COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Columbus-area television station removed ads by a liberal group last weekend after a congresswoman complained they distorted her record. The liberal group MoveOn.org paid WBNS-TV $89,400 to run ads claiming Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio, was “caught red-handed” taking donations from energy companies and then voting against …
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WOODSTOCK, N.Y. – Art Garfunkel made up for last summer’s arrest for marijuana possession in Woodstock by speaking to students at two local high schools about keeping a healthy lifestyle. Ulster County District Attorney Donald Williams said the singer, who was found with a marijuana cigarette in his ashtray after …
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LONDON – The Rolling Stones on Wednesday postponed the first 15 dates of their European tour as guitarist Keith Richards recovers from a head injury. Stones publicist LD Communications said the European leg of the band’s “A Bigger Bang” tour, which had been due to start Saturday in Barcelona, Spain, …
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WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates fell this week as a weaker-than-expected employment report eased concerns about inflation. Freddie Mac (FRE), the mortgage company, reported Thursday that rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.62 percent, down from 6.67 percent last week, which had been the highest level in nearly four years. Click …
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ATLANTA – Police have put an investigation on hold of five murders in the Atlanta child killings case because they have no new leads, authorities said Wednesday. The decision came a year after the investigation was reopened in the infamous killings of black boys and young men from 1979 to …
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – An FBI investigative team arrived at a federal prison Thursday to search for evidence following a deadly shootout between a guard and federal agents who were trying to arrest him and five others indicted in a sex-for-contraband scandal. Corrections officer Ralph Hill, an Air Force veteran, had …
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HOUSTON – Prosecutors rested their case after showing how Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub, but defense attorneys say Yates had severe postpartum psychosis and did not know the drownings were wrong. Defense attorneys are scheduled to begin presenting their case Thursday in Yates’ second capital murder …
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WASHINGTON – Urged anew by Nancy Reagan, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is reviving a bill to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research despite objections from some conservatives and a veto threat by President Bush. The bill would permit the federal government to pay for human embryonic stem …
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LOS ANGELES – A wealthy woman accused of kidnapping a 7-week old baby was adopting him, her lawyer said, but police claim she took the baby after his teenage mother rejected her offer to buy him. Annette Pinkard, a 47-year-old real estate professional from the Dallas area, is being held …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – The U.S. military said Saturday that it had found no wrongdoing by American troops accused of intentionally killing civilians during a raid in a village north of Baghdad that left up to 13 Iraqis dead. The investigation of the March 15 attack on a home in the …
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