| Tornado kills 2, injures 41 in central Tenn. (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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|  AP - A tornado killed a woman and her 9-week-old infant and also injured dozens Friday in central Tennessee as a line of storms lifted homes, ripped off roofs and dumped hail in the Southeast.
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| Tears, tributes as Italy mourns its quake dead (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - It was a scene that moved a nation: mourners clinging to one another and sobbing over neat rows of more than 200 coffins, some with the tiny caskets of children resting on top.
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| Black man's killing by police shakes La. town (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:04 pm
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|  AP - For 73 years before his killing by a white police officer, Bernard Monroe led a life in this northern Louisiana town as peaceful as they come — five kids with his wife of five decades, all raised in the same house, supported by the same job.
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| Suicide blast kills 5 US soldiers, 2 Iraqi police (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 8:47 pm
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|  AP - A suicide truck driver detonated a ton of explosives near a police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, killing five American soldiers in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in more than a year.
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| Murder charged in Nick Adenhart crash (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 5:45 pm
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|  AP - Prosecutors have filed three counts of murder against a 22-year-old motorist who allegedly ran a red light and killed Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart and two others.
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| French free sailboat from pirates, 1 hostage dies (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 5:40 pm
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| | AP - Navy commandos stormed a French sailboat held by pirates off the Somali coast Friday in an assault triggered by threats the passengers would be executed. But one hostage was killed in the operation, demonstrating the risks of a military operation against sea bandits. |
| Pope presides over Way of the Cross procession (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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|  AP - Pope Benedict XVI presided over a torch-lit Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday and said he was praying so that people who suffered losses in Italy's devastating quake can see the light of hope in their dark hour.
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| Man gets death for California yacht murders (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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| | AP - A man convicted of murdering an Arizona couple by tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard from their yacht off Southern California was sentenced to death Friday. |
| Federal budget deficit sets March record $192.3B (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 3:25 pm
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|  AP - The Treasury Department said Friday that the budget deficit increased by $192.3 billion in March, and is near $1 trillion just halfway through the budget year, as costs of the financial bailout and recession mount.
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| Honda unveils dog-friendly car (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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| | Reuters - Dog-crazy Americans will soon be able to buy a pet-friendly car with a cushioned dog bed in the trunk, fitted with a built-in water bowl and fan and a ramp to help less agile dogs climb in. |
| China's birth limits create dangerous gender gap (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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|  AP - China has 32 million more young men than young women — a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime — because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released Friday said.
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| Defiant pirates block U.S. hostage's escape bid (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 11:27 am
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|  Reuters - Somali pirates holding an American hostage on a drifting lifeboat hauled him back when he jumped overboard to escape and vowed Friday to fight any attack by U.S. naval forces stalking them at sea.
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| Military: Iraqi truck bombing kills 5 US soldiers (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 11:22 am
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| AP - A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into a sandbagged wall Friday in northern Iraq, killing five American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen in the single deadliest attack against U.S. forces in more than a year.
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| Losing It: Why Self-Control Is Not Natural (LiveScience.com)
April 10, 2009 at 9:45 am
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| | LiveScience.com - After dinner last night, I lost my usual self-control and ate half a box of cookies. No wonder. My self-control had been under pressure all day. I righteously refused a muffin at breakfast, didn't scream at my kid to get out the door although we were late, made a conscious decision not to run over a pedestrian crossing against the light, kept my fist from pounding on the table during a faculty meeting, and resisted the urge to throw an annoying student out of my office. But by 7 p.m., my self-control mechanism was worn out, and down those cookies went. ... |
| Beatle's girlfriend sometimes misses transit work (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 9:21 am
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|  AP - Nancy Shevell beamed for hundreds of cameras in London's Leicester Square, a green silk jacket on one arm and Paul McCartney on the other. The 49-year-old trucking heiress dazzled on the red carpet at a movie premiere with the ex-Beatle, her boyfriend of 18 months.
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| Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons dies at 61 (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 8:10 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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| Water monitor eyes farm runoff in Gulf of Mexico (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 8:07 am
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|  AP - A clean water expert at Auburn University hopes a new project that enlists middle and high school students will help reduce farm runoff that is a growing pollution threat to the Gulf of Mexico.
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| 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. |
| Asia markets advance on Wells Fargo profit report (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 5:06 am
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|  AP - Asian stocks were mostly higher in holiday-thinned trade Friday after surprisingly upbeat earnings in the U.S., but Japanese banks tumbled on fresh worries about their balance sheets amid the country's crippling recession.
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| Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 4:36 am
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| | AP - Hundreds of Christian clergymen, worshippers and pilgrims are marking Good Friday at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Christian tradition says Jesus was crucified and resurrected. |
| Kanye says 'South Park' put him in check (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 4:24 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 meeting with economic advisers (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 4:03 am
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|  AP - Fresh off a foreign trip heavily focused on global economic troubles, President Barack Obama is getting together with his top economic advisers as the U.S. recession shows signs of abating.
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| Hammer time for cell phone used to run up $5K bill (AP)
April 10, 2009 at 2:56 am
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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. |
| Banks asked to keep quiet on stress tests (Reuters)
April 10, 2009 at 2:17 am
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|  Reuters - The U.S. Treasury Department is asking banks not to mention the regulatory "stress tests" as part of their first-quarter earnings results, according to a source familiar with government discussions.
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| FBI says e-mail promising `Oprah' tickets is fake (AP)
April 9, 2009 at 11:26 pm
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|  AP - The FBI and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" say Internet users should beware of an e-mail scam that promises attendance at the popular talk show in exchange for the purchase of a plane ticket.
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