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AP: Headlines
False alarm: Google search still working in China
By MIHCAEL LIEDTKE
2010-07-30T02:28:11Z
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Google Inc. triggered a false alarm Thursday by posting a notice that its search engine and several other services had been cut off from mainland China - a key market where the company has been locked in a high-profile battle over online censorship....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Less oil on surface means less work for fishermen
By GREG BLUESTEIN and KEVIN McGILL
2010-07-30T02:22:25Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Even when the oily sheen starts fading from the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, it manages to become bad news for fishermen....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Top Mexican drug lord killed in clash with army
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
2010-07-30T02:18:23Z
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- One of the top three leaders of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel died in a gunfight with soldiers Thursday, ending the long run of a mysterious capo considered a founder of the country's massive methamphetamine trade....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Oswalt traded to Phillies; Tejada, Cantu also move
By The Associated Press
2010-07-30T01:58:12Z
Roy Oswalt granted his own wish: He's now part of a pennant race. Miguel Tejada and Jorge Cantu joined the mix, too....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Ellen DeGeneres out as 'American Idol' judge
By LYNN ELBER
2010-07-30T01:56:56Z
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ellen DeGeneres is dancing off "American Idol" after one season, leaving Fox's hit show with two vacancies on its judging panel....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Pentagon: Leak investigaton may go beyond military
By ANNE GEARAN
2010-07-30T01:36:26Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A criminal investigation into the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs could go beyond the military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday, and he did not rule out that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could be a target....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
As many as 6,600 Arlington graves mixed up
By ANNE FLAHERTY
2010-07-30T01:32:50Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Estimates of the number of graves that might be affected by mix-ups at Arlington National Cemetery grew from hundreds to as many as 6,600 on Thursday, as the cemetery's former superintendent blamed his staff and a lack of resources for the scandal that forced his ouster....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Panel hits Rangel with 13 ethics charges
By LARRY MARGASAK and LAURIE KELLMAN
2010-07-30T01:32:49Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday, throwing a cloud over his four-decade political career and raising worries for fellow Democrats about the fall elections....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Ariz. files appeal as sheriff launches new sweep
By JACQUES BILLEAUD and AMANDA LEE MYERS
2010-07-30T01:32:48Z
PHOENIX (AP) -- The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Ousted USDA employee Sherrod plans to sue blogger
By JESSE WASHINGTON
2010-07-30T01:29:05Z
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will sue a conservative blogger who posted a video edited in a way that made her appear racist....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Florida great-grandma takes a bite out of crime
By
2010-07-29T01:24:32Z
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A great-grandmother in Daytona Beach bit an assailant and was dragged several feet hanging on to the getaway car of a couple who snatched her purse. Patricia Robertson doesn't know how she summoned the strength, but the commotion she created helped get her belongings back....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Pitino tells jury about sex with extortion suspect
By BRETT BARROUQUERE and WILL GRAVES
2010-07-29T01:24:32Z
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A woman accused of demanding millions to stay quiet about a tryst with Rick Pitino initiated the sex by whispering to him and unzipping his pants when he got up to leave an empty Italian restaurant, he testified Wednesday....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Bunker-busting ATM attacks show security holes
By JORDAN ROBERTSON
2010-07-29T01:24:31Z
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A hacker has discovered a way to force ATMs to disgorge their cash by hijacking the computers inside them. The attacks demonstrated Wednesday targeted standalone ATMs. But they could potentially be used against the ATMs operated by mainstream banks....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Ship lost for more than 150 years is recovered
By
2010-07-29T01:24:27Z
TORONTO (AP) -- Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
NYC looks to stop spreading bedbug infestations
By SARA KUGLER FRAZIER
2010-07-29T01:24:25Z
NEW YORK (AP) -- One of every 15 New Yorkers battled bedbugs last year, officials said Wednesday as they announced a plan to fight the spreading infestation, including a public-awareness campaign and a top entomologist to head the effort....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
FBI director defends bureau over test cheating
By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN
2010-07-29T01:24:24Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress on Wednesday that he does not know how many of his agents cheated on an important exam on the bureau's policies, discussing an embarrassing investigation that raises questions about whether the FBI knows its own rules for conducting surveillance on Americans....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Crews take step toward readying permanent well fix
By HARRY WEBER and TAMARA LUSH
2010-07-29T01:24:15Z
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Crews took another step toward readying the relief well expected to finally kill the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, removing the plug they had popped in before clearing the area ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie last week, federal officials said Wednesday....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
152 die as plane crashes in rainy Pakistan hills
By ASIF SHAHZAD and MUNIR AHMED
2010-07-29T01:24:15Z
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- A passenger jet that officials suspect veered off course in monsoon rains and thick clouds crashed into hills overlooking Pakistan's capital Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board and scattering body parts and twisted metal far and wide....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Judge blocks parts of Arizona immigration law
By JACQUES BILLEAUD and AMANDA LEE MYERS
2010-07-29T01:24:09Z
PHOENIX (AP) -- A federal judge stepped into the fight over Arizona's immigration law at the last minute Wednesday, blocking the heart of the measure and defusing a confrontation between police and thousands of activists that had been building for months....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
Calls for Rangel to quit could escalate if no deal
By LARRY MARGASAK and LAURIE KELLMAN
2010-07-29T01:24:09Z
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The calls from fellow Democrats for New York Rep. Charles Rangel to resign could quickly turn from a trickle to a flood unless he can quickly negotiate a plea bargain to prevent a congressional trial on allegations of ethical misconduct....
Categories: NEWS: U.S. and International
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