AP Online back issues from Wednesday, June 25:
House fails to move gas pump price gouging bill
Jun 25, 2008; ... House Democrats failed Tuesday to resurrect a bill to punish price gouging at the gas pump, while maneuvering to block Republican attempts to expand offshore drilling, an idea gaining in popularity amid $4-a-gallon gas prices. Action on legislation that would assure continuation of ...
Minn. official: Money didn't affect bridge problem
Jun 25, 2008; ... A top Minnesota highway manager insisted Tuesday that money woes didn't compromise bridge safety, responding to a harsh assessment of the maintenance of the interstate bridge that collapsed last summer, killing 13 people. In a 12-page letter delivered to lawmakers, Transportation ...
CDC: About 8 percent of Americans have diabetes
Jun 25, 2008 ... The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population, the government said Tuesday. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from 2007, said the number represents an increase of about 3 ...
Germany may add troops in Afghanistan
Jun 25, 2008 ... Germany plans to increase the number of its troops in Afghanistan by 1,000 this fall, senior defense officials said Tuesday, following requests by Western commanders for more troops to counter a resilient Taliban force. The proposed increase would bring the total German commitment to ...
Angry kids protest gas prices after losing cable TV
Jun 25, 2008 ... Sadie and Pyper Vance have had just about enough of high gas prices. The sisters are still years away from being old enough to drive, but that doesn't mean the $4 per gallon price tag isn't hitting them as hard as anyone else. Cable TV was one of the family's budget-cutting ...
AP Top News at 8:16 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. The Los Angeles city attorney's office says Rodman entered the plea Tuesday in Superior Court. Two other counts ...
CDC: About 8 percent of Americans have diabetes
Jun 25, 2008 ... The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population, the government said Tuesday. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from 2007, said the number represents an increase of about 3 ...
Oregon GOP senator cites work with Obama in ad
Jun 25, 2008; ... Republicans usually demonize Barack Obama in their political advertising, but GOP Sen. Gordon Smith aligns himself with the Democratic presidential candidate in a new ad, citing legislation they worked on to improve fuel efficiency standards. Observers in both parties said it appeared ...
Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible
Jun 25, 2008; ... Barack Obama said Tuesday evangelical leader James Dobson was "making stuff up" when he accused the presumed Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible. Dobson used his Focus on the Family radio program to highlight excerpts of a speech Obama gave in June 2006 ...
Mexico City police acknowledge errors in raid
Jun 25, 2008; ... MEXICO CITY _ Police shoved terrified youths trying to leave the News Devine nightclub back into the face of a deadly stampede that killed a dozen people, including three officers and a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said Tuesday. The initial investigation suggests that bad conditions ...
CDC: About 8 percent of Americans have diabetes
Jun 25, 2008 ... The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population, the government said Tuesday. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from 2007, said the number represents an increase of about 3 ...
Hundreds of fires sparked by rare lightning storm
Jun 25, 2008; ... In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California _ a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands. ...
AP Top News at 8:00 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. The Los Angeles city attorney's office says Rodman entered the plea Tuesday in Superior Court. Two other counts ...
Hundreds of fires sparked by rare lightning storm
Jun 25, 2008; ... In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California _ a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands. ...
'There was definitely no pact,' says pregnant teen
Jun 25, 2008 ... One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations. Lindsey Oliver rebutted the principal's claim that a sharp increase ...
AP IMPACT: Kenyan children abducted, tortured
Jun 25, 2008; ... Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of ...
Will e-mails affect judge's view on Sonics' lease?
Jun 25, 2008; ... Turns out, Seattle leaders have some issues with e-mail, too. After months of enduring bombshell releases of incriminating messages that seemed to doom their case, the SuperSonics have produced damning e-mail from Seattle power brokers in the trial that will determine whether the team ...
Tuesday's Sports Scoreboard
Jun 25, 2008; ... All Times Eastern Interleague Arizona 1, Boston 1 -2 Pittsburgh 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 -4...
Tuesday's Sports Scoreboard
Jun 25, 2008; ... All Times Eastern Interleague Arizona 4, Boston 1 -4 Pittsburgh 7, N.Y. Yankees 1 -6...
CDC: About 8 percent of Americans have diabetes
Jun 25, 2008 ... The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the U.S. population, the government said Tuesday. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from 2007, said the number represents an increase of about 3 ...
Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible
Jun 25, 2008; ... Barack Obama said Tuesday evangelical leader James Dobson was "making stuff up" when he accused the presumed Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible. Dobson used his Focus on the Family radio program to highlight excerpts of a speech Obama gave in June 2006 ...
Gatorade-stained shirt nets $55,000 for Celtics foundation
Jun 25, 2008 ... The Gatorade-stained shirt worn by Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers as the team won its first NBA championship in 22 years has been auctioned for $55,000. An anonymous bidder bought the shirt, autographed by Rivers and Celtics star Paul Pierce, and the accompanying Gatorade bucket at a ...
AP Top News at 8:42 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors said it was "highly unlikely" there would be any long-term effects. It was the second time in 10 weeks Woods had ...
Rodman pleads no contest to spousal battery
Jun 25, 2008 ... Former NBA star Dennis Rodman pleaded no contest to misdemeanor spousal battery Tuesday and was ordered to undergo counseling and to perform highway or other physical labor. Two other counts were dismissed under a plea deal, the Los Angeles city attorney's office said. ...
Hundreds of fires sparked by rare lightning storm
Jun 25, 2008; ... In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California _ a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands. ...
AP Top News at 8:37 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. The Los Angeles city attorney's office says Rodman entered the plea Tuesday in Superior Court. Two other counts ...
Cuban church protests support for gay rights
Jun 25, 2008 ... Cuba's Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday protested the communist government's growing support of gay rights, including a daylong event raising awareness against homophobia and a law allowing sex-change operations. "Respect for the homosexual person, yes," said an editorial in ...
Inmate falls through ceiling into Texas police office
Jun 25, 2008 ... Authorities say an inmate trying to flee a Texas city jail crashed through the ceiling into a police chief's empty office. Police say 17-year-old Jesus Albert Suarez Chavez and 22-year-old Roman Orozco Martinez tried to escape through air conditioning ducts of the Alton city jail ...
Correction: Ugly dog contest story
Jun 25, 2008 ... In a June 21 story about the World's Ugliest Dog contest, The Associated Press misstated the name of the TV show on ...
AP Top News at 8:10 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. The Los Angeles city attorney's office says Rodman entered the plea Tuesday in Superior Court. Two other counts ...
'Valkyrie' portrait flap was mistaken photo ID
Jun 25, 2008; ... What looked at first like another PR blow to "Valkyrie," the twice-delayed Tom Cruise film based on the true story of a German officer who plotted to assassinate Hitler, turned out to be a case of mistaken photo identity. A report posted on Slate.com last week suggested that ...
'Valkyrie' portrait flap was mistaken photo ID
Jun 25, 2008; ... What looked at first like another PR blow to "Valkyrie," the twice-delayed Tom Cruise film based on the true story of a German officer who plotted to assassinate Hitler, turned out to be a case of mistaken photo identity. A report posted on Slate.com last week suggested that ...
Pregnant Mass. teen says there was no pact
Jun 25, 2008 ... One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations. Lindsey Oliver rebutted the principal's claim that a sharp increase ...
Senate confirms FEC nominees
Jun 25, 2008 ... The Senate on Tuesday confirmed five nominees for the Federal Election Commission, breaking a prolonged partisan logjam and allowing the agency to resume functioning. The nominees were confirmed without dissent after drawn-out talks between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., ...
AP IMPACT: Kenyan children abducted, tortured
Jun 25, 2008; ... Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of ...
AP Top News at 8:57 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors said it was "highly unlikely" there would be any long-term effects. It was the second time in 10 weeks Woods had ...
Man killed after taking hostages at Minn. meeting
Jun 25, 2008 ... A man who had fought with county officials for years over his adult businesses walked into a board meeting with a gun on Tuesday and held about 10 people hostage before law-enforcement ...
Labor probing work of major immigration law firm
Jun 25, 2008; ... The nation's largest immigration law firm is under federal scrutiny over whether it helped major U.S. corporations disqualify American job applicants and give thousands of high-paying positions to immigrants. The unprecedented Labor Department inquiry centers on Fragomen, Del Rey, ...
McCain calls for energy-efficient government
Jun 25, 2008; ... Republican John McCain said Tuesday the federal government should practice the energy efficiency he preaches, pledging as president to switch official vehicles to green technologies and do the same for office buildings. Expanding upon his ideas to address the nation's energy crisis, ...
AP Top News at 9:00 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors said it was "highly unlikely" there would be any long-term effects. It was the second time in 10 weeks Woods had ...
Man killed after taking hostages at Minn. meeting
Jun 25, 2008 ... A man who had fought with county officials for years over his adult businesses walked into a board meeting with a gun on Tuesday and held about 10 people hostage before law-enforcement officers fatally shot him, authorities said. A few people managed to escape the county ...
Defiant Mugabe refuses to bow to world pressure
Jun 25, 2008; ... President Robert Mugabe refused Tuesday to give into pressure from Africa and the West, saying the world can "shout as loud as they like" but he would not cancel this week's runoff election even though his opponent quit the race. South Africa's ruling party issued a toughly ...
Tiger has knee surgery; doctor says 'no surprises'
Jun 25, 2008; ... Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors said it was "highly unlikely" there would be any long-term effects. It was the second time in 10 weeks Woods had surgery on his knee, this time on his anterior cruciate ...
Tiger has knee surgery; doctor says 'no surprises'
Jun 25, 2008; ... Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors said it was "highly unlikely" there would be any long-term effects. It was the second time in 10 weeks Woods had surgery on his knee, this time on his anterior cruciate ...
Housing rescue plan passes key Senate test
Jun 25, 2008; ... A massive foreclosure rescue bill cleared a key Senate test Tuesday by an overwhelming margin, with Democrats and Republicans both eager to claim election-year credit for helping hard-pressed homeowners. The mortgage aid plan would let the Federal Housing Administration back $300 ...
Pregnant Mass. teen says there was no pact
Jun 25, 2008 ... One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations. Lindsey Oliver refuted the principal's claim that a sharp increase ...
Doc Rivers' Gatorade-stained shirt nets $55,000
Jun 25, 2008 ... The Gatorade-stained shirt worn by Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers as the team won its first NBA championship in 22 years has been auctioned for $55,000. An anonymous bidder bought the shirt, autographed by Rivers and Celtics star Paul Pierce, and the accompanying Gatorade bucket at a ...
AP Top News at 8:45 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors said it was "highly unlikely" there would be any long-term effects. It was the second time in 10 weeks Woods had ...
Recently retired Strahan joins Fox pregame show
Jun 25, 2008; ... Within minutes of his introduction as the newest member of Fox's NFL pregame show, Michael Strahan was spouting his opinion on Plaxico Burress' contract dispute, debating the issue with Jimmy Johnson, and trading barbs with Terry Bradshaw about their respective divorces. Fox ...
AP Top News at 8:05 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. The Los Angeles city attorney's office says Rodman entered the plea Tuesday in Superior Court. Two other counts ...
Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible
Jun 25, 2008; ... Barack Obama said Tuesday that evangelical leader James Dobson was "making stuff up" when he accused the presumed Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible. Dobson used his Focus on the Family radio program to highlight excerpts of a speech Obama gave in June ...
Pregnant Mass. teen says there was no pact
Jun 25, 2008 ... One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations. Lindsey Oliver rebutted the principal's claim that a sharp increase ...
Russia frees US pastor jailed for importing bullets
Jun 25, 2008; ... An American pastor walked free Tuesday after spending nearly five months in a Russian jail for bringing hunting-rifle ammunition into the country. The release of Phillip Miles, 58, came a day after the Moscow City Court reduced his three-year sentence for smuggling and ordered him set free. ...
Chavez defends candidate blacklist
Jun 25, 2008; ... President Hugo Chavez defended Venezuela's top anti-corruption official on Tuesday for barring roughly 400 potential candidates _ most from the opposition _ from running in upcoming elections. Chavez railed against his opponents for verbally attacking Comptroller General Clodosbaldo ...
AP Top News at 8:33 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Former NBA star Dennis Rodman has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of spousal battery. The Los Angeles city attorney's office says Rodman entered the plea Tuesday in Superior Court. Two other counts ...
'There was definitely no pact,' says pregnant teen
Jun 25, 2008 ... One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations. Lindsey Oliver rebutted the principal's claim that a sharp increase ...
Hundreds of fires sparked by rare lightning storm
Jun 25, 2008; ... In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California _ a rare example of "dry lightning" that brought little or no rain but plenty of sparks to the state's parched forests and grasslands. ...
Gitmo commander won't meet prisoners
Jun 25, 2008; ... The new Guantanamo Bay detention center commander, who was at the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers crashed a jetliner into the building, won't be meeting with his prisoners _ who include the attack's confessed mastermind. In an interview with The Associated Press, Navy Rear ...
Obama dismisses Dobson criticism about Bible
Jun 25, 2008; ... Barack Obama said Tuesday that evangelical leader James Dobson was "making stuff up" when he accused the presumed Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible. Dobson used his Focus on the Family radio program to highlight excerpts of a speech Obama gave in June ...
AP Top News at 8:47 p.m. EDT
Jun 25, 2008 ... Tiger Woods had reconstructive surgery on his left knee Tuesday in Utah to repair a torn ligament, and doctors said it was "highly unlikely" there would be any long-term effects. It was the second time in 10 weeks Woods had ...
Tuesday's Sports Scoreboard
Jun 25, 2008; ... All Times Eastern Interleague Arizona 4, Boston 1 -6 Pittsburgh 7, N.Y. Yankees 3 -7...
Housing rescue plan passes key Senate test
Jun 25, 2008; ... A massive foreclosure rescue bill cleared a key Senate test Tuesday by an overwhelming margin, with Democrats and Republicans both eager to claim election-year credit for helping hard-pressed homeowners. The mortgage aid plan would let the Federal Housing Administration back $300 ...
Iowa police chief fired after sex abuse charge
Jun 25, 2008; ... An Iowa police chief who was charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a county club bar has been fired, the mayor announced Tuesday. James Christensen, 40, had been on administrative leave while officials reviewed the case. He and former assistant chief John Sickels, 38, were ...
Pregnant Mass. teen says there was no pact
Jun 25, 2008 ... One of the girls who became pregnant at Gloucester High School this year denied Tuesday there was any pact among them to have children, saying instead they decided to help each other make the best of their situations. Lindsey Oliver rebutted the principal's claim that a sharp increase ...
Britney Spears, Kevin Federline in LA court
Jun 25, 2008; ... Britney Spears and a parenting coach were questioned Tuesday by the court commissioner overseeing the singer's custody dispute, resulting in an unspecified change in visitation status. Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline appeared before Commissioner Scott Gordon, who took the ...