Iran Threatens Full-Scale Enrichment
VIENNA, Austria - Iran upped the ante Monday in its nuclear standoff, warning that it will immediately begin developing a full-scale uranium enrichment program if it is referred to the U.N. Security Council.
Conservative Party Wins in Canada Election
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper and his Conservative Party won national elections Monday and ended 13 years of Liberal rule, a victory expected to move Canada rightward on social and economic issues and lead to improved ties with the United States.
Bush hits foes who say spying broke the law
President Bush yesterday took direct aim at Democratic critics on Capitol Hill who charge that a secret spy program he ordered in 2002 is illegal, saying, "If I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?"
Ford Says New Plan Goes Beyond Job Cuts
DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford Motor Co. says its new restructuring plan goes beyond job cuts and plant closings in its effort to restore North American profits. The nation's second-largest automaker also will try to reinvigorate its domestic brands as part of the turnaround.
Session of Saddam Trial Canceled
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The court trying Saddam Hussein cancelled the resumption of his trial Tuesday, delaying the session for five days, after some judges opposed the appointment of a new chief judge in a last-minute shakeup.
W.Va. Lawmakers Approve Mine Safety Rules
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - West Virginia lawmakers approved a wide raft of measures aimed at improving safety in the mine shafts beneath the nation's second-largest coal producing state, an overhaul triggered by the deaths of 14 miners in two accidents this month.
Republicans to Give Alito Committee Win
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito takes his first step toward the high court with a preordained Senate Judiciary Committee victory Tuesday, but the strength of opposition among panel Democrats may forecast his margin of victory in the full Senate.
Poll: Most Americans back Alito for Supreme Court
Investigator: U.S. 'Outsourced' Torture
STRASBOURG, France - The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday there was evidence the United States outsourced the torture of al-Qaida suspects to other countries and it was likely European governments knew about it.
Serbia-Montenegro Train Crash Kills 44
BIOCE, Serbia-Montenegro - Emergency teams on Tuesday searched for survivors in the wreckage of a passenger train that derailed and plunged into a river canyon outside the Montenegrin capital, killing at least 44 people and injuring nearly 200, officials said.
Jury Orders Reprimand, No Jail for Soldier
FORT CARSON, Colo. - A military jury has recommended that an officer once facing up to life in prison for the interrogation death of an Iraqi general be given only a reprimand, a decision that drew applause from soldiers.
Fat-Blocking Pill Wins Federal Endorsement
WASHINGTON - A pharmaceutical company hopes to begin selling this year a fat-blocking pill directly to millions of overweight Americans who now only have access to a prescription version of the drug.
Childhood Heart Repairs May Not Last
WASHINGTON - One of medicine's greatest triumphs is hitting a snag: Up to 1 million people born with once-lethal heart defects now have grown up, a pioneering generation largely unaware that heart repairs can wear out as they approach middle age.
Fierce Winds Whip Through Southern Calif.
LOS ANGELES - Fierce Santa Ana winds whipping through Southern California on Monday fanned brush and house fires, knocked out power to 77,000 utility customers and littered roads with palm fronds and trash cans.
AP NewsBreak: Nardiello Ruling Overturned
Tim Nardiello was reinstated as the U.S. skeleton coach Monday night, hours after an arbitrator found no evidence to support claims that he sexually harassed two team members. Still up in the air: whether U.S. Olympic officials will allow him to coach at the Turin Games next month.
Calif. Man Pleads Guilty to Felony Hacking
SAN FRANCISCO - A 20-year-old hacker admitted Monday to surreptitiously seizing control of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers, using the zombie network to serve pop-up ads and renting it to people who mounted attacks on Web sites and sent out spam.
Yahoo, MS: No personal data surrendered
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Yahoo and Microsoft say they did not turn over any private information to the government when they complied with a subpoena.
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DNA Exonerates Fla. Man After 24 Years
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TAMPA, Fla. - Alan Crotzer stepped into the warm sunlight outside the courthouse Monday and raised his arms to the sky, celebrating his freedom after more than 24 years behind bars for crimes he didn't commit.
Animal abuse tip leads to something much more serious
WFTS
GIBSONTON - What started out as an animal abuse call has turned into a much larger investigation. Over the weekend, Animal Control officers were called to a home on Bacall Lane in Gibsonton. There, they say, they found much more than they expected.
Lunz extradited back to Pinellas
BAY NEWS 9
Authorities extradited 38-year old Christopher Lunz from the Macon County Jail in Franklin, N.C., to the Pinellas County Jail on Sunday.
'It's no longer about Carlie'
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
TAMPA - Judy Cornett and Susan Schorpen bonded over shared tragedy. For Cornett, it was the 1992 abduction and rape of her 11-year-old son. For Schorpen, it was the abduction and murder of her 11-year-old daughter, Carlie Brucia.
Soldier from Inverness killed in roadside bomb attack
WFTS
INVERNESS - A soldier from Florida was one of four killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their Humvee in Iraq, military officials said.
Navy Week underway in Tampa
BAY NEWS 9
From wartime missions, to fighting piracy on the high seas, to homeland security, the USS Carney and its crew are ready to respond to any situation.
Execution of officer's killer still due today
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
Condemned inmate Clarence Hill, scheduled to die today for the 1982 slaying of a Pensacola police officer during a bank holdup, pressed his fight Monday to avoid execution.
Man Jumps Out Of Plane Onto Tarmac
LOCAL 6
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A passenger on a commercial flight jumped out of the airplane as it prepared to take off Monday from Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.
Volunteers rebuilding hurricane-damaged homes
BAY NEWS 9
POLK COUNTY - For more than a year, 68-year-old Mary Kimbrell has lived with massive storm damage from 2004's hurricanes at her Winter Haven house. "It was just a matter of time until they would have condemned it and we'd be put out in the streets," said Kimbrell.
Fla. Girl Shot In Head During Road Rage
LOCAL 6
MARIANNA, Fla. -- A 12-year-old girl is expected to undergo more surgery this week after she was shot in the head, caught in the cross fire of an apparent road-rage attack involving her grandfather and another man.
Terri Schiavo's Husband Remarries
YAHOO NEWS/AP
SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. - Michael Schiavo, whose brain-damaged wife was at the center of a contentious end-of-life battle that played out on a worldwide media stage, has remarried, family members said.
Florida officials work to bar sale of cellphone records
PALM BEACH POST
TAMPA - Your cellular conversations may be private, but who you call and even how long you talk can be found by anyone with your number and a few dollars.
Al-Arian co-defendant to be released
LOCAL 6
TAMPA, Fla. - A man acquitted of taking part in a Tampa terrorist cell will be released from jail this week. Sameeh Hammoudeh will return to Jordan with his wife and six children, after spending nearly three years in prison.
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