A look at the suspect arrested in connection with the bikini strangulation death of 20-year-old Tiffany Marie Souers: Age: 35 Home: Dandridge, Tenn. Occupation: Construction worker Criminal History: Registered sex offender paroled in September 2005. Has served time in Florida for armed sexual battery, armed robbery, armed burglary, grand theft …
Read More »Senior Zarqawi Network Leaders Helped U.S. Bring Him Down
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The spiritual adviser and deputy to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi didn’t know it, but he led U.S. and Iraqi intelligence officials directly to the terror leader’s door during a visit he paid Zarqawi at a safehouse. That brought about the Wednesday night airstrike that killed both men. The …
Read More »Rat Study Shows Dirty Environments Healthier Than Clean
WASHINGTON – Gritty rats and mice living in sewers and farms seem to have healthier immune systems than their squeaky clean cousins that frolic in cushy antiseptic labs, two studies indicate. The lesson for humans: Clean living may make us sick. The studies give more weight to a 17-year-old theory …
Read More »Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strike Grows
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of inmates refusing food to 89 from 75, the U.S. military said Thursday. Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated U.S. naval base in southeast Cuba were being force-fed, …
Read More »DaimlerChrysler Announces It Will Sell Smart Car in U.S.
DETROIT – DaimlerChrysler AG (DCX) will begin selling its fuel-efficient, two-seat Smart car in the U.S. during the first quarter of 2008, the automaker’s CEO said Wednesday. The decision — announced by chief executive Dieter Zetsche during an appearance in Detroit — is a watershed moment for Smart, which has …
Read More »Number of Gitmo Inmates on Hunger Strike Drops to 18, Military Says
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees on hunger strike has dropped from 89 to 18, the U.S. military said Sunday. The strike — which jumped from three participants in late May to 89 on Thursday — was the biggest of the year at the U.S. …
Read More »Study Sparks Controversy Over Breast Cancer Drugs
ATLANTA – Final results from a big study comparing two drugs for preventing breast cancer in high-risk women reveal surprises that challenge the government’s claim that one is clearly better. The study compared the old standby, tamoxifen, to raloxifene, a newer drug so far approved only for preventing the bone …
Read More »Jeff Flake Wants to End Runaway Spending
This is a partial transcript from “The Journal Editorial Report,” June 25, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. PAUL GIGOT, “WALL STREET JOURNAL”: Of all the problems facing congressional Republicans this November, voter frustration with runaway spending is one of the biggest. Since taking control of Congress in 1994 …
Read More »Cemetery in Iraq Rigged With Explosives
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Security forces found bombs planted throughout a cemetery Thursday after an Iraqi woman and her daughter were wounded by one as they were visiting the grave of a young man killed in a sectarian attack northeast of Baghdad earlier this month. The woman and her daughter were …
Read More »Formerly Conjoined Twins Recovering in L.A.
LOS ANGELES – Regina and Renata Salinas Fierros lay in side-by-side beds for the first time in their 10-month-old lives Thursday after doctors separated and rebuilt the twins’ bodies in a marathon surgery. “To see the girls today beginning to wake up and move and respond is great excitement for …
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