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| Report: North Korea launch would go before UN (AP)
March 28, 2009 at 2:02 am
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|  AP - South Korea, the United States and Japan warned that North Korea's planned rocket launch would violate a U.N. resolution and said they would take the issue to the world body's Security Council if Pyongyang goes ahead with it, a news report said Saturday.
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| Emotional tributes honor fallen Oakland officers (AP)
March 28, 2009 at 1:57 am
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|  AP - The city virtually halted Friday for the funeral of four slain police officers, with a populace still in shock jamming a large sports arena, spilling into an overflow stadium and filling the streets to pay their last respects.
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| Michigan St. beats defending champion Kansas 67-62 (AP)
March 28, 2009 at 12:19 am
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|  AP - Goran Suton had 20 points and nine rebounds and Michigan State was steady from the foul line, rallying to defeat defending NCAA champion Kansas 67-62 Friday night in the Midwest Regional semifinals.
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| 27 dead in Philippine rebel clash: military (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 11:16 pm
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|  AFP - Twenty Muslim separatists and seven soldiers have been killed in fighting in the southern Philippines as the rebels Saturday accused the army of undermining the prospect of a return to peace talks.
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| Obama puts Pakistan at center of Al-Qaeda war (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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|  AFP - US President Barack Obama put Pakistan at the center of the fight against Al-Qaeda in unveiling a new strategy to commit thousands more troops and billions of dollars to the Afghan war.
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| Official: Intel predicts rising Afghan violence (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - U.S. intelligence suggests that violence in Afghanistan will rise through 2009 despite the Obama administration's new strategy for combatting the Taliban and shoring up the Afghan government, a top intelligence official said Friday.
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| Suicide attack kills 48 at Pakistani mosque (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year. The bomber struck at the climax of the service, as the mosque leader was starting the communal prayer, witnesses said.
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| Phoenix's Serial Shooter gets 6 death sentences (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:34 pm
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|  AP - The main suspect in the Phoenix Serial Shooter attacks was sentenced to death Friday for six murders that put the city on edge for nearly two years. Dale Hausner was convicted earlier this month of killing six people and attacking 19 others in random nighttime shootings in 2005 and 2006.
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| VA: 16 patients of problem clinics infected (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 9:23 pm
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| | AP - Viral infections, including hepatitis, have been found in 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at Veterans Affairs medical facilities, a department spokeswoman said Friday. So far, 10 colonoscopy patients from the VA medical center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., have tested positive for hepatitis, VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts told The Associated Press. |
| Thousands flee Fargo ahead of menacing floodwaters (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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|  AP - Thousands of shivering, tired residents got out while they could and others prayed that miles of sandbagged levees would hold Friday as the surging Red River threatened to unleash the biggest flood North Dakota's largest city has ever seen.
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| Autos task force readies aid announcement (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 8:40 pm
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| | Reuters - President Barack Obama will announce the next steps to help General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC on Monday, the White House said, amid signs of progress for GM in talks aimed at slashing its debt and cutting costs in response to slack demand. |
| 'Dumbest criminal' nabbed in cop convention holdup (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 8:27 pm
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| | AP - A retired police chief said he was robbed by "probably the dumbest criminal in Pennsylvania," at a police officers' convention on Friday morning. John Comparetto said as he came out of a stall in the men's room, a man pointed a gun in his face and demanded money. There were 300 narcotics officers from Pennsylvania and Ohio at the gathering. |
| Michael Sarver isn't ready to go back to oil rig (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 8:18 pm
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|  AP - Michael Sarver, latest castoff from "American Idol," isn't ready to go back to the oil rig. "I don't think it would be a great idea to get out there and take a chance on hurting myself and not being available for the tour," he told a teleconference Friday, a day after being eliminated from the Fox singing competition.
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| Bank execs vow to work with Obama on recovery plan (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 8:00 pm
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|  AP - Top executives of the nation's biggest banks said Friday after meeting with President Barack Obama that they will work with the administration on its economic recovery plans, but want more specifics from the White House.
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| Obama makes Pakistan center of Al-Qaeda war (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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|  AFP - US President Barack Obama Friday put Pakistan at the center of the fight against Al-Qaeda in unveiling a new strategy to commit thousands more troops and billions of dollars to the Afghan war.
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| Suicide bomb in Pakistan mosque kills about 50 (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 4:54 pm
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|  AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers at a packed Pakistan mosque, leaving around 50 dead and scores wounded in one of the bloodiest recent attacks in the nation.
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| Man puts finger in gas tank, gets stuck for hours (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 4:14 pm
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| | AP - A Michigan man has learned not to stick his fingers in certain places. Victor Harris, of Saginaw, Michigan, was pouring a fuel additive into his Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicle Thursday when a piece of paper fell into the gas tank. Harris tried to fish the paper out, but his index finger became stuck in the gas tank. |
| Experimental vaccine used in Ebola exposure case (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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|  AP - It was a nightmare scenario: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice. Within hours, members of a tightly bound, yet far-flung community of virologists, biologists and others were tensely gathered in a trans-Atlantic telephone conference trying to map out a way to save her life.
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| Flood waters reach record high in Fargo (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 4:04 pm
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| | Reuters - Hundreds of residents of south Fargo, North Dakota, evacuated their homes early on Friday as the Red River rose to its highest level in 112 years and a crack appeared in a sandbag dike. |
| Phoenix's Serial Shooter gets 6 death sentences (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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| AP - The main suspect in the Phoenix Serial Shooter attacks was sentenced to death Friday for six murders that put the city on edge for nearly two years. Dale Hausner was convicted earlier this month of killing six people and attacking 19 others in random nighttime shootings in 2005 and 2006. |
| Rapper T.I. sentenced to year on weapons charges (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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|  AP - Rapper T.I. was sentenced Friday to one year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to federal weapons charges after he tried to buy a stash of machine guns and silencers to protect himself after his best friend was killed.
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| Gillispie out as Kentucky opts for coaching change (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 3:49 pm
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|  AP - Billy Gillispie is out as Kentucky's basketball coach, ending a tumultuous two years at the head of college basketball's all-time winningest program. The university said Friday it will announce "a change in the head coaching position of the men's basketball program" at a 4:30 p.m. news conference.
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| Afghanistan backs US plan as fighting rages (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 3:17 pm
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|  AFP - Afghanistan welcomed Friday a revised US strategy to fight extremism as authorities announced they had killed 18 insurgents and an Afghan troop killed two foreign soldiers for unknown reasons.
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| Bankers told keep low profile as public anger rises (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 3:14 pm
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| | Reuters - Leave the flash car at home, spend the night in a hotel, hire a bodyguard. This is the kind of advice security experts are giving bank executives who fear attacks from people angered by the financial crisis. |
| Suicide bomb in Pakistan mosque kills up to 50 (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 1:22 pm
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|  AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers at a packed Pakistan mosque, leaving around 50 dead and scores wounded in one of the bloodiest recent attacks in the nation.
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| U.S. consumer spending edges up (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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| | Reuters - U.S. consumer spending rose for a second consecutive month in February and sentiment edged up in March, according to reports on Friday that backed views that the worst of the recession may be over. |
| Suicide attack kills 48 at Pakistani mosque (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 11:03 am
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|  AP - A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year.
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| Obama vows to wipe out Al-Qaeda in Afghan review (AFP)
March 27, 2009 at 10:46 am
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|  AFP - President Barack Obama Friday vowed to wipe out terrorists from Pakistani safe havens, warning Al-Qaeda was plotting catastrophic new attacks, as he unveiled a sweeping new Afghan war strategy.
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| Deflation stalks Japan, resentment rises before G20 (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 9:43 am
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| | Reuters - Japan slipped to the brink of deflation and inflation in Europe slid closer to zero, underlining a threat to the world economy before next week's G20 summit which is supposed to produce a cure for the crisis. |
| Russian envoy sees NATO summit as key to ties (Reuters)
March 27, 2009 at 9:22 am
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| | Reuters - Decisions by NATO's summit next week will have a strong impact on prospects for restoring full relations between Russia and the Western alliance, Moscow's ambassador to NATO said on Friday. |
| AT&T to start sending copyright warnings (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 7:51 am
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| | AP - AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive. |
| Obama seeks input of bank CEOs on recovery plans (AP)
March 27, 2009 at 7:50 am
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|  AP - President Barack Obama wants to hear from the chief executives of some of the country's biggest banks as he caps a week in which he clarified his overall plan for stabilizing the financial system.
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