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| Rove, Miers to testify in prosecutor firings (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 6:48 pm
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|  AP - Former top aides to President George W. Bush agreed Wednesday to testify before Congress under oath about the firings of U.S. attorneys, a controversy involving allegations of political interference that became a major issue in Bush's second term.
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| Private search on for missing NFL players in Gulf (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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|  AP - Family and friends refused to give up the search for two NFL players and a third man missing four days in the Gulf of Mexico, enlisting private boats and planes to comb the waters off the Florida coast.
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| UBS says 47K Americans had accounts avoiding taxes (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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|  AP - UBS AG now says it had about 47,000 accounts held by Americans who didn't pay U.S. taxes on their assets, but Switzerland's biggest bank isn't providing the names of any more of them to the U.S. government.
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| NJ insurance workers' payout: $216M lottery win (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 6:16 pm
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|  AP - Robert Space got into work at the Chubb Insurance company at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, realized the lottery ticket he was holding matched the winning numbers, and fired off a one-line e-mail to his nine co-workers who had pitched in to buy it.
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| Fed survey sees recovery in late '09 at earliest (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 5:41 pm
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|  AP - The businesses on the front lines of the dismal economy say the recession is getting worse in almost every part of the country, and in a bleak new forecast they see no improvement until late this year at the earliest.
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| Producer: `Bachelor' finale wasn't fixed (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 5:06 pm
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|  AP - Was Jason Mesnick's change of heart on "The Bachelor" staged for the cameras to capture big ratings? Not so, according to the show's executive producer.
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| Twenty dead in Mexico drug gang prison fight (Reuters)
March 4, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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|  Reuters - Twenty people died in a prison fight on Wednesday between rival drug gang factions near a Mexican border city, where thousands of troops are battling for control of the streets from cartels.
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| Mystery terrorist in NYC plot deported to Sudan (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 3:51 pm
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|  AP - A recently released Black September terrorist convicted of placing three powerful car bombs in New York City in 1973 has been deported to Sudan, an African nation that once sheltered Osama bin Laden and other terrorists.
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| Is my chemo working? Scans may give faster answer (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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|  AP - When Mike Stevens learned his lungs were riddled with cancer, it took only a week to start chemotherapy — but six weeks to find out if it was doing any good. "You're going through all this suffering and stuff and you want to know, am I going to survive? Is this stuff working?" said Stevens, 48, of La Jolla, Calif. "Your whole life is in sort of a limbo."
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| Court issues war crimes warrant for Sudan's Bashir (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 3:16 pm
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|  AP - The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. He is the first sitting head of state the court has ordered arrested.
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| Bad altimeter a factor in Netherlands plane crash (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 2:51 pm
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|  AP - A false reading from a faulty altimeter caused an autopilot to sharply slow a Turkish Airlines jet short of the runway last month, sending it plunging into a muddy field and killing nine people, Dutch investigators said Wednesday.
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| Feds unveil plan to help 9 million stay in homes (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration kicked off a new program Wednesday that's designed to help up to 9 million borrowers stay in their homes through refinanced mortgages or loans that are modified to lower monthly payments.
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| Britain's Brown warns US against protectionism (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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|  AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Americans Wednesday to look up from their own tumbling financial markets to see a world gripped by an "economic hurricane" that could be turned around with U.S. help.
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| Clinton speaks up for Abbas, and aid for Gaza (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 1:40 pm
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|  AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton promised personal involvement in stalled Mideast peace efforts Wednesday and expressed concern about the supply of humanitarian aid to a recovering Gaza.
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| Supreme Court rejects limits on drug lawsuits (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 11:44 am
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|  AP - The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a $6.7 million jury award to a musician who lost her arm because of a botched injection of an anti-nausea medication. The court brushed away a plea for limiting lawsuits against drug makers.
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| Blinded Iranian seeks eye-for-eye justice (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 11:04 am
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| | AP - An Iranian woman living in Spain said Wednesday she welcomed a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her with acid. |
| U.S. private sector cuts 697,000 jobs in February (Reuters)
March 4, 2009 at 9:23 am
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| Reuters - U.S. private sector job losses accelerated in February, according to a report by ADP Employer Services that suggests hefty employment declines are on the way in the government's payrolls report due on Friday. |
| One in five U.S. mortgage borrowers are underwater (Reuters)
March 4, 2009 at 8:55 am
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|  Reuters - One in five U.S. homeowners with mortgages owe more to their lenders than their properties are worth, and the rate will increase as housing values drop in states that have so far avoided the worst of the crisis, a new study shows.
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| Source: Obama to order gov't contracting overhaul (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 7:49 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama plans to change how government contracts are awarded and who can earn them, a move his aides say would save taxpayers about $40 billion a year by making the process more competitive.
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| Pakistan arrests suspects in Sri Lanka team attack (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 7:43 am
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|  AP - Police detained several suspects in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Pakistan, but said Wednesday they had made no progress in tracking the group of gunmen that wounded seven players and killed six police guarding them.
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| Russian scholar says US will collapse — next year (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 4:39 am
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|  AP - If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the U.S. will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
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| Gold Rush: Dems launch Operation Rushbo (Politico)
March 4, 2009 at 4:04 am
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|  Politico - Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.
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| Docs seek gag orders to stop patients' reviews (AP)
March 4, 2009 at 12:14 am
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| | AP - The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people." Such reviews are becoming more common as consumer ratings services like Zagat's and Angie's List expand beyond restaurants and plumbers to medical care, and some doctors are fighting back. |
| UK university launches MA on the Beatles (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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|  AP - The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four.
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| 13 contaminated FEMA trailers turn up in Missouri (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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| | AP - Thirteen former FEMA trailers deemed unlivable and set for the scrap heap somehow ended up in a mobile home park near St. Louis, where they were close to being offered as housing, a state official said Tuesday. |
| Obama's plan to hike taxes meets fierce opposition (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 7:29 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on high earners and greenhouse gas polluters met fierce opposition Tuesday from congressional Republicans and also a few Democrats. "I would never want to adversely affect anything that is charitable or good," Rep.
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| Dead mice found at salmonella U.S. peanut plant (Reuters)
March 3, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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|  Reuters - Dead mice and rodent droppings were found throughout a Texas plant run by a company whose peanut products caused one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, food inspectors reported on Tuesday.
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| As recession saps demand, a world awash in oil (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 5:41 pm
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|  AP - Supertankers that once raced around the world to satisfy an unquenchable thirst for oil are now parked offshore, fully loaded, anchors down, their crews killing time. In the United States, vast storage farms for oil are almost out of room.
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| Surprise! Saturn has small moon hidden in ring (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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|  AP - Scientists have found a new moon hidden in one of Saturn's dazzling outer rings. The international Cassini spacecraft spotted the moon, which measures about a third of a mile wide. The discovery was announced Tuesday in a notice by the International Astronomical Union.
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| Stalkers turn to cell phones to 'textually harass' (AP)
March 3, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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|  AP - The college student had endured months of online and cell phone harassment from her ex-boyfriend. She ignored the barrage of e-mails, changed her phone number and dismantled online profiles to cut him off.
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