A New York woman ordered to pay $9 million to her lover's wife in North Carolina says she plans to appeal the judgment.
The News & Record of Greensboro reports that 49-year-old Anne Lundquist of Aurora, N.Y., didn't attend the two-day trial in Greensboro earlier this week and wasn't represented by an attorney.
Lundquist says she had planned to represent herself, but the …
Hugh Hefner got his street at Wednesday's City Council meeting_notwith a bang, which would have been appropriate, but with a silentomnibus vote, the legislative equivalent of a whimper.
The omnibus is a typically unanimous roll call vote usedthroughout the meeting for matters no one opposes. No one objected toHugh Hefner Way, so it went into the omnibus along with tag days andgarage sales. It was an odd omnibus vote, because 20 aldermen thenhustled over to City Clerk personnel to have their own votes recorded"no." Had only a few more dissenters joined them_say, the six femalealdermen who voted yes_Hugh Hefner Way would have disappeared.
Soon after, Ald. Carrie Austin …
WASHINGTON (AP) — In December 2003, security forces boarded a bus in Macedonia and snatched a German citizen named Khaled el-Masri. For the next five months, el-Masri was a ghost. Only a select group of CIA officers knew he had been whisked to a secret prison for interrogation in Afghanistan.
But he was the wrong guy.
A hard-charging CIA analyst had pushed the agency into one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism. Yet despite recommendations by an internal review, the analyst was never punished. In fact, she has risen to one of the premier jobs in the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, helping lead President Barack Obama's efforts to disrupt …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Several levees in northern Missouri were failing Sunday to hold back the surge of water being released from upstream dams, and locals braced themselves for more breaches as the Missouri River dipped but then rose again.
A hole in the side of a Holt County levee continued to grow, deluging the state park and recreational area in Big Lake, a community of less than 200 people located 78 miles north of Kansas City. The water — some from recent rain — started pouring over levees Saturday night and Sunday morning in Holt and Atchison counties, flooding farmland, numerous homes and cabins.
In Nebraska, a flooding alert was issued for a second nuclear power …
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Three militants attacking an Israeliarmored bulldozer inadvertently killed three other Palestinians todayduring an Israeli operation to destroy weapons-smuggling tunnels fromEgypt.
The roadside bomb in the Rafah refugee camp went off a few yardsfrom where the bulldozer was piling up dirt in a crowded residentialarea, according to Associated Press Television News. No Israelis wereinjured but three Palestinian men 200 yards away were hit byshrapnel, one so severely it took off half his skull.
Ten people were wounded, including a Reuters TV cameraman,according to witnesses and hospital officials.
The violence came a day after vigilantes …
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A rabbi who has overseen South America's largest Jewish congregation for more than three decades has temporarily resigned after being arrested on shoplifting charges, police and his congregation said Thursday.
Henry I. Sobel, who heads the Sao Paulo Jewish Congregation, was arrested Friday on three counts of theft for allegedly stealing ties valued at $680 from several upscale stores in Palm Beach, Fla., according to a Palm Beach police statement.
Sobel gained a strong reputation as a defender of human rights during Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship and is also well-known in Brazil for attempting to forge strong relations between Jews, …
The Canadian Auto Workers union says it is close to reaching a deal with Chrysler Canada.
CAW spokeswoman Shannon Devine says she is hopeful a deal will be reached late Friday afternoon.
Chrysler and the CAW have been negotiating since Monday to reach a labor agreement that can be ratified before the April 30 deadline.
Chrysler has until then to …
