HAVANA – Cuba (search) applauded a U.S. federal appeals court decision to throw out the convictions and sentences of five Cuban intelligence agents, saying Wednesday that it was a “happy day” on the island. A statement on the front page of the Communist Party daily Granma called Tuesday’s ruling “ethical” …
Read More »Profile: King Fahd
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd (search) sought to modernize his desert kingdom while balancing change against tribal tradition and orthodox Islam, but a stroke a decade ago left him a ruler in name only during tumultuous times for the world’s biggest oil producer. His death Monday comes …
Read More »House GOP Members Urge Delay on ANWR
WASHINGTON – Two dozen House Republicans, including three committee chairmen, have asked Speaker Dennis Hastert (search) not to use a congressional budget procedure to clear the way for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (search) in Alaska. They said in a letter to Hastert, R-Ill., that the budget …
Read More »Tenn. Teacher Pleads No Contest in Sex Case
MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. – A former elementary school teacher pleaded no contest to having sex with one of her students, a 13-year-old boy, and has been sentenced to nine months in jail. Pamela Rogers Turner (search), 28, entered the plea Thursday, allowing her to avoid a trial on multiple charges of …
Read More »Ex-Tyco Execs Kozlowski, Swartz Remain Free Before Sentencing
NEW YORK – A state judge Tuesday denied a request by prosecutors to jail former Tyco International Ltd. (search) CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski (search) and former finance chief Mark Swartz (search) until they are sentenced next month for looting the company. Manhattan prosecutors had argued that former Kozlowski and Swartz …
Read More »Get Smart About Home Buying
Housing counselors can help guide you through the home-buying process — often for free. Do you have your eye on a dream house, without a clue on how to get your foot in the door? Perhaps it’s time to head to home-buying class. That’s what 38-year-old Maria Huerta of Phoenix …
Read More »Encephalitis Kills 100 Indian Children
LUCKNOW, India – Mosquito-borne Japanese encephalitis spread to new areas of India’s (search) most populous state on Saturday as the death toll from the preventable disease rose to 100 amid a shortage of funds to pay for vaccinations, officials said. At least 28 more children were reported sick in the …
Read More »Investing Your Summer Earnings
My summer internship should net $5,000 but I don’t want it to sit in a savings account. What are my investment options? QUESTION: I just finished my freshman year of college and am working at my first internship this summer. By the end of the season, I’ll have somewhere around …
Read More »NYSE Member Arrested for Phone Threat
NEW YORK – A member of the New York Stock Exchange was arrested Monday for allegedly threatening another member who sued to oppose the Big Board’s takeover of electronic rival Archipelago Holdings Inc (AX). Edward A. Reiss (search), who owns one of the 1,366 seats on the exchange and was …
Read More »Iraqi Sunnis Rally Against Constitution
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Thousands of Sunni demonstrators rallied Monday in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit (search) to denounce Iraq’s new constitution a day after negotiators finished the new charter without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs. Sunni leaders have urged their community to defeat the charter in a nationwide referendum Oct. …
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