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| Alaska volcano Mount Redoubt erupts 5 times (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:51 pm
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|  AP - Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years. Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust fell Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage.
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| Dow jumps as Obama admin. moves on bad bank assets (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:51 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration aimed squarely at the crisis clogging the nation's credit system Monday with a plan to take over up to $1 trillion in sour mortgage securities with the help of private investors.
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| Octuplets mom fires free nanny training service (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:41 pm
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|  AP - Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman has fired a nonprofit group of nurses that helped care for her children, accusing the group of spying on her and reporting her to child welfare officials, her spokesman said Monday.
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| 3 Northern Calif families killed in Montana crash (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:22 pm
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|  AP - Dr. Irving "Bud" Feldkamp was at the entrance of the ultra-exclusive resort where he planned to spend the week skiing with his children and grandchildren when he got the call from his nephew.
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| Rep. Frank calls Scalia a 'homophobe' in interview (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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|  AP - Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe" in a recent interview with the gay news Web site 365gay.com. The Democratic lawmaker, who is gay, was discussing gay marriage and his expectation that the high court would some day be called upon to decide whether the Constitution allows the federal government to deny recognition to same-sex marriages.
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| NJ officials ID woman found wandering mall in 1994 (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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|  AP - A mute elderly woman known only as "Jane Doe" since she was found wandering in a New Jersey mall 15 years ago has finally been identified. Lt. Eduardo Ojeda of the New Jersey Department of Human Services police discovered recently that the woman is Elba Leonor Diaz Soccarras, who turns 75 on March 28. She has Alzheimer's disease and has been bedridden in a New Jersey psychiatric hospital for years.
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| Study: Lots of red meat increases mortality risk (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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|  AP - The largest study of its kind finds that older Americans who eat large amounts of red meat and processed meats face a greater risk of death from heart disease and cancer. The federal study of more than half a million men and women bolsters prior evidence of the health risks of diets laden with red meat like hamburger and processed meats like hot dogs, bacon and cold cuts.
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| Fla. student suspended from bus for passing gas (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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| | AP - An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas. The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus Monday to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe. The bus driver handed the teen the suspension form the next day. |
| N.Ireland teen charged with killing policeman (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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|  AP - Authorities charged an Irish Catholic teenager Monday with killing a policeman — one of two deadly gun attacks by IRA dissidents this month that rocked Northern Ireland's peace process.
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| Pakistan militants strengthen in heartland (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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|  AP - The compound bore no sign. Residents referred to it simply as the school for "jihadi fighters," speaking in awe of the expensive horses stabled within its high walls — and the extremists who rode them bareback in the dusty fields around it.
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| NY state senator indicted, accused of assault (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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|  AP - A freshman state senator sworn in to office despite allegations he slashed his girlfriend's face with broken glass in a jealous rage has been indicted on domestic assault charges, prosecutors said Monday.
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| Suicide bomb blast kills 23 at funeral in Iraq (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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|  AP - A suicide bomber struck a tent filled Monday with Kurdish funeral mourners, unleashing a huge fireball that killed at least 23 people in a northern town where Kurds and Arabs are competing for power. Also Monday, Turkey's visiting president pressed the Iraqi government to crack down on Kurdish rebels who stage cross-border raids into Turkish territory from sanctuaries in northern Iraq.
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| Study: Lots of red meat increases mortality risk (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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| | AP - The largest study of its kind finds that older Americans who eat large amounts of red meat and processed meats face a greater risk of death from heart disease and cancer. The federal study of more than half a million men and women bolsters prior evidence of the health risks of diets laden with red meat like hamburger and processed meats like hot dogs, bacon and cold cuts. |
| Mexico offers $2 million for top drug lords (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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|  AP - Mexico's government on Monday offered $2 million each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a public challenge to the cartels' violent grip on the country. The list indicated that drug gangs have splintered into six main cartels under pressure from the U.S. and Mexican governments.
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| Fla. student suspended from bus for passing gas (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 4:21 pm
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| | AP - An eighth-grader was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas. The bus driver wrote on a misbehavior form that a 15-year-old teen passing gas on the bus Monday to make the other children laugh, creating a stench so bad that it was difficult to breathe. The bus driver handed the teen the suspension form the next day. |
| Defying warrant, Sudanese president travels abroad (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 2:55 pm
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|  AP - Sudan's president traveled to Eritrea Monday, choosing one of Africa's most politically isolated nations for his first trip abroad since an international court sought his arrest on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
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| South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace conference (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 11:45 am
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|  AP - South Africa barred the Dalai Lama from a peace conference in Johannesburg this week, hoping to keep good relations with trading partner China but instead generating a storm of criticism.
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| Israeli soldiers' shirts joke about killing Arabs (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 11:45 am
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| | AP - Israeli soldiers wore T-shirts with a pregnant woman in cross-hairs and the slogan "1 Shot 2 Kills," adding to a growing furor in the country over allegations of misconduct by troops during the Gaza war. |
| Schilling of Red Sox retires with 'zero regrets' (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 11:11 am
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|  AP - Curt Schilling retired from baseball Monday after a career in which he won World Series titles with the Boston Red Sox and Arizona Diamondbacks and was one of the game's most dominant pitchers and grittiest competitors.
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| Alaska volcano Mount Redoubt erupts 5 times (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 10:47 am
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|  AP - Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years.
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| Poet Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide in Alaska (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 10:43 am
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| | AP - Nicholas Hughes, the son of poet Sylvia Plath, has killed himself, 46 years after his mother committed suicide and almost 40 years to the day after his stepmother, Assia Wevill, did the same. He was 47. |
| Senior Fatah official killed in south Lebanon (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 10:36 am
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|  AP - An explosion in southern Lebanon on Monday killed a senior Fatah official and three of his bodyguards as they were leaving a Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanese and Palestinian security officials said.
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| Airline Deals Are Soaring (BusinessWeek Online)
March 23, 2009 at 8:08 am
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| | BusinessWeek Online - With the U.S. recession raging, air fares sit at bargain-basement levels on many routes. Business travelers are being lured with double-mile promotions. And airlines are only deepening the discounts as they near the end of a dreadful winter quarter. In the past week, for example, a bevy of bargains has been unleashed: Qantas Airways is offering one-way fares between Australia and California for $299, and New York for $399. United Airlines (NasdaqGS:UAUA - News) is selling a new Moscow route for as low as $119 one way, before taxes and fees. ... |
| Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide (AFP)
March 23, 2009 at 8:01 am
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|  AFP - The son of tragedy-scarred poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath has killed himself 46 years after his mother gassed herself, The Times reported on Monday.
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| Runaway kangaroos on the loose in France (AFP)
March 23, 2009 at 6:49 am
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|  AFP - Vandals set loose 15 kangaroos from an Australian theme park in southern France, sparking a major search operation, with three marsupials still on the loose.
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| Asian stocks surge ahead of US bank asset plan (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 4:10 am
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|  AP - Asian stock markets soared Monday ahead of a U.S. announcement to purge as much as $1 trillion in toxic bank assets and as Japan signaled more stimulus measures to resuscitate the world's second-largest economy.
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| NATO: 10 insurgents killed in Afghanistan (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 4:08 am
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|  AP - NATO troops struck a compound in southern Afghanistan, killing 10 suspected militants — including a senior Taliban commander — while eight Afghan police officers and two NATO soldiers were killed in separate attacks in the same area, officials said Monday.
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| Cargo plane crashes on landing at Tokyo airport (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 3:56 am
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|  AP - A FedEx cargo plane smashed into a runway and burst into a ball of fire while attempting to land at Tokyo's main international airport Monday, killing the American pilot and copilot. Investigators believe wind shear, or a sudden gust of wind, may have been a factor.
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| 4 charged in deadly biker airport brawl (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 1:38 am
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|  AP - Police defended security levels at Australia's largest airport Monday after a man was beaten to death during a brawl by suspected rival biker gangs in one of Sydney's busiest terminals.
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| More women needing cash go from jobless to topless (AP)
March 23, 2009 at 12:01 am
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| | AP - As a bartender and trainer at a national restaurant chain, Rebecca Brown earned a couple thousand dollars in a really good week. Now, as a dancer at Chicago's Pink Monkey gentleman's club, she makes almost that much in one good night. |
| Family: Suspect in Oakland cop deaths feared jail (AP)
March 22, 2009 at 11:35 pm
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|  AP - Relatives of the man suspected of fatally shooting three Oakland police officers said Sunday the 26-year-old parolee was frustrated about not finding work and feared returning to jail.
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