SAN FRANCISCO -- In a monumental victory for the gay rights
movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved
ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling paves the way for allowing
same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.
LUOSHUI TOWN, China -- China warned the death toll from this
week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued
a rare public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled
to cope with the disaster.
LOS ANGELES -- A federal grand jury has indicted a 49-year old woman for allegedly "cyber-bullying" a 13 year old girl into committing suicide.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Republican John McCain declared for the
first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013,
although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put
him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop
withdrawals.
YANGON, MYANMAR -- Myanmar's junta warned Thursday that
legal action would be taken against people who trade or hoard
international aid as the cyclone's death toll soared above 43,000.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a "false political
attack" with a comment about appeasing terrorists and radicals.
ATHENS, Greece -- A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
Juliet Williams | 8:48 PM PDT
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday
released a $144.3 billion state budget that eliminates a massive
deficit by selling lottery bonds and cutting billions in state
programs.
Dee-Ann Durbin | 8:49 PM PDT
DETROIT -- The lights dimmed, the sold-out hall grew hushed
and out walked the conductor - shiny, white and 4 feet, 3 inches
tall.
Astronomers have discovered the
youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still just a baby
at 140 years old.
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. Federal prosecutors unsealed an
indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman's
child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and
photographing some of the acts.
Eric Gorski | 10:33 AM PDT
VATICAN CITY -- Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.
ONTARIO, Canada -- An 11-year-old Ontario boy who was forced to continue chemotherapy treatments against his wishes will be returned to his family.
H. Joseph Hebert | 5:13 PM PDT
WASHINGTON -- The Interior Department declared the polar
bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic
sea ice but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a
path to address global warming.
TRENTON, N.J. -- For the first time, it appears that more
than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription
medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.
JERUSALEM -- President Bush said Wednesday that 60 years of
Israel's existence is cause for optimism for democratic change
throughout the Middle East. "What happened here is possible
everywhere," Bush said, opening a trip divided between ceremonial
duties and a new push for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- A 23-month-old toddler is
back with family members after becoming separated from them at an
airport in Vancouver, British Columbia.
HOLYHEAD, Wales -- A man who dressed up as Darth Vader,
wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a
group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence
Tuesday.
Alan Fram | 8:33 AM PDT
For nearly three in 10 households, don't even
bother trying to call them on a landline phone. They either only
have a cell phone or seldom if ever take calls on their traditional
phone.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Police say they've arrested a man who was seen sparking a small blaze in a town on Florida's Atlantic coast where wildfires have gutted at leat 40 homes.
Starting next year across the country, rape
victims too afraid or too ashamed to go to police can undergo an
emergency-room forensic rape exam, and the evidence gathered will
be kept on file in a sealed envelope in case they decide to press
charges.
Verne Gay | 8:29 PM PDT
What the -- -- was Sue thinking?
Paul Elias | 7:11 PM PDT
Barry Bonds was charged in a new indictment
Tuesday with 15 felony counts alleging he lied to a grand jury when
he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs and that he
hampered the federal government's doping investigation.
A weeping Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years
in prison Tuesday for shooting a woman outside a Manhattan
nightclub.
Reports that popular hip/hop singer Nate Dogg had died are apparently false.
FAIRFIELD, OH -- A man ordered by a judge to make sure his
daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed
to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. -- Hours after being routed by Hillary Rodham Clinton in West Virginia, Barack Obama picked up two more superdelegates, offering fresh recognition from Democratic leaders of his inevitable nomination.
New York -- A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California.
New York -- "In the Heights," a lively snapshot of Latino
life in Upper Manhattan, received 13 Tony Award nominations
Tuesday, more than any other show.
Picher, Okla. -- Sue Sigle was hoping the government would
offer more money for her home before she moves away from this
pollution-scarred town. Then the tornado came.
New York -- Research In Motion Ltd. on Monday is introducing its first major new BlackBerry model in more than a year: the Bold, a high-end model that further demonstrates the company's desire to make tools for both work and play.
Kevin Freking | 9:04 AM PDT
Washington -- The Institute of Medicine said in 2004 there
was no credible evidence to show that vaccines containing the
preservative thimerosal led to autism in children. But thousands of
families have a different take based on personal experience.
Houston -- Prom night is something that high school girls look forward to all year.
Washington -- An extra penny for your thoughts.
Crawford, Texas -- President Bush and first lady Laura Bush eagerly shared their joy on Sunday about Jenna Bush's
marriage Saturday night to Henry Hager.
The Pentagon is recommending changes in the
handling of troops' remains, after it was revealed that a
crematorium contracted by the military handles both human and
animal cremations.
Indianapolis -- A man whose 5-year-old son accidentally shot and killed his sister was arrested at the cemetery before the little girl's burial.
New Orleans - A puppy recently born at an animal shelter is really standing out among his siblings, all because of his color.
Houston -- Three Texas teens have been arrested after police
say one told them that they had dug up a skull and fashioned it
into a bong to smoke pot.
JC Penney is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the those who have burglarized 11 stores in the past year.
Beirut -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Hezbollah, backed by Syria and Iran,
is killing innocent civilians in Lebanon.
Houston -- Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole
that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days
seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but that it could take months
before it's clear whether surrounding areas are stable.
Baghdad -- The U.S. military says it's trying to confirm the
Iraqi defense ministry's claim that the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq
has been arrested in Mosul.
Stephanie Reitz | 10:25 AM PDT
Facebook, the world's second-largest
social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to
protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies,
attorneys general from several states said Thursday.
The actions of a throng of police officers
shown on a videotape kicking and punching three shooting suspects
during a traffic stop were inappropriate, Mayor Michael Nutter said
Thursday.
Veronika Oleksyn | 9:17 AM PDT
Vienna, Austria -- Josef Fritzl said he knew it was wrong to
hold his daughter captive in a locked cellar for 24 years but said
he tried to care for her and their children by bringing them
flowers, toys and books, according to comments published Thursday.
Houston -- They say everything is bigger in Texas, and Sheyla Hershey is no exception.
Federal officials investigating the deaths
of six sea lions at a Columbia River dam did an about-face
Wednesday, saying their initial assumption that the animals had
been shot to death was wrong.
He didn't have any last words, and he
refused an offer of a last prayer. With a shudder and a yawn,
William Earl Lynd became the first inmate put to death in more than
seven months as the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed the
constitutionality of lethal injections.
Jim Heintz | 10:27 AM PDT
Dmitry Medvedev was inaugurated as Russia's president on Wednesday, pledging to bolster the country's economic development and civil rights, in what may signal a departure from his predecessor's heavy-handed tactics.
The leader of an apocalyptic sect in northeastern New Mexico was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony sex crimes against children.
By Eric Bailey | 3:39 PM PDT
An animal protection organization is throwing back the curtains on the West Coast's largest distributor of eggs.
A terrorist attack similar to the 2004 commuter train bombings in Madrid would be even more catastrophic in Los Angeles or Washington, D.C., because the injured would overwhelm strained emergency services, experts told a congressional hearing Monday.
Bradley Brooks | 2:37 PM PDT
About 3,500 American soldiers are scheduled to
leave Iraq in the coming weeks, the U.S. military announced, as
part of the Pentagon's overall reduction in troop strength
following last year's "surge."
A pursuit suspect in Las Vegas hit a double bogey of sorts when his attempts to steal vehicles led him to another set of wheels-- a golf cart.
A 44-year-old woman was arrested on
suspicion of killing three of her babies after their bodies were
discovered in the family freezer by her grown children looking for
pizza, police said Monday.
The so-called "D.C. Madam" says in suicide notes that she couldn't bear to go to prison, and apologizes to her mother and sister.
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