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| Expert: NKorea has several nuclear warheads (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 4:30 am
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|  AP - North Korea is believed to have several nuclear warheads that could be mounted on a missile, an international security expert said Tuesday ahead of a rocket launch that regional powers suspect will test weapon delivery technology.
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| Sisters to be buried with brother who killed them (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 12:50 am
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|  AP - Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together. Samantha Revelus, 17, and her sister, Bianca, 5, were killed at their Milton home Saturday. Police shot the girls' brother, Kerby Revelus, 23, after an officer saw him decapitate the younger girl. A surviving sister, 9-year-old Saraphina, was recovering at a Boston hospital Monday after having surgery.
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| Obama asserts gov't control over the auto industry (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 12:36 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama asserted unprecedented government control over the auto industry Monday, bluntly rejecting turnaround plans by General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, demanding fresh concessions for long-term federal aid and raising the possibility of quick bankruptcy for either ailing auto giant.
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| Romney's work puts him in 2012 political spotlight (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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|  AP - Mitt Romney doesn't have a job for the first time in his adult life. That hardly means he's not working. In ways both subtle and overt, the 2008 Republican presidential contender, former Massachusetts governor, one-time Olympics chief and high-flying businessman is building toward a 2012 White House campaign by judiciously engaging and disengaging with the national debate.
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| Md. mom pleads guilty in cult starvation death (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 9:15 pm
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|  AP - A former religious cult member pleaded guilty Monday to starving her 1-year-old son to death after making an unusual deal with prosecutors: If the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn. Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed to testify against four other members of the now-defunct religious group known as 1 Mind Ministries. All four are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Javon Thompson.
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| Man fires at McDonald's window over breakfast menu (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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| | AP - Police said a customer fired one or two shots into a Salt Lake City McDonald's after the driver of the car he was in was told the restaurant was not serving lunch yet. Police said the female driver of a white Dodge Intrepid pulled up to the drive-thru and ordered from the lunch menu early Sunday but was told only breakfast was available. |
| Stocks tumble as automaker plans are rejected (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 5:57 pm
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|  AP - Wall Street's March rally is on hold after the White House rejected turnaround plans from General Motors Corp. and Chrysler and gave investors an economic reality check.
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| Super-chemo targets cancer spreading to the liver (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 5:51 pm
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|  AP - Bill Darker grinned as he headed into the operating room for a dramatic experiment: A super-high dose of chemotherapy dripped directly into his cancer-ridden liver, 10 times more than patients normally can tolerate. Not to fear. Working through small puncture holes, doctors sealed off Darker's liver and washed most of the toxic medication from his blood so it didn't poison the rest of his body.
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| NKorea says 2 US journalists will stand trial (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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|  AP - Two American journalists detained at North Korea's border with China two weeks ago will be indicted and tried, "their suspected hostile acts" already confirmed, Pyongyang's state-run news agency said Tuesday.
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| Once-a-day heart combo pill shows promise in study (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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| | AP - A single daily pill that combines aspirin and four blood pressure and cholesterol medicines has passed its first big test, potentially offering a cheap, simple way to prevent both heart disease and stroke. |
| Sisters to be buried with brother who killed them (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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| AP - Two sisters and the brother who killed them with a kitchen knife will share a single funeral service and be buried together. Samantha Revelus, 17, and her sister, Bianca, 5, were killed at their Milton home Saturday. Police shot the girls' brother, Kerby Revelus, 23, after an officer saw him decapitate the younger girl. A surviving sister, 9-year-old Saraphina, was recovering at a Boston hospital Monday after having surgery. |
| 77 names added to slain journalists memorial in DC (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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|  AP - The journalism and free speech museum called the Newseum added 77 names to its Journalists Memorial on Monday to honor reporters, photographers and broadcasters who died while covering the news, including several killed in Mexican drug violence.
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| Nearly 7 in 10 major U.S. arms programs over budget (Reuters)
March 30, 2009 at 4:14 pm
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|  Reuters - Nearly 70 percent of the Pentagon's 96 major weapons-buying programs were over budget in 2008 for combined cost growth of $296 billion above original estimates, congressional auditors said in an annual report released on Monday.
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| IRA dissidents burn cars, block Belfast roads (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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|  AP - Suspected IRA dissidents and their supporters hijacked cars Monday in working-class Catholic areas of Northern Ireland in a coordinated effort to block roads and threaten police stations, police said.
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| Man fires at McDonald's window over breakfast menu (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 4:10 pm
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| | AP - Police said a customer fired one or two shots into a Salt Lake City McDonald's after the driver of the car he was in was told the restaurant was not serving lunch yet. Police said the female driver of a white Dodge Intrepid pulled up to the drive-thru and ordered from the lunch menu early Sunday but was told only breakfast was available. |
| 6 killed in home shooting in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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|  AP - Six people were shot to death, at least three of them children, and another person was critically wounded in an apparent murder-suicide at an upscale home in Silicon Valley, police said Monday. The suspect appeared to be among the dead in the apparent "family on family" violence, Lt. Phil Cooke said.
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| Mysterious East Coast Boom Was Falling Russian Rocket (SPACE.com)
March 30, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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| | SPACE.com - The mysterious boom and flash of light seen over parts of Virginia Sunday night was not a meteor, but actually exploding space junk from the second stage of a Russian Soyuz rocket falling back to Earth, according to an official with the U.S. Naval Observatory. |
| US soldier gets 35 years in deaths of 4 Iraqis (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 1:54 pm
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|  AP - A U.S. soldier convicted of murder in the execution-style slayings of four blindfolded Iraqis apologized for shooting one of them in the back of the head, but said he acted out of concern for his fellow troops.
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| Obama orders strong medicine for GM, Chrysler (Reuters)
March 30, 2009 at 12:29 pm
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama seized the wheel of the failing U.S. auto industry on Monday, forcing out General Motors Corp's chief executive, pushing Chrysler LLC toward a merger and threatening bankruptcy for both. |
| Warships set sail ahead of N. Korean launch (AP)
March 30, 2009 at 11:21 am
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| AP - Japanese, South Korean and U.S. missile-destroying ships set sail to monitor North Korea's imminent rocket launch, as Pyongyang stoked tensions Monday by detaining a South Korean worker for allegedly denouncing the North's political system. |
| U.S. deploys anti-missile ships before N.Korea launch (Reuters)
March 30, 2009 at 10:39 am
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|  Reuters - The United States deployed two missile-interceptor ships from South Korea on Monday, a military spokesman said, days ahead of a North Korean rocket launch widely seen as a long-range missile test that violates U.N. sanctions.
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