Record fuel costs cause record pain

Although investigators said it appears a high school senior who planned to carry out a Columbine-inspired attack was acting alone, only about half of the students enrolled at the school attended classes Monday.

The Chinese manufacturer of a heparin ingredient does not have adequate systems for ensuring that the raw materials it uses are safe and that any impurities are removed, the Food and Drug Administration told the company Monday.

Magistrate Thelma Simpson agreed to a request made by Tiny Virginia Makopo’s lawyer, who said he needed more time to consult with his client.

“I’m predicting it’s going to be close and that we are going to do a lot better than people expect,“ said Barack Obama.

Data released by a congressional committee shows that the number of soldiers admitted to the Army with felony records jumped from 249 in 2006 to 511 in 2007. And the number of Marines with felonies rose from 208 to 350.

The court on Monday turned down appeals from Thomas Arthur of Alabama, Earl Wesley Berry of Mississippi and Carlton Turner of Texas. The court blocked their executions last fall while it considered a challenge to Kentucky’s lethal injection procedures.

“They (Hamas) said that they would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, if approved by Palestinians and that they would accept the right of Israel to live as a neighbor next door in peace,“ Carter said.

Texas will test children’s DNA and then remove them from mothers

Pope Benedict XVI told the United Nations that respect for human rights was the key to solving many of the world’s problems.

Hard-plastic Nalgene water bottles made with bisphenol A will be pulled from stores over the next few months because of growing consumer concern over whether the chemical poses a health risk.

Massive avalanches destroyed transmission lines and support towers to a dam that supplies 85 percent of the Juneau’s electricity.

A 5.4 earthquake early Friday rocked people awake as far away as Indiana, surpris-ing residents unaccustomed to such a large Midwest temblor.

On the South Lawn, Benedict seemed personally touched by warm cheers and birthday wishes from the crowd of more than 13,000. At least twice he stood and held out both arms in a show of thanks on his 81st birthday.

Thursday hearing on sending 416 children back to polygamist compound

Federal agents busted businesses because of ID stealing.

Polygamists filmed police raid, parents and children separated

Dallas tow truck driver tows car and child.

Mothers separated from their children as part of a wide-ranging abuse investigation within a polygamist retreat accuse state officials of misleading them before taking their offspring into custody.

Graffiti shuts down college campuses

Members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization’s 2008 West Virginia expedition also claim to have heard sounds made by Sasquatch.

A growing majority say they won’t buy a home anytime soon, the latest sign of increasing pessimism.

A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague told police he slept in fields and survived by eating fruit that he found during a three-month manhunt that ended with his arrest in western Mexico, authorities said.

Dalai Lama talks about protests

WASHINGTON-Sen. John Warner acknowledged Wednesday that he still has much work ahead in persuading fellow Republicans to back his climate change bill. He argued it’s a matter of national and economic security.

Like many newspapers, The Washington Post is struggling mightily with falling circulation and advertising revenue. It’s going through its third round of employee buyouts since 2003.
But cheers erupted Monday in the newsroom when staffers learned the newspaper had hauled in a near-record six Pulitzer Prizes, journalism’s top awards.
“This is actually a boost to remind people that we can produce this kind of journalism at any time,” said Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. “We’re going to have a large enough newsroom to continue to produce this kind of quality journalism.”

Security concerns for the Olympic torch’s only North American stop were high Tues-day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China’s human rights record.
Meanwhile, International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the committee would consider end-ing the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay because of such anti-Chinese protests.

The University of Virginia’s student-run newspaper is among 14 recipients of the Jefferson Muzzles — a dubious honor bestowed to entities that are deemed to have acted counter to the principles of free speech.

The Washington Post won six Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service medal for exposing shoddy treatment of America’s war wounded at Walter Reed hospital, and the breaking-news award for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.

“People throughout the hemisphere are watching to see what the United States will do,“ Bush said. “If Congress fails to approve this agreement, it would not only abandon a brave ally; it would send a signal throughout the region that America cannot be counted on to support its friends.“