FAIRFIELD — A couple were at a bank Monday night on the 300 block of Dickson Hill Road when two men walked up to them. Both men had guns. One of the men put the gun to the head of a man using the bank’s ATM machine and demanded that he withdraw cash. He did. [...]
FAIRFIELD — A couple were at a bank Monday night on the 300 block of Dickson Hill Road when two men walked up to them. Both men had guns. One of the men put the gun to the head of a man using the bank’s ATM machine and demanded that he withdraw cash. He did. [...]
Associated Press Writer Exhausted new moms use them to mark their twins. Doodlers on hyper-drive buy them to trick out their cars. Conan O’Brien morphed into one on Twitter, and Taylor Swift used one as eyeliner in a pinch. It’s hard to find someone — anyone — who doesn’t love the hardworking Sharpie, excluding the [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI says all countries have the right to regulate immigration flows and protect their borders, and immigrants must respect the laws and national identity of their host nations. The pontiff said in a message that every person has a right to migrate in search of better living conditions. The [...]
AP National Writer NEW YORK — Mother Nature knows how to welcome Keith Richards. The afternoon is warm and sunny minutes before Richards is to be interviewed at his manager’s office in downtown Manhattan, a veritable Keith shrine with posters and pictures on the wall, and a director’s chair with his name on it, ready [...]
Associated Press “Bloodthirsty†(Poppy, $9.99), by Flynn Meaney: Sure, there’s no such thing as vampires. But that doesn’t stop dorky, neurotic Finbar Frame. Fin is tall, has pale skin and is sensitive to sunlight, so he believes that he’ll have no trouble persuading girls that he’s the next Edward Cullen. Trouble is, he has no [...]
Associated Press NEW YORK — No need for time travel for Michael J. Fox. The actor says he’s happy with his life just the way it is. In fact, Fox says if he could jump in a DeLorean time machine — like his “Back to the Future†character Marty McFly — and share any advice, [...]
TEHRAN, Iran — Tehran’s prosecutor said Tuesday Iran will seize the $500,000 bail posted by an American woman freed from prison last month if she does not return for the start of her trial on Nov. 6. Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi was quoted by the semi-official ISNA news agency as saying that Sarah Shourd can return [...]
Associated Press LONDON — The British bobby is about to go ballistic. Faced with growing terror threats involving urban areas, British police are receiving new weapons and specialized training from the SAS, Britain’s elite military unit. The hope is that the training and equipment will help if Britain ever faces an attack similar to the [...]
Associated Press Writer KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai’s order to replace private security companies with Afghan policemen and soldiers leaves two big unanswered questions — What policemen? What soldiers? With police attrition rates high and the pace of the war increasing, Western security officials believe there’s simply not time to train enough police before [...]
Associated Press RICHMOND, Virginia — Relatives of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole are asking for the right to seek emotional-distress claims against the Republic of Sudan, which they say provided support for al-Qaida terrorists. An attorney representing 59 relatives on Tuesday asked a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
Salt Lake Tribune SULAMANIYAH, Iraq — Construction cranes, dozens upon dozens of them, stand over this city in defiance of the past, stretching across the skyline as if reaching for the future. And here, in the mountains of northern Iraq, that future seems as bright as the golden sun emblazoned on the ubiquitous flag of [...]
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