|
|
| Thousands flee Fargo ahead of menacing floodwaters (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 11:25 pm
|
|  AP - Thousands of shivering, tired residents got out while they could and others prayed that miles of sandbagged levees would hold Friday as the surging Red River threatened to unleash the biggest flood North Dakota's largest city has ever seen.
|
| Team in China finds missing nuclear scale (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 11:16 pm
|
| | AP - Investigators have recovered potentially lethal radioactive material that was lost during the demolition of a cement plant in northwest China, an official said Friday. |
| Bank execs vow to work with Obama on recovery plan (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:51 pm
|
|  AP - Top executives of the nation's biggest banks said Friday after meeting with President Barack Obama that they will work with the administration on its economic recovery plans, but want more specifics from the White House.
|
| Official: Intel predicts rising Afghan violence (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:42 pm
|
|  AP - U.S. intelligence suggests that violence in Afghanistan will rise through 2009 despite the Obama administration's new strategy for combatting the Taliban and shoring up the Afghan government, a top intelligence official said Friday.
|
| Emotional tributes honor fallen Oakland officers (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:39 pm
|
|  AP - The city virtually halted Friday for the funeral of four slain police officers, with a populace still in shock jamming a large sports arena, spilling into an overflow stadium and filling the streets to pay their last respects.
|
| Phoenix's Serial Shooter gets 6 death sentences (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:34 pm
|
|  AP - The main suspect in the Phoenix Serial Shooter attacks was sentenced to death Friday for six murders that put the city on edge for nearly two years. Dale Hausner was convicted earlier this month of killing six people and attacking 19 others in random nighttime shootings in 2005 and 2006.
|
| Official: Madonna wants to adopt Malawian girl (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 8:27 pm
|
|  AP - Madonna wants to adopt a Malawian girl, a welfare official and another person close to the case said Friday, offering more detail on the second child the star is seeking from the impoverished African country.
|
| Phoenix's Serial Shooter gets 6 death sentences (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 7:03 pm
|
| AP - The main suspect in the Phoenix Serial Shooter attacks was sentenced to death Friday for six murders that put the city on edge for nearly two years. Dale Hausner was convicted earlier this month of killing six people and attacking 19 others in random nighttime shootings in 2005 and 2006. |
| Bank execs vow to work with Obama on recovery plan (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 7:02 pm
|
|  AP - Top executives of the nation's biggest banks said Friday after meeting with President Barack Obama that they will work with the administration on its economic recovery plans, but want more specifics from the White House.
|
| CNN in third place in prime time for first time (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 6:54 pm
|
|  AP - CNN is poised to finish March third in the prime-time weeknight ratings behind Fox News Channel and MSNBC, the first time this has ever happened for the channel that pioneered the cable news genre nearly three decades ago.
|
| Experimental vaccine used in Ebola exposure case (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 6:34 pm
|
|  AP - It was a nightmare scenario: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice. Within hours, members of a tightly bound, yet far-flung community of virologists, biologists and others were tensely gathered in a trans-Atlantic telephone conference trying to map out a way to save her life.
|
| Profit-taking, bank caution halt market run-up (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 5:11 pm
|
|  Reuters - Wall Street capped a strong week on a down note on Friday as investors booked profits in the wake of the recent upward surge and bank shares dropped after bank executives indicated March had been a tougher month for the industry than the previous two.
|
| Bank CEOs Tell Obama They Are Working Toward Recovery (Bloomberg)
March 27, 2009 at 2:07 pm
|
|  Bloomberg - March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Chief executive officers from some of the nation’s largest banks told President Barack Obama that their companies are vital to a potential economic recovery and they want to work with the government to achieve it.
|
| New York to ease its landmark tough drug laws (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 1:26 pm
|
|  AP - New York Gov. David Paterson and legislative leaders have agreed to ease drug laws that were once among the harshest in the nation and led a movement more than 30 years ago toward mandatory prison terms.
|
| Obama: Taliban and al-Qaida must be stopped (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 1:15 pm
|
|  AP - President Barack Obama on Friday ordered 4,000 more military troops into Afghanistan, vowing to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat" the terrorist al-Qaida network in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.
|
| Sudan suspects Israel in raids (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 1:04 pm
|
| | AP - Sudan said Friday it believes Israel carried out airstrikes on its soil last month that targeted weapons smugglers. If Israel were behind the attacks, it would mark a dramatic escalation in its attempts to cut off the flow of arms to Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza. |
| Report: Improper anchoring caused boat accident (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 12:33 pm
|
|  AP - An agency investigating a deadly boating accident involving two NFL players and their friends in the Gulf of Mexico has concluded it was a caused when the vessel was improperly anchored and the boat capsized after one of them tried to throttle forward to pry loose the anchor.
|
| Suicide attack kills 48 at Pakistani mosque (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:35 am
|
|  AP - A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year.
|
| Obama's new Afghan plan to target al Qaeda havens (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 9:16 am
|
|  Reuters - President Barack Obama plans to send thousands of troops to train Afghan forces as part of a new war strategy that will focus U.S. efforts on destroying al Qaeda safe havens and rolling back the Taliban insurgency.
|
| Astronaut Chef Redefines Cooking on High (SPACE.com)
March 27, 2009 at 8:02 am
|
|  SPACE.com - Astronaut Sandra Magnus is headed back to Earth on the space shuttle Discovery after months at the International Space Station, where she dreamt up new ways to cook in zero gravity.
|
| NJ girl, 14, arrested after posting nude pics (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 7:49 am
|
| | AP - A 14-year-old New Jersey girl has been accused of child pornography after posting nearly 30 explicit nude pictures of herself on MySpace.com — charges that could force her to register as a sex offender if convicted. |
| Obama says automakers need 'drastic changes' (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 7:42 am
|
|  AP - President Barack Obama plans to announce a new aid package for General Motors and Chrysler in the coming days and says the carmakers must make "pretty drastic changes" to save their industry.
|
| Lights out in 84 countries for Earth Hour 2009 (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:00 am
|
| | AP - The lights are going down from the Great Pyramids to the Acropolis, the Eiffel Tower to Sears Tower, as more than 2,800 municipalities in 84 countries plan Saturday to mark the second worldwide Earth Hour. |
| Wash. police chief checks Blackberry, hits car (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 4:20 am
|
| | AP - The police chief of the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way has issued a public apology for a minor traffic accident that happened while he was checking his BlackBerry in his unmarked police car. | | |  |
|
0 comments:
Post a Comment