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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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| 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. |
| Former housekeeper sues Kobe Bryant, his wife (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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| | AP - Kobe Bryant's former housekeeper is suing the NBA star and his wife, contending she was "harassed and humiliated," denied health insurance and forced to quit because of "intolerable" working conditions. |
| Astronomers catch a shooting star for 1st time (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 4:26 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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| Five Lessons from the AIG Bonus Blowup (Time.com)
March 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm
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|  Time.com - They were calling for Geithner's head last week. On Tuesday he came away from a congressional hearing relatively unscathed. For the Administration, it's been a fast learning curve |
| Evidence points to crew error in Buffalo air crash (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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|  AP - Flight data point to possible flight crew errors rather than ice accumulation as a key factor in last month's plane crash near Buffalo, N.Y., that killed 50 people, aviation safety experts said Wednesday.
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| Mexico captures another 'most-wanted' trafficker (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 3:39 pm
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|  AP - Soldiers captured one of Mexico's most-wanted smugglers, a man accused of controlling the flow of drugs through the northern city of Monterrey for the powerful Beltran-Leyva cartel, the Mexican army 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.
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| Economy shows positive signs but it may not last (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 2:45 pm
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|  AP - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods and new homes sales both rose unexpectedly in February, but economists said the gains were unlikely to last as the recession persists.
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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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| 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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| OMB chief: Hill's budget ideas mirror Obama's plan (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 11:06 am
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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 hew closely to President Barack Obama's priorities.
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| Pentagon questions growing Chinese military power (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 10:38 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. |
| Do Animals Enjoy Sex? (LiveScience.com)
March 25, 2009 at 9:58 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Animals obviously hook up, at least during mating season. But do they like it? According to experts, there are two answers: "yes" and "it is impossible to know." "Mosquitoes, I don't know," hedged Mark Bekoff, a University of Colorado biologist and author of "The Emotional Lives of Animals" (New World Library), "but across mammals, they enjoy sex." In fact the enjoyment of sex among humans and among animals may be similar in that it's all experienced in very primitive parts of the brain. ... |
| 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. |
| AP IMPACT: It's fear that keeps Baghdad's peace (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 9:20 am
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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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| Minister: Guide may have led Americans into NKorea (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 8:10 am
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|  AP - Two American journalists being held by North Korea may have been led across the border from China by a guide promising them exclusive footage of human trafficking or drug deals, an activist who helped organize their trip said Wednesday.
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| Change of flight plan under scrutiny in MT crash (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 6:24 am
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|  AP - Half an hour before a small plane crashed in Montana, killing all 14 aboard, the pilot requested a change in course from Bozeman to Butte. Why he did that is emerging as a key mystery.
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| 12 arrested in Beijing hotel fire (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 5:13 am
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|  AP - A dozen people have been formally arrested in connection with a fire at a Beijing hotel blamed on an illegal fireworks display staged by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, state media reported Wednesday.
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| Freshman's Late-Night Tryst Angers Her Chaste Roommate (Dear Abby)
March 25, 2009 at 2:16 am
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| | Dear Abby - DEAR ABBY: I'm a freshman at a Catholic university. I was awakened last night at 3 a.m. because my bunk bed -- I'm on top -- was shaking. Then I heard my roommate moaning. She had snuck a boy into our dorm room, and they were doing "it." |
| Police: Man hit by Stallworth wasn't in crosswalk (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 1:11 am
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|  AP - A pedestrian wasn't in a crosswalk when Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth hit and killed him with his Bentley, according to a report released Tuesday by police in Miami Beach.
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| 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. |
| Filipino militants threaten to behead hostage (AP)
March 25, 2009 at 12:31 am
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|  AP - Al-Qaida-linked militants have threatened to behead one of three Red Cross hostages in one week unless Philippine troops pull back from the guerrillas' southern jungle stronghold, officials said Wednesday.
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