| Student shoots 3 in Greek college, kills himself (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 5:27 am
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| | AP - A teenage student armed with two handguns and a knife opened fire in a vocational training college in Athens Friday, wounding three people before shooting himself in the head, Greek authorities said. |
| FDA reversal OKs morphine painkiller for dying (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 4:23 am
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|  AP - A liquid morphine painkiller given by family caregivers to dying patients can remain on the market, federal regulators have decided after hearing protests over their decision to remove it. The Food and Drug Administration had announced last week that it was ordering manufacturers to stop making 14 medications including the liquid morphine. All were developed so long ago they had never received FDA approval.
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| Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons dies at 61 (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 1:40 am
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|  AP - Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game and a pioneer of role-playing entertainment, died after a two-year battle with cancer, his family said Thursday. He was 61.
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| CIA abandons use of contract interrogators (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 1:09 am
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|  AP - The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret overseas prisons, agency Director Leon Panetta said Thursday.
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| Kanye says 'South Park' put him in check (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 12:02 am
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|  AP - "South Park" may have accomplished the impossible — getting Kanye West to check his ego. The Comedy Central show skewered the famously self-important rapper on its show Wednesday night, painting him as a narcissistic figure so out of touch with reality he couldn't even take a (very politically incorrect) joke.
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| Obama says timing right for millions to refinance (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 11:55 pm
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|  AP - Declaring "good news" in the midst of an economic meltdown, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged families to take advantage of near-record low mortgage rates by refinancing their home loans. "We are at a time where people can really take advantage of this," Obama said, seated with a handful of homeowners who have already lowered their bills.
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| US warship watches Somali pirates with US hostage (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 11:46 pm
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|  AP - Somali pirates and their hostage American sea captain were adrift in a lifeboat Thursday off the Horn of Africa, shadowed by a U.S. destroyer with more warships on the way in a U.S. show of force.
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| Obama seeks $83.4 billion in special war money (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 11:36 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday for $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special troop funding that he opposed two years ago when he was senator and George W. Bush was president.
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| Hammer time for cell phone used to run up $5K bill (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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| | AP - A cell phone used by a Wyoming 13-year-old to run up a nearly $5,000 phone bill will text no more thanks to her angry father and his hammer. Dena Christoffersen of Cheyenne sent or received about 20,000 text messages over about a month, and her parents' phone plan didn't cover texting. |
| Man causing real stink in motel room gets stabbed (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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| | AP - A man was stabbed after causing a stink — literally — in a motel room while eating with a friend, police said. Five men from the Houston area were sharing a Waco motel room Tuesday night, and two were inside the room eating when one had a flatulence problem, Waco police Officer Steve Anderson said. One man was so upset about the gas that he threw a large knife at him, cutting his leg, and then stabbed him in the chest, Anderson said. |
| CIA to close secret overseas prisons, end security contracts (McClatchy Newspapers)
April 9, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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|  McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The CIA is decommissioning the secret overseas prisons where top al Qaida suspects were subjected to interrogation methods, including simulated drowning, that Attorney General Eric Holder, allied governments, the Red Cross and numerous other experts consider torture, the agency said Thursday.
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| Government to buy 17,600 U.S. cars: Obama (Reuters)
April 9, 2009 at 7:13 pm
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama, saying he was committed to a strong U.S. auto industry, announced on Thursday the government would buy 17,600 new fuel-efficient vehicles from ailing American automakers by June 1. |
| Returning troops getting tested for brain injuries (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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|  AP - Every soldier who's gone to war in the past year paused before leaving to take a brain test — basic math, matching numbers and symbols and identifying patterns to measure response time and accuracy. Now that some of these troops have returned, they're taking a fresh round of tests, all part of a broad effort by the military to better treat head injuries.
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| Obama to seek $83.4 billion for Iraq, Afghan wars (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is seeking $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pressing for special troop funding that he opposed two years ago when he was senator and George W. Bush was president.
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| Angels rookie pitcher Adenhart dies in car crash (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 5:55 pm
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|  AP - Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others were killed by a suspected drunk driver Thursday, a shocking end to the life of a rookie who had overcome major elbow surgery to realize his big league dreams.
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| Marine who admitted shooting detainee acquitted (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 5:45 pm
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|  AP - A Marine who told authorities he shot an unarmed detainee in Iraq was acquitted of murder by a military jury Thursday, marking the government's second loss in its case against members of the squad.
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| Hurricane forecaster predicts average '09 season (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 5:01 pm
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|  AP - The 2009 hurricane season will be less active than last year's flurry of storms, and there's less than a 50 percent chance that a hurricane will hit the southeastern U.S., a researcher said Thursday.
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| Facing hard times, Shriners may close 6 hospitals (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 4:52 pm
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|  AP - Shriners hospitals, which have provided free care since before the Great Depression, are considering closing a quarter of their facilities as donations stagnate, costs increase and the charity's endowment shrivels.
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| Edge of Space Found (SPACE.com)
April 9, 2009 at 4:19 pm
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|  SPACE.com - Hold on to your hats, or in this case, your helmets: Scientists have finally pinpointed the so-called edge of space — the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
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| Report warns of problems with multivitamins (Reuters)
April 9, 2009 at 3:03 pm
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| | Reuters - More than 30 percent of multivitamins tested recently by ConsumerLab.com contained significantly more or less of an ingredient than claimed, or were contaminated with lead, the company reports. |
| CIA 'no longer' using secret prisons: director (AFP)
April 9, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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| AFP - The CIA is "no longer" operating secret prisons used by the intelligence agency to interrogate terror suspects, and plans to shut all remaining "black sites," the spy agency's director said Thursday.
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| Detroit school closures, teacher layoffs planned (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 1:27 pm
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| | AP - Detroit Public Schools would close 23 schools and lay off 600 teachers in a proposal released Thursday that would consolidate facilities in a shrinking district facing a projected $303 million deficit. |
| Job Promotions Unhealthy, Study Finds (LiveScience.com)
April 9, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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| | LiveScience.com - While some 13 million Americans are out of work these days, those still with jobs might have a strange new thing to worry about - getting a promotion can be bad for you, a new study suggests. |
| Wells Fargo projects record $3 billion 1Q profit (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 11:54 am
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|  AP - Wells Fargo & Co. said Thursday it expects record first-quarter earnings of $3 billion, easily surpassing analysts' estimates and providing an encouraging sign for the banking industry.
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| Obama: Timing right for millions to refinance (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 11:37 am
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| AP - Declaring "good news" in the midst of an economic meltdown, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged families to take advantage of record low mortgage rates by refinancing their homes.
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| Wells Fargo shocks market with big profit (Reuters)
April 9, 2009 at 10:55 am
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| | Reuters - Wells Fargo & Co said it expects to post a $3 billion first-quarter profit, sending its shares soaring, lifting a wide range of stocks, and providing a welcome jolt to the troubled banking sector. |
| Armstrong accused of initially evading drug tester (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 9:10 am
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|  AP - France's anti-doping agency accused Lance Armstrong of violating its rules Thursday for not fully cooperating with a drug tester and says it could punish the seven-time Tour de France champion.
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