Garbage trucks lead to discovery of dead Fla. girl
ORANGE PARK, Fla. - After 7-year-old Somer Thompson vanished on her way home from school, investigators tailed nine garbage trucks from her neighborhood to a Georgia landfill nearly 50 miles away, then methodically picked through the trash as each rig spilled its load.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-10-22
Social Security freeze means seniors must scrimp
PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - If her check were bigger, 76-year-old Agnes Conti might be able to spring for a better cut of meat for her pot roast. She could afford to send her nine grandchildren more than $20 for their birthdays and Christmas. She'd be able to buy some nice new clothes, like she sees on QVC, not what she settles for at Walmart.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-10-16
5 children, woman found dead in Fla. apartment
NAPLES, Fla. - The husband of a woman found dead in a Florida apartment along with her five young children boarded a flight for Haiti, and police said Sunday the couple had a history of domestic violence calls to their homes over the past decade.
Nations:Haiti U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-09-20
Hurricane Bill gathers strength out in Atlantic
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The first hurricane of this year's Atlantic season gathered force far out to sea Monday, while two weaker storm systems drenched the northeastern Caribbean and the Florida Panhandle with rain.
Nations:Haiti U.S. Dominican Republic Activities:2009 Hurricane Bill Source:(AP)
2009-08-17
Turbulence injures 26 on flight, diverted to Miami
MIAMI - More than two dozen people were hurt when a Continental Airlines jet hit turbulence on a flight from Brazil to Texas, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Miami early Monday, officials said.
Nations:U.S. Brazil Source:(AP)
2009-08-03
Obama remark on black scholar's arrest angers cops
BOSTON - Many police officers across the country have a message for President Barack Obama: Get all the facts before criticizing one of our own. Obama's public criticism that Cambridge officers "acted stupidly" when they arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could make it harder for police to work with people of color, some officers said Thursday.
Nations:U.S. People:Barack Obama John McCain Source:(AP)
2009-07-23
Man kills 4 at gathering in Miami, then kills self
MIAMI - A man barged into a birthday party early Sunday, shot his estranged wife and three other people to death, then went home, set his truck and house on fire and killed himself, police said.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-03-15
UBS says had 47K accounts for Americans
WASHINGTON - UBS AG now says it had about 47,000 accounts held by Americans who didn't pay U.S. taxes on their assets, but Switzerland's biggest bank is providing the names of only 300 American clients to the U.S. government in a showdown over secrecy.
Nations:Switzerland U.S. People:Timothy Geithner Carl Levin Barack Obama Source:(AP)
2009-03-04
UBS official to face Senate questioning
WASHINGTON - An official of UBS AG on Wednesday will face questions from a Senate panel for the first time since Switzerland's biggest bank formally acknowledged responsibility for helping tens of thousands of American clients hide assets from the U.S. government.
Nations:Switzerland U.S. People:Timothy Geithner Carl Levin Source:(AP)
2009-03-04
Search narrows off Fla. Gulf Coast; Man rescued
CLEARWATER, Fla. - The Coast Guard on Monday narrowed the search area for two NFL players and a third man missing since a weekend fishing trip off the Florida Gulf Coast after crews rescued a fourth man clinging to their capsized boat.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-03-02
Amid nurse shortage, hospitals focus on retention
MIAMI - Newly minted nurse Katie O'Bryan was determined to stay at her first job at least a year, even if she did leave the hospital every day wanting to quit.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2009-02-15
AP IMPACT: Lobbyists skirt Obama's earmark ban
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's ban on earmarks in the $825 billion economic stimulus bill doesn't mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won't be able to funnel money to pet projects.
Nations:U.S. People:Mitch McConnell Barack Obama Activities:Obama Admin. Source:(AP)
2009-01-25
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