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| Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 6:10 pm
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|  AP - Many detainees locked up at Guantanamo were innocent men swept up by U.S. forces unable to distinguish enemies from noncombatants, a former Bush administration official said Thursday. "There are still innocent people there," Lawrence B. Wilkerson, a Republican who was chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, told The Associated Press. "Some have been there six or seven years."
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| Prank at Scout camp ended 1 life, changed 3 others (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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| | AP - TOMS RIVER, N.J. — It was a hot July night when Eagle Scout Brian Lenz decided to show a group of younger boys at his camp a trick called the "circle of fire," in which he would squirt rubbing alcohol in a pattern on a table and set it aflame. |
| Strong quake near Tonga prompts tsunami warning (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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|  AP - A strong 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck Friday near Tonga, generating a tsunami with the potential of striking coastlines in the South Pacific, officials said. There were no immediate reports of damage.
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| Mexico captures cartel leader without a shot (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 3:58 pm
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|  AP - Mexico's military has captured the security and operations chief of the nation's most powerful drug cartel, officials said Thursday, delivering another punishing blow only weeks after U.S. officials rounded up hundreds of cartel members north of the border.
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| Wal-Mart awards $2 billion to U.S. hourly employees (Reuters)
March 19, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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|  Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is awarding approximately $2 billion to its U.S. hourly employees through financial incentives, including handing out $933.6 million in bonuses on Thursday, after the world's largest retailer gained market share amid a recession.
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| Fritzl sentenced to life in prison in incest case (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 10:19 am
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|  AP - Josef Fritzl was convicted of homicide, enslavement, incest, rape and other charges Thursday and sentenced to life in a psychiatric prison for holding his daughter captive for 24 years and fathering her seven children.
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| More job and pay cuts at FedEx as 3Q profit sinks (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 10:03 am
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|  AP - FedEx Corp. said Thursday it plans to cut more jobs and trim wages again, as the company reported its fiscal third-quarter profit tumbled 75 percent on severe weakness in the global economy.
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| U.S. workers on jobless benefits hit record high (Reuters)
March 19, 2009 at 9:46 am
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| | Reuters - The number of U.S. workers drawing state unemployment benefits scaled another record high early this month, according to government data on Thursday that highlighted the difficulties of getting new jobs in the recession-hit economy |
| House to vote on 90 percent tax for AIG bonuses (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 9:41 am
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|  AP - The House is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would levy a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at companies that have received at least $5 billion in government bailout money.
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| Israel's former president charged with rape (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 9:06 am
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|  AP - Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav was indicted Thursday on rape and other sexual offense charges, after calling off a plea deal that would have allowed him to escape jail time.
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| Oil up more than 6 percent on Fed bond move (Reuters)
March 19, 2009 at 8:17 am
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|  Reuters - Oil jumped more than 6 percent to above $51 a barrel on Thursday after a move by the Federal Reserve to buy government bonds hit the dollar and revived expectations the U.S. economy could soon begin its recovery.
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| Jaguar, Buick dethrone Lexus in reliability study (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 8:10 am
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|  AP - British luxury carmaker Jaguar surged to the top of J.D. Power and Associates' closely watched vehicle dependability study this year, tying Buick for the No. 1 spot and dethroning Lexus for the first time since the Japanese luxury brand has been a part of the survey.
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| Rare reptile hatchling found on NZ mainland (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 8:05 am
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|  AP - A hatchling of a rare reptile with lineage dating back to the dinosaur age has been found in the wild on the New Zealand mainland for the first time in about 200 years, a wildlife official said Thursday.
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| Bin Laden rallies Somali militants in Web message (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 7:49 am
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|  AP - Al-Qaida's chief Osama bin Laden urged Somali militants to overthrow the country's new president in a new Web audiotape posted Thursday, trying to torpedo a new push for peace in a lawless African nation where many fear al-Qaida is gaining a foothold.
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| Schwarzenegger to help Obama answer GOP critics (AP)
March 19, 2009 at 7:47 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is playing a bit of divide and conquer this week, pitting his Republican critics in Washington against GOP governors and mayors eager for the federal money that his hard-fought stimulus plan will bring. Next on the list of Republican notables to embrace the president is California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is to join Obama at a town hall meeting Thursday in Los Angeles.
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| LONGTIME NEIGHBOR LAUNCHES CHARM OFFENSIVE ON DAUGHTER (Dear Abby)
March 19, 2009 at 2:16 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been friends with our next door neighbors "Henry" and "Flo" for many years. When our daughter graduated from college, I didn't think much about it when Henry gave her a bracelet. He said it was for her graduation. |
| Tongan inspection team heads to undersea volcano (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 11:16 pm
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|  AP - Scientists sailed Thursday to inspect an undersea volcano that has been erupting for days near Tonga — shooting smoke, steam and ash thousands of feet (meters) into the sky above the South Pacific ocean.
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| Natasha Richardson dies at 45 after ski accident (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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|  AP - Natasha Richardson, a gifted and precocious heiress to acting royalty whose career highlights included the film "Patty Hearst" and a Tony-winning performance in a stage revival of "Cabaret," died Wednesday at age 45 after suffering a head injury during a beginners' ski lesson. Alan Nierob, the Los Angeles-based publicist for Richardson's husband Liam Neeson, confirmed her death in a written statement.
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| Fed launches bold $1.2T effort to revive economy (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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|  AP - With the country sinking deeper into recession, the Federal Reserve launched a bold $1.2 trillion effort Wednesday to lower rates on mortgages and other consumer debt, spur spending and revive the economy. To do so, the Fed will spend up to $300 billion to buy long-term government bonds and an additional $750 billion in mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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| Dinosaur find raises debate on feather evolution (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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|  AP - A small dinosaur that once roamed northeastern China was covered with a stiff, hairlike fuzz, a discovery that suggests feathers began to evolve much earlier than many researchers believe — maybe even in the earliest dinosaurs. Scientists had previously identified feathers and so-called "dinofuzz" in theropods, two-legged meat-eaters that are widely considered the ancestors of birds.
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| Your $32 million takes a village in England (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 2:54 pm
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|  AP - Sheep dot green hills. Pheasants hop across country lanes. Quaint cottages sit next to a tiny stone church. Neighbors who've known each other since birth greet strangers warmly. And for about $32 million, this leafy, nostalgic slice of England could be yours.
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| Filipino who accused Marine of rape changes story (AP)
March 18, 2009 at 2:39 pm
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|  AP - A Filipino woman whose accusations of rape led to the high-profile conviction of a U.S. Marine has altered her testimony, saying in an affidavit that she may have led him to believe she wanted sex.
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| Temperature rise may trigger West Antarctic thaw (Reuters)
March 18, 2009 at 2:01 pm
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|  Reuters - The West Antarctic ice sheet may start to collapse if sea temperatures rise by 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit), triggering a thaw that would raise world ocean levels by 5 meters (16 ft), U.S. scientists said.
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