Iraqis vote by the millions
BAGHDAD -- Festive crowds mobbed polling stations yesterday for Iraq's third election this year, the most ambitious attempt yet to shift a Shi'ite-Sunni struggle from the streets to parliament.
Unintimidated by a series of morning explosions that shook the capital and a smattering of attacks elsewhere, record numbers of voters walked in the warm sun to cast ballots at heavily protected polling places.
Senate May Derail Patriot Act Extension
WASHINGTON - Several Patriot Act provisions that the Bush administration says are crucial in the fight to stop terrorism on U.S. soil may only be around for another couple of weeks.
NYC Transit Union Calls Selective Strike
NEW YORK - New York City's transit union called a selective strike against private bus lines Friday, after a night of bargaining failed to produce a deal involving 33,000 subway and bus workers.
Reports: Bush Authorized NSA to Spy in U.S.
NEW YORK - The National Security Agency has eavesdropped, without warrants, on as many 500 people inside the United States at any given time since 2002, The New York Times reported Friday.
Blast at Russian Nuclear Plant Kills One
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - An explosion at a Russian nuclear power plant complex killed one worker and badly hurt two others, but Russia's nuclear agency said Friday no reactors were affected.
S.Korean Stem Cell Researcher Defends Work
SEOUL, South Korea - A prominent South Korean scientist on Friday stood by his purported breakthroughs in stem cell technology amid accusations he falsified key evidence, but still requested that a landmark scientific article be withdrawn due to errors.
One Dead, 450,000 in Dark After Icy Storm
COLUMBIA, S.C. - A blast of freezing rain across Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday closed schools, snarled traffic and caused power outages to more than 450,000 customers. At least one death was blamed on the storm when an ice-laden tree crashed through a man's house.
EU Trade Chief Warns WTO Talks in Trouble
HONG KONG - The European Union trade chief on Friday warned that global trade talks at the World Trade Organization were "going backwards," as developing nations threatened to reject any trade deal that fails to protect their cotton, banana and sugar farmers.
Deal on Torture Clears Way for Defense Bills
WASHINGTON - Congress is expected to act quickly on two stalled defense bills — including a $453 billion must-pass wartime spending measure — now that President Bush has agreed to a proposal to ban cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of terrorism detainees in U.S. custody.
Study: 11M U.S. Adults Can't Read English
WASHINGTON - About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows.
NTSB: Plane at Midway Needed More Runway
CHICAGO - A jetliner that skidded off a landing strip and into a city street needed about 800 more feet of runway to come to a safe stop, federal investigators said Thursday.
Researchers: Mother Squids Nurse Eggs
MOSS LANDING, Calif. - Researchers said they have uncovered evidence that some mother squids nurse their eggs for months after laying them, helping to disprove a long-held theory that all female squids simply abandoned new offspring on the ocean floor.
Freeman Criticizes Black History Month
NEW YORK - Morgan Freeman says the concept of a month dedicated to black history is "ridiculous." "You're going to relegate my history to a month?" the 68-year-old actor says in an interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" to air Sunday (7 p.m. EST). "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history."
Howard Stern Bids Farewell to His Fans
NEW YORK - The free ride for Howard Stern fans ends Friday. Stern, a New York radio fixture for 20 years and host of a syndicated show for 12 million daily listeners, bid farewell to his fans with a final show on terrestrial radio.
Family Members Clash Over Parks' Estate
DETROIT - When the Mays Printing Co. ran off 10,000 copies of the obituary programs from Rosa Parks' funeral, demand for them was high. At $10 apiece, they sold out in three days following the November ceremony.
Smoking foes try to stop parents from lighting up
Anti-smoking activists who are driving cigarettes from public places across the country are now targeting private homes -- especially those with children.
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Duct-tape claim is called into question
St. Petersburg Times/WFTS
DUNEDIN - Eight students on Kyle Gerber's school bus said they did not see the bus driver duct tape the boy's mouth during the ride home earlier this week, Pinellas County school officials said Thursday.
Pastor charged with incest
Bay News 9
WAVERLY, Fla. - The founder and pastor of the Real People Church of God, 52-year-old Rubin Thankful Thompson Jr., has been charged with five counts of incest for allegedly fathering his own grandchildren with his daughter.
Officer Cleared In Fatal Shooting Of Undercover Colleague
WFTV
ORLANDO - An Orlando police officer was cleared Thursday of any wrongdoing for fatally shooting an undercover University of Central Florida officer who was pointing a gun at a suspect during a tailgate party outside the Citrus Bowl last September.
Controversy over gay straight clubs in schools
WTSP
PLANT CITY - Gay Straight Alliance, also known as GSA, are in several schools in Hillsborough County. The school board recently received around a thousand petitions from people, saying sexually oriented clubs at schools is inappropriate.
Muslim group offers reward in St. Petersburg double-murder
WFTS
ST. PETERSBURG - A Muslim activist group is offering a reward to help solve a double murder in St. Petersburg. Investigators have no suspects and no motive in the deaths of Ikbalhusen Vakil and Ali Asghar.
State: Divorce husband to get life-saving treatment for son
WTSP
BEVERLY HILLS, Fla. - Meet Judson Buddy Garvin. He is almost four, and a bundle of energy. But Buddy has a rare condition that doesn't allow him to eat anything except a special formula called "Neocate One +" that is fed to him through a tube.
Elections supervisor: Some Diebold voting machines can be hacked
WFTS
TALLAHASSEE - Tests show some Diebold voting machines used in Florida and elsewhere around the nation can be hacked by election office insiders to change results, Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho charged Thursday.
Levesque Found Guilty of Murder
Lakeland Ledger
BARTOW - A jury Thursday convicted Robert Levesque of second-degree murder in a complex case where the victim's body never has been found.
Kansas church to picket areacongregations
St. Petersburg Times
ST. PETERSBURG - Local police have alerted several area churches that their congregations will be the target of a picketing campaign from members of a Topeka, Kan., church this weekend.
Trailer park drug investigation snags pipe bomb suspect
WFTS
PINELLAS PARK - For two months, undercover investigators had been zeroing in on alleged drug dealers in the Golden Lantern Mobile Home Park in Pinellas Park. But their investigation took a sudden turn when a search of one mobile home revealed two pipe bombs.
21st Flight to the North Pole in Manatee
Bradenton Herald
MANATEE - Santa made an early visit to Manatee County on Thursday but left his sleigh and reindeer at home. He instead landed in a green Manatee County Sheriff's Office helicopter before a crowd of cheering children and their families at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport Fire Department.
Man Gets Prison For Sex With Girl
Lakeland Ledger
BARTOW -- A former substitute science teacher at Fort Meade Middle-Senior High School was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for engaging in sexual activity with a student he taught in sixth grade.
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