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US author Littell wins Bad Sex in fiction prize
Dec 01, 2009; ... A cringe-inducing passage which compares a sexual encounter to battle with an one-eyed mythological monster was awarded Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction Prize on Monday. The editors of the Literary Review magazine said best-selling American author Jonathan Littell won the prize ...
AP Top News at 7:00 p.m. EST
Dec 01, 2009; ... SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) _ Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about outscheming opponents. He leaves one of college football's most ...
Wash. shooting re-opens Huckabee's clemency record
Dec 01, 2009; ANDREW DeMILLO ... A political analyst says former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's decision to grant clemency to the suspect in the killing of four Washington state police officers could cost him if he seeks another presidential run. University of Arkansas at Little Rock political scientist Art ...
Woods withdraws from tourney, citing injuries
Dec 01, 2009; DOUG FERGUSON ... Tiger Woods still isn't talking. Now he's not playing, either. Woods withdrew Monday from his own golf tournament, citing injuries from a car crash near his Florida home. His decision comes as questions continue to mount regarding what exactly happened in the wee hours of the morning last ...
Obama to detail big troop increase in Afghanistan
Dec 01, 2009; JENNIFER LOVEN ... After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at ...
Emotions high, Senate opens partisan health debate
Dec 01, 2009; DAVID ESPO ... Riven by partisanship, the Senate plunged into a widely anticipated debate Monday over sweeping health care legislation that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to approve and Republicans have sworn to block. Debate is expected to last for weeks over ...
Suspect in officer killings eludes law in Seattle
Dec 01, 2009; GENE JOHNSON ... Using search dogs and going door to door, hundreds of police intensified the hunt Monday for the man wanted in the coffeehouse killings of four officers after a SWAT team came up empty-handed in a raid on a house where he was thought to be holed up. The realization that the ...
Defense official communicated with WH crashers
Dec 01, 2009; EILEEN SULLIVAN ... The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in. Michele Jones, a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said in a ...
Iran enrichment plans largely bluster, experts say
Dec 01, 2009; ALI AKBAR DAREINI and JASON KEYSER ... Iran's announcement of plans to build 10 more uranium enrichment facilities is largely bluster after a strong rebuke from the U.N.'s nuclear agency, analysts said Monday. Nonetheless, the defiance is fueling calls among Western allies for new punitive sanctions to freeze Iran's nuclear ...
Man charged with capital murder in 3 Kan. deaths
Dec 01, 2009; JOHN HANNA ... A former Missouri city official previously accused of assaulting his wife was charged Monday with capital murder in the shootings of her and their two teenage daughters in eastern Kansas. James Kraig Kahler, ...
Defense official communicated with WH crashers
Dec 01, 2009; EILEEN SULLIVAN ... The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in. Michele Jones, a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said in a ...
Wash. shooting re-opens Huckabee's clemency record
Dec 01, 2009; ANDREW DeMILLO ... As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand pardoning or commuting many more prisoners than his three immediate predecessors combined. Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in Sunday's slaying of four Seattle-area police officers, was among them. For a politician considering ...
Bess Hawes, prominent musician-folklorist, dies
Dec 01, 2009; ... Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "The M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88. Her daughter, Corey Denos, says Hawes died Friday in Portland, ...
AP Top News at 7:05 p.m. EST
Dec 01, 2009; ... SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) _ Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about outscheming opponents. He leaves one of college football's most ...
AP Top News at 7:07 p.m. EST
Dec 01, 2009; ... SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) _ Charlie Weis arrived at Notre Dame flashing Super Bowls rings and talking about outscheming opponents. He leaves one of college football's most ...
Defense official communicated with WH crashers
Dec 01, 2009; EILEEN SULLIVAN ... The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in. Michele Jones, a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said in a ...
Actor-comedian Tom Arnold weds for 4th time
Dec 01, 2009; ... Tom Arnold is married again. Arnold's spokeswoman, Staci Wolfe, said the "True Lies" and "Happy Endings" actor-comedian wed Ashley Groussman on Saturday in Maui. It is Arnold's fourth marriage. He was first married to actress-comedian Roseanne Barr ...
Defense official communicated with WH crashers
Dec 01, 2009; EILEEN SULLIVAN ... The couple who crashed the Obama administration's first state dinner communicated with a senior Pentagon official about going to the event, but the official denies that she helped the couple get in. Michele Jones, a special assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, said in a ...
Bess Hawes, prominent musician-folklorist, dies
Dec 01, 2009; JOHN ROGERS ... Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio hit "M.T.A." and spent a lifetime documenting American folklore in recordings and films, has died at age 88, her family said Monday. Hawes, who moved to Portland, Ore., from ...
Obama to detail big troop increase in Afghanistan
Dec 01, 2009; JENNIFER LOVEN ... After months of debate, President Barack Obama will spell out a costly Afghanistan war expansion to a skeptical public Tuesday night, coupling an infusion of as many as 35,000 more troops with a vow that there will be no endless U.S. commitment. His first orders have already been made: at ...
