Categories: hurricane katrina, governors of mississippi, coastal economies, republican governors, oil spill, govs, contrasts, louisiana | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - The ambitious Republican governors of Mississippi and Louisiana are a study in contrasts as an oil spill threatens coastal economies still reeling from Hurricane Katrina.Categories: south asian countries, long distances, hawala, money transfer, western union, probes, peoe, terror | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Long before there was MoneyGram and Western Union, people in South Asian countries often used an informal network of brokers, called an "hawala," to transfer money over long distances when it was too inconvenient or dangerous to send cash by courier.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Thai troops fired bullets and tear gas at anti-government protesters rioting near the U.S. and Japanese embassies in an escalation of violence that turned central Bangkok into a virtual war zone after overnight clashes killed one person.Categories: criminal justice system, cop drama, tv record, bad guys | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Will the criminal justice system be alive on "Law & Order" next fall? It's down to the wire whether the venerable cop drama will be nabbing more bad guys in a history-making run.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - New York City police evacuated part of an apartment building and blocked off some streets near Manhattan's Union Square after a Thursday night report of a suspicious vehicle with gas in the back seat, but nothing threatening was found.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Anti-government protesters set fire to a police bus down the street from Japanese and U.S. embassies in central Bangkok after troops fired tear gas Friday in a burst of new violence after nightlong clashes left one person dead.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Striking at a lucrative bank business, the Senate on Thursday voted to force credit card companies to reduce fees for debit card transactions and permit merchants to offer customer discounts based on their payment method.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - A "black box" can reveal why an airplane crashed or how fast a car was going in the instant before an accident. Yet there are no records of a critical safety test supposedly performed during the fateful hours before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - The nation's most influential small business lobby is joining a court challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, arguing that Americans cannot be required under the Constitution to obtain insurance coverage.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Softball, that friendly, fun game many Americans grow up playing, suddenly finds itself entangled in a hardball debate about sexual orientation, editorial judgment and the future of the Supreme Court.Categories: sporadic violence, thai capital, military leader, government efforts, encampment, lockdown, blockade, protesters | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Protesters in the Thai capital reinforced their encampment Friday as government efforts to blockade them overnight led to sporadic violence that killed one man and saw a high-profile Red Shirt military leader shot in the head.Categories: square car, car bomb, money trail, pakistanis, times square, fbi, authorities | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - Three Pakistani men who authorities say supplied funds to Times Square car bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad were arrested Thursday in a series of raids across the Northeast as the FBI followed the money trail in the failed attack.Categories: safari in south africa, old ruben, crash survivor, dream safari, mom dad, dutch family, rescuers, libya, tragedy, earth | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - The Dutch family — mom, dad and two young sons — were headed home from a dream safari in South Africa when their plane plunged to Earth in Libya. Rescuers found a single passenger alive: 9-year-old Ruben, still strapped in his seat.Categories: missionary, prosecutors, prosecutor, earthquake, six months, haiti | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - A U.S. missionary should spend six months in prison for her failed attempt to remove 33 children from Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake, a prosecutor said Thursday on the first day of her trial.Categories: | May 14th, 2010 | by |
AP - A rogue army general working with anti-government protesters was shot in the head Thursday while talking to reporters in downtown Bangkok, triggering more clashes that left one demonstrator dead and worsening Thailand's political chaos.