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| Pa. Mother Guilty for Helping Son to Build Weapons Cache |
A 14-year-old boy planned a school attack with the help of his mother. Even if the police still don’t know if the woman knew what he was helping her son for, she was pleaded guilty for helping him build a weapon cache and of having bought a rifle and gunpowder for his troubled son. On Tuesday in Montgomery County Court, Michele... |
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In the clearest terms yet, the Senate's top Democrat, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Friday charged that the Republican presidential nominee John McCain had derailed a congressional agreement intended to rescue the country from a devastating financial crisis.
"A few days ago, I called on Senator McCain to let us know where he stands...
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The fallout from the largest-ever US bank failure rippled through markets on Friday after federal regulators late Thursday shut down the country's largest savings and loan, Washington Mutual Inc (WaMu).
The firm's assets were immediately sold to banking giant JP Morgan Chase & Co for 1.9 billion dollars, creating the largest US...
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Republican John McCain has decided to attend the first presidential debate with Democrat Barack Obama Friday evening after earlier suggesting he might not show up because of the nation's financial crisis.
Citing McCain's staff, CNN reported that McCain has now decided to fly to Oxford, Mississippi, to participate in the debate with...
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It is a dramatic race against time - while Washington fights a battle over a mammoth rescue plan for the financial sector, the credit crisis is bringing down one US bank after another.
The latest victim was the country's once-leading savings bank, Washington Mutual Inc (WaMu). Federal regulators late Thursday shut down the...
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 Tropical Storm Kyle is the 11th storm of this year’s hurricane season in the Atlantic. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Kyle formed on Thursday as a terrible weather was announced in Puerto Rico and other northern Caribbean islands. Kyle reached to be a tropical storm when its winds reached 45mph.As a Category 1...
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The US Congress was moving closer to an agreement on the 700 billion-dollar financial rescue plan, lawmakers said Thursday, a day after a sombre US President George W Bush laid out the spectre of a "long and painful recession."
Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a senator from Arizona, said in broadcast remarks he...
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Washington Mutual Inc (WaMu), the largest savings and loan association in the United States, has approached a number of private equity firms to gauge their interest in a takeover to shore up its financial position, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The Seattle-based lender has lost more than 90 per cent of its share value...
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 Jose A. Cruz, 34, from Clarksburg, West Virginia has been charged with battery on a police officer after he passed gas and fanned it toward a policeman. The man had been pulled over by a police officer on Tuesday because he was driving without headlights.The policeman reported that Cruz smelled of alcohol. Besides this, he wasn’t talking...
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 A 14-year-old boy planned a school attack with the help of his mother. Even if the police still don’t know if the woman knew what he was helping her son for, she was pleaded guilty for helping him build a weapon cache and of having bought a rifle and gunpowder for his troubled son.On Tuesday in Montgomery County Court, Michele Cossey,...
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 Omhari Sengstacke, 31, of Chicago, was arrested on Tuesday after he had come near the security barriers outside Barack Obama’s house. According to the U.S. Secret Service, Sengstacke is part of an important Chicago family and he had never wanted to hurt the Democratic presidential candidate.Sengstacke was arrested at about 6:30 a.m. and...
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 West Nile Virus Still Spreading
According to William K. Reisen, PhD, of the Center for Vectorborne Diseases at the University of California, Davis, the number of people infected with the West Nile...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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