NEW YORK – A wide swath of good news, from better-than-expected retail sales and worker productivity figures to a major court victory for Merck & Co. (MRK), drove stocks higher Thursday, although a jump in oil prices limited the gains. Wall Street’s (search) inflation worries were mollified by the latest …
Read More »Royals Visit New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS – Prince Charles (search) and his wife, Camilla, flew into New Orleans (search) on Friday for a brief glimpse of the ravaged city and a chance to meet a few of the hundreds of thousands of residents whose lives were turned upside-down by Hurricane Katrina (search). After an …
Read More »Car Thief Helps Owner Track Every Move
You could say this thief was really only borrowing the car — because he made sure the previous owner knew his every move. The car thief made a perfect, stealthy midnight getaway in a Subaru from Dinah Thompson’s Danville, Calif., home — but he forgot to remove the FasTrak device …
Read More »Experts Building Bird Flu Warning System
NAIROBI, Kenya – Experts have began setting up a bird flu early warning system by mapping routes that are taken by migrating species and places where they rest during their annual travel, United Nations officials said Sunday. Migrating birds have spread the deadly H5N1 strain of avian flu from Asia …
Read More »Florida PTA: More Study Needed on Stun Guns
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Taking its first official position on the use of stun guns, the Florida PTA is calling for the devices to be used only as an alternative to shooting a student with a gun and urging lawmakers to further study the device’s effect on people. Delegates at the …
Read More »Search in Iowa for Two Escaped Killers
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Authorities searched on Tuesday for two convicted murderers who escaped from the Iowa State Penitentiary by using a homemade grappling hook to scale an unguarded section of the prison’s limestone walls. Martin Shane Moon, 34, and Robert Joseph Legendre, 27, broke out Monday night from the …
Read More »Timeline: Civil Case Against Kobe
Timeline of the civil case against Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant: — June 30, 2003: Bryant arrives at Lodge & Spa at Cordillera near Edwards, Colo., a day before knee surgery in Vail. — July 1: A 19-year-old employee tells sheriff’s deputies Bryant sexually assaulted her. — July 18: …
Read More »New Consumer Taser 'Stuns' Critics
ALBERT LEA, Minn. – Gun shop owner Milan Hart feels so strongly about the benefits and safety of the Taser (search) stun gun, he was willing to take a 50,000-volt hit from one on camera to prove his point. “It’s intense,” said Hart, describing the impact to FOX News. So, …
Read More »Another Legal Blow to Schiavo's Parents
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. – A federal appeals court panel refused to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube, hours after the severely brain-damaged woman’s father said she was weakening and down “to her last hours.” In its ruling Friday, a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals …
Read More »Mortgage Rates Hit 7-Month High
WASHINGTON – U.S. interest rates on 30- and 15-year mortgages rose to their highest levels in seven months, according to a report issued Thursday by mortgage finance company Freddie Mac (FRE). U.S. 30-year mortgage rates rose to an average of 5.95 percent in the week ended March 17 from 5.85 …
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