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Most popular news on 4 November 2007 |
Massive pileup closes Calif. highway
AP - More than 100 cars and trucks crashed on a fog-shrouded freeway Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, the California Highway Patrol said.
Teacher arrested in Mexico, boy released
AP - A teacher accused of running away with a 13-year-old student planned a romantic life with him in his native Mexico, but she was near broke when they were captured there, authorities said Saturday.
Musharraf imposes emergency measures
AP - President Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspended Pakistan's constitution and deployed troops in the capital Saturday, declaring that rising Islamic extremism had forced him to take emergency measures. He also replaced the chief justice and blacked out the independent media that refused to support him.
Sean Connery settles suit with golf club
AP - His name is Connery. Sean Connery. And it's a name no longer associated with the Sherwood Country Club.
Astronauts fix ripped solar wing
AP - Astronauts successfully unfurled a torn solar power wing at the international space station on Saturday after spacewalker Scott Parazynski cut loose a tangled clump of wires and patched everything up.
Thousands return to safer Iraqi capital
AP - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.
Kind of Like Unofficial Polygamy
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I am a very happily married woman with a problem: well-intentioned friends and family. My husband and I are polyamorous and not ashamed of it. We have wonderful girlfriends who are special and a part of our family.
Loss, Grief and Jack Daniels
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: My husband and I have been married almost five years.
Liberal arts schools embrace engineering
AP - When Kara Peterman was a high school student interested in engineering, she toured a high-powered engineering university in the Northeast that proudly displayed photos of its graduates.
Ozzy angered by ND sheriff's sting
AP - Ozzy Osbourne wants an apology from the Cass County sheriff for staging a sting operation in the rocker's name without his permission.
Twins invent wedgie-proof underwear
AP - Wedgie-proof underwear earned 8-year-old twin boys a spot Friday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Using rigged boxers and fabric fasteners to hold together some seams, Jared and Justin Serovich came up with the "Rip Away 1000."
Russian pensioners protest against high food prices
Reuters - About 1,500 people, half
of them pensioners, marched through Russia's second city on
Saturday chanting anti-Kremlin slogans and banging saucepans in
protest against rising food prices.
Rapper surrenders in license violation
AP - Rapper T-Pain turned himself in Friday after being wanted on an outstanding warrant for driving with a suspended license, police said.
Runner dies during men's marathon trials
AP - Elite distance runner Ryan Shay, who collapsed and died Saturday during the U.S. men's marathon Olympic trials, had been diagnosed with an enlarged heart but cleared by doctors, his father said.
Remnants of Noel spare New England coast
AP - As the remnants of Hurricane Noel brushed parts of the Northeast with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, Heinz Proft sat back and watched the boats moored to the docks rocked back and forth.
Yankees told $350 million or no A-Rod talk: reports
Reuters - The New York Yankees were told $350
million was the starting point for discussions about retaining
Alex Rodriguez before the slugger declared himself a free
agent, local newspapers reported on Saturday.
Play is emblem of New Orleans' problems
AP - An empty intersection. A tree surrounded by hurricane debris. Ruined houses still untouched since they were flooded by roof-deep water. Now they've been joined by an outdoor stage, with actors and an audience.
Desperation grows as rains pound Haiti
AP - Thousands of Haitians sought shelter in schoolhouses Saturday as the death toll from Tropical Storm Noel rose to 143 across the Caribbean.
Cash-strapped Antioch College stays open
AP - Antioch College trustees agreed Saturday to keep the cash-strapped school open with the help of alumni fundraising, reversing plans to shutter the campus.
Creature ID'd as coyote, not chupacabra
AP - The results are in: The ugly, big-eared animal found this summer in Cuero is not the mythical bloodsucking chupacabra. It's just a plain old coyote.
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