| FBI tapes played for Illinois impeachment trial (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 10:51 PM CST  AP - Gov. Rod Blagojevich was hundreds of miles away, but his voice captivated the Illinois Senate Tuesday as impeachment prosecutors played FBI wiretaps of conversations in which he seems to demand campaign contributions in exchange for signing legislation.
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| LA man upset over job kills wife, 5 kids, himself (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 10:54 PM CST  AP - A man fatally shot his wife, five young children and himself Tuesday after he faxed a note to a TV station claiming the couple had just been fired from their hospital jobs and together planned the killings as an escape for the whole family. "Why leave our children in someone else's hands," Ervin Lupoe wrote in a letter posted late Tuesday on the KABC-TV Web site.
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| Wife says Haggard told her of struggles years ago (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 10:57 PM CST  AP - Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard's wife says she knew about his struggles with same-sex attraction for years and felt he was "winning the battle" before a scandal involving a male prostitute triggered his downfall in late 2006.
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| Jurors weep at details of 'Baby Grace' torture (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 10:59 PM CST  AP - Jurors wept Tuesday watching a woman describe how teaching her 2-year-old daughter proper manners turned into a daylong torture session in which the toddler was beaten with belts, dunked in cold water and flung across a room so violently that she died.
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| Storm may leave thousands in darkness for days (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2009 02:27 AM CST  AP - Utility companies and road crews prepared for the worst Wednesday as a winter storm barreled into the Northeast, while officials in areas already hit hard by the blast warned it may be days before some shivering communities have electricity again.
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| 8 is plenty: Mother gives birth to octuplets (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 08:22 PM CST  AP - Just think: eight cribs, eight highchairs, eight strollers (or maybe four double-strollers), and far too many dirty diapers to count. A woman in Southern California gave birth Monday to the second set of octuplets ever delivered alive in the United States.
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| America's foundations step up aid in downturn (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 07:01 PM CST AP - America's biggest charitable foundations are stepping up their giving to help the homeless and the hungry during the recession, according to a group that studies institutional giving. |
| Restaurant workers tell boss: It's on the house (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 08:44 PM CST AP - Some workers at a Michigan pancake restaurant found a sweet way to help out their boss and the workplace they love. |
| Voters ask court to add absentees to Minn. recount (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 08:22 PM CST  AP - Minnesota voters testified Tuesday their ballots had been unfairly rejected as Republican Norm Coleman argued thousands of disqualified absentee ballots should be counted in the U.S. Senate race.
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| In peanut checks, gaps for salmonella to sneak by (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 06:02 PM CST  AP - Food regulators didn't consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation's top peanut-producing state promptly began checking for the bacteria during routine inspections, and everything went fine for about a year.
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| Draft mandate for fed jobs ruled unconstitutional (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 05:41 PM CST AP - Henry Tucker had worked for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for 17 years when he was told he was going to lose his job because he hadn't registered for the military draft when he was 18. |
| One for the books: Baby born in Denver library (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 08:29 PM CST AP - There wasn't time to look up any books on obstetrics before a woman gave birth in the Denver Public Library. |
| Gunman in Portland, Ore., shooting rampage dies (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 07:38 PM CST  AP - The man who killed two teenage girls and wounded seven other people in a weekend shooting rampage outside a youth nightclub died Tuesday of a self-inflicted gunshot, police said.
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| Missing Fla. hedge fund manager turns himself in (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 05:15 PM CST  AP - On the day a Florida hedge fund manager surrendered to face federal securities and wire fraud charges, authorities disclosed what may have set in motion his two weeks on the lam: A partner concerned about the health of their funds after the Bernard Madoff scandal was pressuring him to have their books audited by an independent accountant.
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| Florida company nixes plan to sell Caylee doll (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 04:39 PM CST  AP - A Florida promotions company has backed off plans to sell a blonde-haired doll bearing the name of slain toddler Caylee Anthony.
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| Authorities find NC driver 2 days after crash (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 03:30 PM CST AP - Authorities say a North Carolina man who spent two nights in his vehicle after crashing down a steep embankment along Interstate 77 has been found. |
| Prize-winning 'Rabbit' writer John Updike dies (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST  AP - John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, best known for his four "Rabbit" novels, died of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass., according to his longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.
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| Doctors say newborn octuplets appear healthy (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 03:42 PM CST  AP - Newborn octuplets in Southern California are a feisty bunch that appear healthy even at nine weeks premature, a doctor said Tuesday.
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| Prosecutors: Debt, drugs led to Fla. killings (AP) Posted: 27 Jan 2009 03:19 PM CST  AP - Two men accused in the execution-style shooting deaths of a family along Florida's Turnpike were settling drug debts and stealing cocaine when they ambushed the couple and their two boys, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
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