Mass. Woman's 1 Cent Debt Paid In Full (AP) (524) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_penny_bill : Mass. woman's 1 cent debt paid in full (AP) - AP - A 74-year-old blind woman's 1 cent debt to a Massachusetts city has been settled. People from across the country called Attleboro City Hall on Tuesday offering to pay the 1 cent balance owed by Eileen Wilbur for an overdue water and sewer bill. |
Indian Navy Sinks Suspected Pirate "mother" Ship (AP) (653) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/piracy : Indian navy sinks suspected pirate "mother" ship (AP) - AP - The ship, operating off the coast of Oman in the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden, was crewed by heavily armed men, some carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Behind it were a pair of speedboats — the sort pirates often use when they launch attacks on merchant ships in these violent seas. |
Al-Qaida No. 2 Insults Obama With Racial Epithet (AP) (942) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_al_qaida_obama : Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet (AP) - AP - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. |
Arraignment Set For Cheney, Gonzales In Texas (AP) (657) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cheney_indicted : Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas (AP) - AP - A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center. |
NC Undercover Officers Use Taser On Pallbearer (AP) (641) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/funeral_taser : NC undercover officers use Taser on pallbearer (AP) - AP - Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after they used a Taser while serving an arrest warrant on a man at his father's funeral, a North Carolina sheriff said Wednesday. |
Finger-pointing Begins As Senate Nixes Auto Vote (AP) (1288) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/auto_bailout_what_s_next : Finger-pointing begins as Senate nixes auto vote (AP) - AP - A Democratic Congress, unwilling or unable to approve a $25 billion bailout for Detroit's Big Three, appears ready to punt the automakers' fate to a lame-duck Republican president. |
Calif. Supreme Court To Take Up Gay Marriage Ban (AP) (650) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gay_marriage_lawsuits : Calif. Supreme Court to take up gay marriage ban (AP) - AP - California's highest court agreed Wednesday to hear several legal challenges to the state's new ban on same-sex marriage but refused to allow gay couples to resume marrying before it rules. |
India Blows Up Pirate Boat (Reuters) (1393) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_somalia_piracy : India blows up pirate boat (Reuters) - Reuters - An Indian warship blew up a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden and gunmen from Somalia seized two more vessels, defying the foreign warships patrolling the seas off their anarchic country. |
Dad Accused Of Killing Daughter While Cleaning Gun (AP) (993) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/girl_shot : Dad accused of killing daughter while cleaning gun (AP) - AP - A father arrested after his 6-year-old daughter was fatally shot in their Washington state home allegedly told authorities he had been drinking double shots of vodka while cleaning his guns. |
Taylor Swift Aces Archuleta, Trumps Twilight (E! Online) (1374) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/69607 : Taylor Swift Aces Archuleta, Trumps Twilight (E! Online) - E! Online - Taylor Swift is doing mighty fine without Joe Jonas, thank you very much. |
Rapper Gets 20 Years After Writing Shooting Song (AP) (1087) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_rapper_sentenced : Rapper gets 20 years after writing shooting song (AP) - AP - He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name. A judge sentenced 25-year-old Rico Todriquez Wright Monday to spend the next 20 years in prison after his victim mentioned the hip hop confession to police. |
Somali Pirates Transform Villages Into Boomtowns (AP) (906) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/af_pirate_boomtown : Somali pirates transform villages into boomtowns (AP) - AP - Somalia's increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women — even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages. |
Ind. Inmates Sneak Through Ceiling To Have Sex (AP) (1107) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/odd_jail_sex : Ind. inmates sneak through ceiling to have sex (AP) - AP - Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex. |
Bush Set To Relax Endangered Species Rules (AP) (1098) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bush_endangered_species : Bush set to relax endangered species rules (AP) - AP - Animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct could lose the protection of government experts who make sure that dams, highways and other projects don't pose a threat, under regulations the Bush administration is set to put in place before President-elect Obama can reverse them. |
Hollywood's "Wizard Of Oz" Lauded For Stunning, Sexy Epic (Reuters) (1209) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_australia_reviews : Hollywood's "Wizard of Oz" lauded for stunning, sexy epic (Reuters) - Reuters - With stunning scenery, steamy love scenes, and an adorable Aboriginal child star, the outback epic "Australia" received largely positive reviews after its world premiere but failed to meet all the high expectations. |
Bill Clinton Giving Up The Goods To The Obama Team (The Yahoo! Newsroom) (389) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl156 : Bill Clinton giving up the goods to the Obama team (The Yahoo! Newsroom) - The Yahoo! Newsroom - Some husbands send flowers. Some buy chocolate. In the Hillary-Bill relationship, he gives up sources of foreign income and names of donors to show his support. |
Teen Lives 4 Months With No Heart, Leaves Hospital (AP) (779) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/med_artificial_heart : Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital (AP) - AP - D'Zhana Simmons says she felt like a "fake person" for 118 days when she had no heart beating in her chest. "But I know that I really was here," the 14-year-old said, "and I did live without a heart." |
Consumer Prices Drop Record 1 Percent In October (AP) (1266) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/economy : Consumer prices drop record 1 percent in October (AP) - AP - Consumer prices plunged by the largest amount in the past 61 years in October as gasoline pump prices dropped by a record amount. |
Israel Says Will Boycott U.N. Forum On Racism (Reuters) (431) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_israel_conference : Israel says will boycott U.N. forum on racism (Reuters) - Reuters - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Wednesday that Israel had made a final decision not to participate in a U.N. forum on racism and urged other countries to boycott what she termed an "anti-Israel tribunal." |
Dow Falls Below 8,000, S&P At 5-year Low (AP) (806) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestrated/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/wall_street : Dow falls below 8,000, S&P at 5-year low (AP) - AP - Wall Street hit levels not seen since 2003 on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging below the 8,000 mark amid a dour economic outlook from the Federal Reserve and worries over the fate of Detroit's three automakers. |
