| SC wildfire biggest in more than 3 decades (AP)
April 24, 2009 at 12:17 am
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|  AP - South Carolina's biggest wildfire in more than three decades — a blaze four miles wide — destroyed dozens of homes Thursday and threatened some of the area's world-famous golf courses at the height of the spring tourist season.
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| Leno hospitalized with illness, cancels taping (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:19 pm
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|  AP - Jay Leno checked into a hospital with an undisclosed illness Thursday and canceled the taping of the "Tonight" show, but was doing well and planned to return next week, his publicist and NBC said.
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| Investigators place Craigslist ad to find victims (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:13 pm
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|  AP - Prosecutors placed an ad on Craigslist on Thursday in an attempt to find women who may have been victimized by Philip Markoff, the medical student accused of using the Web site to prey on them.
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| Supplement given to polo horses incorrectly made (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:12 pm
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|  AP - Unable to legally bring a supplement into the U.S. to make their horses more resilient, a Venezuelan polo team used another way to get ready for a champion match: Have a pharmacy mix up the concoction. What happened next, though, was disastrous. The chemicals were mixed wrong, and 21 horses given the brew died in rapid succession, some collapsing just before taking the field in a championship polo match.
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| Obama pledges protections for credit-card users (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:10 pm
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|  AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he is determined to get a credit-card law that eliminates the tricky fine print, sudden rate increases and late fees that give millions of consumers headaches.
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| Holder won't selectively release terror memos (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:09 pm
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|  AP - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said he's willing to release as much information as possible about the interrogations.
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| AP IMPACT: Secret tally has 87,215 Iraqis dead (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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|  AP - Iraq's government has recorded 87,215 of its citizens killed since 2005 in violence ranging from catastrophic bombings to execution-style slayings, according to government statistics obtained by The Associated Press that break open one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war.
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| Men find abandoned safe thought to be century old (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:41 pm
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| | AP - Two men said they've found an abandoned safe by the side of some railroad tracks and that it could be more than a century old. Bill Dodd, one of the men who found the safe about a month and a half ago, says it weighs about 4,000 pounds. It's now on display at an east Tulsa sign company while the men decide what to do with it. |
| White House opposes special commission (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration struggled to quell persistent Democratic demands for a potentially explosive probe of harsh Bush administration detainee interrogations Thursday, abruptly declaring opposition to an independent commission. Republicans stepped up their own criticism of Barack Obama's handling of the sensitive issue.
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| Man pretending to fall off bridge actually falls (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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| | AP - Police said a 23-year-old man is in stable condition after he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then actually fell off the bridge. Police got a call just before 5 a.m. Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a marshy area about 30 feet below. |
| Ark. man digging in garden unearths cannonball (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:05 pm
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| | AP - Officials say a Fort Smith man digging in his garden unearthed a Civil War-era cannonball that's possibly still explosive. The unidentified man was tending to his garden Tuesday at his home when he found the rusted, 4-inch-diameter iron ball. |
| Gates: More civilians required in Afghanistan (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 8:26 pm
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|  AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday told Marines being deployed to Afghanistan that a U.S. victory there would look similar to progress in Iraq, but he cautioned that more civilians with skills beyond the battlefield will be needed.
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| Cow genome unraveled in bid to improve meat, milk (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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|  AP - The cow is of the bovine ilk, one end is moo, the other, milk. Now science knows why which is which, they've read the genome, without a hitch. While poet Ogden Nash had cow basics down, it took 300 scientists six years to outline the genetic sequence of "L1 Dominette 01449," a Hereford cow living on a research farm near Miles City, Mont.
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| Holder won't selectively release terror memos (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:09 pm
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| AP - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he won't play "hide and seek" with secret memos about harsh interrogations of terror suspects and their effectiveness. In testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, Holder said he's willing to release as much information as possible about the interrogations.
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| AP Newsbreak: Pharmacy made mistake in horse drug (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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|  AP - An official at a Florida pharmacy said Thursday the business incorrectly prepared a supplement given to 21 polo horses that died over the weekend while preparing to play in a championship match.
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| AP IMPACT: Secret tally has 87,215 Iraqis dead (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:08 pm
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|  AP - Iraq's government has recorded 87,215 of its citizens killed since 2005 in violence ranging from catastrophic bombings to execution-style slayings, according to government statistics obtained by The Associated Press that break open one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war.
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| Obama pledges protections for credit-card users (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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| AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday he is determined to get a credit-card law that eliminates the tricky fine print, sudden rate increases and late fees that give millions of consumers headaches.
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| Charges weighed in Mich. quadriplegic girl's death (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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|  AP - Prosecutors on Thursday were deciding whether to charge the adoptive mother of a 9-year-old quadriplegic girl whose body was found in a storage unit — a child the woman had allegedly insisted was out of state when authorities first questioned her.
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| Obama admin says still seeks Chrysler-Fiat deal (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 4:42 pm
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|  Reuters - The Obama administration remains focused on bringing Chrysler and Fiat into a working partnership, a U.S. official said on Thursday, dismissing a news report that the U.S. car-maker faced imminent bankruptcy.
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| Indian police end probe of 'Slumdog' star's dad (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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|  AP - Indian police said Thursday they would not charge the father of a child star in the hit movie "Slumdog Millionaire," and ended their investigation into claims he tried to sell his 9-year-old girl to a reporter posing as a wealthy sheik.
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| Blasts kill 78 in Iraq's bloodiest day in a year (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:11 pm
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|  AP - Suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims Thursday, killing at least 78 people in Iraq's deadliest day in more than a year.
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| SC wildfire spreads near tourist beach; homes burn (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 3:41 pm
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|  AP - A coastal wildfire spread Thursday near one of the busiest tourist stretches in South Carolina, burning dozens of homes and forcing hundreds to flee in the middle of the night. No injuries were reported and officials said the blaze appeared to be heading several miles north of the most densely populated areas.
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| 18 Somalis in court as Kenya holds pirate trials (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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|  AP - Shabbily dressed and solemn, 18 Somali men nabbed at sea and hauled ashore by European navies crowded into a Mombasa courthouse Thursday to face piracy charges that could put them behind bars for life.
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| Autopsy on Freddie Mac official incomplete (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 12:46 pm
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|  AP - Medical examiners have completed an autopsy on a Freddie Mac executive found dead in an apparent suicide, but say a final determination on his cause of death could be weeks away.
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| FDA to allow 'morning-after' pill for 17-year-olds (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 10:54 am
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|  AP - Women's groups cheered the government's decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the "morning-after" emergency contraceptive without a doctor's prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens.
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| Pakistan: Troops sent to Taliban-threatened area (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 10:38 am
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|  AP - Pakistani paramilitary forces rushing to protect government buildings and bridges in a Taliban-infiltrated district just 60 miles from the capital were met with gunfire Thursday that killed one police officer, authorities said.
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| WSJ: BofA CEO says was told to be quiet on Merrill (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 10:33 am
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|  AP - Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis told the New York attorney general he believed former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wanted him to keep quiet about the worsening terms of the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch, according to testimony reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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| AP Poll: Americans high on Obama, direction of US (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 9:07 am
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|  AP - For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future.
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| Lewis testified that U.S. urged silence on Merrill deal: report (Reuters)
April 23, 2009 at 8:40 am
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| | Reuters - Bank of America Corp CEO Kenneth Lewis testified under oath that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson pressured him to keep quiet about losses at Merrill Lynch & Co, which the bank was buying, the Wall Street Journal reported. |
| 'Idol' finalists Lil Rounds, Anoop Desai are out (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 8:03 am
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|  AP - "American Idol" finalists Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai aren't closer to becoming household names. Both singers were dismissed Wednesday after it was revealed they received the fewest number of viewer votes on the popular Fox singing competition.
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| Credit companies brace for W.H. visit (Politico)
April 23, 2009 at 5:18 am
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|  Politico - Last fall, a group of credit card companies asked Lawrence Summers for a sit-down, with the goal of “educating” the incoming Obama administration about their much-maligned industry.
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| THE INFLUENCE GAME: Pushing a Mideast nuclear deal (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:16 am
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|  AP - The United Arab Emirates is wise to the ways of Washington. With Capitol Hill soon to review a deal to send American nuclear power technology to the U.A.E., the oil-rich nation has enlisted a pair of heavyweight lobbying firms to convince lawmakers the agreement won't be a boost to neighboring Iran's pursuit of atomic weapons.
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| Vote caps decade-long gay marriage fight in Conn. (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 4:14 am
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|  AP - A decade-long battle for marriage equality in Connecticut ended late Wednesday when the General Assembly voted to update the state's marriage laws to conform with a landmark court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to tie the knot.
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| Indians vote amid threats by suspected rebels (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 3:57 am
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|  AP - Suspected communist rebels used a homemade bomb to attack a jeep carrying election officials, injuring two people, as voting began Thursday in the second round of India's monthlong national elections, officials said.
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| Russia opens efforts to get NKorea back into talks (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 3:52 am
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|  AP - Russia launched a mission Thursday to try to get North Korea back into international disarmament talks, sending its top diplomat to Pyongyang after the North announced it would restart its nuclear program.
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| Method for AP-GfK poll on Obama, politics, economy (AP)
April 23, 2009 at 3:13 am
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| | AP - The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Barack Obama, politics and the economy was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from April 16-20. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,000 adults. Interviews were conducted with 800 respondents on landline telephones and 200 on cellular phones. |  |
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