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| Fargo divides day between church, city's salvation (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 12:22 am
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|  AP - Weary residents of this sandbagged city came together in churches Sunday, counting their blessings that the Red River finally stopped rising and praying the levees would hold back its wrath. A brief levee break that swamped a school warned them of the threat they face in days ahead.
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| 7 residents, 1 nurse die in nursing home shooting (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 11:49 pm
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|  AP - A gunman barged into a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning and started "shooting everything," going room to room in a terrifying rampage that killed seven residents — most in their late 80s — and a nurse who cared for them.
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| GM CEO Wagoner to step down at White House request (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 11:37 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, administration officials said Sunday. The news comes as President Barack Obama prepares to unveil additional restructuring efforts designed to save the domestic auto industry.
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| Urban coyote attacks on rise, alarming residents (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 9:45 pm
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|  AP - A coyote ambling into a Chicago sandwich shop or taking up residence in New York's Central Park understandably creates a stir. But even here on the high plains of Colorado, where the animals are part of the landscape and figure prominently in Western lore, people are being taken aback by rising coyote encounters.
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| AP Exclusive: UN suggests power-sharing for Kirkuk (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 9:43 pm
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|  AP - Seeking to head off an explosion of ethnic violence, the United Nations will call for a power-sharing system of government for Iraq's deeply divided region of Kirkuk in the oil-rich north.
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| Obama seeks strong message of unity at G20: report (Reuters)
March 29, 2009 at 7:53 pm
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|  Reuters - President Barack Obama said in an interview published on Sunday that leaders of the G20 major global economies should send "a strong message of unity" on confronting the world financial crisis when they meet this week.
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| Longtime NFL, college coach Lou Saban dies at 87 (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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|  AP - He was a star football player in college, a champion pro football coach, a baseball president, a man with a short temper and very long resume, never averse to tackling something new.
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| Mass. man kills 2 sisters, but police save the 3rd (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 7:02 pm
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|  AP - A man on a rampage fatally stabbed his 17-year-old sister, decapitated his 5-year-old sister in front of a police officer and then turned toward his 9-year-old sister with a knife in his hand before officers shot him dead in what their chief described as "a killing field."
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| GM CEO Wagoner to step down at White House request (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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| AP - General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, administration officials said Sunday. The news comes as President Obama prepares to unveil additional restructuring efforts designed to save the domestic auto industry. |
| GM CEO is resigning: reports (AFP)
March 29, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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|  AFP - GM CEO Rick Wagoner will be resigning at President Barack Obama's behest, US media reported Sunday just hours before Obama was to unveil an auto industry rescue package.
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| Urban coyote attacks on rise, alarming residents (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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| AP - A coyote ambling into a Chicago sandwich shop or taking up residence in New York's Central Park understandably creates a stir. But even here on the high plains of Colorado, where the animals are part of the landscape and figure prominently in Western lore, people are being taken aback by rising coyote encounters. |
| Study: Cholesterol drug lowers blood clot risk (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 12:59 pm
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| | AP - Statin drugs, taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease, also can cut the risk of developing dangerous blood clots that can lodge in the legs or lungs, a major study suggests. |
| Sudan's wanted president welcomed at Arab summit (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 12:54 pm
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|  AP - Qatar's leader embraced Sudan's president in a red-carpet welcome Sunday as he arrived to attend an Arab Summit in his most brazen act of defiance against an international arrest warrant on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
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| Madonna, in Malawi, refuses to talk about adoption (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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|  AP - Madonna toured an impoverished village and discussed plans Sunday for building a new school in Malawi, the central African nation where officials said she would begin proceedings this week to adopt a young girl.
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| Obama rules out US troops in Pakistan (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 11:16 am
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|  AP - As he carries out a retooled strategy in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama says he will consult with Pakistan's leaders before pursuing terrorist hideouts in that country.
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| Holocaust concert draws anger in Palestinian camp (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 9:15 am
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|  AP - Palestinian authorities have disbanded a youth orchestra from a West Bank refugee camp and barred the conductor from her studio after she directed a concert for a group of Holocaust survivors in Israel, a local official said on Sunday.
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| Thousands of toxic toads killed in Australian fest (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 8:31 am
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|  AP - Thousands of poisonous cane toads met their fate Sunday as gleeful Australians gathered for a celebratory mass killing of the hated amphibians, with many of the creatures' corpses being turned into fertilizer for the very farmers they've plagued for years.
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| Smokers face a hit as tobacco taxes spike (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 7:52 am
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|  AP - However they satisfy their nicotine cravings, tobacco users are facing a big hit as the single largest federal tobacco tax increase ever takes effect Wednesday.
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| Report: NKorea preparing for another missile test (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 7:17 am
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|  AP - North Korea is preparing to launch a short- or medium-range missile, possibly right after it carries out its plan to fire a long-range rocket in early April, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday.
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| Tension in Baghdad after arrest of Sunni leader (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 2:54 am
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|  AP - Iraqi troops backed by armored vehicles patrolled deserted streets of a central Baghdad neighborhood Sunday after the arrest of a Sunni leader who had broken with al-Qaida sparked a gunfight that killed four people and wounded 15.
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| Storms sow snow, thunder from Plains to South (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 1:55 am
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|  AP - Storms spread misery Saturday from the Great Plains to the Gulf Coast, dumping spring snow that cut power to thousands of Kansas utility customers and spawning tornado warnings and heavy rain across the South.
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| Hard times mean new opportunities for Big Oil (AP)
March 29, 2009 at 12:10 am
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|  AP - Plunging crude prices have begun to play out in favor of Western oil companies in one regard, giving them leverage with oil-rich countries that only months ago had no reason to compromise.
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