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| NKorea threatens to shoot down spy planes (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 7:57 am
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|  AP - North Korea accused the United States of spying on the site of an impending rocket launch and threatened Wednesday to shoot down any U.S. planes that intrude into its airspace.
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| Pakistan: Suspected US missile kills 12 militants (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 7:47 am
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|  AP - A suspected U.S. drone fired two missiles Wednesday at an alleged hide-out connected to a Taliban leader who has threatened to attack Washington, killing 12 people and wounding several others, officials said.
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| NYC ultra-orthodox Jews give Amish walking tour (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 7:13 am
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| | AP - The city's ultra-Orthodox Jews took the Pennsylvania Amish on a walking tour of their world Tuesday, saying their communities are naturally drawn to each other with a commitment to simpler lifestyles. |
| Pardon sought for first black heavyweight champ (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:26 am
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|  AP - Sen. John McCain wants a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, who became the nation's first black heavyweight boxing champion 100 years before Barack Obama became its first black president.
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| Analysis: Dems punt hard choices on Obama budget (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 6:21 am
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| | AP - President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy. |
| Warning sought for burger the size of your head (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 1:25 am
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|  AP - The West Michigan Whitecaps say they have no plans to put a warning label on an enormous new hamburger they're selling this season — despite a vegan advocacy group's request to do just that.
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| Pistachio warning could signal food safety shift (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 1:24 am
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|  AP - It could take weeks before health officials know exactly which pistachio products may be tainted with salmonella, but they've already issued a sweeping warning to avoid eating the nuts or foods containing them.
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| Obama faces high-stakes China, Russia meetings (AP)
April 1, 2009 at 1:06 am
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|  AP - Stepping onto the world stage for the first time in his two-month presidency, Barack Obama is holding face-to-face talks with the leaders of the two nations — Russia and China — most aggressively challenging the U.S. position atop the global order.
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| CT scan reveals hidden face under Nefertiti bust (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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|  AP - Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a secret within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks — the bust of Nefertiti has two faces. A team led by Dr. Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school, discovered a detailed stone carving that differs from the external stucco face when they performed a computed tomography, or CT, scan on the bust.
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| Ohio man charged with drunken driving on bar stool (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 9:10 pm
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|  AP - Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
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| AP Poll: Ballpark figures are too high, fans say (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:57 pm
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|  AP - Take me out to the ballgame ... because I can't afford it. The high price of going to a game is now the No. 1 problem in Major League Baseball, a new Associated Press-Knowledge Networks poll of fans shows. Soaring salaries and steroids dominated fans' worries in past AP surveys. But with opening day less than a week away, the nation's recession is delivering the biggest blow.
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| Court ends Philip Morris appeal of $79.5M award (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:36 pm
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|  AP - Ten years and a day after a jury awarded Mayola Williams nearly $80 million in punitive damages in her fight with a cigarette maker, the Supreme Court said Tuesday she can collect her share.
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| Sebelius admits errors, pays $7,000 in back taxes (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:16 pm
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|  AP - Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding "unintentional errors" — the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.
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| Israel's Netanyahu vows to seek peace with Arabs (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:12 pm
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|  AP - Benjamin Netanyahu, taking office as Israel's new leader Tuesday, promised to seek "full peace" with the Arab and Muslim world, but refused to utter the words the world was waiting to hear: "Palestinian state." The well-spoken, U.S.-educated hawk took pains to portray himself as a pragmatist, telling a packed parliament that Israel does not want to rule the Palestinians.
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| Mom: Suspect's wife survived NC shooting by hiding (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:06 pm
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|  AP - The nurse's assistant who may have been the target of a deadly nursing home rampage in North Carolina survived by hiding in a bathroom inside a locked area for Alzheimer's patients, her mother said Tuesday.
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| A quarter defined by historic whiplash on Wall St. (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 6:32 pm
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|  AP - The first quarter on Wall Street was so extreme it included a bear market and a bull market all its own — moves that sometimes take years or more. Now investors head for spring still unsure which side is in control.
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| Surveillance towers planned for Detroit, Buffalo (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 5:43 pm
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| | AP - The U.S. Border Patrol is erecting 16 more video surveillance towers in Michigan and New York to help secure parts of the U.S.-Canadian border, awarding the contract to a company criticized for faulty technology with its so-called "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. |
| Airline worker flies NY to Boston in baggage hold (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 3:58 pm
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| | AP - A JetBlue employee says he took a free flight from New York to Boston — after falling asleep in a plane's cargo bin. The man was discovered by baggage handlers at Logan International Airport after the plane landed there Saturday. He told police he'd been accidentally locked inside the pressurized luggage compartment while taking a nap. |
| CT scan reveals hidden face under Nefertiti bust (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 3:39 pm
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| AP - Researchers in Germany have used a modern medical procedure to uncover a secret within one of ancient Egypt's most treasured artworks — the bust of Nefertiti has two faces. A team led by Dr. Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school, discovered a detailed stone carving that differs from the external stucco face when they performed a computed tomography, or CT, scan on the bust. |
| US home price drops set records in Jan. (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 2:49 pm
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|  AP - Home prices sank by the sharpest annual rate on record in January, and the pace continues to accelerate, but there were a handful of battered metro areas where price declines slowed, according to data released Tuesday.
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| Pakistani Taliban threatens attack on White House (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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|  AP - The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a Pakistani police academy and said the group was planning a terrorist attack on the White House that would "amaze" the world.
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| Coffee Lessens the Pain of Exercise (LiveScience.com)
March 31, 2009 at 1:37 pm
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|  LiveScience.com - That cup of coffee that many gym rats, bikers and runners swill before a workout does more than energize them. It kills some of the pain of athletic exertion, a new study suggests. And it works regardless of whether a person already had a coffee habit or not.
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| GM's new CEO says bankruptcy is 'more probable' (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 1:33 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp.'s new chief executive said Tuesday that more of the automaker's plants could close and bankruptcy is "more probable" as GM works to meet new, tougher requirements for government aid.
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| When Did April Fool's Day Begin? (LiveScience.com)
March 31, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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| | LiveScience.com - Though pranksters and joke-lovers in many countries now gleefully prepare to dupe friends and loved ones on April Fool's Day, no one knows exactly when or why, or even where, this tradition began. |
| Thick-Brained People Are Smarter (LiveScience.com)
March 31, 2009 at 10:18 am
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| | LiveScience.com - Although being called "thick-headed" means one is dumb, it turns out being literally thick-brained suggests one is smart, new findings reveal. In the past decade, scientists across the world have unearthed conflicting evidence regarding where the seat of intelligence lies in the brain. For instance, in 2000, researchers in England and Germany discovered that intelligence seemed to depend exclusively on the frontal lobes of the brain. "That was a bit surprising," said neuroscientist and psychiatrist Sherif Karama at the Montreal Neurological Institute. ... |
| Obama leaves White House for European meetings (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 9:29 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama left for Europe Tuesday, packing a weighty agenda as he heads for critical economic and political talks in his first journey across the Atlantic since taking office two months ago.
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| Ford to cover car payments if buyer loses job (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 8:58 am
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| | AP - Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it is offering a payment protection plan to help reassure consumers who may be putting off buying a new car because of worries about losing their job. |
| Walgreens giving free care to jobless and uninsured (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 8:57 am
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|  AP - Drugstore operator Walgreens will offer free clinic visits to the unemployed and uninsured for the rest of the year, providing tests and routine treatment for minor ailments through its walk-in clinics â€" though patients will still pay for prescriptions.
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| Russia locks up six for Mars experiment (AFP)
March 31, 2009 at 8:45 am
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|  AFP - The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars.
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| U.S. offers olive branch to non-violent Taliban (Reuters)
March 31, 2009 at 8:37 am
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|  Reuters - The United States offered Taliban fighters who renounce violence in Afghanistan an "honorable form of reconciliation" on Tuesday as part of a revamped strategy to tackle a deepening insurgency.
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| Police and protesters prep for NATO summit (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:16 am
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|  AP - Some 25,000 French and German police — and perhaps as many protesters — are taking up positions around three cities on both sides of the Rhine before a NATO summit involving President Barack Obama and 25 other leaders.
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| Police: Dad killed kids, relatives, then himself (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 7:06 am
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|  AP - A father is suspected of killing his two children and three other relatives before taking his own life in an upscale neighborhood of Silicon Valley where the family had recently moved.
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| Massive chemo dose targets cancerous liver (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 6:22 am
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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.
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| Obama expands government's role in auto industry (AP)
March 31, 2009 at 6:11 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama's extraordinary auto industry intervention is assertive and coldly pragmatic, with a dose of caution and a sentimental nod to the automobile's place in the American psyche.
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