| Letter said to be from NY killer forecast slayings (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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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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| Reputed Chicago mobsters ordered to pay $24M (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 10:21 pm
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| | AP - Four reputed mobsters convicted at Chicago's biggest organized crime trial in years were ordered Monday to pay more than $24 million, including millions of dollars in restitution to the families of murder victims. |
| Strong quake in Italy kills over 150, wounds 1,500 (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 9:07 pm
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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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| Obama to Muslim world: No US war with Islam (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 9:05 pm
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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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| Experts argue if NKorea's launch suggests progress (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 9:05 pm
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|  AP - A top Pentagon official on Monday dismissed North Korea's rocket launch as a failure_ both technologically and as an effort to market its missiles to other countries. "Would you buy from somebody that had failed three times in a row and never been successful?" Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked during a press briefing at the Pentagon.
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| Big cuts seen for F-22, other big weapon programs (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 9:05 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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| Report: Lohan and Ronson 'taking a brief break' (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 9:03 pm
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|  AP - Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson have split — for now. Lohan says that she and the 31-year-old Ronson, who announced they were a couple in September, are "taking a brief break so I can focus on myself."
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| Study finds 1 in 5 obese among 4-year-olds (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 9:03 pm
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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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| Divorce filings accuse Nevada governor of affairs (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 8:44 pm
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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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| Wall Street rally stumbles as bank fears reemerge (Reuters)
April 6, 2009 at 5:25 pm
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|  Reuters - Stocks broke a four-day winning streak on Monday after a prominent analyst revived worries over the health of banks and the potential collapse of a takeover of Sun Microsystems bruised sentiment in the technology sector.
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| U.S. defense shift would kill several big programs (Reuters)
April 6, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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| | Reuters - The United States would trim U.S. missile-defense spending, cancel some big-ticket weapons programs and buy more arms for fighting insurgents in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, under a 2010 budget plan. |
| Gates to cut several major weapons programs (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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|  AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is proposing deep cuts to some big weapons programs such as the F-22 fighter jet as the Pentagon takes a hard look at how it spends money. Gates announced a broad range of cuts Monday to weapons spending, saying he plans to cut programs ranging from a new helicopter for the president to ending production of the $140 billion F-22 fighter jet.
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| Demjanjuk to appeal, seeking to avoid deportation (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 4:27 pm
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|  AP - A U.S. immigration judge in Virginia on Monday revoked John Demjanjuk's stay of deportation to Germany. Demjanjuk plans to appeal the decision, which would clear the way for him to be sent to Germany to face charges of being a Nazi death camp guard.
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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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| Neb. family that had been missing now in custody (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 4:09 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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| Rep: Ailing Farrah Fawcett 'doing fantastic' (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 11:24 am
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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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| Sun shares plummet after IBM talks collapse (Reuters)
April 6, 2009 at 11:04 am
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| | Reuters - Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc tumbled 23 percent on Monday after the company rejected rival computer and software maker International Business Machines Corp's $7 billion offer. |
| 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.” |
| Strong earthquake hits central Italy; 20 dead (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 5:28 am
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|  AP - A powerful earthquake struck central Italy early Monday, killing at least 20 people, causing entire blocks of buildings to collapse as residents slept inside and leaving thousands of people homeless, officials said.
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| Police: Dad killed 5 kids because wife was leaving (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 5:25 am
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|  AP - Authorities and relatives portrayed a father believed to have killed his five children and then himself as a strict parent who had been reprimanded by the state and a jealous husband driven to rage by another man.
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| Bombs kill 21, wound 64 in Baghdad, police say (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 5:07 am
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|  AP - A string of deadly bombings in Baghdad killed 21 people and wounded at least 64 others Monday, as the U.S. military reported its first combat death in Iraq in about three weeks.
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| Obama brings hope for warmer relations to Turkey (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 4:32 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama is reaching out to Turkey to help him wind down the Iraq war and bring stability to the Middle East. He is also counting on the only Muslim member of NATO to remain a steadfast ally in the Afghanistan conflict.
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| Dog overboard found four months later (AFP)
April 6, 2009 at 4:21 am
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|  AFP - A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.
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| After 18-year ban, media see return of US war dead (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 3:52 am
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|  AP - The Pentagon's 18-year ban on media coverage of fallen U.S. service members returning home ended quietly, with only an officer's sharp order to salute accompanying a single flag-covered casket being unloaded from a cargo plane.
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| Bad economy holds highway deaths to 1960s levels (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 3:45 am
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| | AP - Less money in the pockets of Americans means fewer highway deaths. As the economy slid deeper into recession and gas prices reached $4 a gallon last year, the number of people killed in auto accidents hit its lowest level in five decades. |
| UConn steamrolls to championship game (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 12:52 am
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|  AP - Geno Auriemma has coached perfect teams and national champions before. He's also worked with some of the best players in the history of women's basketball.
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| Reba McEntire: Tougher for women in country music (AP)
April 6, 2009 at 12:12 am
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|  AP - Like Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire has won entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, but she says it's harder for women to get the top trophies in this industry.
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