DES MOINES — Gov. Chet Culver said Tuesday that Iowa stands to gain hundreds and perhaps thousands of new jobs in the next couple of years from manufacturers of wind turbine parts. Culver, on a trip to Germany, Denmark and Spain, was speaking at Europe's largest wind energy show, trying to lure European companies to Iowa. (0) comments
MASON CITY — A man accused of driving a car that struck a 16-year-old girl who later died has been sentenced to 15 days in jail. Steven John Fisher, 19, of Clear Lake, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three traffic charges in Cerro Gordo County. Officials said his vehicle struck Olivia Neuberger of Clear Lake in May 2006 during a rainstorm. (1) comment
LOGAN, W.Va. — The list of horrors allegedly endured by a woman at the hands of six people in a remote trailer grew during the suspects' court hearings - leaving the woman's mother sobbing. Reading Tuesday from a statement 20-year-old Megan Williams gave deputies the day she was rescued from the ramshackle home, a sheriff's deputy said she had been stabbed with what she described as a butcher knife and beaten with wooden sticks and fly swatters. (1) comment
BOSTON — A company that distributed human growth hormone to "well known athletes and entertainers" has agreed to pay a $10.5 million penalty and cooperate with ongoing law enforcement investigations, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Under the terms of the agreement, Specialty Distribution Services Inc. (0) comments
NEW YORK — Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service. Rather, the former anchorman of the "CBS Evening News," is seeking $20 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages. (0) comments
BOSTON — A judge rejected a Harvard student's request Wednesday for extra break time during her nine-hour medical licensing exam so she could pump breast milk for her infant daughter. Sophie Currier, 33, sued after the National Board of Medical Examiners turned down her request to take more than the standard 45 minutes in breaks during the exam. (0) comments
JERUSALEM — Israel declared the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an "enemy entity" on Wednesday and said it would cut utilities to the territory. The move complicates a U.S. plan to relaunch peace talks aimed at establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. (0) comments
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president in voting to begin next week. (0) comments
PARIS — On the world's list of weird foods, ortolan - a bite-size songbird roasted and gulped down whole - can claim a place of distinction. It's an illegal place, though, since the ortolan is a protected species and hunting it is banned in France. Now the government is out to get poachers of the coveted fowl. (0) comments
BAGHDAD — Iraq's prime minister Wednesday disputed Blackwater USA's version of a weekend shooting that left at least 11 people dead, saying he cannot tolerate "the killing of our citizens in cold blood." Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki suggested that the U. (0) comments
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