Apr 30, 2008; ... Barack Obama angrily denounced his former pastor for "divisive and destructive" remarks on race, seeking to divorce himself from the incendiary speaker and a fury that threatens to engulf his front-running Democratic presidential campaign. Obama is trying to tamp down the ...
Forest fire causes power outage hits Venezuela
Apr 30, 2008; ... A power outage left wide swaths of Venezuela without electricity on Tuesday, including much of the capital. The blackout was caused by a forest fire that overheated power lines in the central state of Guarico, the energy ministry said in a statement. About half of ...
Minor league hockey player charged after caught streaking
Apr 30, 2008 ... The captain of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins was charged with indecent exposure after a police officer saw him running naked on a downtown street early Sunday, and a teammate was arrested for public drunkenness. Nathan Smith told the officer he acted on a bet. Officials said ...
Florida hammer killer found dead in cell on death row
Apr 30, 2008 ... A former Broward County librarian condemned for fatally beating his girlfriend with a hammer was found dead in his cell on Florida's death row from what appeared to be a self-inflicted injury, authorities said Tuesday. The body of William Coday, 51, convicted in the 1997 hammer ...
Scientists seek clues as Reno earthquakes keep shaking
Apr 30, 2008; ... Scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are scrutinizing seismic readings and studying damage at residents' homes to try to figure out what's happening beneath the earth's surface under a northwest Reno neighborhood rocked by a seemingly endless string of earthquakes. What they ...
Rice says young Palestinians are losing hope
Apr 30, 2008; ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has told an American Jewish group that young Palestinians are losing hope for a peace agreement with Israel. Her comments came during a sobering speech Tuesday evening to the American Jewish Committee at their 102nd annual meeting in Washington. ...
'Girls Gone Wild': Video proves call girl agreed to appear
Apr 30, 2008; ... The founder of "Girls Gone Wild" released a video Tuesday that he said proved the call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor agreed to be filmed in 2003. The release came one day after series founder Joe Francis and his companies were sued ...
Michael Jordan hires nomadic Larry Brown to coach Bobcats
Apr 30, 2008; ... Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North Carolina players teamed up Tuesday when Jordan introduced Brown as coach of the ...
AP Top News at 8:24 p.m. EDT
Apr 30, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North ...
Forest fire causes power outage in Venezuela
Apr 30, 2008; ... A power outage left wide swaths of Venezuela without electricity on Tuesday, including much of the capital. The blackout was caused by a forest fire that overheated power lines in the central state of Guarico, the energy ministry said in a statement. About half of ...
AP Top News at 9:10 p.m. EDT
Apr 30, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North ...
Texas police think person lived with dead skeleton on couch
Apr 30, 2008 ... The skeletal remains of a 93-year-old woman may have remained on a couch in her living room for months while other people continued living in the house, authorities said. Neighbors reported seeing cars come and go from the home as recently as this week before police, doing a welfare ...
AP Top News at 8:27 p.m. EDT
Apr 30, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North ...
AP Top News at 9:00 p.m. EDT
Apr 30, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North ...
Tuesday's Sports Scoreboard
Apr 30, 2008; ... All Times Eastern American League Detroit 6, N.Y. Yankees 2-6 Seattle 2, Cleveland 1 -8...
ADM 3Q profit jumps 42 pct in volatile commodities markets
Apr 30, 2008; ... Archer Daniels Midland Co. cashed in on volatile prices and heavy demand for the corn, soybeans and wheat it processes to generate a 42 percent increase in third-quarter profits. Though ADM easily beat Wall Street expectations, investors Tuesday seemed to doubt that ADM could sustain ...
FLDS teen gives birth to boy as state officials stand by
Apr 30, 2008; ... One of the hundreds of young polygamist-sect members taken into state custody gave birth Tuesday to a healthy boy while child welfare officials, state troopers and fellow sect members stood watch outside the maternity ward. "The boy is healthy and the mother is doing well," ...
Suspended Anchorage shock-jocks to return to work
Apr 30, 2008; ... Two Anchorage shock-jocks suspended over a derogatory remark about Alaska Native women will return to the airwaves Wednesday, a radio manager said. Greg Wood and Chris Wilcox, known as Woody and Wilcox on their popular morning show, were taken off the air April 15 following public ...
Carly Simon: Nobody does it better than Brooke on `Idol'
Apr 30, 2008; ... Carly Simon has more than a passing interest in this season's "American Idol" and leaves no mystery about who's her favorite remaining finalist _ Brooke White. Simon was tipped to turn on the television at her home in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., the night White won over the ...
MLB's new unit probing player ID theft as well as drug use
Apr 30, 2008; ... Major League Baseball's new investigative unit is at work on several probes that could lead to discipline while also dealing with the burgeoning business of player identity theft. The department of investigations, established in January at the recommendation of former Senate majority ...
Army widens probe after finding bad conditions at Fort Bragg
Apr 30, 2008; ... Army officials said Tuesday they are inspecting every barracks building worldwide to see whether plumbing and other problems revealed at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week are widespread. Brig. Gen. Dennis Rogers, who is responsible for maintaining barracks throughout the Army, told ...
US military deaths in Iraq at 4,058
Apr 30, 2008; ... As of Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at least 4,058 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 eight military civilians. At least 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the ...
Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis
Apr 30, 2008; ... Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man. It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a foot inflammation. Heim asked him about ...
US military deaths in Iraq at 4,056
Apr 30, 2008; ... As of Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at least 4,056 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 eight military civilians. At least 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the ...
Concentration camp doctor heads list of top 10 wanted Nazis
Apr 30, 2008; ... Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man. It was 1941, and an 18-year-old Jew had been sent to the clinic with a foot inflammation. Heim asked him about ...
Tuesday's Sports Scoreboard
Apr 30, 2008; ... All Times Eastern American League Detroit 6, N.Y. Yankees 2-4 Seattle 2, Cleveland 1 -6...
Army widens probe after finding bad conditions at Fort Bragg
Apr 30, 2008; ... Army officials said Tuesday they are inspecting every barracks building worldwide to see whether plumbing and other problems revealed at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week are widespread. Brig. Gen. Dennis Rogers, who is responsible for maintaining barracks throughout the Army, told ...
Suspended Anchorage shock-jocks to return to work
Apr 30, 2008; ... Two Anchorage shock-jocks suspended over a derogatory remark about Alaska Native women will return to the airwaves Wednesday, a radio manager said. Greg Wood and Chris Wilcox, known as Woody and Wilcox on their popular morning show, were taken off the air April 15 following public ...
Bush faults Congress for inaction on energy, housing bills
Apr 30, 2008; ... President Bush, hoping to inoculate his party and his presidential legacy from election-year anger over the economy, heaped criticism on the Democratic-led Congress on Tuesday for "letting the American people down." ...
Colombia says major drug lord killed
Apr 30, 2008 ... Colombian police killed a top drug lord on Tuesday for whose capture the U.S. government offered a US$5 million ($3.2 million) reward, Colombia's defense minister said. Miguel Angel Mejia, known as "the twin", was killed in an operation in northern Colombia, Defense Minister ...
Carly Simon: Nobody does it better than Brooke on 'Idol'
Apr 30, 2008; ... Carly Simon has more than a passing interest in this season's "American Idol" and leaves no mystery about who's her favorite remaining finalist _ Brooke White. Simon was tipped to turn on the television at her home in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., the night White won over the ...
Canadian lawmakers hold hearings on Guantanamo detainee
Apr 30, 2008 ... Canadian lawmakers began public hearings Tuesday on the detention and trial of a Canadian being held at Guantanamo Bay for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan as a teenager. Omar Khadr, 21, is accused of lobbing a hand grenade that killed the soldier in 2002. He was 15 at ...
Officials: Captive family in Austria reunited
Apr 30, 2008; ... In an "astonishing" scene, members of an Austrian family terrorized by decades of incest and imprisonment met for the first time at a clinic where psychiatrists are helping them recover, authorities said Tuesday. Details of the emotional gathering emerged as police said DNA ...
Appeals court lets NYC calories-on-menus regulation proceed
Apr 30, 2008; ... A federal appeals court let the city proceed Tuesday with ordering some chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menu boards, but only after the city agreed to postpone issuing fines until mid-July. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals left room to rule against the city in the ...
Gates says 2nd carrier in Gulf is 'reminder' to Iran
Apr 30, 2008; ... Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the latest move to add a second U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf could serve as a "reminder" to Iran. But he says it's not an escalation of force. Gates is insisting that the U.S. is not laying the groundwork for a strike against ...
AP Top News at 8:00 p.m. EDT
Apr 30, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North ...
Bud the cat OK after being stuck in drain pipe for 4 days
Apr 30, 2008 ... Bud the cat is back home safe and sound after spending more than four days stuck in a drain pipe in his family's yard in Harrisburg. Linda Grudi said Bud disappeared a week ago and the family searched high and low for him, nearly giving up hope. Then, on Saturday morning, ...
AP Top News at 8:37 p.m. EDT
Apr 30, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North ...
Gates says 2nd carrier in Gulf is 'reminder' to Iran
Apr 30, 2008; ... Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the latest move to add a second U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf could serve as a "reminder" to Iran. But he says it's not an escalation of force. Gates is insisting that the U.S. is not laying the groundwork for a strike against ...
Outside groups compete for political ad time
Apr 30, 2008; ... For months, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have dominated political advertising. Increasingly, they are not alone. Partisan groups and the political parties are pushing their way onto the airwaves, often with negative ads that are adding an even more quarrelsome tone to an ...
Prosecutor calls indicted private eye a 'well-paid thug'
Apr 30, 2008; ... Private investigator Anthony Pellicano was a "well-paid thug" who dug up dirt through wiretaps and other illegal means to benefit his Hollywood A-list clientele, a federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. In his closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dan Saunders said ...
Timeline of Barack Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright
Apr 30, 2008; ... Key dates in the relationship between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: 1972 _ Wright becomes pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. 1985 _ Obama begins working as a community organizer in Chicago; meets Wright....
AP Top News at 9:08 p.m. EDT
Apr 30, 2008 ... CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Larry Brown wanted to resurrect his vagabond, Hall of Fame coaching career. Michael Jordan needed a veteran teacher and a big hire to rescue his sinking reputation as an NBA executive. The two former North ...
Tuesday's Sports Scoreboard
Apr 30, 2008; ... All Times Eastern American League Detroit 5, N.Y. Yankees 2-3 Seattle 1, Cleveland 1 -4...
US military deaths in Iraq at 4,057
Apr 30, 2008; ... As of Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at least 4,057 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 eight military civilians. At least 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the ...
Colombia says major drug lord killed
Apr 30, 2008 ... Colombian police killed a top drug lord on Tuesday for whose capture the U.S. government offered a US$5 million ($3.2 million) reward, Colombia's defense minister said. Miguel Angel Mejia, known as "the twin", was killed in an operation in northern Colombia, Defense Minister ...
Rice: Young Palestinians losing hope for deal with Israel
Apr 30, 2008; ... Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told an American Jewish audience Tuesday that young Palestinians are losing hope for an agreement with Israel. "Increasingly, the Palestinians who talk about a two-state solution are my age," Rice, 53, said in a somber speech to The ...
WVU officials resigning in degree scandal will teach there
Apr 30, 2008; ... Two academic officers who resigned in a scandal over a master's degree that West Virginia University wrongly awarded to the governor's daughter are moving down, but not out. Provost Gerald Lang and business school Dean R. Stephen Sears resigned within days of a report last week ...
Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City
Apr 30, 2008; ... Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun bursts as the American push into Sadr City increasingly faces pockets of close urban combat. U.S. forces struck back with 200-pound guided ...
Obama says he's outraged by former pastor's comments
Apr 30, 2008; ... Barack Obama angrily denounced his former pastor for "divisive and destructive" remarks on race, seeking to divorce himself from the incendiary speaker and a fury that threatens to engulf his front-running Democratic presidential campaign. Obama is trying to tamp down the ...
New CEO named at 3Com in wake of failed buyout
Apr 30, 2008; ... Edgar Masri was removed as chief executive of data network equipment maker 3Com Inc. on Tuesday and immediately replaced by Robert Mao, a fluent Mandarin speaker who will be based in China, which the Massachusetts-based company sees as its biggest market. The management shuffle _ ...
Families of contaminated heparin victims tell stories of deaths
Apr 30, 2008; ... The widow of a man who died after receiving contaminated heparin told a congressional subcommittee Tuesday "we have a false sense of security" in a land where people expect to be protected and safe. Brushing away tears, Johanna Marie Staples of Toledo, Ohio, said her ...
House approves massive public lands bill
Apr 30, 2008; ... A bill that would extend federal immigration and labor laws to the U.S. commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is on its way to the president's desk. The Marianas, in the western Pacific, have been tainted by past associations with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and reports of sweatshop ...
Minor league hockey player charged after caught streaking
Apr 30, 2008 ... The captain of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins was charged with indecent exposure after a police officer saw him running naked on a downtown street early Sunday, and a teammate was arrested for public drunkenness. Nathan Smith told the officer he acted on a bet. ...
Comedian-turned-candidate Franken to pay $70K in back taxes
Apr 30, 2008; ... Senate candidate Al Franken, dogged by accusations that he failed to file tax returns in California, said Tuesday he will pay about $70,000 in back income taxes in 17 states dating to 2003. Most of the income at issue was from speeches and other paid appearances by the comedian-turned ...
Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City
Apr 30, 2008; ... Dozens of fighters ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's main Shiite militia stronghold Tuesday, firing rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun bursts as the American push into Sadr City increasingly faces pockets of close urban combat. U.S. forces struck back with 200-pound guided ...
A-Rod out of Yanks' lineup; Posada's tests sent to Kremchek
Apr 30, 2008; ... Alex Rodriguez was sent for an MRI exam on his strained right quadriceps Tuesday, and the New York Yankees were waiting for three more opinions on Jorge Posada's injured throwing shoulder before determining whether the All-Star catcher needs surgery. Rodriguez was out of New York's ...
Officials: Captive family in Austria reunited
Apr 30, 2008; ... In an "astonishing" scene, members of an Austrian family terrorized by decades of incest and imprisonment met for the first time at a clinic where psychiatrists are helping them recover, authorities said Tuesday. Details of the emotional gathering emerged as police said DNA ...
New CEO named at 3Com in wake of failed buyout
Apr 30, 2008; ... Edgar Masri was removed as chief executive of data network equipment maker 3Com Inc. on Tuesday and immediately replaced by Robert Mao, a fluent Mandarin speaker who will be based in China, which the Massachusetts-based company sees as its biggest market. The management shuffle _ ...
ADM 3Q profit jumps 42 pct in volatile commodities markets
Apr 30, 2008; ... Archer Daniels Midland Co. cashed in on volatile prices and heavy demand for the corn, soybeans and wheat it processes to generate a 42 percent increase in third-quarter profits. Though ADM easily beat Wall Street expectations, investors Tuesday seemed to doubt that ADM could sustain ...
'CSI' co-star Gary Dourdan arrested for drugs
Apr 30, 2008; ... "CSI" co-star Gary Dourdan was arrested Monday for possession of narcotics and dangerous drugs, police said. The 41-year-old actor was found asleep in his car by the Palm Springs Police Department, authorities said. An officer saw Dourdan's car parked on the wrong side of ...
Colombia says major drug lord killed
Apr 30, 2008 ... Colombia's defense minister says police have killed a major drug lord for whose capture the U.S. government offered a US$5 million (euro3.2 million) reward. Juan Manuel Santos said in a news conference Tuesday that police killed Miguel Angel Mejia in an operation in northern Colombia ....
Army widens probe after finding bad conditions at Fort Bragg
Apr 30, 2008; ... Army officials said Tuesday they are inspecting every barracks building worldwide to see whether plumbing and other problems revealed at Fort Bragg, N.C., last week are widespread. Brig. Gen. Dennis Rogers, who is responsible for maintaining barracks throughout the Army, told ...
US military deaths in Iraq at 4,058
Apr 30, 2008; ... As of Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at least 4,058 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 eight military civilians. At least 3,306 died as a result of hostile action, according to the ...