Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
WASHINGTON (AP) — Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose for the second time in three weeks last week. The potential rise in layoffs comes as Congress remains stuck at an impasse over extending federal jobless aid. The Labor Department said Thursday that new claims for jobless benefits jumped by 13,000 to a seasonally adjusted 472,000. [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
SAN FERNANDO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, caused severe flooding and forced thousands of people to flee coastal fishing villages before weakening to a tropical storm over northern Mexico. The Atlantic season’s first hurricane largely spared nearby Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. While it brought rain, spawned two [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
DENVER (AP) — An American on a solo mission to hunt down Osama bin Laden is headed back to the United States, ten days after authorities found him in the woods of northern Pakistan with a pistol, a sword and night-vision equipment. Gary Faulkner, who has been detained since June 13, left Pakistan early Wednesday [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — This was the year, Alicia Hollis and her fellow real estate agents thought. After a nasty batch of hurricanes and the bursting of the housing bubble, this was the year that condo sales along the Florida Panhandle’s brilliant white beaches were going to rebound. Then came the oil – [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Afghanistan strategy session is under way at the White House as scheduled without word from President Barack Obama about the fate of war commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who is under fire for blistering remarks in a magazine. McChrystal came to the White House for a 30-minute face-to-face with Obama over his [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — Grounded by oil, the charter boat owner along Alabama’s Gulf Coast known as Capt. Bligh walks past an old first mate. “Arrrrrrgh,” Bligh growls like a pirate. He has beard like Santa Claus and a belt with saltwater fish embroidered in the webbing. Hardly anyone calls him by his real [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Writer ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — There was a time when all you could get from playing beer pong was drunk. Now, you can get rich, too. What started out as a drinking game has blossomed into a nationwide competition with a $25,000 first prize, all for doing what millions [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
By TANALEE SMITH Associated Press Writer ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — The first day Abby Sunderland was stranded in the Southern Ocean, Australia’s rescue agency chartered a jet to fly over the area where her emergency beacon was activated. The 11-hour flight cost an estimated 110,000 Australian dollars (US $94,500). The second day, after locating her, [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Associated Press MANDARIN — A sonar buoy from a Navy plane on a training flight crashed through the roof of a north Florida home. Officials say the P-3 Orion had just taken off from Jacksonville Naval Air Station Friday morning when the 3-foot-long, 40-pound cylinder fell more than 500 feet. The device went through the [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — As officials approached to survey the damage the Gulf oil spill caused in coastal marshes, some brown pelicans couldn’t fly away Sunday. All they could do was hobble. Several pelicans were coated in oil on Barataria Bay off Louisiana, their usually brown and white feathers now jet black. Pelican eggs [...]
