News For Sunday Jul 20, 2008 News For Sunday Jul 20, 2008

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Tropical Storm Cristobal rumbles off the Carolinas - Added 1 hour ago

Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, continued to move along the North Carolina coast early Sunday, and was expected to dump several inches in some...

Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices - Added 1 hour ago

Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance industry....

As wars lengthen, toll on military families mounts - Added 2 hours ago

Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help. Divorce lawyers see it in the...

Dream of gas tax holiday falters over job losses - Added 2 hours ago

The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. Despite calls from the...

Teen charged in death of Ohio woman shot on porch - Added 5 hours ago

!!-- pobj:OHCLE501-0716081516 -->Cleveland authorities have charged a 17-year-old in the fatal shooting of a woman who was gunned down as she grieved the cancer death of her mother while sitting on her front porch. ...

Search team finds no sign of Steve Fossett - Added 6 hours ago

A team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers has ended a weeklong hunt for Steve Fossett, finding no sign of the missing adventurer or his plane but eliminating miles of rugged terrain from areas that still must be...

Stunt pilot joins National Aviation Hall of Fame - Added 6 hours ago

!!-- pobj:OHDAY101-0103002010 -->Stunt pilot Sean Tucker, who has thrilled air show audiences with daredevil moves in more than 1,000 performances, said he got his start by trying to face his flying fears. As a young...

Woman in Pa. baby mystery partially eviscerated - Added 6 hours ago

Investigators hoped to confirm Sunday the identity of a woman whose body was found bound with duct tape with her uterus cut open in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn baby was her own. The...

Rapper DMX arrested at Phoenix mall - Added 6 hours ago

Rapper DMX was arrested at a Phoenix mall Saturday on suspicion that he gave a gave a false name and Social Security number to a hospital to get out of paying for medical expenses. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio...

Search continues for missing Fort Bliss soldier - Added 6 hours ago

A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday. "Hey sis he's gone so when my check comes I'm going to buy a futon," Army Pfc. Jeneesa...

Small plane crashes in northeast Texas; 3 killed - Added 6 hours ago

A single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing all three people aboard and sparking a fire that burned two rural acres, authorities said. It was not immediately known what caused the accident,...

Today in History - July 20 - Added 6 hours ago

Today is Sunday, July 20, the 202nd day of 2008. There are 164 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to...

Investigation of Houston crane collapse begins - Added 7 hours ago

Federal investigators on Saturday began trying to figure out why one of the world's largest mobile cranes toppled over, killing four contract workers and injuring seven others. Officials said it could take time before...

Lawsuit exposes growing rift among King children - Added 7 hours ago

For years, they were the picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr. carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon. But a lawsuit over how their father's estate is being run has left a rift in...

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Hurricane Bertha downgraded again to a tropical storm; should be absorbed by larger storm. ...

Inmate loses weight, escapes through jail vent - Added 9 hours ago

A man charged with murder escaped from jail early Saturday by climbing through an air conditioner vent, authorities said. The vent was less than a foot wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing...

Treasure in the trash: $20K earrings found in NYC - Added 11 hours ago

Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glinting gems in a reeking truckload of trash. A Staten Island jeweler has gotten her 3-carat diamond earrings back after she, her husband and city sanitation employees...

Pig caper: Police investigate swiped swine in Iowa - Added 11 hours ago

Where's the pork? Authorities in western Iowa are looking for a thief with a very big payload _ 120 market hogs. The Palo Alto County Sheriff's Office says that someone swiped the swine from a hog confinement in...

Most Calif. fires contained; stubborn blazes left - Added 12 hours ago

Cooler weather has allowed fire crews to corral most of the wildfires across California, but a handful of stubborn, hard-to-reach mountain blazes Saturday were still keeping residents from their homes. Firefighters...

Tropical Storm Cristobal forms off Southeast coast - Added 13 hours ago

Tropical Storm Cristobal churned off the Southeast seaboard after it formed Saturday, the first storm to threaten the U.S. this hurricane season, forecasters said. The storm strengthened from a tropical depression,...

Bees swarm motorists on N.J. Turnpike - Added 13 hours ago

Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike have to cope every day with traffic jams, pollution and even the occasional deer. They ran into a new obstacle Saturday as thousands of honeybees swarmed around their vehicles. ...

WTC survivor staircase moves again at ground zero - Added 13 hours ago

A staircase people used to escape the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, attack has been moved for a second time on the ground zero site. The 22-foot-high survivors' staircase was moved Saturday from the...

San Francisco to vote on prosecuting prostitutes - Added 13 hours ago

A measure that aims to keep prostitutes from facing criminal charges has qualified for the November ballot in San Francisco. The measure would bar authorities from spending money to investigate or prosecute people for...

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows - Added 15 hours ago

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ___ ABC's "This Week" _ Pre-empted by coverage of the British Open golf tournament. ___ CBS' "Face the Nation" _ Sen. Barack Obama; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. ___ ...

Terrorist in NYC hijacking, bombing granted parole - Added 16 hours ago

A Croatian terrorist has been granted parole and will be deported to his homeland after serving 30 years of a life prison term for hijacking an airliner and planting a bomb that killed a New York City police officer. ...

Stunt pilot to join National Aviation Hall of Fame - Added 16 hours ago

Stunt pilot Sean Tucker, who has thrilled air show audiences with daredevil moves in more than 1,000 performances, said he got his start by trying to face his flying fears. As a young pilot in the 1970s, Tucker had an...

Conjoined barn swallows cause stir in Arkansas - Added 16 hours ago

It's an Arkansas bird story that at first might be hard to swallow. A pair of conjoined barn swallows, attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue, will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution for study and...

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Tropical Storm Cristobal forms off the Southeast coast; forecasters predict heavy rains. ...

Library confrontation points up privacy dilemma - Added 17 hours ago

Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on "Love That Dog" when police showed up. They weren't kidding around: Five state police detectives...

Conn. candidates line up for public financing - Added 17 hours ago

Barack Obama may have abandoned public financing for his presidential campaign, but in Connecticut legislative candidates are lining up to get campaign cash from the state government. About 70 percent of the Nutmeg...

Dream of gas tax holiday faltered over job losses - Added 17 hours ago

The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. Despite calls from the...

Guns ruling spawns legal challenges by felons - Added 17 hours ago

Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home south of...

Blessed are the boxers, altered for wounded troops - Added 17 hours ago

Blessed are the boxer shorts. Members of the St. James United Church of Christ in Michigan plan to take 150 boxer shorts to the altar Sunday for a blessing. The shorts have been modified for wounded veterans who wear...

Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices - Added 19 hours ago

Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance industry....

Qantas flight leaves Los Angeles after bomb threat - Added 23 hours ago

A Qantas jetliner has departed from Los Angeles for Australia after the airline and law enforcement authorities determined a bomb threat was a hoax. The flight scheduled to leave for Sydney at 10 a.m. finally left at...

NJ beach town mayor sez 'Fuhgeddaboudit!' to blog - Added 1 day ago

To the Staten Island girls who may have been taught to fight dirty in Brownies, Ken Pringle is sorry. To the muscle-bound, tanned-as-coconut-shell visitors he referred to as "guidos," employing a term widely considered...

Putrid whale carcass parts stink up Oahu street - Added 1 day ago

!!-- pobj:NY110-0717080451 -->Getting the rotting corpse of a dead sperm whale off Oahu's North Shore was only the start of the problem. Then residents had to deal with the smell of decomposing whale when big chunks of...

Northcom chief: Homeland command is now grown up - Added 1 day ago

Air Force Gen. Victor E. Renuart Jr. has four stars on his collars and 60 combat missions under his belt. But on a recent trip to a California airfield, he sprang from an SUV like a happy kid and charged toward a crowd...

Family of slain NC woman plan return to Canada - Added 1 day ago

The parents of a North Carolina mother found slain near her home tearfully asked Friday for the culprit to show "a shred of decency" by confessing, while her husband's attorney said he's an innocent man who wants to...

Cadaver dogs join search for missing Fla. girl - Added 1 day ago

Sheriff's deputies have deployed trained cadaver dogs in the search for a 2-year-old girl in Orlando, Fla., who has been missing for more than a month. A sheriff's investigator, Sergeant John Allen, said Friday that...

Body found at home of Pa. mystery baby suspect - Added 1 day ago

Authorities hope an autopsy can help them identify a woman's body found with hands bound with duct tape at the apartment of a woman who showed up at a hospital with a newborn she falsely claimed was hers. The body was...

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows - Added 1 day ago

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ___ ABC's "This Week" _ Pre-empted by coverage of the British Open golf tournament. ___ CBS' "Face the Nation" _ Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. ___ NBC's "Meet the...

Plane overshoots O'Hare runway; 1 injured - Added 1 day ago

A Mexicana Airlines flight overshot a runway while landing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport Friday night and struck a safety barrier, injuring a flight attendant, authorities said. Flight 802 was arriving from...

US: Don't drop jihad references from charges - Added 1 day ago

Federal prosecutors say they should not be forced to drop references to al-Qaida and jihad from the indictment of five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix. Lawyers for the men last month asked a...

Crews make progess against California wildfires - Added 1 day ago

Fire crews on Friday had extinguished all but 38 of the more than 2,000 blazes ignited over the past month, allowing most mandatory evacuations to be lifted so residents could return home for the weekend. Flames swept...

Bush agrees to time 'horizon' on Iraq troop cuts - Added 1 day ago

!!-- hobj:239 -->President Bush and Iraq's prime minister have agreed to set a "general time horizon" for bringing more U.S. troops home from the war, a dramatic shift from the administration's once-ironclad...

Triple slay suspect in Pennsylvania: 'I had fun' - Added 1 day ago

!!-- pobj:PAWIC301-0717082309 -->A man charged with killing three people with a knife and a hammer said "I had fun" and blew a kiss to reporters while being led into court after his arrest. Randall Rushing, 25, yawned...

FBI: Soccer team members help subdue man on flight - Added 1 day ago

An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City on Friday after a passenger stripped nude and later tried to open an emergency exit door before being subdued by members of a...

Judge restores protection for Rockies wolves - Added 1 day ago

A federal judge has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts this fall. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula...

Police: Missing Texas soldier may be in danger - Added 1 day ago

Police say a Fort Bliss soldier is considered in danger after she did not report for work Friday and evidence of foul play was found in her apartment. Authorities were searching for Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis, 29, and her...