At issue in court are payments to children artificially conceived after their father’s death.
2012
People & EntertainmentSimpson cover gets covered up
PHOENIX – A photo of a pregnant Jessica Simpson on the cover of Elle magazine was apparently too much for some customers of a Tucson Safeway store. A store worker wound up covering it with cardboard. The April edition features the photo of the singer/actress/fashion designer with one hand over her breast and another wrapped […]
Rogers starts in Triple-A
Mark Rogers, who has eight games left on his suspension, has returned to start for Nashville.
After 148 years, Maine man returns seized Confederate flag
An Islesboro man fulfills his great-grandfather’s request by donating the Civil War trophy.
Raymond to choose from three to manage beach
The select board will interview the applicants to sell food at and run the beach on April 10.
Three state officers in Senate campaign juggle jobs
Three candidates for U.S. Senate say they won’t allow campaigning to interfere with their constitutional offices.
World/Nation Dispatches
JUNEAU, Alaska Former Exxon Valdez heads for Indian Gulf scrap heap The ship formerly known as the Exxon Valdez, responsible for one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history, appears destined for the scrap heap in a shipyard along the Indian Gulf of Cambay. The tanker ran aground at Alaska’s Bligh Reef on March […]
Jenks charged with DUI, hit and run
The Red Sox reliever, stopped by Florida police, says he took ‘too many muscle relaxers.’
Judge rules against EPA in coal-mine pollution case
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority last year in revoking water pollution permits that another agency had issued for one of West Virginia’s largest mountaintop removal coal mines, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday. In siding with St. Louis-based Arch Coal, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson declared […]
Health care court arguments readied
Activists on both sides are campaigning as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the case next week.