AP - Soaring gas prices have claimed plenty of victims from SUV sales to stock market portfolios. They now threaten to claim another: the expansion of one of the world's busiest airports.
AP - Preservationists are squaring off with the Air Force over the fate of a World War II-era building where researchers developed the first antigravity suits for pilots and early NASA spacesuits. -- read full article
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:15:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - A microbiologist claims she was stalked for decades by Bruce Ivins, the suspect in the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001 who, according to court documents, was obsessed with the sorority she joined in college.
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton told an exuberant crowd Friday she wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams and she wants her supporters to vote that way, too.
AP - Across central Washington's fruit bowl, farmers are buying vineyards, hoping to establish roots in the area and capitalize on the booming wine industry. -- read full article
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:53:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Like passengers around her, Leha Nguyen started to doze when she suddenly heard the bus emit a horrible noise, followed by the screaming. She opened her eyes to see people strewn about. A television had fallen on one person.
AP - The woman former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted having an affair with Friday is a sometimes Hollywood producer-director who has all but dropped from sight since dismissing word of their liaison as nothing but lies last month.
AP - Beijing authorities say a Chinese man attacked two American tourists on the opening day of the Olympic Games, killing one of them before committing suicide. -- read full article
Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:33:49 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News
AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she truly wants Barack Obama to win the White House, even though he dashed her own presidential dreams. And she's going to keep saying it, despite the doubters.
AP - Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish.
AP - The investigation into the identity of a mysterious man accused of kidnapping his daughter in Boston and wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple has gone international.
AP - A flight attendant says she witnessed the wife of evangelical pastor Joel Osteen throw a tantrum when she didn't get her way after a small spill on her seat wasn't quickly cleaned.
AP - Pleas from an illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed he was unfairly denied legal help from his consulate when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas weren't enough to spare him from the death chamber.
AP - A southern Oregon community long involved in battling wildfires was plunged into mourning with word that seven of the nine people killed in a Northern California helicopter crash were employees of a local company that has mustered contract firefighting crews since 1979.
AP - An elderly woman convicted of killing her 85-year-old ex-boyfriend because she thought he was seeing another woman was granted a new trial Friday, more than two years after she was sentenced to life in prison. -- read full article
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:39:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: U.S. News