A Wise move 05/17/2008
In the winter of 1965, Lucille Wise Wilcox was happily married to an Air Force pilot and was living with her three young girls in Largo, Fla., 14 miles northwest of St. Petersburg in west Florida.
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Bush fails to sway Saudis on gas prices 05/17/2008
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.
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Obama criticizes McCain’s ‘naive’ foreign policy 05/17/2008
WATERTOWN, S.D. - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign.
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Alabama sheriffs feeding inmates on $1.75 a day 05/17/2008
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over.
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Cobb judge to stay on Nichols case 05/16/2008
ATLANTA - The judge presiding over the murder case involving accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols can remain on the case.
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McCain sees war in Iraq won by 2013 05/16/2008
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.
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Republicans abandon Bush on food, energy 05/16/2008
WASHINGTON - Congress responded speedily to voters' angst over rising grocery prices and $4-a-gallon gasoline on Thursday, bucking President Bush's veto threats with lopsided votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies - after ordering Bush to quit pouring oil into the nation's emergency reserves.
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China gov’t says earthquake death toll could reach 50,000 05/16/2008
LUOSHUI TOWN, China - China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster.
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Democrats accuse McCain of hypocrisy on Hamas 05/16/2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats accused Sen. John McCain Friday of hypocrisy on the question of whether the United States should negotiate with terrorists and dictators, saying the certain Republican nominee had previously been willing to negotiate with the militant Palestinian group Hamas. In an op-ed published Friday in The Washington Post, former Clinton State Department official James Rubin said that McCain, responding to a question in an television interview two years ago about whether U.S. diplomats should be working with the Hamas government in Gaza, said: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so ... But it's a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that.''
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Perdue veto kills $8M for charter school 05/15/2008
MARIETTA - For the second time in as many years, Gov. Sonny Perdue used his veto pen on Wednesday to cut $8 million from the budget that would have gone to building a science- and math oriented charter school run by the soon-to-be-open Aviation Museum at Marietta.
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