| Ammonia tank bursts at burning meat plant (AP)
April 18, 2009 at 12:04 am
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| | AP - An ammonia tank burst inside a burning meat processing plant in this southeastern Minnesota city Friday night, hours after authorities evacuated the town of about 3,600 as a precaution, police said. |
| Record Store Day celebrates indie retailers (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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|  AP - Despite the success of online retailers, explosion of Internet downloads and high-profile closings of Virgin Megastores and Tower Records stores, bricks-and-mortar record stores aren't all spinning toward oblivion.
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| King family draws fees from DC memorial project (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image — an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive.
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| Obama 'seeks a new beginning' with Cuba, talks (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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|  AP - Trading their warmest words in a half-century, the United States and Cuba built momentum toward renewed ties on Friday, with President Barack Obama declaring he "seeks a new beginning" — including direct talks — with the island's communist regime. As leaders of the Americas gathered for a summit in this Caribbean nation, the head of the Organization of American States even said he'll ask his group to invite Cuba back after 47 years.
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| Pirate hostage captain praises SEAL 'superheroes' (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:14 pm
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|  AP - The unassuming ship captain who escaped the clutches of Somali pirates made a triumphant return home Friday, insisting he's no hero, just an ordinary seaman. Richard Phillips said the U.S. Navy, which pulled off the daring high-seas rescue that ended his five-day captivity, deserves the credit.
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| CIA objections slowed torture memos release (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:13 pm
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|  AP - Four former CIA directors opposed releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos, officials say, describing objections that went all the way to the White House and slowed release of the records.
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| New pollution limits seen for cars, big plants (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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|  AP - Cars, power plants and factories could all soon face much tougher pollution limits after a government declaration Friday setting the stage for the first federal regulation of gases blamed for global warming.
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| Vatican decries reaction to pope's condom remarks (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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|  AP - Critics of the Catholic Church's social teachings are trying to intimidate Pope Benedict XVI into silence, the Vatican charged Friday in responding to attacks on the pontiff's remarks about AIDS and condom use.
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| California first to get stimulus money for schools (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 7:55 pm
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|  AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Friday released nearly $4 billion to California, the first state to benefit from a special fund for states that was created by the economic stimulus law.
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| YouTube sensation singer invited on 'Oprah' (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 5:55 pm
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|  AFP - A Scottish charity worker who became an Internet star after her performance on a British talent contest has been invited to appear on Oprah Winfrey's chat show, officials said Friday.
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| Love in the time of recession (The Yahoo! Newsroom)
April 17, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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|  The Yahoo! Newsroom - As this year's wedding season approaches, you may be finding fewer invitations filling up your mailbox. But don't worry; it's probably not because you've been a bad friend.
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| Indy driver Castroneves acquitted in tax case (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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|  AP - Brazilian race car driver and "Dancing With The Stars" champ Helio Castroneves was acquitted Friday of most charges that he worked with his sister and lawyer to evade more than $2.3 million in U.S. income taxes. A federal jury acquitted Castroneves on six counts of tax evasion but hung on one count of conspiracy. When the sentence was read, Castroneves broke into sobs and leaned against his attorneys for support.
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| EPA takes first step toward climate change regs (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:27 pm
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| | AP - The EPA on Friday declared that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases sent off by cars and many industrial plants "endanger public health and welfare," setting the stage for regulating them under federal clean air laws. |
| GM CEO says bankruptcy probable but not preferred (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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|  AP - General Motors Corp. Chief Executive Fritz Henderson said Friday that a bankruptcy filing is "probable" because of the restructuring goals GM must meet to get more government loans, but that isn't the company's preferred option.
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| Former Bush officials slam release of torture memos (AFP)
April 17, 2009 at 2:10 pm
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|  AFP - Amid calls for torture prosecutions, former Bush administration officials Friday slammed President Barack Obama's release of terror interrogation memos, warning the move would fuel "timidity and fear" among US spies.
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| Key to Happiness: Location, Location, Location (LiveScience.com)
April 17, 2009 at 1:36 pm
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| | LiveScience.com - I am boarding a plane headed to San Diego, Calif., from my home town of Ithaca, New York, and pondering the recent announcement that where one lives is connected to the incidence of Frequent Mental Distress (FMD). |
| Hopeful cities, towns find limits on stimulus cash (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 1:17 pm
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|  AP - Some town leaders say the federal stimulus package, with its promise of creating jobs, is neglecting to invest in the cornerstones of community life, from new city halls to recreation centers.
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| Spain: No torture probe of US officials (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 12:33 pm
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|  AP - Spain should not investigate allegations that six senior Bush administration officials gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Spanish prosecutors formally recommended Friday.
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| Disappointment with US not prosecuting CIA (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 10:33 am
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|  AP - Human rights groups and former detainees in U.S. custody expressed disappointment Friday with the decision by President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA operatives who used interrogation practices described by many as torture.
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| 4 convicted in Pirate Bay file-sharing trial (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 9:21 am
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|  AP - Four men behind popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were convicted Friday of breaking Sweden's copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer games on the Internet.
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| How Barack Obama resurrected The Dead (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 6:43 am
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|  AP - He's still got a little work to do on the economy, but already President Barack Obama has accomplished at least one task that had appeared all but impossible just a year ago: He's put The Dead back on the road.
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| Toshiba expects bigger loss, contract job cuts (AP)
April 17, 2009 at 4:43 am
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|  AP - Toshiba Corp., Japan's top chipmaker, Friday said its net loss for the last fiscal year will be bigger than forecast due to a large write-off, and warned that more contract jobs will be cut.
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