WASHINGTON – Senators trying to broker a compromise on judicial filibusters said Sunday an agreement was possible ahead of a critical vote this week set by majority Republicans to break the logjam on President Bush’s nominees. Two senators leading talks among the dozen or so lawmakers who could force a …
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LONDON – The fox-hunting son of rocker Bryan Ferry (search) was arrested after he lunged at Prime Minister Tony Blair (search). Otis Ferry (search), 22, reached over a barrier and shouted at the prime minister as he arrived Friday for a postelection party at London’s National Portrait Gallery. “I’ve had …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Authorities Tuesday turned down a request by the man who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II (search) in 1981 to leave prison and attend the pontiff’s funeral, his lawyer said. Mehmet Ali Agca (search) was seeking permission under a Turkish law that allows 72 hours’ …
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VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Bernard Law (search), whose failures to stop sexually abusive priests sparked the worst crisis in American church history, led a Mass for thousands mourning Pope John Paul II (search) at St. Peter’s Basilica on Monday after police whisked away a victim protesting outside. Law celebrated the …
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – Maybe the lawyer remembered that crack about the electric chair. David Letterman (search), who lives in North Salem, reported for jury duty Monday at the Westchester County Courthouse and was considered for a medical malpractice case. He assured the doctor’s lawyer that he could be fair, …
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WATAUGA, Texas – A 911 dispatcher was reprimanded for responding to a mother’s plea for help with an unruly child by saying: “OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?” “I admit what I did. It was stupid, it was inexcusable and I’m sorry,” said dispatcher Mike …
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LOS ANGELES – A Caltech graduate student convicted of helping to firebomb scores of sport utility vehicles was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay $3.5 million in restitution. A federal judge Monday rejected William Jensen Cottrell’s (search) plea for leniency. “There’s no way …
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CAIRO, Egypt – An American tourist died Friday from wounds sustained in a bomb blast that rocked a Cairo (search) bazaar popular with foreigners, a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman said, taking the death toll in the Egyptian capital’s first such attack in seven years to three. Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm (search) said another …
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WASHINGTON – Former FEMA director Michael Brown disputed that floodwaters had breached New Orleans’ levees in the early hours after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, new e-mails released Tuesday show. The 928 pages of e-mails, obtained and released by the Center for Public Integrity, also portray Brown and the Federal Emergency …
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HOLMES MILL, Ky. – An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his own. The blast at the Darby Mine No. 1 in Harlan County …
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