Automakers face skeptical senators on aid plan
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:40:55 GMT
AP - U.S. automakers drew fresh skepticism from lawmakers Thursday in a rocky confrontation over their pleas for an expanded $34 billion rescue package they say they need to survive. Congressional analysts said one bailout plan under consideration would fall short of what the carmakers want.
Indian airports on high alert after new warning
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:38:08 GMT
AP - Airports in India went on high alert Thursday following fresh attack warnings, and officials said India suspects two senior leaders of a banned Pakistani militant group orchestrated last week's deadly Mumbai attacks.
Suicide blasts kill 17 as Iraqi council OKs pact
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:47:42 GMT
AP - Suicide bombers killed 17 people including two American soldiers and wounded more than 100 in a string of blasts in two Iraqi cities Thursday as a timetable for withdrawing all U.S. troops won final government approval.
Calif. couple charged with torturing, abusing teen
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:03 GMT
AP - A California couple has been charged with kidnapping and torturing a 17-year-old boy police say they sometimes kept shackled in their home.
US mulls unusual tactic as Blackwater charges loom
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:48:50 GMT
AP - Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in the deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians could face mandatory 30-year prison sentences under an aggressive anti-drug law being considered as the Justice Department readies indictments, people close to the case said.
Minn. teen girls charged in nursing home abuse
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:38:37 GMT
AP - Two teenage girls who worked at a nursing home have been charged with abuse, accused of taunting, spitting on and groping residents who suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Gun club, police chief indicted in boy's Uzi death
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:27:10 GMT
AP - Three men, including a small-town police chief, were indicted Thursday on involuntary manslaughter counts in the gun-fair death of an 8-year-old who accidentally shot himself in the head with an Uzi that a prosecutor said he never should have been allowed to handle.
Erik Estrada returns to Muncie for police patrols
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:42:04 GMT
AP - Erik Estrada has returned to Muncie to take part in overnight police patrols in the city where he starred in the short-lived reality series "Armed & Famous." The former star of the 1970s motorcycle cop drama "CHiPs" is a reserve officer on the Muncie Police Department.
NJ woman sues Pa. sports bar for toilet seat break
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:22:46 GMT
AP - A New Jersey woman is suing a Pennsylvania sports bar and restaurant, saying she got stuck inside a toilet bowl for 20 minutes when the seat broke. Kathleen Hewko, of Delran Township, said she was in the bathroom at Starters Pub in an Allentown suburb when the handicapped toilet seat she was sitting on cracked and dumped her into the bowl.
NFL players union seeks to block suspensions
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:36:56 GMT
AP - A federal judge will be asked to decide Friday whether five suspended NFL players deserve a chance to play this weekend. At issue is whether the league had a duty to notify its players and their union that a dietary supplement the five took contained a banned ingredient.
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