Associated Press Writer KATMANDU, Nepal ) — A South Korean mountaineer became the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest mountains, officials said, crawling on all fours Tuesday as she reached the last summit. Oh Eun-sun, 44, arrived at the final, steep stretch of Annapurna in the Himalayas 13 hours after she left the [...]
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday condemned Arizona’s tough new immigration law as discriminatory and warned that relations with the U.S. border state will suffer. The measure, which will make it a crime under state law to be an illegal immigrant, “opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law [...]
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — An Ohio man who authorities say was carrying a gun and driving a car loaded with law enforcement equipment when he said he wanted to see the president is a “public-service-minded†ham-radio, weather and police buff, acquaintances said Monday. Joseph Sean McVey, who was spotted by police in an Asheville Regional Airport [...]
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma House voted overwhelmingly Monday to override vetoes of two restrictive abortion measures Gov. Brad Henry has called unconstitutional intrusions into citizens’ private lives and decisions. The Senate is expected to follow suit as early as Tuesday, after which the bills would become law. One of the measures requires women to [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — A sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday exposed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to billions of dollars in legal damages when it ruled a massive class action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination over pay for female workers can go to trial. In its 6-5 ruling, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the [...]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A former University of Tennessee student charged with hacking Sarah Palin’s e-mail chose to not testify at his trial, while his lawyer said Monday that the defendant guessed his way into the e-mail during a prank. Jurors were scheduled to begin deliberating Tuesday on the four felony charges against David Kernell, including [...]
LOS ANGELES — The Hollywood sign, a beacon to stars and star-struck alike, has been saved from urban sprawl under a land conservation pact announced Monday after a donation by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner capped a multimillion-dollar fundraising drive. “It’s a symbol of dreams and a symbol of opportunity and hope,†actor-turned Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]
WASHINGTON — A video has surfaced showing accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab training with al-Qaida in Yemen. The video, obtained and broadcast Monday by “ABC World News,†shows the 23-year-old Nigerian firing weapons and speaking in Arabic about his impending attack. He is shown reading from the Quran and saying, “God said those [...]
EL CAJON — An 11-year-old girl told police a man followed her home from school the day before registered sex offender John Albert Gardner III raped and murdered a 17-year-old girl in a nearby park, according to search warrants unsealed Monday. The documents also said two women joggers were convinced they had encountered Gardner on [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court has rejected Chevron Corp.’s effort to overturn a judge’s ruling that blocked the oil giant from expanding its Richmond refinery without further environmental review. The San Francisco-based First District Court of Appeal said Monday that the judge properly interpreted state environmental regulations when she ruled last summer that [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor Gavin Newsom may be San Francisco’s leader, but he’s only 29th on the list of highest-paid city employees, more than a third of whose earnings topped $100,000 last year. Newsom, whose salary is $250,903, is one of 9,487 workers who grossed more than $100,000 last year, including overtime. Top earner Charles [...]
AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO — Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information. The call for simpler privacy controls came in a letter that the senators planned to send Tuesday to Facebook [...]
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