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| Officials: Obama's Afghanistan goals due soon (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 11:29 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration expects to announce new objectives for the flagging war in Afghanistan as soon as next week that place an onus on next-door Pakistan to contain extremism, defense and administration officials said Thursday.
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| Officials: Ala. shooter depressed over failures (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 11:10 pm
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|  AP - In the days before he killed 10 people and himself in the worst massacre in Alabama history, Michael McLendon told a confidant he was unfulfilled and depressed by his failure to become a police officer or a Marine.
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| Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend, doctors charged (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 11:08 pm
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|  AP - Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two doctors were charged Thursday with giving thousands of prescription drugs to the former Playboy playmate in the years leading up to her 2007 fatal overdose.
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| FBI cited for poor freedom of information work (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 10:56 pm
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|  AP - The FBI tells two out of every three Freedom of Information Act requesters that it can't find the records they asked for — a failure rate five times higher than other major federal agencies, a private study has found.
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| U.S., EU eye possible fix to long-standing beef war (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 10:28 pm
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| | Reuters - The United States will hold off on new retaliatory duties for European products while the two countries work on a possible fix to a dispute over beef trade that dates back to the 1980s, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Thursday. |
| German school shooter 'made Internet threat' claim (AFP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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|  AFP - A teenager who went on a rampage in his old school announced his intentions on the Internet just hours earlier, according to an official, but police cast doubt on the claim as Germany mourned the 15 people he gunned down.
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| Obama confronts Dem skepticism on economic plans (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:29 pm
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|  AP - Confronting misgivings, even in his own party, President Barack Obama mounted a stout defense of his blueprint to overhaul the economy Thursday, declaring the national crisis is "not as bad as we think" and his plans will speed recovery.
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| Madoff's new home: Cell the size of walk-in closet (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:29 pm
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|  AP - Bernard Madoff's new Manhattan home is the size of a walk-in closet, with cinderblock walls, linoleum floors and a bunk bed. Breakfast will be served before sunrise, and the disgraced financier can stretch his legs outside, but only every other day — in a cage.
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| Pelosi dodges chance to end automatic pay raises (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:25 pm
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|  AP - Congress' automatic pay raises are in little immediate danger of being scrapped for good, even with the economy slumping and millions of Americans unemployed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday would not commit to holding a vote on a bill to do away with the annual cost-of-living increases. She pointed out that Congress recognized the economic crisis by voting this week to skip next year's raise.
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| Stewart hammers Cramer on 'The Daily Show' (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:21 pm
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|  AP - Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on "The Daily Show," repeatedly chastising the "Mad Money" host for putting entertainment above journalism.
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| Thieves use relish ruse to rob elderly Fla. woman (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:06 pm
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| | AP - How do you make relish? That's the question police said thieves used to distract an elderly woman in a Wal-Mart store as they stole her purse. Now they're looking for the three suspects after hundreds of dollars in charges were made to the 79-year-old woman's credit cards for beer, cigarettes and gift cards. |
| Red Sox closer Papelbon compares Ramirez to cancer (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 4:44 pm
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|  AP - Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon on Thursday stood by a magazine interview in which he compared former teammate Manny Ramirez to cancer and said Boston made the right decision when it traded the slugger to the Los Angeles Dodgers last summer. Papelbon was quoted in the April issue of Esquire as saying, "He was on a different train! And you saw what happened with that. We got rid of him, and we moved on without him."
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| Dow gains nearly 240 on good news on banks, GM (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 4:44 pm
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|  AP - Investors have been clamoring for months for a bit of good news. On Thursday, they got a load of it. The Dow Jones industrials shot up 240 points, bringing its gains over the past three days to 622 points. It was the index's biggest three-day jump since last November.
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| GOP's Steele clarifies his opposition to abortion (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 4:41 pm
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|  AP - A day after a magazine quoted him as saying abortion was "an individual choice," GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Thursday he opposes abortion and that Roe v. Wade should be overturned. Steele, who was adopted, told GQ magazine that his mother had the option of getting an abortion or giving birth to him.
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| Space station crew has close call with space junk (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm
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|  AP - The crew of the international space station had a close call with space junk Thursday. The three astronauts briefly took refuge inside a Russian escape capsule before returning inside the space station. Officials were worried that the orbiting outpost might get hit with a small piece of passing space debris. Tiny pieces of debris could cause a fatal loss of air pressure in the station.
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| Thieves use relish ruse to rob elderly Fla. woman (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 4:15 pm
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| | AP - How do you make relish? That's the question police said thieves used to distract an elderly woman in a Wal-Mart store as they stole her purse. Now they're looking for the three suspects after hundreds of dollars in charges were made to the 79-year-old woman's credit cards for beer, cigarettes and gift cards. |
| Obama says long-term investments cannot wait (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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|  AP - Facing misgivings within his own party, President Barack Obama mounted a stout defense of the administration's economic blueprint Thursday, arguing that delay on health care, energy and education would make "recovery more fragile and our future less secure."
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| Police make 3 arrests in Neb. missing-car case (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 4:05 pm
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|  AP - Police have arrested three executives from a troubled western Nebraska car dealership where 81 vehicles worth roughly $2.5 million — as well as the executives themselves — vanished in recent days.
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| Cohen withdraws from Treasury consideration: source (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm
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| | Reuters - Prominent Wall Street lawyer H. Rodgin Cohen has withdrawn from consideration to become deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary, a Democratic source said on Thursday, dealing another setback to the department's efforts fill critical positions. |
| Army fired 11 soldiers in Jan. as openly gay, congressman says (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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| | AP - The Army fired 11 soldiers in January for violating the military's policy that gay service members must keep their sexuality hidden, according to a Virginia congressman. Democratic Rep. Jim Moran said he has requested monthly updates from the Pentagon on the impact of the policy until it is repealed. |
| Obama official not a target in FBI raid: spokesperson (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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| | Reuters - The FBI raided the former office of Obama administration official Vivek Kundra and arrested two people in a corruption probe on Thursday, but Kundra is not a target of the investigation, a spokeswoman for Washington's mayor said. |
| Tallest U.S. building to get new name (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 2:24 pm
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| | Reuters - The 110-story Sears Tower, tallest office building in the Western Hemisphere, will be renamed the Willis Tower, global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings said on Thursday. |
| Handcuffed Madoff jailed after admitting fraud (AFP)
March 12, 2009 at 2:11 pm
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|  AFP - Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff was led handcuffed to jail Thursday after pleading guilty to tricking thousands of people out of billions of dollars in one of history's biggest financial scams.
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| Judge OKs indefinite freeze of Stanford assets (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 1:53 pm
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| | Reuters - A federal judge has granted the U.S. government's request to indefinitely freeze the assets of Texan financier Allen Stanford, whom regulators have accused of running a massive Ponzi scheme. and three of his companies. |
| Pakistanis protest while government scrambles (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 10:01 am
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|  Reuters - Hundreds of black-suited Pakistani lawyers and flag-waving opposition activists launched a cross-country protest on Thursday, as the year-old civilian coalition government scrambled for ways to avert a showdown.
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| Madoff arrives in court for plea in fraud case (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:52 am
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|  AP - Bernard Madoff arrived at the federal courthouse Thursday morning where the disgraced financier is expected to deliver on his lawyer's prediction that he will plead guilty to all 11 felony charges brought by prosecutors.
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| Germany grieves after school shooting (AFP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:52 am
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|  AFP - A teenager who went on a bloody rampage in his old school had announced his intentions on the Internet just hours earlier, it emerged Thursday as Germany mourned the 15 people he gunned down.
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| U.S. jobless seen nearing 10 percent (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 9:46 am
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| | Reuters - U.S. unemployment will approach 10 percent as the country endures its worst recession since World War Two, leaving more than 13 million Americans jobless, according to a Reuters poll of economists. |
| Jobless claims rise as retail sales slip (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:32 am
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|  AP - With layoffs spreading, the number of initial claims for jobless benefits rose last week, while the total number of people continuing to receive benefits set a record high, the government said Thursday.
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| Stage set for Madoff plea, fraud victims in NY court (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 9:23 am
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|  Reuters - Bernard Madoff, accused of running the biggest fraud in Wall Street history, is expected to plead guilty on Thursday in what is shaping up to be a courtroom drama featuring denunciations by investors and a renewed push by prosecutors to jail him immediately.
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| Roche to take over Genentech for $47 billion (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:22 am
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|  AP - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche agreed to pay $46.8 billion to buy the 44 percent of biotech pioneer Genentech that it doesn't already own, ending a long corporate struggle with its U.S.-based cancer drug partner.
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| World economy set to shrink (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 9:15 am
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| | Reuters - The world economy will shrink 1-2 percent this year, World Bank President Robert Zoellick forecast, as a slew of European and U.S. data pointed to declines in demand, production and employment on Thursday. |
| Police detain protesters amid Pakistan turmoil (AFP)
March 12, 2009 at 9:09 am
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|  AFP - Pakistan police baton-charged activists and manhandled dozens into vans Thursday, at the start of a mass four-day march designed to force President Asif Ali Zardari to reinstate sacked judges.
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| U.S. House to explore financial crisis prosecutions (Reuters)
March 12, 2009 at 8:53 am
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| | Reuters - The U.S. House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing next week to ask key justice officials and regulators what they need to prosecute wrongdoers in the financial crisis, the chairman of the committee said on Thursday. |
| Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 8:50 am
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|  AP - The Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at then-President George W. Bush was convicted Thursday of assaulting a foreign leader and sentenced to three years in prison, lawyers said. He defiantly shouted "long live Iraq" when the sentence was read.
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| Pope acknowledges Vatican mistakes in bishop case (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:41 am
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|  AP - Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged Vatican mistakes over a Holocaust-denying bishop and his efforts to reach out to ultraconservatives, saying in a highly unusual critical review that he was saddened that even Catholics attacked him with open hostility.
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| Robert Morris, Portland St. head to NCAA tourney (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 7:32 am
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|  AP - Robert Morris and Portland State have become the 13th and 14th teams to receive automatic berths in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Both teams needed a bucket in the closing seconds to win their respective tourneys.
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| Foreclosures up 30 percent in February (AP)
March 12, 2009 at 6:55 am
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| | AP - Despite halts on new foreclosures by several major lenders, the number of households threatened with losing their homes rose 30 percent in February from last year's levels, RealtyTrac reported Thursday. | | |  |
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