First ships crawl down Mississippi after spill
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The first of 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill began crawling down the Mississippi River Friday after the Coast Guard reopened the waterway to traffic, but it could be days before all of the ships are cleared....
OSHA fines Imperial Sugar $8.7M in deadly blast
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion killed 13 people....
Manager: Cops shot man after threat on Pa. station
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- An official at a Christian radio station in central Pennsylvania says police shot and killed a man who had threatened the station....
Phoenix police: College shooter was punched first
PHOENIX (AP) -- One of three people wounded in a computer lab at a community college had punched the gunman in the face before he opened fire, police said Friday....
Pa. teens charged in fatal beating of immigrant
PORT CARBON, Pa. (AP) -- Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town. Brandon J. Piekarsky, 16, and Colin J. Walsh, 17, were charged as adults with homicide and ethnic intimidation in the July 12 attack on Luis Ramirez....
Assault claim tightens terms against Detroit mayor
DETROIT (AP) -- Investigators alleged Friday that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick berated and attacked them as they tried to serve a subpoena to a friend, and a judge ordered the troubled mayor to pay $7,500 and undergo random drug testing....
Former NJ mayor gets probation in war lies case
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- A judge ordered former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy on Friday to serve three years' probation and pay a $5,000 fine for lying about his Vietnam War service to pad his benefits check....
Long-missing soldier's remains arrive in Mass.
LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) -- A procession of veterans on motorcycles and state police in their cruisers blocked parts of two interstates Friday as it finally brought home the body of an Army staff sergeant who was missing for months after being seized by insurgents in Iraq....
Tarantulas, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) -- South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem: The floodwaters they're slogging through are laced with stinging fire ants, snakes and tarantulas....
Grandmother pleads guilty in Texas child porn case
MARSHALL, Texas (AP) -- A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case....
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The 346 passengers were cruising at 29,000 feet Friday when an explosive bang shook the Qantas jumbo jet. The plane descended rapidly. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as debris flew through the cabin from a hole that had suddenly appeared in the floor....
Baghdad muralists resist push for sectarian themes
BAGHDAD (AP) -- It's art ornamenting life: murals of soothing landscapes and historical heroes covering the blast walls that are now as much a part of Baghdad's cityscape as date palms and desert dust....
Israeli newspaper publishes Obama's private prayer
JERUSALEM (AP) -- An Israeli newspaper's decision to publish a handwritten prayer left by Barack Obama in the cracks of Jerusalem's Western Wall drew criticism Friday as an invasion of his privacy and his relationship with God....
Poland says no to DNA testing of Chopin's heart
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Like a religious relic, the heart of composer Frederic Chopin rests in a Warsaw church, untouched since it was preserved in alcohol after his death in 1849 at age 39. And that's how the Polish government wants to keep it....
47 dead, 100 missing in Congo boat accident
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- At least 47 people died when a motorized boat sank on a river in Congo, and more than 100 people are missing, a district official said Friday....
Mexican military losing drug war support
OJINAGA, Mexico (AP) -- This hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street....
Rice: Pakistan should do more to end violence
PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory....
US strengthening Zimbabwe sanctions
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe says the United States is in the process of strengthening sanctions against individual Zimbabweans blamed for deadly electoral violence....
Extradition appeal deadline for Karadzic closer
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- The deadline for Radovan Karadzic to appeal extradition to a United Nations war crimes tribunal expires Friday, a court spokeswoman said....
Hot, impatient crowd vies for Olympics tickets
BEIJING (AP) -- A crowd of 30,000 people, baking in the heat and waiting for up to two days, swarmed a ticketing center Friday as the final batch of Olympic tickets went on sale. Police shoved and kicked them and used metal barricades to prevent a stampede....
