Officials hustle to delete Capitol 'pool hall' listing

"In its new business filings section, the current issue of The State Journal, a business weekly published by West Virginia Media Holdings, lists: "Goners Pool Hall, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard, Charleston."[...]It was a test dummy for the system upgrades, but somehow it got on...

DC Police Miss Capitol Gunman's Bomb

" Authorities revealed Tuesday that a man carrying a loaded shotgun was arrested in January near the U.S. Capitol, and explosives left in his truck nearby went undetected for three weeks. According to an indictment filed in District of Columbia Superior Court, Michael...

Letters after Times Square bombing: 'We did it'

Letters have been sent to many in the US congress showing a photo of someone in front of the Times Square recruiting station saying 'we did it'."NEW YORK (CNN) -- Letters claiming responsibility for the bombing of a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square...

UT Animal rights groups push felony penalty

"SB102, a bill sponsored by Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake. Davis' bill leaves the current animal cruelty statutes unchanged but stiffens penalties by making a first offense punishable as a felony."

US weathers Beijing's fury as Bush attends ceremony with Dalai Lama

"President George Bush will today defy White House tradition and official Chinese anger by joining the Dalai Lama in the US Capitol, where the spiritual leader will receive America's highest civilian honour. The White House softened the slight to Beijing by keeping...