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Man rips head from Hitler wax figure
(Reuters)
Reuters - A man tore the head from a controversial
waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's
Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said.
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons
(AP)
AP - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
(AP)
AP - Barack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them.
Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'
(AP)
AP - Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days.
Rescue video shows duped rebels, elated hostages
(AP)
AP - Military intelligence agents posing as aid workers and a film crew flew to the jungle aboard a white helicopter, staging a mock humanitarian mission that rebels were told would ferry their hostages to another camp for talks on a prisoner swap.
California wildfires strain state's resources
(AP)
AP - A wildfire threatening hundreds of homes in Southern California spread slowly through scenic canyonlands Saturday, straining resources as crews struggled to contain hundreds of other blazes around the state.
Crikey! 'Crocodile Hunter' daughter gets own doll
(AP)
AP - The Emmy-winning daughter of the late "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin is getting her own doll.
Obama "puzzled" by Iraq comment frenzy
(Reuters)
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama said on Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was
unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his
statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for
withdrawing U.S. combat troops.
Last of flood-closed Mississippi locks reopen
(AP)
AP - The last of the Mississippi River navigational locks that were closed to barges because of flooding are back in business.
Spitzer call girl drops 'Girls Gone Wild' lawsuit
(AP)
AP - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
Gay tumbles at Olympic trials, out of 200
(AP)
AP - Tyson Gay accelerated through the first curve. Then, he started flying.
Employers use federal law to deny benefits
(AP)
AP - Dying of cancer, Thomas Amschwand did everything he was told to make sure his wife would collect on the life insurance policy he had through his employer.
AP Exclusive: US removes uranium from Iraq
(AP)
AP - The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
Helms never changed on civil rights opposition
(AP)
AP - Jesse Helms forever changed North Carolina politics and the conservative movement. The former senator did it without ever changing much about himself.
From Here to Eternity
(Dear Margo)
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I despise going to wakes and funerals.
Colombia foils bomb plot after rescue
(Reuters)
Reuters - Colombia found explosives set to be used
in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue
of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, including Ingrid
Betancourt, military officials said on Saturday.
Brinkley split is newest image-crushing NY divorce
(AP)
AP - When the media capital of the world meets a celebrity divorce, it's a breakup made in tabloid heaven. So the city that has hosted the spectacular splits of Woody Allen, Liza Minnelli and Rudolph Giuliani now is feasting on the salacious details of model Christie Brinkley's fourth marital breakup.
Grief leads father to create bomb-defusing robot
(AP)
AP - The knock on Brian Hart's door came at 6 a.m. An Army colonel, a priest and a police officer had come to tell Hart and his wife that their 20-year-old son had been killed when his military vehicle was ambushed in Iraq.
Tropical Storm Bertha speeding over Atlantic
(AP)
AP - Tropical Storm Bertha continues to speed across the Atlantic Ocean.
Venus beats Serena for 5th Wimbledon singles title
(AP)
AP - Thrilled as she was to win her fifth Wimbledon singles championship, Venus Williams dialed down her celebration. No hopping in place and skipping to the net after match point, the way she's done so often on that Centre Court lawn. No giddy laughter and whoops of joy, as she's let out in the past.
