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| F-22 crashes in California desert; pilot killed (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:53 am
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|  AP - One of the Air Force's top-of-the-line F-22 fighter jets crashed Wednesday in the high desert of Southern California, killing a test pilot for prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.
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| Sources: Extensive regulatory overhaul planned (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:18 am
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|  AP - The Obama administration is proposing an extensive overhaul of financial regulations to increase oversight of such exotic instruments as credit default swaps that have been blamed for contributing to the worst financial crisis to hit the country in seven decades.
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| Fewer than 10 pct. of blind Americans read Braille (AP)
March 26, 2009 at 12:02 am
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|  AP - Jordan Gilmer has a degenerative condition that eventually will leave him completely blind. But as a child, his teachers did not emphasize Braille, the system of reading in which a series of raised dots signify letters of the alphabet.
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| Mich. baseball park to offer 4,800-calorie burgers (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:09 pm
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|  AP - Well, at least the salsa is low-cal. The West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league baseball team, will be offering up major league cholesterol, carbohydrates and calories in an enormous hamburger being added to the menu this year at the Fifth Third Ballpark.
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| Merengue star Crespo accused of sex act on plane (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 8:08 pm
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|  AP - Merengue star Elvis Crespo is being investigated after a woman said she saw him performing a sex act on an airplane en route from Houston to Miami, according to Miami-Dade County police.
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| 2 small eruptions occur at Alaska volcano (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 8:01 pm
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|  AP - Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupted at least twice Wednesday as officials from a pipeline company assessed conditions at a nearby oil storage facility to determine whether to remove its contents.
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| Armstrong gets plate, 12 screws in collarbone (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 7:49 pm
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|  AP - His broken collarbone surgically mended, Lance Armstrong is on the clock. The seven-time Tour de France champion will be back on his bike in days even though the bone may take eight to 12 weeks to fully mend. Armstrong must resume training almost immediately if he's to meet his goal of racing in the Giro d'Italia, which begins May 9.
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| Reid open to fast-tracking health overhaul (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 7:39 pm
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|  AP - Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Wednesday he's willing to move sweeping health care legislation through the Senate with a procedural maneuver that would block a GOP filibuster.
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| Phoenix mayor welcomes border buildup (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 7:27 pm
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|  AP - Posing as police officers, gunmen in bulletproof vests pulled over a motorist, took him to a Phoenix house, bound him with zip ties and held him for a $30,000 ransom in an abduction that may have been carried out by Mexican drug smugglers.
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| Merengue star Crespo accused of sex act on plane (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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| AP - Merengue star Elvis Crespo is being investigated after a woman said she saw him performing a sex act on an airplane en route from Houston to Miami, according to Miami-Dade County police. |
| Obama's pick for EPA No. 2 withdraws (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 6:11 pm
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| | AP - President Barack Obama's pick for the No. 2 post at the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly removed himself from consideration Wednesday, saying the controversy surrounding a foundation he once belonged to would distract from the agency's work. |
| Astronomers catch a shooting star for 1st time (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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|  AP - For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon.
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| Study: Male circumcision helps prevent 2 STDs (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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| | AP - Circumcision not only protects against HIV in heterosexual men, but it also helps prevent two other sexually transmitted infections, a large new study found. Circumcised males reduced their risk of infection with HPV, or human papillomavirus, by 35 percent and herpes by 28 percent. However, researchers found circumcision had no effect on the transmission of syphilis. |
| Palestinian children sing for Holocaust survivors (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 4:50 pm
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|  AP - The Palestinian youths from the tough West Bank refugee camp stood facing the elderly Holocaust survivors Wednesday, appearing somewhat defiant in a teenage sort of way. Then they began to sing.
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| Clinton: U.S. also to blame for Mexican drug violence (McClatchy Newspapers)
March 25, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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|  McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY — The United States is at least as responsible as Mexico for the violent drug wars that are roiling its southern neighbor because of an insatiable U.S. market for narcotics, the failure to stop weapons smuggling southward and a three-decade "war" on drugs that "has not worked," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday.
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| Mich. baseball park to offer 4,800-calorie burgers (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 3:27 pm
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| AP - Well, at least the salsa is low-cal. The West Michigan Whitecaps, a minor league baseball team, will be offering up major league cholesterol, carbohydrates and calories in an enormous hamburger being added to the menu this year at the Fifth Third Ballpark. |
| Chinese find opportunity in U.S. real-estate slump (McClatchy Newspapers)
March 25, 2009 at 3:27 pm
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|  McClatchy Newspapers - BEIJING — Amid a downturn in real-estate prices, some wealthy Chinese are signing up for home-buying tours to the U.S., and Chinese media tout the trend as another sign of the strength of what's now the world's third-largest economy behind the U.S. and Japan.
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| French strikers hold 3M exec hostage amid talks (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 2:17 pm
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|  AP - Striking French workers for U.S. manufacturer 3M held their boss hostage amid labor talks Wednesday at a plant south of Paris, as anger over layoffs and cutbacks mounted around the country.
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| US: North Korea loading rocket on launch pad (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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|  AP - U.S. officials have confirmed that North Korea is loading a Taepo Dong rocket on its east coast launch pad for the expected launch of a communications satellite early next month.
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| Ice jams still threaten flooding in Bismarck area (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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|  AP - One ice jam clogging the Missouri River prevented more water from pouring downstream into the flood-threatened city Wednesday, but officials considered dynamiting another jam of car-size ice chunks that backed water upstream into the metro area.
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| OMB chief: Hill's budget ideas mirror Obama's plan (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:27 pm
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|  AP - The White House sought Wednesday to stress the positive in a looming fight with Congress over a $3.6 trillion budget, saying blueprints put forth by Democratic allies in both chambers hew closely to President Barack Obama's priorities.
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| EU presidency: US economic plans 'a road to hell' (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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|  AP - The president of the European Union slammed President Barack Obama's plans to have the U.S. spend its way out of recession as "a road to hell," underscoring European differences with Washington ahead of a crucial summit next week on fixing the world economy.
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| AIG executive resigns on NY Times op-ed page (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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|  AP - An American International Group Inc. executive who received a bonus worth more than $742,000 after taxes has resigned publicly — in an Op-Ed column in The New York Times.
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| AP IMPACT: It's fear that keeps Baghdad's peace (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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|  AP - The streets are calmer now. The fighting between Shiites and Sunnis has largely ceased. But this is not a sign of normalcy in the Iraqi capital. It's fear that keeps the peace.
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| Pentagon questions growing Chinese military power (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 11:25 am
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|  AP - China is increasing its military power more rapidly and developing new "disruptive technologies" that are shifting the military balance in its region and possibly beyond, a new Pentagon report said.
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| Study: Range of pharmaceuticals in fish across US (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 11:00 am
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| | AP - Fish caught near wastewater treatment plants serving five major U.S. cities had residues of pharmaceuticals in them, including medicines used to treat high cholesterol, allergies, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder and depression, researchers reported Wednesday. |
| Narco wars loom over Clinton agenda in Mexico (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:45 am
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| | AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton set out for Mexico Wednesday to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda that will be overshadowed by spiraling drug violence and fears of greater cross-border spillover. |
| Urban League asks Obama to address black issues (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 6:32 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama should specifically address disparities in black unemployment, foreclosures, education and health care, the National Urban League says in its annual "State of Black America" report.
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| Filipino militants threaten to behead hostage (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 6:15 am
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|  AP - Militants holding three Red Cross workers threatened to behead one of the hostages if Philippines troops do not withdraw from the al-Qaida-linked group's southern stronghold, officials said Wednesday, but the military rejected the demand.
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| FedEx threatens to cancel Boeing jet orders: report (Reuters)
March 25, 2009 at 4:29 am
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| | Reuters - FedEx Corp is threatening to cancel the purchase of billions of dollars worth of new Boeing Co cargo planes if Congress passes a law that would make it easier for unions to organize at the package-delivery company, the Wall Street Journal said. |
| Australian man murdered beekeeper for his honey (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 1:48 am
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| | AP - An Australian man was convicted Wednesday of murdering a fellow beekeeper so he could steal 40,000 Australian dollars ($27,880) worth of honey and has been sentenced to life in prison. |
| Scientists find new species in Papua New Guinea (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:57 am
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| | AP - A brilliant green tree frog with huge black eyes, jumping spiders and a striped gecko are among more than 50 new animal species scientists have discovered in a remote, mountainous region of Papua New Guinea. |
| Motown drummer Uriel Jones dies in Michigan (Reuters)
March 25, 2009 at 12:21 am
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|  Reuters - Motown drummer Uriel Jones, whose hard-driving funk propelled classic tunes by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, died in a Michigan hospital on Tuesday after suffering complications from a heart attack, a family member said. He was 74. | | |  |
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