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Most popular news on 6 September 2009 |
Dem negotiator: Time here for health care action
AP - The Senate's chief Democratic negotiator on a health care bill is indicating it's time to act and has told his colleagues he won't wait much longer for a Republican compromise.
Demand for electricity sputters and bills may fall
AP - Consumers and businesses may finally be seeing some relief from rising utility bills, thanks to the biggest decline in U.S. electricity demand in decades.
17-year-old American upsets Sharapova at US Open
AP - Melanie Oudin's face was flushed from a mix of exertion and excitement and maybe even a bit of bewilderment — "Yes, I DID beat Maria Sharapova!" running through her mind — when she stepped out of the U.S. Open locker room and saw Mom.
Missing boy found alive, hidden at grandma's home
AP - A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute nearly two years ago has turned up alive, hiding with his mother in a small, specially built secret room at his grandmother's Illinois home, investigators said.
Debts closing in on photographer Annie Leibovitz
AP - Annie Leibovitz's artsy, provocative portraits of celebrities regularly grace the covers of Vanity Fair and Vogue, images that have made her as famous as her subjects and earned her millions.
Teen says brother innocent in Ga. mobile home case
AP - The brother of a Georgia man charged with slaying his father and seven others in a mobile home insisted Saturday that the suspect would never harm his family, and he also speculated that a dispute over drugs could have prompted the killings.
Top official in volatile Chinese city sacked
AP - The head of a western city wracked by communal violence and a bizarre string of needle attacks has been sacked by Chinese authorities hoping to calm uneasy mobs and end protests that left the city on edge for three days.
Iraqi Arabs protest US plan for Kurdish patrols
AP - Hundreds of Sunni Arabs opposed to the presence of Kurdish troops in disputed areas of northern Iraq demonstrated Saturday against a U.S. proposal to deploy a mixed force of American, Kurdish and Iraqi soldiers in the area.
Police in Georgia arrest man in trailer killings
Reuters - A man who made a distraught call to authorities last week to report he found his father and several other relatives killed was charged with their murders on Friday, police in the U.S. state of Georgia said.
Wash. health co-op part of health reform debate
AP - Group Health Cooperative was created in Washington state more than six decades ago, started up by members of local granges, unions and cooperatives who were inspired by a physician who had established America's first cooperative hospital in Elk City, Oklahoma.
US general: Afghan civilians wounded at bomb site
AP - The top NATO commander confirmed that civilians were wounded by a devastating airstrike targeting insurgents in northern Afghanistan, a major test of his policy to curb airpower to reduce civilian casualties and win over Afghans to the war against the Taliban.
Mexican Gulf state candidate, wife, 2 sons killed
AP - Gunmen killed a state congressional candidate and his wife and two sons in their home Saturday in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico.
L.A. man left `piece of heaven,' returned to hell
AP - After five grueling days in bush planes and on horseback, 74-year-old Lew Johnson was returning from the forests of British Columbia with his prize — a cooler full of meat from a 43 1/2-inch spread moose in the bed of his pickup.
Ind. firefighter finishes skydive marathon in Ohio
AP - An Indianapolis firefighter had a real up-and-down day on Friday by skydiving 100 times in southwest Ohio. Joe Frolick made the jumps Friday at the Warren County Airport near Lebanon. He said he wanted to raise awareness and money to fight fire deaths from smoke inhalation.
Great white sharks tagged for first time off Mass.
AP - Massachusetts officials are using high-tech tags to track the movements of two great white sharks near Cape Cod — the first time the fearsome fish have ever been tagged in the Atlantic Ocean.
Pettitte wins 4th straight, Yanks beat Toronto 6-4
AP - Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano homered, Andy Pettitte won his fourth straight start and the New York Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-4 on Saturday.
Woman's case reflects prisoners' treatment in Iran
AP - The interrogator politely apologized for grilling the prisoner about her role in the mass protests over Iran's disputed presidential election.
Woman allegedly shoves friend from moving car
AP - Police arrested a North Pole woman accused of shoving her friend out of a moving vehicle. According to a criminal complaint, 34-year-old Christina Louisa Martin and her friend had been drinking at a bar Tuesday night. When they returned to the car, Martin's dog was gone. The complaint said Martin was so upset at her friend about the missing dog that she shoved her when they started traveling again.
Growing Anger Could Jeopardize Obama's Standing
U.S. News & World Report - Rising opposition to President Obama's healthcare proposals may be morphing into something broader and deeper: an anti-Obama movement that could jeopardize the president's political standing, damage the Democratic Party, and give the Republicans new life.
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