'A Christmas Story' director, son killed in crash

"LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Film director Bob Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son Wednesday in a head-on crash with a vehicle that a drunken driver steered into the wrong lane, police and the filmmaker's assistant...

Grand Opening Of The Arthur Miller Theatre

"Grand Opening Of The Arthur Miller Theatre To hear Audio2007-03-27 • The new Arthur Miller Theatre opens Thursday at the University of Michigan. As Detroit Public Radio’s Celeste Headlee reports, it is the only theatre in the world to bear the Pulitzer Prize-winning...

Bill To Ban Fake Testicles, Vulgarity Dies

"Gonads and other doodads won't be banned from Maryland trucks. State House lawmakers effectively killed a bill to outlaw fake bull testicles and other anatomically explicit vehicle decorations that truckers dangle from the trailer hitches of their pickups. Delegate LeRoy...

Cat Adopts Rejected Rottweiler

File this under "A" for "awwww!""MERIDEN, Conn. -- A cat in Connecticut has adopted a Rottweiler. And the puppy gets along fine with the other kittens nursing at the cat named Satin. The 6-day-old puppy, called Charlie, was rejected by his mother. She'd given birth to two...

Bigger Mardi Gras Crowd Prompts Potty Problem

"Joe Briand recalled a less-than-fond Mardi Gras run-in with the law almost a decade ago, when hundreds of revelers were hopping a fence at a local school to use the playground as an impromptu bathroom. With no restrooms to be found, Briand and two cohorts -- well into a long...

Will Police’s Grammy night reunion last?

"As it turns out, breaking up isn’t hard to do. It’s the reuniting that’s the tricky bit. Still it seems that more old acts are getting back together than there are new ones forming. Why? Financial rewards, of course! When they say, “the timing is just right,” it...

Tehran warns US against attacks

"Iran will strike against US interests worldwide if it is attacked, the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned. "The enemies know well that any aggression will lead to a reaction from all sides," he said. Washington accuses Tehran of secretly trying to...

Firefighter Dies When Truck Collides With Vehicle

"DETROIT -- A fire truck and a sport utility vehicle collided Wednesday evening in Detroit, killing the firefighter driving the truck and the driver of the SUV. It happened on the city's west side. Witnesses said the SUV was speeding southbound on Fourteenth Street before it...

Physicist's letter to Congress, February 1, 2007

"United States Congress Washington, DC Dear Member of Congress: As physicists, members of the profession that brought nuclear weapons into existence, we write to urge you to pass binding legislation to restrict the authority of the President to order nuclear strikes against...

Oh, Harry! The undressing of Daniel Radcliffe

"Amid the faceless and distinctly chilly confines of a South London studio last week, Daniel Radcliffe was wrestling with a severe bout of last-minute nerves. Hardly surprising. The dreaded moment had arrived for the 17-year-old actor - he of Harry Potter fame - to undress...