Talkers: Dad gets GED reprieve
- 05/16/2008 10:10 PM CDT
HAMILTON, Ohio | A judge says he will release a man who was jailed last week for failing to make sure his daughter earned a GED.
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HAMILTON, Ohio | A judge says he will release a man who was jailed last week for failing to make sure his daughter earned a GED.
WASHINGTON | President Bush had a simple plan for NASA in 2004. Stick another American flag on the moon, and launch a new American-led space age.
DES MOINES, Iowa | When it comes to comfort, Kirk Christie’s cows have it all — a new barn, a flat-screen television and water beds.
So, who said this about Hamas two years ago? “They’re the government. Sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice … but it’s a new reality in the Middle East.”
FORT LEAVENWORTH | Premature declarations of victory ultimately doomed the Iraqi occupation to lost opportunities, a former commander of U.S. troops there said Friday.
WATERTOWN, S.D. | Barack Obama and John McCain went back and forth Friday over foreign policy. Obama, campaigning in South Dakota, put McCain together with President Bush, declaring, “If they want a debate about protecting the United States of America, that’s a debate I’m ready to win, because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for.”
COLUMBUS, Ohio | In comic book terms, it might be on the scale of a merger of the X-Men and the Justice League of America: two collections combining to form what’s thought to be the world’s largest treasury of cartoon art.
JERUSALEM | President Bush used a speech to the Israeli Parliament on Thursday to denounce those who would negotiate with “terrorists and radicals.”
ATLANTA | People 60 and older should get a one-time shingles shot that can help prevent the painful rash, U.S. health officials are recommending.
FARGO, N.D. | A flight attendant angry about his work route smuggled a lighter aboard an airplane and set a fire in a bathroom, forcing an emergency landing, authorities said Thursday.
Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds — that is, until he steps into an “exoskeleton” of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
COLUMBUS, Ohio | John McCain declared for the first time Thursday that he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013.
LEEDS, Ala. | Several workers were injured and others needed help getting out of the rubble when a roof collapsed Thursday at a clothes-hanger factory, company officials said.
WASHINGTON | The House on Thursday passed a Democratic plan sharply boosting education benefits for Iraq-Afghanistan veterans and awarding people whose unemployment benefits have expired with a 13-week extension.
ATHENS, Greece | A 9-year-old girl who went to a hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
WASHINGTON | President Bush’s Iraq war-funding request collapsed in the House on Thursday.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. | Drop that frog leg. It might be bad for your health. Wildlife and health officials have warned Floridians against eating too many frog legs if they come from frogs caught in the state-controlled parts of the Everglades in western Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
Hillary Clinton’s remark about her strong support among “hardworking Americans, white Americans’ was called “the dumbest thing she could have said” by Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York.
WASHINGTON | Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne came with slides, maps and charts. They all showed the dire predicament of the polar bear and the majestic animal’s struggle against global warming.
The “dream ticket” idea just isn’t going away: Should Barack Obama make Hillary Clinton his vice presidential running mate?
NEW YORK | Thou shalt find the Ten Commandments up for bid this summer. A pair of faux granite tablets that Charlton Heston cradled in the 1956 biblical epic “The Ten Commandments” is expected to fetch as much as $60,000, said Marc Kruskol, a publicist for the auction Profiles in History. It is the fourth set of tablets that remains from the film that featured Heston as Moses.
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The Ohio Lottery says a winning Mega Millions ticket has been sold in Ohio.
The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.
When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect's ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what was alleged all along: The sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex.
For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death - losers often don't even make it off the racetrack grounds alive. More than 400 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by injection at a clinic behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack, said chief veterinarian Jose Garcia.
Soon after taking office, the next president will get some advice about how to prevent a nuclear attack on the U.S., researched and written by top experts on weapons of mass destruction.
Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over. More than 80 years later, most Alabama counties still operate under this system, with the same $1.75-a-day allowance, and some sheriffs are actually making money on top of their salaries.
In just five years, the West Texas polygamist sect transformed 1,700 acres of scrubland purchased for $700,000 into a bustling ranch with a blazing-white limestone temple, sprawling three-story log cabins, woodworking shops and a dairy.
L. Douglas Wilder, the nation's first elected black governor, announced Friday that he would not seek re-election as Richmond's mayor, likely bringing his storied political career to a close.
A Justice Department team has traveled to Iraq to investigate the fatal shooting of an Iraqi guard by a security contractor, hastening the resolution of questions about whether U.S. attorneys can prosecute him, an official said Thursday.
The former head of UCLA's cadaver program and a businessman were indicted Friday on eight felony counts involving black market sales of donated human body parts in a scheme that allegedly cheated the university out of more than $1 million.
A U.S. Marine Corps Harrier attack jet crashed while on a training mission in southern Arizona, but both pilots ejected safely, officials said.
A fisherman who admitted stabbing a sea lion that apparently took bait from his fishing line was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation.
Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment illegal.
As the Earth warms, is it starting to feel a little slow?
Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.
The investigation into the bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse has led to the arrest of a woman accused of using false identification in an attempt to obtain explosives, prosecutors said Friday.
Faced with drought and a jump in consumption, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has called for cleansing sewage for drinking water and imposing restrictions for watering lawns and washing driveways.
A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring at least 17, including three seriously, an emergency official said.
Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery's once-celebrated life continued its long downward spiral Friday when a federal judge sentenced the former "world's fastest man" to nearly four years in prison for dealing in bad checks.
The shortage of workers at Ted Blair's three hotels near Yellowstone National Park is so severe that Blair himself might soon be busing tables and stripping beds.
Danielle Brown stands outside a South Side market at midnight, braving the spring chill for her first chance to buy groceries since her food stamps ran out nearly two weeks ago.
President Bush's contentious nominee for the Federal Election Commission removed his name from consideration Friday, potentially ending a lengthy stalemate that had paralyzed the work of the agency.
A Catholic order of priests that refused to join a record sex-abuse settlement between accusers and the Los Angeles Archdiocese has reached a deal, an attorney for the plaintiffs said.
The southwest Alabama town of Coffeeville has been shaken by a small earthquake.
Two military helicopters were vandalized on the production line at a Boeing factory near Philadelphia, the Defense Department said Thursday as it offered a reward in the case.
