AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton had every reason to expect a big victory Tuesday in the West Virginia Democratic primary as her campaign tried to use the contest to raise doubts about front-runner Barack Obama's electability in the fall.
AP - One earned a football scholarship years after burns and lung damage kept him in the hospital for two months. Another poured her grief into preventing other alcohol-fueled crashes and became president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. A third began speaking publicly about the tragedy only after two decades of staring at scars in the mirror.
AP - John McCain faced turbulence even before he flew up the Pacific coast from Oregon to Washington on Tuesday.
AP - John McCain faced turbulence even before he flew up the Pacific coast from Oregon to Washington on Tuesday.
AP - Relentless wildfires burned Tuesday morning across Florida's Atlantic coast, taxing firefighters and overwhelming residents trying to save their homes with garden hoses.
RBC, 13.05.2008, Moscow 16:58:32. The Natural Resources and Ecology Ministry intends to draft measures for environmental protection and present them to the government by the year-end, head of the ministry Yury Trutnev told journalists today.
AP - Deputies shot and killed two people who had opened fire near an Indian casino in Southern California and fired at a sheriff's helicopter as officers chased them into the hills of the reservation.
AP - Turmoil in financial markets has eased somewhat, but the situation is still "far from normal," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.
AP - Turmoil in financial markets has eased somewhat, but the situation is still "far from normal," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.
GAZA , May 13, 2008, (WAFA)-Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights Warned on Tuesday from an environmental catastrophe on the shore of the Sea of Gaza because the flow of sewage.
AP - Another round of storms headed toward tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states early Tuesday where residents are still picking up from the weekend's killer twisters.
RealClearPolitics.com - In late 2006, before this presidential election cycle picked up speed, conventional wisdom dictated that the winning campaign had to follow the model that then-Governor George W.
AP - Hundreds of Marines were conducting a combat training mission in the Mojave Desert when an air patrol spotted something kicking up dust: A civilian pickup truck speeding across the barren landscape.
Four Loudoun County students will be recognized for their roles in environmental stewardship Thursday when they will receive Rachel Carson Scholarship Awards in honor of the late environmentalist, who is considered the founder of the modern environmental movement.
Gushan Environmental Energy Limited , China's largest producer of biodiesel as measured by annual production capacity, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008.
AP - A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
AP - The Detroit City Council has spent weeks debating what to do with scandal-plagued Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: force his ouster or slap him on the wrist.
AP - Amid daily bipartisan sniping over high gas prices, Democrats and Republicans appear to agree on at least one thing: With oil over $120 a barrel, President Bush ought to stop buying crude for the government emergency reserve.
AP - The assignment for Virginia Commonwealth University fashion students: design an abaya, an enveloping cloak worn by Muslim women, that is stylish yet acceptable in Arab countries.
Politico - Can the sisterhood save Hillary Rodham Clinton again?
By Mella McEwen Oil Editor Midland College will host the 2008 Permian Basin Environmental Regulatory Seminar Wednesday, May 14 in the Carrasco Room in the college's Scharbauer Student Center. The seminar is sponsored by the college's Petroleum Professional Development Center, Environmental Study Group of the Permian Basin section, Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the Permian Basin Petroleum ...
With Earth Day less than a month behind it, Mechanicsburg is looking forward to its annual environmental weekend, which starts Friday.
The Christian Science Monitor - History Often provides an excuse for a party. In Europe and America, romantics are celebrating 1968. It seems that every hotel in Paris is booked for this month's festivities ? even the Ritz. Anniversaries have a way of cleansing the past of unpleasantness.
The Christian Science Monitor - Before he became Russia's president last week, Dmitry Medvedev came across as less edgy than Vladimir Putin when talking about the West. Some Kremlin watchers thought this might mean a spring thaw in relations with the US and Europe. Now there's a case to test this theory.
The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court ruling that multinational companies can be sued in a US court for allegedly aiding and abetting the former apartheid government in South Africa.
AP - Should she lose or abandon her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton will have to deal with her campaign's more than $20 million debt — a step that could test her relationship with Barack Obama and raise new issues in campaign finance law.
Jim Wenzara is director of environmental services for the city of O'Fallon, and his office is the size of a bedroom closet.
AP - Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid Monday, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government.
AP - Barack Obama's wave of superdelegate endorsements puts him within reach of the Democratic presidential nomination by the end of the primary season on June 3 — even if he loses half of the remaining six contests.
AP - A suburban Chicago man has reclaimed the Guinness world record for time spent on a stationary bicycle.
USATODAY.com - To put himself through Virginia's Radford University, Chris House works 35 hours a week at a local Pizza Hut. During summers, he takes a second job as a farm hand.
USATODAY.com - There is no argument in Washington that the Montgomery GI Bill has not kept pace with rising college costs ? it provides for less than 70% of public tuitions and 30% of private ? but there is debate on how to improve the benefit. That is where two Senate colleagues and fellow Vietnam War veterans ? James Webb, D-Va., and John McCain, R-Ariz. ? are at odds.
USATODAY.com - In West Virginia, where Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama waged a quiet skirmish in their War Without End, the noisy ghosts of a political battle 48 years ago echoed through the Appalachian hollows.
Frontier Resources announced that a positive "Initial Environmental Assessment" (IEA) Report has been produced by Independent John Douglas of Douglas Environmental Consultants, Papua New Guinea. The IEA conclusions support all Frontier's previous comments relating to this issue confirming there is no valid reason under the Mining Act or even in the National Interest to not renew the Exploration ...
HuffingtonPost.com - Instead of a pie in the face, which Thomas L. Friedman ducked at Brown University a couple of weeks ago, the student pranksters should have tossed a few tough questions to the bestselling author about his fading green bona fides.
AP - Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts.
