16 July 2007
Food-labeling effort gains new momentum (AP)
AP - Shoppers are in the dark about where much of their food comes from despite a five-year-old law requiring meat and other products to carry labels with their country of origin.
13 July 2007
Former Bush aide faces possible contempt charges (Reuters)
Reuters - A congressional panel moved toward
seeking contempt charges against former White House counsel
Harriet Miers on Thursday after she refused to appear -- under
orders from President George W. Bush -- at a hearing on the
firing of federal pr...
10 July 2007
Fort Dix prosecutors seek anonymous jury (AP)
AP - Federal prosecutors have asked that an anonymous jury be impaneled for the trial of six men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix.
3 murder charges from Ky. highway crash (AP)
AP - An out-of-control pickup truck crossed a highway median and struck oncoming vehicles, killing a pregnant woman and an 8-year-old boy and injuring several others, police said.
Sears sees lower quarterly profit; shares plunge (Reuters)
Reuters - Sears Holdings Corp. on
Tuesday forecast lower quarterly profit and said it needs to
better control its costs and stock more items that its shoppers
demand, sending shares down more than 8.7 percent.
Chinese lawyers push for slavery crime change: paper (Reuters)
Reuters - China's lawyers association has urged
making slavery a specific crime, an official newspaper reported
on Tuesday in the wake of a trial of brick-kiln operators
accused of brutally exploiting trapped workers.
China jails 2 church leaders (AP)
AP - Two ministers in China's unrecognized Protestant church have been sentenced to one year each in a labor camp on charges of using an "evil cult" to obstruct the law, a U.S. monitoring group said Monday.
09 July 2007
Oden better in second summer game
Top pick Greg Oden's second summer league game with the Portland Trail Blazers was better than his first, but still not up to the high profile centre's expectations.
Two days after he was disqualified with 10 fouls in 20 minutes, Oden had 13 points, f...
Peavy, Haren to start in All-Star Game
Dan Haren will start the all-star game for the American League just across the bay from his home ballpark in Oakland. The Athletics' ace was picked by AL manager Jim Leyland on Monday to oppose San Diego's Jake Peavy, who will start for Tony La Russa'...
Embattled U.S. hurricane center boss ousted (Reuters)
Reuters - The director of the U.S. National
Hurricane Center, a critical government agency that issues
hurricane and tropical storm forecasts, was ousted on Monday
after a staff mutiny.
New self-defense laws cause confusion (AP)
AP - Norman Borden fought back twice — once against three assailants on the street, then again in a courtroom where he was charged with murder for killing two of them.
LA mayor returns to public stage (AP)
AP - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa emerged from seclusion Monday and faced a new battery of questions about his extramarital affair with a local newscaster, overshadowing his attempt to refocus attention on city business.
Former Alaska lawmaker guilty of bribery (AP)
AP - A former Alaska lawmaker accused of getting thousands of dollars out of a corrections-company consultant in exchange for his help in the Legislature was convicted of bribery on Monday.
Tourists unearth dinosaur bones in Wyo. (AP)
AP - Can you dig it? For $150, you too can take part in a dinosaur dig at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. The program lets tourists grab a brush and unearth real dinosaur bones, just like a paleontologist.
Hurricane center chief reassigned (AP)
AP - The director of the National Hurricane Center went on leave Monday, government officials said, four days after many of the center's employees called for his removal because of his comments about an aging weather satellite.
Potomac water quality to be monitored (AP)
AP - Virginia plans to install a monitoring station in the Potomac River that will help boaters and fishermen while assisting marine biologists studying the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
BLM gets OK for new North Slope drilling (AP)
AP - The Bureau of Land Management could go ahead with plans to allow drilling in a sensitive area near Teshekpuk Lake on the North Slope, an agency spokeswoman said.
Canada tightens grip on disputed Arctic (AP)
AP - Canada announced plans Monday to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage — a potentially oil-rich region the United States claims is international territory.
Tiny town sees 1st presidential wannabe (AP)
AP - In October 1912, residents lined the streets of this tiny town to catch a glimpse of President William Howard Taft as he passed through en route to Keene, only to learn later that he took a wrong turn.
Pioneering treatment for brain cancer gets Swiss approval (AFP)
AFP - An experimental treatment for brain cancer has won approval for commercial use in Switzerland, its London-listed US maker, Northwest Biotherapeutics, Inc., announced on Monday.
China Internet surfers save more than 800 cats (Reuters)
Reuters - The power of the Internet has saved
more than 800 cats from being skinned and served up on Chinese
dinner tables.
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