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|Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua — A group of investors is urging an Antiguan court to remove a British accounting firm appointed to collect assets of a Caribbean offshore bank at the center of an alleged Ponzi scheme by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.Read more
| |Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
WASHINGTON — The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.Read more
| |Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
SAN ANTONIO — Military prosecutors say a former Air Force nurse killed three terminally ill patients with excessive medication because they weren't dying quickly enough.Read more
| |Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.Read more
| |Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
GILCHRIST, Texas — Mark Faggard remembers the cheering of the crowds lined up on Meacom's Pier to watch surfing competitions in years past.Read more
| |Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas — Republican activist Cathie Adams has almost made a career out of stirring things up. She has criticized senior members of her own party, bucked business leaders by opposing their cherished lawuit reform efforts, called global warming a "hoax" and used the specter of Adolf Hitler to warn of perceived Obama Administration excesses.Read more
|Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
DALLAS — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison have agreed to a debate before their hotly contested Republican gubernatorial primary next spring.Read more
| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
DALLAS — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday said it will again hear arguments in the nearly 15-year legal battle over accusations that Exxon Mobil Corp. loaded abandoned wells with junk, sludge and even explosives to keep other companies from drilling there.Read more
| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
MEXICO CITY — Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.Read more
| |Friday, Nov. 20, 2009
LAS VEGAS — Michael Jackson's doctor bought a powerful anesthetic in Nevada and had it shipped to California, where it was found at the pop singer's bedside after he died, court documents released Friday show.Read more