The Illinois Supreme Court said Friday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appointment of Burris is valid under state law without Secretary of State Jesse White's signature. The court said no Illinois official has to do anything further to validate the ...
9 Jan 2009
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli jets and ground troops hammered at Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and Islamic militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities Friday, ignoring a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire after ...
9 Jan 2009
BOSTON -- Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron, recovering from his second concussion in 14 months, said Friday he is symptom-free and vowed to return to the ice this season. "I'm very confident I will play this year," Bergeron said in the Bruins ...
9 Jan 2009
Israeli jets and ground troops hammered at Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip and Islamic militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities Friday, ignoring a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire after two weeks of combat ...
9 Jan 2009
NBC -- After spending more than 24 hours in freezing conditions, a teenage snowboarder who got lost at New Mexico's Pajarito Ski Area is out of the hospital and talking about surviving in the mountains. Sebastian Gomez, 19, is back at home in ...
9 Jan 2009
One firefighter was killed and one suffered life-threatening injuries when a Boston Fire Department ladder truck hurtled down a hill and crashed into a building today on Huntington Avenue in the city's Mission Hill neighborhood, city officials said ...
9 Jan 2009
GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- State Sen. John Gleason, D-Flushing, said many of the roll call votes he has missed occurred while he was working on legislation. A Mackinac Center for Public Policy report recently found that Gleason missed the highest percentage...
9 Jan 2009
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Illinois Senator Richard Durbin said the state’s other U.S. Senate seat should remain empty until the end of Governor Rod Blagojevich’s impeachment trial so the next governor can make the appointment.
9 Jan 2009
Benjamin McNelley said he loathed the idea of walking away from the mortgage on his four-bedroom, two-bath house in Fauquier County.
9 Jan 2009
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Brazil's leading state-owned bank said Friday it will pay 4.2 billion reals ($1.8 billion) for a stake in the banking unit of one of the nation's biggest conglomerates to help ease credit in Latin America's largest economy.
9 Jan 2009
WASHINGTON -- A key lawmaker said Friday he expects the House to act soon to impose conditions on any new release of the second $350 billion in federal bailout funds, with a mandate that between $40 billion and $100 billion go to help struggling borrowers avoid foreclosure.
9 Jan 2009
Speaking out two years after being embroiled in a gay sex scandal, former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard said Friday his sexual identity is complex and can't be put into "stereotypical boxes," but that his relationship with his wife is stronger than ever.
9 Jan 2009
Asharq Al-Awsat and Agencies - Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip appeared bogged down on Friday because of disagreements with Israel over how to secure the border to prevent Hamas from rearming, diplomats said. ...
9 Jan 2009
Treasury: You Never Said We Had To Make Banks More Consumer Friendly! By Zachary Roth - January 9, 2009, 1:10PM. In places, the panel appears outright angry -- understandably -- at Treasury's stonewalling on key questions: ...
9 Jan 2009
I mean really - who said he could do that?!! Next thing you know he’ll actually be zipping up his own coat, lol. Yeah, he should know that already, he’s 4. He can manage the summer jacket but not the winter one for some reason and I ...
9 Jan 2009
Animals · Doing It Right · Doing It Wrong · Geek Culture · Historical · lolxtians · Nature · Trippy · Uncategorized. Browse > Home / lolxtians / Huh, huh, you said ‘bush.’Huh, huh, you said ‘dick.’ ...
9 Jan 2009
I said ayyyyoooo… January 9, 2009. I’m tired of using technology. No really. I’m going to throw my Blackberry out the fucking window. I’m one of those people who every once and a while may or may not chuckle at an older person when they ...
9 Jan 2009
Cerberus has demanded that Quadrangle stump up more equity to cover debt levels, but Mr. Rattner’s firm has refused, The Post said, citing an unnamed source. That has led Cerberus to declare the Quadrangle-owned magazine company to be ...
9 Jan 2009