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| Officials look for corpses after Bangladesh mutiny (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 9:46 am
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|  AP - Security forces searching the headquarters of a mutinous Bangladeshi border guard unit on Friday discovered the bodies of dozens of officers in shallow graves on the compound, raising the death toll to 66, officials said.
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| Jewish family gets financial help to move to Ala. (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 9:16 am
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|  AP - Members of the newest Jewish family in Dothan are settling in to their piece of the promised land: A new home, just down the street from the city's water park and Dixie Youth baseball fields.
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| Mayor who sent watermelon e-mail says he'll resign (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 8:12 am
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| | AP - The mayor of a small Southern California city says he will resign after being criticized for sharing an e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year." |
| Ford expected to reopen Cleveland engine plant (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 7:46 am
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|  AP - A Ford Motor Co. plant in suburban Cleveland which has been idle for nearly two years is about to begin making a new fuel-efficient engine for some of the company's 2010 model cars.
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| Officials: Obama sets Aug. 2010 as Iraq end date (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 7:07 am
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|  AP - A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say.
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| Economy likely suffered deeper contraction (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 6:53 am
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|  AP - The economy's downhill slide at the end of last year was likely much steeper than the government initially thought and it is probably doing just as poorly now — if not worse — as a relentless slew of negative forces feed on each other, pushing the country deeper into recession.
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| US-China resume military ties, top officers says (AP)
February 27, 2009 at 4:50 am
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| | AP - China's five-month suspension in U.S.-Chinese military contacts to protest Washington's arms sales to Taiwan has ended with the visit this week of a U.S. Defense Department official, a top Chinese officer said Friday. |
| Pelosi butts heads with Obama (Politico)
February 27, 2009 at 4:31 am
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|  Politico - Nancy Pelosi repeatedly stood to applaud Barack Obama when he addressed a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. But in the days since, the speaker of the House has been standing up for herself —distancing herself from the president on Iraq, on tax cuts and on the prosecution of former Bush administration officials.
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| Top lawmakers skeptical of Obama's Iraq plan (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:40 pm
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|  AP - Congressional leaders were skeptical as they awaited details on President Barack Obama's plan to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq while leaving tens of thousands behind. Senior administration officials were expected to outline a plan that would bring most of the 142,000 forces home by August 2010. As many as 50,000 troops could remain for cleanup and protection operations.
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| Colleges warn students about Mexico travel (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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|  AP - The U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some spring-break partying of a surge in drug-related murder and mayhem south of the border.
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| 4 members of assisted suicide group are arrested (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:18 pm
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|  AP - Joining the Final Exit Network costs $50, and the privileges of membership include this: When you're ready to die, the organization will send two "exit guides" to show you how to suffocate yourself using helium tanks and a plastic hood. The Georgia-based organization says it is providing an invaluable and humane service. Authorities call it a crime.
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| Gates: Media photos of war dead need families' OK (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 6:07 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration is reversing an 18-year ban on news coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag-covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
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| Obama seeks $205 billion for Iraq, Afghan wars (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 5:49 pm
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama requested about $205 billion in war funding through the end of fiscal 2010 on Thursday, as he sought to withdraw tens of thousands of troops from Iraq and boost forces fighting a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan. |
| Report: Bishop who had denied Holocaust apologizes (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 5:44 pm
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|  AP - A British bishop whose denial of the Holocaust embroiled Pope Benedict XVI in controversy has apologized for his remarks, a Catholic news agency said Thursday. Bishop Richard Williamson, with the conservative Society of St. Pius X, had faced worldwide criticism over a television interview in which he said no Jews were gassed during the Holocaust.
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| Senate votes to give DC citizens vote in Congress (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 5:33 pm
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| | AP - WASHINGTON(AP — The right to a vote in Congress denied the District of Columbia when it became the nation's capital two centuries ago would be granted under legislation the Senate passed Thursday. |
| Banks, investment firms trim borrowing from Fed (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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|  AP - Commercial banks and investment firms trimmed borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, a modest sign of some easing in credit strains.
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| Obama health plan opens tough negotiation (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 4:03 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's prescription for the nation's ailing health care system comes with Medicare cuts and tax hikes — usually poison pills that doom any overhaul effort in Congress.
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| Mexico to send more troops to besieged city (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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| | Reuters - Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a war between gangs supplying drugs to the United States. |
| 13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 3:18 pm
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|  AP - Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right. Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools. They had stumbled onto a cache of more than 83 ancient tools buried by the Clovis people — ice age hunter-gatherers who remain a puzzle to anthropologists.
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| Boehner: 'We just have to admit we're broke' (Politico)
February 26, 2009 at 12:36 pm
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| | Politico - House Minority Leader John A. Boehner offered his sharpest criticism yet against President Barack Obama Thursday, saying his spending habits were beginning to dwarf those of President Bush. |
| Bangladesh: Mutiny ends after tanks enter capital (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:37 am
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|  AP - Mutinous Bangladeshi border guards who seized control of their headquarters completed their surrender Thursday after tanks were sent into the capital as a show of force, the government said.
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| GM posts $9.6B 4Q loss, burns through $6.2B cash (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 11:00 am
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. posted a $9.6 billion fourth-quarter loss and said it burned through $6.2 billion of cash in the last three months of 2008 as it fought the worst U.S. auto sales climate since 1982 and sought government loans to keep the century-old company running.
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| NKorea lashes out over missile-test warnings (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 10:53 am
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|  AP - North Korea lashed out Thursday at critics warning it not to test a long-range missile, saying it would punish those trying to disrupt its plan to send what it calls a satellite into orbit.
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| Scientists meet to save Lascaux cave from fungus (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 10:33 am
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|  AP - Geologists, biologists and other scientists convened Thursday in Paris to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus stains — aggravated by global warming — that threaten France's prehistoric Lascaux cave drawings.
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| Wooden sarcophaguses found in Egypt tomb (Reuters)
February 26, 2009 at 8:19 am
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| | Reuters - Japanese archaeologists working in Egypt have found four wooden sarcophaguses and associated grave goods which could date back up to 3,300 years, the Egyptian government said on Thursday. |
| Injured good Samaritan ticketed for jaywalking (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 7:34 am
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| | AP - A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket. |
| Audit: Ky. airport execs racked up lavish expenses (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 4:32 am
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| | AP - A small commercial airport in Kentucky — and the taxpayers who support it — picked up top executives' tabs in recent years for Hannah Montana concert tickets, Nintendo Wii video game bundles and even a $4,400 strip club check, according to a state auditor's report. |
| Police: Miami piano teacher kills kids, wife, self (AP)
February 26, 2009 at 3:12 am
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|  AP - Pablo Amador was a "regular dad" who made music with his children and shared his gift teaching kids to play piano, a man known for a friendly wave and lending a hand to jump-start a car. And those who knew him say they can't understand why he apparently shot and killed his two daughters, wife and then himself.
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