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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Las Vegas Herald.com http://www.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/154063713fe5da1f/ en-us Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:45:56 -0500 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:45:56 -0500 30 Actor Jake Gyllenhaal and his Oscar winning girlfriend Reese Witherspoon shared a kiss at a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450125/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:00:15 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450125/cs/1/ Ahead of his inauguration, US president-elect Barack Obama has launched a campaign on Capitol Hill for a massive package of tax cuts and spending proposals aimed at reviving an economy mired in recession. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450098/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:00:13 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450098/cs/1/ President-elect Barack Obama has stirred controversy by tapping a former Clinton aide with a thin resume on intelligence to head America's top external spy outfit, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450085/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:41 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450085/cs/1/ US President George W. has authorized the airlift of equipment to Sudan's Darfur region in support of a UN peacekeeping mission, the White House said Monday. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450069/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:01:00 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450069/cs/1/ New York, January 6 : After winning a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics last year, ace swimmer Michael Phelps has now entered the largest single sponsorship deal for any Western celebrity in Chinese history. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450209/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:02:39 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450209/cs/1/ Washington, January 6 : Streets were closed around the Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington, D.C., for the arrival of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and his family Monday. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450201/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:02:19 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450201/cs/1/ London, Jan 6 : Since an Iraqi journalist hurled his footwear at George W Bush, portraits of the outgoing US president have become popular targets for demonstrators around the world -and now a US art gallery has opened an exhibit with a "shoe throw" fundraiser. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450198/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:02:10 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450198/cs/1/ Washington, Jan 6 : The autopsy for American actor John Travolta's son Jett, completed in the Bahamas on January 5, has shown that the 16-year-old's death was due to a seizure. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450192/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:01:56 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450192/cs/1/ New York, Jan 6 : Model Liskula Cohen has filed a lawsuit against Google in a bid to unmask the blogger who called her a "skank" and an "old hag" on a Web site meant to ruin her image. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450187/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:01:29 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450187/cs/1/ Chicago, Jan.6 : Former Illinois Attorney General Ronald Burris has defiantly said that he is the legally appointed junior senator from the state. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450129/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:00:24 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450129/cs/1/ Washington, Jan 6 : A new study from Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York has revealed that women with bulimia may binge eat due to abnormalities in the brain circuit responsible for regulating behaviour. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450121/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:00:03 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450121/cs/1/ Washington, January 6 : University of Oklahoma researchers in the U.S. say that researching into extinct microbes may have significant implications for the state of modern human health, for such studies raise questions about the microbes living on and within people. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450109/cs/1/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:01:01 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/450109/cs/1/ Washington, Jan 5 : American actress Rosario Dawson has revealed that she fears that her role as a dying woman in her new movie 'Seven Pounds' might upset her mother. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449958/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:03:38 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449958/cs/1/ Melbourne, Jan 5 : American actress Kate Hudson has named Lizard Island Resort on the Great Barrier Reef as "the most romantic place in the world". http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449914/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:04:07 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449914/cs/1/ Washington, Jan.5 : Former U.S. President George Bush Sr. would like to see his second son Jeb in the White House. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449869/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:11:33 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449869/cs/1/ New York, Jan 5 : Katie Holmes could have earned 3,000 dollars an hour if she was a hooker, says the infamous madam Kristin Davis. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449823/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:02:17 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449823/cs/1/ New Delhi, Jan.5 : Ambassador and Mrs. David C. Mulford today led the American Embassy community in celebration as the United States Embassy Chancery building in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi marked 50 years in support of U.S-India bilateral cooperation. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449820/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:59 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449820/cs/1/ New York, Jan 05 : Incredible celebrity body parts are what kids are asking plastic surgeons to give them, with Angelina Jolie's lips being the most wanted. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449819/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:57 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449819/cs/1/ New York, Jan 05 : Playboy founder Hugh Hefner says that he doesn't mind the fact that his ex-girlfriends have moved on, but to a point. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449818/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:55 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449818/cs/1/ London, Jan 05 : Legendary pop star Paul McCartney could soon be bumping into ex-wife Heather Mills on daily basis, as she is planning to buy a luxury New York mansion just three miles from his home. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449817/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:52 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449817/cs/1/ New York, Jan 05 : Popstar Pete Wentz has revealed that he has stopped reading online media. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449815/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:47 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449815/cs/1/ New Delhi, Jan.5 : U.S. Ambassador to India, David C. Mulford, on Monday said that a team of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is still in Mumbai pursuing leads into the conspiracy that led to the November 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai, and expressed Washington's determination to get to the bottom of the conspiracy. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449813/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:42 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449813/cs/1/ New York, Jan 5 : Pop and R and B singer Mariah Carey has been paid one million dollars to sing at the New Year's Eve party of Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi's son. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449805/cs/1/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:01:12 -0500 Las Vegas Herald.com http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/449805/cs/1/ BAGHDAD -- The U.S. flag was raised Monday over the mammoth new American Embassy in Iraq, symbolizing a new era of restored Iraqi sovereignty and reduced U.S. power, despite the fact that it's the bi... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894783/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:54:28 -0500 Miami Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894783/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More Americans are burdened by chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, often having more than three at a time, and this has helped fuel a big rise in out-of-... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894879/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:27:37 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894879/ T he intimate moments of Barack Obama’s historic presidency will be documented through the lens of SouthCoast native son Pete Souza, who has been tapped by the Obama administration to hold the p... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894897/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:26:26 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894897/ Washington: President-elect Barack Obama on Monday chose former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects,... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894567/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:20:27 -0500 Gulf News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894567/ By WAYNE PARRYASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- New Jersey's highest court is grappling with one of the thorniest issues facing criminal justice today: what to do in cases where witnes... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894240/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:41:18 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894240/ An interview with New York Resident Steve F. who suffers from Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis reveals an amazing story about how his disease condition crippled him and he has fought ba... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894878/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:58:55 -0500 PR Web http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894878/ Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico. Police spokeswoman Sidlayin Robles says 30-year-old Ana Victoria Perez fled on foot ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895363/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:16 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895363/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DEARBORN, Mich. -- A fire in suburban Detroit has damaged a boarding house built for employees of inventor Thomas Edison that was among the first buildings to get electric ligh... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894355/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:41:17 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894355/ Los Angeles Clippers point guard was signed as a free agent on Oct. 3. He had been attempting a comeback from a gruesome Feb. 26, 2007 knee injury that left him with a dislocated left kneecap and thre... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895368/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:27:45 -0500 Sun-Sentinel http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895368/ Allan Goldstein, a retiree and investor with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894888/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:50:19 -0500 Federal News Radio http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894888/ WASHINGTON: The new US Congress convenes on Tuesday under pressure to deal with a worsening economy by passing a stimulus package that Barack Obama could sign into law soon after being sworn in as ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894884/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:14 -0500 Times of India http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894884/ David T. Viecelli and Alex Kadvan announce a new artist management partnership that now represents Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, St. Vincent, Antibalas, Southern Culture on the Skids and more. ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894876/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:58:42 -0500 PR Web http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894876/ Local Coverage From KTVT-TV Never have urns looked more attractive to consumers than now. The Casket and Funeral Supply Association of America says sales of caskets are down, and the sales of urns ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895364/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:17 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895364/ NEW YORK -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday that it has begun purchasing mortgage-backed securities in an effort to bolster the battered housing market.The program, initially announc... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894054/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:20:11 -0500 News & Observer http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894054/ If Wake County ranked towns for glamour, Garner would win hands down: Later this month, two Miss Garners will compete to become Miss America.Amanda Watson, winner of the 2008 Miss Garner and Miss Nort... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894780/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:20:40 -0500 News & Observer http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894780/ WASHINGTON: Americans spent $2.2tn on healthcare in 2007, or $7,421 per person, according to a US government report released on Tuesday. The 6.1% rate of growth over 2006 was the lowest since 19... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894882/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:13 -0500 Times of India http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894882/ NEW DELHI: Democrats in the US Congress, hoping to capitalize on expanded majorities in both the Senate and House of Representatives, will work with President Barack Obama to push an aggressive leg... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894883/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:14 -0500 Times of India http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894883/ The boy, born Dmitri Yakovlev, was adopted from Russia, and his death in July revived memories of a string of earlier abuse cases involving Russian children adopted by American parents. But the real o... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894775/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:58:15 -0500 Gadsden Times http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894775/ Sonic Drive-in, the popular fast-food restaurant chain that recreates the feel of a 1950s drive-in diner, opened its second eatery in Metro Detroit -- on Groesbeck in Clinton Township on Monday. The M... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895365/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:48:29 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895365/ Apple vice president Philip Schiller will give the keynote address Tuesday It will be first time since 1997 that CEO Steve Jobs hasn't given the keynote Attendees aren't expecting major news from Appl... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894416/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:38:31 -0500 CNN http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894416/ Revitalised Australian junior Black Range Minerals has acquired a coal project in Alaska with aspirations of securing export markets in Asia and the Pacific Rim. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894779/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:54:42 -0500 Mine Web http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894779/ PHOENIX, Arizona: A 12-year-old boy has been found guilty of murder after shooting his mother following an argument over chores, justice records showed on Monday. A judge in Cochise County Super... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894887/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:10 -0500 Times of India http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894887/ NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: US prosecutors asked a judge to jail accused swindler Bernard Madoff on Monday, saying he sent jewelry and other items worth more than $1 million to family and friends in viola... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894886/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:48:09 -0500 Times of India http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894886/ The room will provide residencies for emerging performers in addition to featuring headlining artists. First up is Javier Garcia, who recently kicked off a three-month, twice-weekly engagement. Reside... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895361/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:42:20 -0500 ABC http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20895361/ The former first lady and New York senator has been working to pay down her debt to clear the way for confirmation as President-elect Barack Obama's secretary of state. Federal ethics rules prohibit C... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894874/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:41:52 -0500 ABC http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20894874/ (CNSNews.com) – Former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), President-Elect Barack Obama’s proposed secretary of Health and Human Services, not only voted for Hillary and Bill Clinton’s 1994 g... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20890811/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:48:29 -0500 CNS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20890811/ In this Jan. 20, 1988, file photo, Carl Pohlad, owner of the Minnesota Twins, looks at three views of the World Series rings in Minneapolis following the Twins' World Series win over the St. Louis Car... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892015/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:25:42 -0500 CBS News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892015/ : 48; born April 28, 1960.Education: Bachelor's degree, Princeton, 1981 (summa cum laude). Master's degree, Worcester College, Oxford, 1983. Law degree, Harvard, 1986 (magna cum laude).Experience: Cur... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892013/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:42:19 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892013/ MEXICO CITY -- Latin American stocks rose Monday as investors bet better than expected economic news from the U.S. would buoy local markets.Brazil's benchmark Ibovespa index climbed 3.2 percent to cl... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20890716/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:55:15 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20890716/ Top 10 Smartest And Dumbest Dog Breeds Illinois Democratic Party officials have chosen Olympia Fields village clerk Toi Hutchinson to take over the state Senate seat vacated by soon-to-be U.S. Rep. De... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892010/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:21:22 -0500 CBS 2 Chicago http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892010/ Some Latinos already upset Richardson wasn't offered more prominent post His withdrawal from commerce secretary nomination adds to disappointment New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson cited ethics probe as ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891462/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:39:31 -0500 CNN http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891462/ Illinois Lt. Gov.: My State Is A 'Laughing Stock' (1/5/2009) Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn revealed Monday the very frank conversation he had with Roland Burris, Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Senate appointee. CBS... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892011/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:21:21 -0500 CBS 2 Chicago http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892011/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prices of existing Manhattan apartments fell nearly 4 percent in the fourth quarter, two reports showed, and analysts warned of much deeper declines in coming months in the wake o... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891542/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:28:17 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891542/ Judge reinstates Islamic group's wiretapping suit A federal judge on Monday reinstated an Islamic charity's lawsuit challenging a Bush administration surveillance program. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892004/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:57:20 -0500 Federal News Radio http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892004/ Frederick Police Department records also reveal that Ivins acknowledged to a nurse the overdose was intentional. The documents, first obtained by The http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891558/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:51:34 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891558/ Shortly after Barack Obama was elected president, the Brooklyn Museum mounted 25 photographs of prominent African-Americans in an exhibition with a provocative title: "The Black List Project."They inc... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891546/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:52:32 -0500 eTaiwan News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891546/ Fabulous fib is named Wis. club's top lie of 2008 A whopper about a devious baby and his diapers is the top lie of 2008, an organization of champion fibbers declared Monday. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892008/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:57:17 -0500 Federal News Radio http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892008/ Bush designates 9 sites in 3 areas of central Pacific as marine national monuments Sites include Wake, Johnston, Palmyra, Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Marianas Islands Rose Atoll, Kingman Reef also designa... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891313/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:39:34 -0500 CNN http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891313/ You have to wonder whether the Senate Democrats whom Harry Reid herded to the edge of a political cliff will follow him in leaping off that precipice. Reid, the Senate majority leader, is trying might... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891058/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:41:46 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891058/ Ex-trooper John Sawyer pleads guilty to repeatedly kicking arrested man Authorities say Sergio Caridi led troopers on lengthy chase in a dump truck Caridi dragged out of cab and kicked; 2006 incident ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891463/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:39:27 -0500 CNN http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891463/ /PRNewswire/ -- A-Check America, Inc., a global provider of background checks and drug screening services for employers, announced the release of A-Check Direct(TM) 3.0, the newest version of the comp... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891472/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:59:09 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891472/ A man was seriously burned in a condo fire in Gardner Monday night. The fire was in a bedroom on the first floor of the Crystal House Complex. A man in that unit was life-flighted to UMass Medic... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892003/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:45:31 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892003/ Christ Hospital has some answering to do after a still born baby's remains disappeared before arriving at a Jersey City, N.J., area funeral home. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892002/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:45:36 -0500 WBZ4 http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892002/ U.S. Forest Service roads - changes that critics complained could transform forests into housing subdivisions.Critics of the proposed changes had included http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20890766/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:51:31 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20890766/ The mystery of why ancient South American peoples who created the mysterious Nazca Lines also collected human heads as trophies has long puzzled scholars who theorize the heads may have been used in f... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891468/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:07:13 -0500 General Sources http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891468/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The legal battle over gay marriage in California turned on Monday to whether the state's top court could strike down a change in the state constitution that was approved by v... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891540/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:28:19 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891540/ Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich just doesn't get it, or more likely he is just too arrogant to care. His conduct has been a direct assault on the very essence of representative government. He apparently... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891057/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:41:45 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891057/ WASHINGTON — The nation's capital is about to confront a political generation gap: Barack Obama, one of the youngest presidents ever to take the oath of office when he's inaugurated Jan. 20, will... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892012/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:42:20 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20892012/ News ) - A whopper about a devious baby and his diapers is the top lie of 2008, an organization of champion fibbers declared Monday.The Burlington Liars Club bestowed its top award for this line: "My ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891559/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:51:30 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891559/ It's become a cliché to say that the Republican Party has lost its identity and is wandering around aimlessly like a slow-witted kid abandoned at the mall. Of course, simply because it's a cliché do... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891055/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:41:48 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891055/ to support the ongoing work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to address the growing humanitarian needs from the conflict in the http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891473/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:59:02 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891473/ LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) - Strength in materials and energy stocks as prices for crude oil rallied helped pull most of Latin America's equity markets higher Monday. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891399/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:30:17 -0500 Market Watch http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891399/ President-elect discusses economic stimulus plan with congressional leaders Obama advisers expect package of up to $775 billion Forty percent of package would be tax cuts, advisers say Senior Democrat... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891460/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:39:32 -0500 CNN http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891460/ As of Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, at least 4,221 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes eight militar... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891194/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:52:10 -0500 Denver Post http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891194/ Thanks to USA TODAY for alerting readers to the damage that off-road vehicles are doing to national forests and other lands that belong to the people (" http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891056/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:41:44 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891056/ You can see the message on brick wall murals in inner cities: Yes we can. You can hear it in the music of Black Eyed Peas' frontman will.i.am: Yes we can. You can imagine hearing it pass the lips of t... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891059/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:41:49 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891059/ MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat Al Franken beat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman to win the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, officials conducting a final recount said on Monday, though the loser pro... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891541/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:28:20 -0500 Reuters http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891541/ (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson/file)In a Sept. 23, 2008 file photo Democratic candidate for the Minnesota Senate Al Franken makes remarks at the National Jewish Democratic Council in Washington. The Minne... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891557/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:51:33 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891557/ (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)A firefighter looks out from a fire-damaged portion of a homeless shelter, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, in Paris, Texas. The fire tore through the small-town homeless shelter early Mond... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891560/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:51:28 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891560/ Caroline Kennedy (Getty Images) RALEIGH, NC - Camelot scion, Caroline Kennedy is lagging in popularity and support since announcing her desire to fill Hillary Clinton's New York Senate seat. A new P... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891545/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:45:42 -0500 ABC Action News http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891545/ NEW YORK - Being Super Bowl champions will make no difference to the New York Giants in Sunday's divisional playoff against the Philadelphia Eagles, according to the team's linebacker Antonio Pierce. ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891544/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:52:29 -0500 Haaretz http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891544/ Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne spent tax dollars on office bathroom Kempthorne spent $235,000 on renovation, Washington Post reported General Services Administration approved renovation Bathroom t... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891461/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:39:29 -0500 CNN http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20891461/ The House impeachment panel is racing to complete its job, possibly by the end of this week. But the efforts of federal prosecutors to give the panel some of the FBI tapes face a potential obstacle co... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887196/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:22:02 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887196/ News ) - A man was arrested in the shooting death of a woman whose 4-year son was abducted and left unharmed at a highway rest area, authorities said Monday. http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20885700/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:21:55 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20885700/ Right: U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Iraq President Jalal Talabani and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte stand during the inauguration of the new U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Jan. 5 http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886782/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:44:21 -0500 Time http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886782/ (AP Photo/John Bazemore)A police officer carries an infant to a waiting ambulance following a standoff between a former police officer and authorities at a motel in Madison, Ga., Monday, Jan. 5, 2009.... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886250/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:21:50 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886250/ Prosecutors Ask For Extension In Blagojevich Probe (12/31/2008) State senators met behind closed doors Monday to write the rules for Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment trial. The trial appears to be... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887820/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:51:48 -0500 CBS 2 Chicago http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887820/ Kansas parents who failed to report their 11-year-old adopted son missing nearly a decade ago are "people of interest" as authorities search for him nationwide, a sheriff said Monday.Investigators onl... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887197/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:22:00 -0500 The Examiner http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887197/ The Tyler Pounds Regional Airport confirmed today that American Eagle Airlines will begin their fourth daily regional jet departure from Tyler beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 6. The airline is curre... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887081/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:47:02 -0500 Tyler Morning Telegraph http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887081/ The hearse carrying the body of John Travolta's son Jett, leaves Rand Memorial Hospital in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photos/Alan Diaz) http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887822/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:13:12 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887822/ New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson puts on a smile as he leaves a news, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 in Santa Fe, N.M. after withdrawing his nomination as U.S. Commerce Department secretary. At left is Brian Con... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887823/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:13:13 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887823/ SAN FRANCISCO - California's high court ruled Monday that three parishes that left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers cannot retain ownership of their church buildings and ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886388/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:11:27 -0500 MSNBC http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886388/ WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush is giving the nation's highest civilian award to three foreign leaders who have been among his most loyal partners on the world stage, particularly in t... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887821/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:12:45 -0500 USA Today http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887821/ BOSTON - Citgo, the Venezuelan government's Texas-based oil subsidiary, has suspended shipments of heating oil for poor families in the United States, citing falling oil prices and the world economic ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887090/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:17:53 -0500 Canadian Business http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887090/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- Consumers who apply for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of next month's transition to digital television broadcasts are being placed on a waiting list and may not r... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887186/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:12:53 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20887186/ DETROIT - Huge rebates and zero-per cent loans couldn't overcome economic uncertainty as U.S. auto sales plunged 36 per cent in December, capping a dismal year that saw sales free-fall by 2.9 million ... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886057/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:17:53 -0500 Canadian Business http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886057/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK -- The Committee to Protect Journalists says Iraq remains the most lethal place for working media members despite a two-thirds decline in deaths there in 2008. The Ne... http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886796/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:13:12 -0500 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.lasvegasherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/20886796/