General News
  • US sailor cleared of assaulting Sydney prostitute

    23 Nov. 2009

    SYDNEY (AP) — A U.S. Navy serviceman was found not guilty Monday of sexually assaulting a prostitute at a brothel while on shore leave in Australia's biggest city.

     
  • Click for Full Story Miners' families want answers in China mine blast

    23 Nov. 2009

    HEGANG, China (AP) — Grieving miners' families demanded answers Monday from mining officials about the underground gas explosion that left at least 104 men dead in northeastern China.

     
  • Chinese dissident Huang Qi sentenced to 3 years

    23 Nov. 2009

    BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a veteran dissident convicted of spying to three years in prison.

     
  • Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto

    23 Nov. 2009

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then.

     
  • Click for Full Story Mexico City's famed dance-for-peso halls fading

    23 Nov. 2009

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house.

     
  • Click for Full Story Search on for Indonesian ferry accident survivors

    22 Nov. 2009

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers returned to choppy waters off Indonesia's Sumatra island Monday to search for 21 passengers still missing after a ferry sank in a storm. Officials say 254 survivors were pulled from the sea and at least 29 other people drowned.

     
  • SF area officer, passenger injured during arrest

    22 Nov. 2009

    OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A train passenger's video of an arrest shows heavy-duty glass shattering and showering down on a San Francisco area transit police officer and an unruly passenger in an incident that injured both men.

     
  • ME: Teen killed by NYC police was shot 11 times

    22 Nov. 2009

    NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager killed in a confrontation with New York City police over the weekend was shot 11 times, the medical examiner's office said Sunday.

     
  • General: Canada halted prison moves more than once

    22 Nov. 2009

    HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — Canada's top general said Sunday the transfer of prisoners to Afghan authorities has been halted more than once due to concerns detainees would be tortured.

     
  • Click for Full Story McPherson leads LPGA Tour Championship

    22 Nov. 2009

    RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Lorena Ochoa and Jiyai Shin will settle their duel for LPGA Tour player of the year on the final, frantic day of the season.

     
  • Report: Ill. prison deal could create 3,000 jobs

    22 Nov. 2009

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A deal to house Guantanamo Bay detainees at a northwestern Illinois prison could bring nearly 3,000 jobs to the area, a White House analysis says.

     
  • Click for Full Story Attorney: Jackson's doctor returning to work

    22 Nov. 2009

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Michael Jackson's former personal physician is returning to work at his Houston clinic for the first time since before the pop singer's death, his lawyer said Sunday.

     
  • AP News in Brief

    22 Nov. 2009

    Lawyer says 9/11 defendants will plead not guilty so they can express their political views

     
  • Click for Full Story Honduras election sets return to business as usual

    22 Nov. 2009

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

     
  • Victim ID'd in fatal NYC subway seat stabbing

    22 Nov. 2009

    NEW YORK (AP) — A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn.