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| AIG chief says he asked execs to return bonuses (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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|  AP - The chairman of AIG has told Congress he's asked executives to give back their bonuses. The chief executive officer of the failed insurance conglomerate acknowledged Wednesday that the company's multimillion-dollar bonuses were "distasteful" to many and had provoked a firestorm of wrath. "I share that anger," Edward Liddy, chairman and CEO of the American International Group Inc., said in testimony prepared for Congress.
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| Incest father pleads guilty to charges, faces life (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 1:32 pm
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|  AP - In a stunning turn of events, an Austrian on trial for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children pleaded guilty Wednesday to all charges against him — including homicide. The move came after his daughter appeared unexpectedly in the courtroom this week.
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| Prosecutors charge Madoff's accountant with fraud (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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|  AP - Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant was arrested on fraud charges Wednesday and accused of helping the disgraced money manager cheat thousands of investors out of billions of dollars in the past two decades.
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| Former Bush aide gets 30 months in prison (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 11:44 am
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| | AP - A former Bush White House aide was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday for stealing nearly $600,000 from a government-funded program that promotes democracy in Cuba. |
| Sudan leader: No international court can touch me (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 11:26 am
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|  AP - A defiant Sudanese president rallied Arab supporters in Darfur Wednesday by saying no war crimes court or the U.N. Security Council can touch even "an eyelash" on him despite an international order for his arrest.
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| Richardson's family gathers near injured actress (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 11:10 am
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|  AP - Members of Natasha Richardson's family gathered at a New York hospital where the Tony-winning actress was reportedly taken with a serious head injury after falling on a Canadian ski slope.
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| Analysis: White House, Dems backpedaling on AIG (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 11:01 am
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|  AP - For the first time since last fall's election, Democrats and the Obama administration are backpedaling furiously on an issue easily understood by financially strapped taxpayers: $165 million in bonuses paid out at bailed-out AIG.
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| IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems: report (Reuters)
March 18, 2009 at 9:44 am
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| | Reuters - IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc for at least $6.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, in a deal that could bolster their computer server products against rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co. |
| 'Star Wars' Laser Kills Mosquitoes (LiveScience.com)
March 18, 2009 at 9:26 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Physicists have created a laser weapon that targets mosquitoes. It is hoped that by finding an effective weapon against mosquitoes, the incidence of malaria could be reduced. Today, malaria kills about one million people every year around the world. |
| Where the Rich [Still] Live (BusinessWeek Online)
March 18, 2009 at 8:08 am
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| | BusinessWeek Online - A visitor to Brookville, N.Y., can quickly forget that the tiny village is just off the Long Island Expressway and only 25 miles from midtown Manhattan. |
| US urges citizens to avoid Tokyo nightlife area (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 6:47 am
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| | AP - The U.S. Embassy in Japan has urged Americans to avoid going to bars in Tokyo's raucous nightlife district of Roppongi due to a surge in reports of drink-spiking incidents there. |
| POEM'S SIMPLE TRUTH BENEFITS FAMILY THROUGH GENERATIONS (Dear Abby)
March 18, 2009 at 2:16 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: When I was growing up, my parents had a framed poem from your column hanging on our kitchen wall. None of us kids could miss it because it was right next to the telephone. Before we moved out to start families of our own, Mom gave each of us framed copies of it to remind us of family values. |
| Legally blind Mo. man saves woman from attacker (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 12:51 am
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| | AP - A legally blind man was credited with saving a woman after authorities said a 45-year-old man broke into her apartment on Saturday night. Authorities said the man, a convicted rapist, was waiting for the woman to return home from work. |
| Bush refuses to criticize Obama in Canada (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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|  AP - Former President George W. Bush said he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence," and said he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office. Bush declined to critique the Obama administration Tuesday in his first speech since leaving office. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that Obama's decisions are threatening America's safety.
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| U.S. preparing integrated plan on Mexico drug war (Reuters)
March 17, 2009 at 6:39 pm
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|  Reuters - The U.S. government is working on an integrated plan to address Mexico's escalating war with drug traffickers and could complete work on the initiative as early as this week, a top U.S. military official said on Tuesday.
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| Protests greet Bush's first speech as ex-president (Reuters)
March 17, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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|  Reuters - More than 100 protesters chanted "war criminal" and flung shoes in Calgary on Tuesday, angry that former U.S. President George W. Bush was in the Canadian city to give his first speech since leaving the White House.
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| Study: 'Smart drug' Provigil may be habit-forming (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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|  AP - A so-called "smart drug" popular with young people may carry more of an addiction risk than thought, a small government study suggests. Scans of 10 healthy men showed that the prescription drug Provigil caused changes in the brain's pleasure center, very much like potentially habit-forming classic stimulants. Modafinil, the drug's generic name, is sometimes used as an illegal study aid by college students.
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| U.S. increases pressure on Sudan after expulsions (Reuters)
March 17, 2009 at 5:48 pm
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|  Reuters - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will be responsible for "every single death" caused by the expulsion of 13 foreign aid groups from Sudan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday.
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| Congress looking at huge taxes on AIG bonuses (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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|  AP - Congressional Democrats vowed Tuesday to all but strip AIG executives of their $165 million in bonuses as expressions of outrage swelled in Congress over eye-catching extra income for employees of a firm that has received billions in taxpayer bailout funds.
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| Family of Conn. chimp attack victim seeks $50M (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 2:10 pm
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| | AP - The family of a woman mauled by a chimpanzee filed a lawsuit seeking $50 million in damages against the primate's owner, saying she was negligent and reckless for lacking the ability to control "a wild animal with violent propensities." |
| On Africa trip, pope says condoms won't solve AIDS (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 1:50 pm
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|  AP - Condoms are not the answer to Africa's fight against HIV, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday as he began a weeklong trip to the continent. It was the pope's first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with AIDS patients.
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| Obama defends tackling many problems at same time (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama pushed back Tuesday against criticism that he's trying to take on too many issues at once, defending a $3.6 trillion budget that seeks to shore up the economy while also overhauling health care, energy and education.
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| NY atty gen says 73 AIG execs got $1M bonuses (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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|  AP - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says troubled insurance giant American International Group paid bonuses of $1 million or more to each of 73 employees, including 11 who no longer work for the company.
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| IRS giving relief to some Madoff investors (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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|  AP - The Internal Revenue Service issued guidelines Tuesday that will allow tax relief and refunds for some Bernard Madoff victims who were levied for investment earnings that turned out to be nonexistent.
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| Caterpillar to lay off 2,454 workers in 3 states (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 12:48 pm
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|  AP - Caterpillar Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to lay off more than 2,400 employees at five plants in Illinois, Indiana and Georgia as the heavy equipment maker continues to cut costs amid the global economic downturn.
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| China's milk victims complain of intimidation (AP)
March 17, 2009 at 11:13 am
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|  AP - Families whose children fell ill from tainted milk have come under pressure to drop compensation lawsuits, victims' advocates said Tuesday, showing the government's lingering uneasiness over one of China's worst contamination scandals.
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