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Dec 18 Hall of Fame QB Baugh dead at 94 - great on offense, defense, special teams

Dec 17 Workers saying no to new jobs - Fearful of more layoffs, employees 'hunker down' - but staying put may not be the safest choice.

Dec 17 About 30 Chinese rescued from pirate attack

  • Story Highlights
  • Multinational naval forces fire on pirates, force them from ship
  • About 30 Chinese crew members lock themselves in room, radio for help
  • Pirates seized three vessels Tuesday
  • U.N. resolution authorizes "hot pursuit" of pirates onto land

Dec 17 Children forced into cell-like school seclusion rooms

Dec 10 Tracking deadly viruses' spread from animals to humans

Dec 9 U.S. attorney: Gov. tried to sell Obama Senate seat - Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested today on federal corruption charges related to the selection of President-elect Barack Obama's Senate successor.

Dec 4 Brad Pitt works to 'make it right' in New Orleans

Dec 1 The world's most heinous crime

  • December marks the 60th anniversary of the U.N.'s Genocide Convention
  • A few strong voices have since tried to focus the world's attention on genocide
  • Each time they were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem
  • CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the world's killing fields to understand why

Dec 1 Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required)

Dec 1 Commentary: Why Obama's picks will make Bill Clinton smile

Nov 19 500 police officers replaced in Tijuana - Mexican federal agents and army troops are dispatched in a bid to rid suspected corrupt cops linked to drug lords

Nov 19 Commentary: Fixing the Big Three

Nov 19 India: Pirate 'mother ship' left in flames

Nov 19 Woman gets windpipe made of stem cells

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue engineered from her own stem cells in what experts are hailing as a "milestone in medicine." The breakthrough allowed Claudia Castillo, 30, to receive a new section of trachea without the risk that her body would reject the transplant. full story

Orange County CA Fire Central:  
       http://www.ocregister.com/articles/fire-map-orange-2191967-county-perimeter

Nov 17 Flush with money, eager Chinese students flock to U.S.

Nov 15 Jury awards $2.5 million to teen beaten by Klan members

Nov 13 New 3-D Technology puts JFK conspiracy theories to rest - Sixth floor of book depository, not the    
             grassy knoll, was origin of lethal shot

Nov 12 Lawsuit seeks to bankrupt Klan group

Nov 12 Obama administration to ratchet up hunt for bin Laden

Nov 12 Now: The Rest of the Genome  Only 1 percent of the genome is made up of classic genes. 
                    Scientists are exploring the other 99 percent and uncovering new secrets and new questions

Nov 12 What President-elect Barack Obama needs to do to guide security initiatives in the 21st century
Nov 12 Navy wins court test over whales, sonar

Nov 12 Commentary: GOP should ask why U.S. is on the wrong track

Nov 12 Obama may reverse Bush policies on stem cells, drilling, abortion - "Until President Obama gets rid of all these executive orders, he'll be sharing his presidency with his predecessor," Turley said. "Now that's a particularly obnoxious thought for an administration that was elected for change."

Nov 11 Catholic bishops plan to forcefully confront Obama

Nov 11 WW II vet held in Nazi slave camp breaks silence: 'Let it be known'

Nov 11 Commentary: Conservatives didn't lose election, GOP did

Nov 11 America's healthiest grocery stores

Nov 11 Veterans in Focus:  Brothers fighting brothers (WWII)
Nov 11
Homeless veteran is a nomad no more

Nov 11 Holocaust Survivors to Mormons:  Stop baptisms of dead Jews

  • Holocaust survivors say they are through trying to negotiate with Mormon church
     
  • Church elder: Ending practice outright would be asking Mormons to alter their beliefs
     
  • Baptism by proxy allows faithful Mormons to have ancestors baptized into church
     
  • Using genealogy records, church also baptizes the dead of other religions

Nov 10 Democrats eye an ambitious agenda

Nov 8 U.S. review likely to say Afghanistan situation 'dire'

Oct 30 Cover up tattoos, some employees told - or lose your job

Oct 24 The Truth About ACORN
Oct 24
Greenspan says flaw in market system

Oct 23 World Climate changing "Faster - Stronger - Sooner"

Oct 23 Ex-ACORN worker: 'I paid the price' for voter registration fraud

Oct 21 Spreading the wealth? US already does it - "...social security benefits go to the rich and poor retirees alike - that means that the low income payroll taxes are shifted partly shifted to the wealthy retiree's...a reverse of the income tax top-down construct."

Oct 18 Priest Shortage could alter college identities
Oct 18 Army to probe 5 slayings linked to Colo. brigade

Oct 18 Spending Surge Pushing Deficit Toward $1 Trillion - creating the deepest well of red ink since the end of World War II

Oct 18 Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline - by unknown hackers - separately, Sunnis & Shiites Wage Online War

Oct 18 South's Dry Spell Travels North

Oct 17 Washington Post Endorses Obama

Oct 17 Rome Workers Uncover Ancient City of Dead

Oct 14 Kids Avoid Bullies (and discovery) using Internet - to report wrong-doing

 14 As Economy Sinks, Officials Fear [More & More] Violent Solutions - many people already doing so!

Oct 10 Alaska Inquiry Concludes Palin Abused Powers - Gov. Sarah Palin abused the powers of her office by pressuring subordinates to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired, a investigation by the Alaska Legislature has concluded.

Oct 10 The End Of American Capitalism? - The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression is claiming another casualty: American-style capitalism

Oct 10 Source of Iraq WMD Intelligence Tells His Story -

Bob Drogin, who wrote about the case in "Curveball: Lies, Spies, and a Con Man Who Caused a War," called the episode "arguably the biggest intelligence failure in history."  "Never before have we gone to war on the basis of such an utter and complete fraud," Drogin said. "After 9/11, what we heard from the authorities was that they had failed to connect the dots that led to that scandal. In this case, they made up the dots."

Oct 10 G-7: 'Urgent action' needed - Officials from top economies vow to cooperate to contain financial crisis

Oct 10 Rage Rising on the McCain Campaign Trail

Oct 9 Running From Reality - Something strange is happening in this strangest of all presidential contests. The longer it goes on, the less we know about what either of these men would do if he were in the Oval Office next year

Oct 1
Bailout do-over passes Senate

Oct 1 Engineer sent text 22 seconds before fatal train crash

Oct 1 Palin, Biden ready to face off in St. Louis debate
Sept 30
Zakaria: McCain's VP decision is 'fundamentally irresponsible'

Sept 29 Bailout Defeated, Blame Flies, Wall Street Tanks

Sept 29 Let Risk-Taking Financial Institutions Fail - Remember...Wall Street and the real economy    are not the same thing

Sept 29 Nancy Pelosi's Financial Crisis Bailout Partisan Train Wreck  - 9/29/08 06:05 PM ET

Sept 29 House Rejects Wall Street Bailout Plan - 205 for, 228 against

Sept 29 Bush to blame for bailout's defeat?

Sept 29 From Auschwitz to Chicago - detailed Holocaust letters survive

Sept 24 Cargo shipping containers could be 'dream' homes for thousands

Sept 24 FHP Says Driver Was On Phone During Crash That Killed Teen Girl

Sept 24 'Grave threats' - Fed chairman urges Congress to act on $700B bailout package

Sept 23 John McCain and the Lying Game

Sept 23 12 Athletes Agree to Give Their Brains to Concussion Study

Sept 23 Yankee Stadium Farewell

Sept 23 FBI probing bailout firms - Investigators start search for fraud at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers and AIG, sources say

Sept 23 Polar bears resort to cannibalism as Arctic ice shrinks - "It is the second lowest on record. ... If anything, it is reinforcing the long-term trend. We are still losing the ice cover at a rate of 10 percent per decade now, and that is quite an increase from five years ago," Meier said. "We are still heading toward an ice cover that is going to melt completely in the summertime in the Arctic. ... What is the future for Arctic sea ice? Some scientists believe that in just five years, the Arctic may be ice-free during the summer."

Sept 22 Bailout taking shape - Democrats want U.S. ownership stake in firms it helps. Industry wants plan to cover other kinds of debt

Sept 22 Retiring where the jobs are - With more people planning to work in their retirement years, choosing where to live increasingly means checking out the local job market. A new AARP job site can help.

Aug 20 The absolute best and worst two weeks of Hugh McCutcheon's life

Aug 22 Measles outbreaks may be linked to vaccine fears

Aug 20 A son of illegal immigrants, U.S. wrestler hoists his flag

Aug 15 Commentary: Russian bombs' message is 'this is for America'

"This is for America. This is for NATO. This is for Bush."

These were the phrases that the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvilli, told me were on Russian bombs falling before, during and after the numerous cease-fires that have come and gone since the Georgian-Russian conflict began.

He went on to say that he believed the Russians were not fighting a war with Georgia; in reality, they were fighting a war against the idea of Georgia, the governing principles behind it.

To have a flourishing democracy in a neighboring country is seen as a threat. It is a stark contrast from Russia's brand of state-controlled pseudo-capitalism. The Russians, he said, "want to kill the idea of freedom, and by proxy they imagine they fight a war with the United States."

Aug 15 Sprinters uncharacteristically quiet after 100 prelims

Aug 15 Georgia signs cease-fire agreement

Aug 14 Living with autism in college

Aug 14 Chef Julia Child, others part of WWII spy network

Aug 11 Coach speaks on slaying: 'Sphere of influence vast; it hurts'

Aug 9
"witness tree" to the Battle of Gettysburg falls - 3 remain

July 24
Study: Girls equal to boys in math skills

July 23 'Turning point' arrives as U.S. community colleges' purview grows

July 23 Sexually assaulted female troops struggle to recover

July 17 Pelosi: Bush 'a total failure'

July 16
Total nuke dump cost to top $90 billion

July 11 Black community denied water for decades, jury says

July 4 Inspectors to halt import of some food from Mexico

July 4 Torres, 41, still making big splash

July 1 Time's up. Put down the phone or prepare to pay
July 1 Weather helps fight against Big Sur flames

July 1 Getting John Wooden to change his ways is no slam dunk

June 30 Calif. firefighters battle more than 1,400 blazes

June 30 Recreating the sound of Aztec 'Whistles of Death'

June 30 Army criticizes itself in Iraq invasion report

June 30 Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel

June 23 Commentary: How to fix our broken immigration system

June 21 Afghanistan foreign troop deaths in June exceed those in Iraq

June 20 The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn

June 16 NY TIMES After 19 Extra Holes, Woods Captures U.S. Open

June 16 U.S. Open playoff: Tiger Woods beats Rocco Mediate in sudden death

June 16
A Torrey Story: Woods' win was greatest U.S. Open ever

June 16 Tiger: 2008 U.S. Open the greatest tournament I've ever had
June 15 Lost Army Job Tied to Doubts on Contractor

une 11 Obama on the Nile - We’ve surprised ourselves and surprised the world and, in so doing, reminded everyone that we are still a country of new beginnings

June 11
Iowa city looks to sandbags as levee breach looms

June 10 Kathleen Parker:  Go ahead and smile, now's the time (political opinion)

June 8
Analysis: Why Clinton's bid failed

June 7 Air Force: Moisture caused $1.4 billion bomber crash

May 31 An Epidemic of Abandoned Horses

May 30 Stonehenge was a place of burial, researchers say

May 28 Dell deceived customers, judge says
Dell Inc. deceived customers in a massive "bait and switch"
 scheme to increase sales of its computer and electronic products,
 a New York state judge ruled Tuesday

May 26 Officials: Teens trained for suicide bombings in Iraq

May 24  FDA warns of harmful nipple cream

May 24 SUVs plunge toward 'endangered' list

May 15 Myanmar junta warns against hoarding cyclone aid

May 15 Commentary: Tax-free hypocrisy from higher education

May 15 China aftermath: Total chaos, small miracles

May 14 'Crazy rasberry ants' leave sour taste in Texas

May 14 Crazy rasberry ants invade Houston

May 7 Torch could reach summit of Everest in several days

Apr 29 Dad: 'Good things are happening' after Fort Bragg video

Apr 20 Pope recalls 'monster' Nazi regime

April 14 - April 20 The Pope in America

Apr 19 At synagogue, pope seeks 'bridges of friendship'

Apr 15 Legendary Disney animator dies at 95

Apr 14 Bush greeting pope in big way

Apr 11 Our Financial Bailout Culture
"Homeowners must learn that there are risks to using a home as an ATM"

Apr 11Colonel Is 9th of Rank to Die in Iraq

Apr 11 At tax time, illegal immigrants are paying too
No one disputes money is coming in, just how much it adds up to

Mar 31 Revised CPR method helps save Arizonans

Mar 24 Eastern Arkansas braces for predicted historic flooding

Mar 18 Thursday marks the five-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Many
young men went straight from our playing fields to foreign battlefields. E-ticket tells
of two high school QBs who fought the war on terror -- one came back forever
changed, the other didn't come back at all

Jeremiah's pain

Bedtime stories for Catherine


Mar 18 Yankees visit Va. Tech memorial, play exhibition

Mar 18 Mummified dinosaur unearthed in North Dakota

Mar 14 Lawmaker: U.S. security agency faltering

Mar 14 Glenn Beck: Too bad, Michigan and Florida

Mar 13 Electronic gadgets latest sources of computer viruses

Mar 11 1 in 4 teen girls have STD

Mar 11 Football star, 17, slain before he could answer gang

Mar 10 Student's camera snaps wolverine in California

Mar 3 First Sioux receives Medal of Honor

Mar 2 Lincoln's Thinking - University Letters Offers Insight Into
President Lincoln & his Civil War Tribulations

Feb 28 Report: 1 percent of U.S. adults behind bars

Feb 28  Orchestra underscores nuclear dance between U.S., North Korea

Feb 27 The dollar plumbed record depths against the euro,
 while oil and gold hit record highs
- gas prices on the up-swing again!

Feb 27 777's power loss concerns aviation officials

Feb 26 Storms, shifting sands give Oregon new look at history

Feb 21 How to make better teachers

Feb 16 Study: MRAP refusal led to Marine deaths

Feb 15 Cottage where Lincoln cooled his heels opens

Feb 14 Death at the Army's Hands

Feb 12  Ex-Florida prison boss: Drunken orgies tainted system

Feb 9 Maligned aircraft finds redemption in Iraq, military says

Feb 9  Violations of 'Islamic teachings' take deadly toll on Iraqi women

Feb 4 Judge to Navy: Limit sonar training

Feb 4 Bush unveils $3.1 trillion spending plan

Feb 4 Police protecting U.S. icons 'failed,' report says

Feb 3  Concern Mounts over Rise in Troop Suicide Attempts

Feb 1 Dubai, of the United Arab Emirates

Jan 18 NY-Times Bobby Fischer, Chess Master, Dies at 64

Jan 18 I-Reporters remember passionate, controversial Bobby Fischer

Jan 18 Chess champion Bobby Fischer dies

Jan 19 Mis-labled photos of Abe’s 2nd inauguration turn up in archives

Jan 18 Photos found of Lincoln's second inauguration

Jan 18 Photos of Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address

Jan 17 Bin Laden's son aspires to be peace activist

Jan 17 Wooden can't say no to autograph-seekers, so UCLA does it for him

Jan 13 New boat aims to make SEALs' travels less painful

Jan 11 Sir Edmund Hillary - biography

 Jan 11 Sir Edmund Hillary, first to conquer Everest, dies

Jan 11 Edmund Hillary, First Atop Everest 88