Candidates, Parties Target Web Audience Increasing numbers of people looking for political news are going online _ with more than a third now saying they check the Internet for such information. more Castro Ridicules Rumors of His Death  © The Associated Press Fireman's Mom Asks Arsonist to Step Up  © The Associated Press Hall of Fame Coach Red Auerbach Dies His genius was building a basketball dynasty in Boston, his gift was straight talk, his signature was the pungent cigar he lit up and savored after every victory. more NATO: 70 Suspected Insurgents Killed  © The Associated Press
Bolivia Inks Gas Nationalization Deals  © The Associated Press Mesaba Reaches Pact With Pilots Mesaba Aviation Inc. and the union that represents its pilots reached a tentative agreement on labor concessions, the bankrupt airline announced Saturday. more GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms  © The Associated Press Pa. Businessman Wins Suit Against Paper A judge has awarded $3.5 million in damages to a businessman and one of his companies in a defamation lawsuit against The Citizens' Voice, a newspaper in Wilkes-Barre. more Iraq, China to Revive 1997 Oil Deal China and Iraq are reviving a $1.2 billion deal signed by Beijing and Saddam Hussein's government in 1997 to develop an Iraqi oil field, Baghdad's oil minister said Saturday. more
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Jon Stewart Visits Ohio State University Jon Stewart and staff from Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" fielded questions from Ohio State University students and others at a special appearance Saturday, but the comedian also had a query of his own. more Brad Pitt's Staff Claims Crew Trespassed  © The Associated Press Book Paints Escape-Artist Houdini As Spy  © The Associated Press O'Reilly, Letterman Rekindle Feud Bill O'Reilly walked out for his appearance on David Letterman's "Late Show" with a plastic shield. He could have used it. more South African Author Gordimer Assaulted Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer was assaulted in her home by three men who robbed her of cash and jewelry, police said Saturday. more
Doctors Struggle to Save Wounded Marine The chaplain assigned to the medical camp was drafting a homily. The heart surgeon was using the quiet spell to edit a medical paper. The medics chatted over lunch. Twenty miles away, on the desert plain outside Fallujah, an insurgent's bullet tore through the body of a young Marine. more Ailing 'Dilbert' Cartoonist Talks Again  © The Associated Press Genital Cutting on Trial in Georgia Case The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow. more British Twins Have Different Skin Color A pair of British twin boys has been born with different skin color, a rare genetic occurrence according to experts. more 16 Get Food Poisoning at China School At least 16 children, most between 2 and 5, were hospitalized with food poisoning after eating at a kindergarten in northwest China, state media reported on Friday. more
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Candidates, Parties Target Web Audience Increasing numbers of people looking for political news are going online _ with more than a third now saying they check the Internet for such information. more Cell Phone Takes Security to New Heights  © The Associated Press China Looking to Stop Internet Addiction China's government wants to develop technology to stop children from becoming addicted to the Internet, a news report said Friday. more Court to Weigh Microsoft, AT&T Dispute The Supreme Court said Friday it would intervene in a patent dispute between giants Microsoft Corp. and AT&T Corp. over Windows programs distributed overseas. An appeals court ruled that Microsoft had infringed on an AT&T patent for a type of speech-coding technology. more Diebold Quietly Repaired Voting Machines Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years earlier, according to published reports Thursday. more
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