AP - Sen. Charles Grassley has asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to address accusations that federal workers ignored complaints about conditions at an Iowa farm involved in a recall of salmonella-tainted eggs.
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2010-09-08 22:37
2010-09-08 22:37
Accused Somali pirate pleads guilty in DC (AP)
AP - An accused Somali pirate has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy from a November 2008 attack in the Gulf of Aden on a Danish ship carrying cargo from a U.S. company.
2010-09-08 22:37
Xbox blocks W.Va. gamer over town's name: Fort Gay (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay — a name the company considered offensive.
2010-09-08 20:10
Old Farmer's Almanac: Global cooling to continue (AP)
AP - Most of the country will see a colder-than-usual winter while summer and spring will be relatively cool and dry, according to the time-honored, complex calculations of the "Old Farmer's Almanac."
2010-09-08 20:10
Tea party members back dismissed president (AP)
AP - Several members of a Montana tea party group have resigned after the association's president was dismissed over an exchange on Facebook that appeared to condone violence against gays.
2010-09-08 20:10
Hermine swamps Texas, prompts search for victims (AP)
AP - Its power spent, what was left of Tropical Storm Hermine made its way north Wednesday, drenching a large swath of Texas and prompting a search for possible flood victims near Austin.
2010-09-08 17:35
Texas officials search for possible flood victims (AP)
AP - Authorities are searching for possible victims after two mobile homes and a house in central Texas were swept away by floodwaters dumped by the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine (hur-MEEN').
2010-09-08 17:35
Tropical Storm Igor forms in the Atlantic (AP)
AP - Tropical Storm Igor has formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa near the Cape Verde Islands and has top sustained winds of near 40 mph (65 kph).
2010-09-08 17:35
Winds push fires through dozens of Detroit homes (AP)
AP - Wind-whipped flames swept through at least three Detroit neighborhoods, destroying dozens of homes, including many that were vacant, officials said.
2010-09-08 15:10
LAPD brass plead for calm; protesters egg station (AP)
AP - Police Chief Charlie Beck pleaded for calm and vowed his department would conduct an exhaustive investigation into a bicycle officer's fatal shooting of a drunken day laborer with a knife.
2010-09-08 15:10
FBI: Aircraft searched, no credible threat found (AP)
AP - Investigators found no explosives aboard a Los Angeles-bound Thai Airways flight in which a bomb threat was found scrawled on a bathroom mirror, the FBI said Wednesday.
2010-09-08 15:10
Colo. wildfire's toll of destroyed homes rises (AP)
AP - Will Esposito describes an otherworldly scene after a wildfire tore through a canyon in the Colorado foothills: Some houses in his neighborhood burning while others stood intact, a propane tank shooting flames into the sky, and an eerie quiet interrupted only by firefighting helicopters and airplanes.
2010-09-08 12:45
Winds pushing fire through 2 dozen Detroit homes (AP)
AP - Fire officials say flames have swept through at least two dozen Detroit homes, fanned by strong winds that toppled power lines across the city and knocked out service to at least 113,000 Michigan homes and businesses.
2010-09-08 12:45
Former NM gov is little known but has big ideas (AP)
AP - Despite two terms as governor of New Mexico and recent visits to 26 states, most Americans have never heard of Gary Johnson.
2010-09-08 12:45
Chicago mayor race wide open as Daley steps aside (AP)
AP - Suddenly, the race for Chicago mayor is on. Mayor Richard M. Daley has thrown the competition for the city's top job wide open by announcing he won't run for a seventh term, ending 21 years of token opposition and prompting speculation about who's next in line to lead the nation's third largest city.
2010-09-08 10:10
Hermine's remnants head north after storm weakens (AP)
AP - It's power spent, what was left of Tropical Storm Hermine was making its way north Wednesday, having drenched parts of northeastern Mexico and south Texas before weakening.
2010-09-08 10:10
Imam: NYC Islamic center to include other faiths (AP)
AP - A proposed Islamic community center near ground zero will include separate prayer spaces for Muslims, Christians, Jews and people of other faiths, the imam behind plans for the facility wrote in an op-ed piece published online Tuesday.
2010-09-08 10:10
George Soros gives $100M to Human Rights Watch (AP)
AP - Billionaire philanthropist George Soros is putting up $100 million, one of the largest donations of its kind, to expand Human Rights Watch and help it court more international support.
2010-09-08 07:37
Kansas man charged with murdering burned teen (AP)
AP - A 36-year-old factory worker who spent much of his adult life in prison was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting and murdering a 14-year-old girl whose badly burned body was found behind gravel piles at the asphalt plant where he worked.
2010-09-08 07:37
Non-word `refudiate' gets most online searches (AP)
AP - Merriam-Webster's "Word of the Summer" is not even a word. That's something no one can "refudiate."
2010-09-08 07:37
Microbes are eating BP oil without using up oxygen (AP)
AP - Government scientists studying the BP disaster are reporting the best possible outcome: Microbes are consuming the oil in the Gulf without depleting the oxygen in the water and creating "dead zones" where fish cannot survive.
2010-09-08 05:03
Feds: Army base gunman threatened to kill Obama (AP)
AP - A former soldier accused of demanding mental treatment as he took hostages at gunpoint at a Georgia Army hospital later told investigators he planned to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Tuesday.
2010-09-08 05:03
LAPD chief promises thorough probe into shooting (AP)
AP - Police Chief Charlie Beck on Tuesday promised a thorough, transparent investigation into an officer's shooting of a knife-wielding man whose death sparked a violent protest in a poor immigrant neighborhood.
2010-09-08 05:03
Hermine gives south Texas another tropical lashing (AP)
AP - Tropical Storm Hermine gave a wet and windy punch to Texas on Tuesday before weakening into a tropical depression, leaving only minor scrapes in the storm-weary Rio Grande Valley, which is proving resilient this hurricane season after taking a third tropical system on the chin.
2010-09-08 02:36
WTC steel column installed at ground zero (AP)
AP - Officials hoisted a 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel at ground zero Tuesday and vowed to open the Sept. 11 memorial by next year, although they acknowledged that the ongoing construction at the site would limit where and how the public could visit.
2010-09-08 02:36
Court: Judges can demand warrant for cell locales (AP)
AP - Judges have the right to require warrants before police get cell phone records that could suggest a customer's likely location, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a novel electronic privacy case.
2010-09-08 02:36
2 asteroids to whiz harmlessly past Earth (AP)
AP - NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago will zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.
2010-09-08 00:01
US smoking rate still stuck at 1 in 5 adults (AP)
AP - U.S. smoking rates continue to hold steady, at about one in five adults lighting up regularly, frustrated health officials reported Tuesday.
2010-09-08 00:01
Pharmacy heists are up amid popularity of Rx drugs (AP)
AP - Less than a couple months after Nick Curtin opened a pharmacy in suburban Tulsa in 2008, the store was burglarized twice in one week. And just last year a masked man robbed him at gunpoint, making off with 1,800 pills.
2010-09-08 00:01
Court: Judges can demand warrant for phone locales (AP)
AP - A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia says judges may require warrants for police to get cell phone records that could help track a person's location.
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