Nation & World
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PublishedApril 13, 2010
Prop 8 repeal try lacks signatures
OAKLAND, Calif. – Same-sex marriage advocates have failed to gather enough petition signatures to place on November’s ballot a measure that would repeal Proposition 8’s constitutional ban. Though it didn’t gather at least 694,354 valid signatures from registered voters by Monday’s deadline, the Restore Equality 2010 Coalition insists the effort wasn’t in vain, in that […]
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PublishedApril 13, 2010
Small paper, new media add to Pulitzer mix
The Post and the Times are winners, but so is the Herald Courier in Virginia.
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PublishedApril 13, 2010
Father takes funeral protesters to Supreme Court
Albert Snyder sues the Westboro Baptist Church for picketing his son's funeral.
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PublishedApril 13, 2010
Two propose N.H. gambling site
GROVETON, N.H. – Two Groveton businessmen are pitching a plan to bring gambling to New Hampshire’s North Country. The New Hampshire Union Leader reports businessmen Tom Leduc and Brian Bresnahan are putting the finishing touches on a packet of material that they plan to send to well-known casino operators to try to lure them to […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2010
Summit aims to keep nuclear arms secure
President Obama intends to ensure that all nuclear materials are secured from theft in four years.
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PublishedApril 12, 2010
Miners remembered at church services
Federal investigators will arrive today as officials try to figure out what caused the fatal mine explosion.
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PublishedApril 12, 2010
What’s happening to the California gray whales?
A commission could soon allow 1,400 to be hunted over the next decade even as their numbers decline.
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PublishedApril 12, 2010
Poles grieve for president as government fills critical positions
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s government moved swiftly Sunday to show that it was staying on course after the deaths of its president and dozens of political, military and religious leaders, even as tens of thousands of Poles expressed their grief over the plane crash in Russia that shocked the country. New acting chiefs of the […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2010
Turin Shroud to be given special viewing
The curious and those who believe the linen is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ can get a brief look.
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PublishedApril 12, 2010
Dixie Carter, 70, known for ‘Designing Women’ TV role
Dixie Carter, who gained television fame as Julia Sugarbaker on the long-running CBS sitcom “Designing Women,” has died. She was 70. Carter died Saturday morning at a Houston hospital of complications from cancer, said Steve Rohr, publicist for Carter and her husband, actor Hal Holbrook. “This has been a terrible blow to our family,” Holbrook […]
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