$205 Million man says he sold meth chemical
MEXICO CITY (AP) A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mex...
 6.8K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 828.0 $205 Million man says he sold meth chemical
MEXICO CITY (AP) A Chinese-Mexican businessman arrested after police found a $205 million stash of cash in his Mexico City mansion has told U.S. prosecutors he sold tons of a chemical used to make methamphetamine on the black market, a top Mex...
6.8K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 828.0 Balloon dad faces felony charges
FORT COLLINS, Colo. The lawyer for the man accused of perpetrating the balloon boy hoax to promote a reality show said today that he expects authorities to bring charges against his client in the next day as investigators analyze e-mails that show ...
8.3K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 955.0 Balloon dad faces felony charges
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The lawyer for the man accused of perpetrating the balloon boy hoax to promote a reality show said today that he expects authorities to bring charges against his client in the next day as investigators analyze e-mails that sho...
8.7K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 955.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 18, 2009; scored 801.0 Blast kills four soldiers
KABUL (AP) A roadside bomb killed four American troops in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, as a U.N.-backed panel finished most of its investigation into whether the level of fraud in the August presidential election would force a runoff...
4.5K - Oct. 17, 2009; scored 801.0 African bishops speak of Obama as divine plan
VATICAN CITY (AP) African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms putting them very much at odds with many of their U.S. counterparts. Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, ...
2.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 581.0 Two women found alive in quake's rubble
PADANG, Indonesia Rescuers pulled two women alive from a collapsed college, nearly two days after a powerful earthquake devastated western Indonesia, as cries for help from a flattened hotel spurred the frantic search for more survivors today. The ...
7.0K - Oct. 2, 2009; scored 726.0 William Safire, speechwriter, NY columnist, dies at age 79
NEW YORK (AP) William Safire, the conservative columnist and word warrior who feared no politician or corner of the English language, died Sunday at age 79. The Pulitzer Prize winner died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. The cause of death was pancre...
5.2K - Sep. 28, 2009; scored 735.0 Attacks reduce al-Qaida s core leadership
LONDON Recent targeted attacks that killed militants in Somalia, Indonesia and Pakistan have chipped away at al-Qaida s power base, sapping the terror network of key leaders and experienced operatives who train recruits and wage attacks. Intelligen...
5.2K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 691.0 Coach aquitted in player death
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ” Despite a former high school football coach s acquittal in the death of a player who collapsed during practice on a hot day, one of the prosectuors said he hoped the case would prompt coaches to pay closer attention to th...
5.4K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 850.0 Government wants more protection for salmon
PORTLAND (AP) Calling it an insurance policy for salmon, the Obama administration has offered up a tougher conservation plan for the Pacific Northwest that includes monitoring for climate change and possible dam removal. But a top official also s...
3.3K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 603.0 Government wants more protection for salmon
PORTLAND (AP) ” Calling it an insurance policy for salmon, the Obama administration has offered up a tougher conservation plan for the Pacific Northwest that includes monitoring for climate change and possible dam removal. But a top offi...
3.2K - Sep. 16, 2009; scored 603.0 Police find body
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Police are hunting for the killer who stuffed a body believed to be that of a Yale University graduate student behind a wall in the high-security laboratory building where she worked. Police found the body around 5 p.m. Sunday, on ...
4.8K - Sep. 14, 2009; scored 625.0 Sept. 11 training exercise sparks fear, confusion
WASHINGTON (AP) A Coast Guard training exercise in the Potomac River near the Pentagon sparked confusion amid Friday s commemorations of the Sept. 11 anniversary. Media reports that shots were being fired in the river sent FBI agents scrambling to ...
5.4K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 779.0 Iffy math is part of health care plan
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama used only-in-Washington accounting Wednesday when he promised to overhaul the nation s health care system without adding one dime to the deficit. By conventional arithmetic, Democratic plans would drive up the de...
7.8K - Sep. 11, 2009; scored 814.0 Iffy math is part of health care plan
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama used only-in-Washington accounting Wednesday when he promised to overhaul the nation s health care system without adding one dime to the deficit. By conventional arithmetic, Democratic plans would drive up the de...
8.0K - Sep. 10, 2009; scored 814.0 Obama's school speech draws conservative's ire
DALLAS President Barack Obama s back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling it an effort to foist a political agenda on childr...
6.5K - Sep. 4, 2009; scored 872.0 Boy missing in rough N.C. surf
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (AP) People on the East Coast warily eyed the approaching Tropical Storm Danny, which reinforced the dangers of even a weakening storm after a young boy went missing Friday in rough surf. From the Carolinas to New England, fore...
3.7K - Aug. 29, 2009; scored 647.0 White House will question terror suspects
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama has moved more forcefully than ever to abandon Bush administration interrogation policies, approving creation of a special White House unit for questioning terrorism suspects, as Attorney General Eric Holder weighs...
4.6K - Aug. 24, 2009; scored 792.0 | 
