Safety concern for Fla. gov. over 9/11 Quran burn (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:41:06 GMT
AP - Florida's governor is concerned about safety at home and around the world, a feeling shared by national and world leaders, over a plan by the head of a small church to burn copies of Islam's holiest text to mark the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

PROMISES, PROMISES: FAA fatigue rules finally near (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:26:47 GMT
AP - After a regional airliner crashed in western New York a year and a half ago, killing 50 people, the Obama administration promised swift action to prevent similar tragedies. High on the list: new rules governing the number of hours pilots may work, to prevent tired flight crews from making fatal errors.

Dynasty speculation on North Korea founding day (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:56:42 GMT
AP - North Korea celebrated its 62nd anniversary Thursday with odes to supreme leader Kim Jong Il and pilgrimages to his late father's statue amid hints that a political meeting believed aimed at promoting his son as successor is imminent.

Laura Bush to speak at 9/11 memorial fundraiser (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:28:11 GMT
AP - Former first lady Laura Bush will speak at a National Park Service fundraiser in Pittsburgh on Friday, a day before joining Michelle Obama in rural Pennsylvania to remember the victims of Flight 93, which crashed there in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Highway deaths fall to lowest level since 1950 (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:10:27 GMT
AP - The number of people dying on the nation's roads has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, helped by a combination of seat belts, safer cars and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws.

Crews contain 10 percent of Colorado wildfire (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:07:55 GMT
AP - As thousands of people waited to learn if their homes survived a raging Colorado wildfire, Dan Hackett hiked a second time behind roadblocks to make sure his house near boulder was still standing.

Fidel latest to say Cuba's communism doesn't work (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:56:02 GMT
AP - Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro.

Regret, apology not part of BP's oil spill report (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:39:32 GMT
AP - BP's long-awaited internal report on what it believes went wrong when a rig exploded and started the massive Gulf oil spill never mentions the words blame, regret, apology, mistake or pollution. The word fault shows up 20 times, but only once in the same sentence as the company's name.

APNewsBreak: Spears' ex disputes abuse claims (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:02:26 GMT
AP - An attorney for Britney Spears' ex-husband called child abuse claims leveled at the singer by a former bodyguard baseless and motivated by money.

Federer fights off wind to reach US Open semis (AP)
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:51:01 GMT
AP - On a wind-swept day at the U.S. Open that had everyone complaining about the conditions, Roger Federer simply embraced them.