| Body of missing Northern California girl, 8, found (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 5:16 am
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| | AP - A few miles from the irrigation pond where the body of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu was discovered in a suitcase, authorities roped off the mobile home park where she was last seen searching for clues to her death. |
| Study finds 1 in 5 obese among 4-year-olds (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 12:29 am
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|  AP - A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese. Researchers were surprised to see differences by race at so early an age.
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| Letter said to be from NY killer forecast slayings (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 12:28 am
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|  AP - The man who gunned down 13 people in an immigrant center thought police had harassed him for years, even spreading rumors about him and touching him in his sleep, and apparently was intent on killing people before returning "to the dust of the earth," according to a rambling letter in broken English mailed to a TV station the day of the massacre.
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| Divorce filings accuse Nevada governor of affairs (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 12:26 am
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|  AP - First lady Dawn Gibbons accuses Gov. Jim Gibbons in divorce papers of having extramarital affairs with a former Playboy magazine model and another woman to whom he sent hundreds of text messages last year. The Republican governor has been untruthful about his "infidelity" with the two women, his estranged wife says in a divorce filing, which was unsealed Monday by a court order in Washoe County Family Court.
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| Obama to Muslim world: US not at war with Islam (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 12:24 am
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|  AP - Declaring the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam," President Barack Obama worked Monday to mend frayed ties with NATO ally Turkey and improve relations with the larger Muslim world.
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| Big cuts seen for F-22, other big weapon programs (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 12:19 am
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|  AP - The nation should stop pouring billions into futuristic, super-expensive F-22 jet fighters, pull the plug on new presidential helicopters and put the money into systems U.S. soldiers can use against actual foes, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared Monday.
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| Strong quake in Italy kills over 150, wounds 1,500 (AP)
April 7, 2009 at 12:18 am
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|  AP - Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades struck this medieval city before dawn Monday, killing more than 150 people, injuring 1,500 and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
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| Man nabbed after plane taken from Canada to Mo. (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 11:41 pm
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|  AP - The suspected pilot of a plane stolen from Canada and flown into the U.S. trailed by fighter jets was captured Monday night near the rural stretch of road in Missouri where he landed.
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| Woman with beer can in hand starts brawl at wake (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 9:01 pm
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| | AP - Sheriff's deputies said a Texas woman started a brawl at a wake in Arkansas when she arrived with a beer can in her hand. The woman, 52, faces a third-degree domestic battery charges, as does another woman, 46, over the March 29 fight. Deputies said the first woman arrived at the Christies Chapel Church with a beer can in hand and that she refused to leave. |
| Big cuts seen for F-22, other big weapon programs (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 6:52 pm
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| AP - The nation should stop pouring billions into futuristic, super-expensive F-22 jet fighters, pull the plug on new presidential helicopters and put the money into systems U.S. soldiers can use against actual foes, Defense Secretary Robert Gates declared Monday.
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| Fund manager hit with civil charge in Madoff fraud (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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|  AP - New York's attorney general filed civil fraud charges Monday against a hedge fund manager who funneled $2.4 billion to Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff without telling clients where their money was going.
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| Neb. family that had been missing now in custody (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 6:01 pm
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|  AP - A couple who disappeared with their children, leading to a search of the South Dakota wilderness, turned themselves in to authorities near their Nebraska home on Monday, a sheriff said.
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| Arctic sea ice thinnest ever going into spring (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 4:19 pm
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|  AP - The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice in the Arctic is only 1 or 2 years old. That makes it thinner and more vulnerable than at anytime in the past three decades, according to researchers with NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.
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| Two Crichton novels to be published posthumously (Reuters)
April 6, 2009 at 3:51 pm
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|  Reuters - Two novels by "Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton, one finished by him before his death last year and the other to be completed based on his notes, will be published posthumously, his publisher said on Monday.
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| Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 3:49 pm
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| | AP - Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people. |
| French hospital performs face, hand transplants (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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|  AP - Dozens of doctors working in teams over 30 hours performed the world's first simultaneous partial-face and double-hand transplant during the weekend, Paris' Public Hospital authority said Monday.
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| Government cracking down on mortgage scams (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 12:36 pm
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| | AP - Top federal and state officials on Monday announced a broad crackdown on mortgage modification scams, accusing "criminal actors" of preying on desperate borrowers caught up in the nation's housing crisis. |
| Italy muzzled scientist who predicted quake (Reuters)
April 6, 2009 at 12:24 pm
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|  Reuters - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing more than 100 people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic.
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| Producer: Ailing Farrah Fawcett 'doing fantastic' (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 12:03 pm
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|  AP - Farrah Fawcett, who has struggled with cancer since 2006, has checked into a Los Angeles hospital but is "not on death's door," a producer who has worked with the actress told The Associated Press on Monday.
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| 2008 airline quality rankings (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 11:02 am
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|  AP - How the nation's 17 busiest airlines ranked in the annual Airline Quality Rating based on their 2008 combined performance in four categories: bumping due to overbooking, on-time performance, mishandled baggage and customer complaints.
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| Black Holes Caught in Tug-of-War (SPACE.com)
April 6, 2009 at 10:46 am
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| | SPACE.com - Supermassive black holes that pack the heft of billions of suns have the capacity to regulate their energy during a tug-of-war with a hot radiation wind that blows in from their debris disks. |
| Australian library finds copy of Schindler's list (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 10:01 am
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|  AP - Australian researchers sifting papers belonging to the author of "Schindler's List" discovered a yellowing roll of 801 men saved from the Holocaust by the German industrialist — the very copy the writer used to bring the story to the world's attention, a curator said Monday.
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| Obama embraces Muslim world (Politico)
April 6, 2009 at 9:56 am
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|  Politico - President Barack Obama sought Monday to make American amends with the Islamic world after eight years of tension, declaring in a speech to the Turkish parliament that he is determined to have a “partnership with the Muslim world.”
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