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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Oklahoma City Sun.com http://www.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/154063713fe5da1f/ en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:48:59 -0400 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:48:59 -0400 30 Rio de Janeiro, July 4 (Xinhua) Following the Colombian troops' dramatic rescue of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others from the country's largest leftist rebels group, Brazil has called for an end to armed struggle in Latin America. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378336/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:05 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378336/cs/1/ The White House says before the end of the year it hopes to get a global agreement on climate change that will include emerging economies like India and China, a point being insisted upon by US President George Bush. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378277/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:14 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378277/cs/1/ New Delhi, July 4 : Ties between India and the United States took another step forward on Friday, with the governments of the two countries inking an agreement to finance certain educational exchange programs. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378531/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:01:06 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378531/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama is apparently losing the support of black pastors, most of whom are of the view that black Christians are voting for him on emotional grounds, rather than on his stand on issues affecting American life in the short and long term. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378528/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:00:56 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378528/cs/1/ New Delhi, July 4 : Prime Minister Manamohan Singh is expected to meet US President George W. Bush on July 9 on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Hokkaido in Japan. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378510/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:58 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378510/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has been branded a "flip-flopper" by the rival Republican Party in the context of the timetable withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378453/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:26 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378453/cs/1/ New York, July 4 : After weeks of refusing to retract its false report that Angelina Jolie had given birth to her twins, Entertainment Tonight is finally owning up to the fact that they got it wrong. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378449/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:15 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378449/cs/1/ New York, July 4 : Teen sensation Miley Cyrus is determined to be the next Madonna - citing the Queen of Pop as her ultimate inspiration. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378447/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:10 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378447/cs/1/ Melbourne, July 4 : More and more Australian teenagers are adopting American accents as a prestige model, says a linguistic expert. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378439/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:01:30 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378439/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : Researchers from Lavax (Palatine, Ill.) and the University of Illinois at Chicago are developing a new method that may help in inhibiting HIV transmission from breastfeeding. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378367/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:49 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378367/cs/1/ Washington, July 4 : A new research into the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns a previous theory that hypothesized that the Americans had come from Asia. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378337/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:10 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378337/cs/1/ London, July 4 : Thomas Beatie, the transgendered pregnant man, has given birth to a healthy baby girl. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378313/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01:38 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378313/cs/1/ Islamabad, July 4 : Pakistan Foreign Office has strongly reacted to top US military man Mike Mullen's recent statement regarding the US having a right to strike targets inside Pakistani territory. FO spokesman said in Islamabad that no body had the right to take action inside Pakistan in the war on terror. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378278/cs/1/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:00:23 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378278/cs/1/ Islamabad, July 3 (Xinhua) Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Shah Qureshi would visit the UN headquarters in New York Tuesday for consultations with the world body for probe into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, an official said Thursday. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378158/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:17 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/378158/cs/1/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Every year Chuck Geyer and his three children truck boxes upon boxes of their plump, juicy strawberries, raspberries and other produce to a bustling Saturday farmers market near... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967165/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:03:24 -0400 Reuters http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967165/ Details emerge in capture of killing spree suspect As the hunt wound down for the man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in two states, a disheveled Nicholas T. Sheley walked cal... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967147/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:14:08 -0400 Federal News Radio http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967147/ Tension builds over Coney Island rebuilding plan The Fourth of July weekend has always been one of the most exciting times of the year for Coney Island: Crowds line the boardwalk to watch the hot-dog ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967149/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:14:09 -0400 Federal News Radio http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967149/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department's system to prevent snooping into passport records has many weaknesses, according to a government investigation that was released on Thursday and was l... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967164/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:03:23 -0400 Reuters http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967164/ 2 die in helicopter crash near Calif. freeway Authorities say two men are dead after a helicopter crashed near a Northern California freeway, knocking power lines into traffic lanes and starting a gra... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967148/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:14:06 -0400 Federal News Radio http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967148/ TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ― Iran delivered its response Friday to an international offer of incentives for it to suspend uranium enrichment, a central part of its nuclear program, state television rep... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967037/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:07:50 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15967037/ "America" (My Country 'tis of Thee) found tucked behind a picture Picture sells for $10 at flea market; manuscript reportedly worth thousands "America" first played in public on Ju... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966064/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:42:03 -0400 CNN http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966064/ MIAMI, Fla. -- A local soldier returned who home from Iraq Thursday night will be honored by the City of Miami Beach.Zacory Ruiz, 22, spent 14 months in Iraq. It was his second tour of duty as a Marin... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966081/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:41:47 -0400 Local 10 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966081/ JERUSALEM (AP) ― Israel says it is keeping Gaza's border crossings closed in retaliation for a rocket attack. Israeli army spokesman Peter Lerner says all cargo passages remained shut Friday m... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966217/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:37:09 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966217/ PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross celebrated the eve of the Fourth of July not with fireworks but with wedding vows.Ralph Archbold and Linda Wilde, who portray the historica... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966216/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:37:07 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966216/ BOSTON (WBZ) ― Major League Baseball is doing something patriotic for the 4th of July. Every team will wear a special "stars and stripes" themed cap. The United States flag will appear in the ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966215/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:37:07 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966215/ NEW YORK (AP) ― The federal government is considering reopening the Statue of Liberty's crown for the first time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks.The National Park Service sent out a request ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966120/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:22:20 -0400 WCBSTV http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15966120/ LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AP) -- The American ambassador to Colombia said U.S. and Colombian forces cooperated closely on a daring hostage rescue mission. Three U.S. military contractors were ca... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965139/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:42:45 -0400 KXAN 36 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965139/ MANILA, Philippines -- Leftwing activists are marking Filipino-American Friendship Day with a protest at the US Embassy to denounce the alleged rape of a Filipino woman in Japan and the continuing pre... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965117/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:39:32 -0400 Inquirer http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965117/ DEARBORN, Mich. -- It's a salute to our country at Greenfield Village.Greenfield Village's 16th annual Salute to America kicked off Wednesday and lasts through Saturday.The nightly event features plen... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965140/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:34:46 -0400 Local 4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965140/ Just in time for Independence Day, Singer-Songwriter Joe Colledge Partners with eMail Our Military to Offer Troops a Free Download of His Single "American Dream". Miami Lakes, FL ( http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15964984/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:21:26 -0400 PR Web http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15964984/ The American executive and legislative branches of government are in dire need of an aggressive purge in the form of a no-confidence referendum. Unfortunately, the American people have no such device ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965194/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:14:39 -0400 Pravda http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965194/ WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month's Supreme Court ruling about detainees' le... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965196/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:47:15 -0400 New York Post http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965196/ PARIS (AP) - A French judge has ordered Continental Airlines and five people to stand trial for manslaughter in the 2000 crash of a Concorde jet that killed 113 people. A prosecutor says 2 of those t... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963175/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:14:04 -0400 WLOX http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963175/ CHICAGO (AP) - A 44-year-old Chicago woman is facing charges including first-degree murder and attempted murder after the shooting death of a Chicago police officer early Wednesday. A bond hearing is... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963286/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:13:27 -0400 WISH TV8 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963286/ Melrose Jewelers today announced the top 5 Rolex President Watch Models demanded in America on its website MelroseJewelers.com in Q1 2008. 1) Mens Platinum Rolex Day Date President (Double Quickset 18... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965141/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:22:05 -0400 PR Web http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15965141/ -- The danger of illegal fireworks has prompted San Francisco police to close off several areas in the Bayview and Hunters Point where revelers have set off Fourth of July skyrockets in past years. ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963474/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:07:28 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963474/ Auction house seeks to sell Rosa Parks collection Arlan Ettinger will never forget the response he got when he took one of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' hats to a meeting at the Apollo Theater in N... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15964040/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:53:19 -0400 Federal News Radio http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15964040/ Colombia's most famous hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, was reunited with her son and daughter in what she described as an "orgy of kisses" Thursday, a day after she and 14 other hostages were plucked fr... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15964042/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:51:32 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15964042/ a name="Search" content="yes"> a name="Date" content="20080703"> a name="Keywords" content="CyberCast News Service"> a name="Topic" content="none"> a name="Generator" content="Page Builder 6.8... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963453/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:51:26 -0400 CNS News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963453/ College student charged with felony for trying to sell vote on eBay Max P. Sanders told authorities posting was a joke Prosecutors used 1893 state law to charge Sanders with bribery http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963888/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:51:15 -0400 CNN http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963888/ NEW YORK (AP) ― Today is Friday, July 4, the 186th day of 2008. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Independence Day.Today's Highlight in History:On July 4, 1776, the Continental Cong... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963806/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:47:15 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963806/ America has tightened security along its border with Canada, but some security experts say the 4,000-mile northern passage remains full of holes — an inviting “open door” to terroris... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963501/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:36:14 -0400 Fox News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15963501/ Living in Police, Poland, Dawid Pietrek also dreamed of becoming an American citizen when he set out on a grand adventure after winning the U.S. government's green card lottery in 2005. "He conside... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960931/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:03:35 -0400 Chicago Tribune http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960931/ DALLAS - Many more job cuts, likely totalling more than 6,000, are likely at American Airlines as the biggest airline in the United States hunkers down and tries to survive record high fuel costs. ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960569/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:58:25 -0400 C News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960569/ WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is locked in an internal debate over whether to present Congress with proposed legislation that would allow suspected terrorists to be held in the United States ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960994/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:45:12 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960994/ -- One of the eight Honduran juvenile crack dealers who fled from a San Bernardino County group home after being put there by San Francisco officials to shield them from deportation has been arrested... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960702/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:06:22 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960702/ Ten thousand smelly sneakers were cause for celebration in Washington July 2. They set a world record for the longest chain of shoes, while teaching kids about recycling. A national children's magaz... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960660/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:45:26 -0400 VOA http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960660/ BIG SUR, California (AP) -- Piles of charred rubble smoldered near California's scenic coastal highway Thursday as a ferocious wildfire descended on the storied tourist town of Big Sur, destroying vac... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960574/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:50:39 -0400 CNN http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960574/ Dedicated to the battle before us, critical analysis such as we see from the keyboard of Petras is wrongly interpreted as a threat to weaken the movement. Some criticize Petras as an "academic outside... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960578/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:48:41 -0400 Axis of Logic http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960578/ "Eating bugs is a foreign concept in North America," co-owner Meeru Dhalwala said. "People here think bugs are dirty. There's a yuck factor." But gram for gram, experts say insects are more nutritious... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15962453/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:32:49 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15962453/ A reader's curiosity about where that oil ends up - and who profits from its sale - inspired one of three questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to rea... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960576/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:23:13 -0400 Tampa Bay Online http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960576/ Indiana University product David Neville made the U.S. Olympic track and field team Thursday night by finishing third in the 400 meters at the Trials in Eugene, Ore. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960932/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:28:31 -0400 Courier-Journal http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960932/ YANGON, Myanmar (AP) ― A ferry sank in a river in Myanmar's cyclone-battered Irrawaddy delta, killing nearly 40 people, state-media reported Friday.The motorized ship sank in the Yway river Tu... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961561/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:46:52 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961561/ NEW YORK (CBS) ― Just in time for the Fourth of July, the NYPD is dramatically stepping up its war against seaborne terrorist threats. CBS station WCBS-TV in New York City went along on one of... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961560/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:46:51 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961560/ (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)A firefighter uses a special gun to start a backfire on a wildfire burn in Big Sur, Calif., Thursday, July 3, 2008. The raging blaze near Big Sur was one of more than 1,700 wildf... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15962529/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:39:16 -0400 The Examiner http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15962529/ NEW YORK (CBS) ― A former accountant for Rachael Ray's television cooking show has filed a $1 million lawsuit saying he was forced out of his job because he has an eating disorder. Aaron Fergu... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961558/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:46:50 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961558/ PM Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani will meet President Bush on July 28 to `discuss a broad range of issues of mutual interest and regional and international matters of common interest... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960672/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:56:28 -0400 IRNA http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960672/ AUSTELL, Ga. - State regulators say Six Flags Over Georgia must increase the size and number of warning signs near a popular roller coaster that hit and killed a teen.Police say 17-year-old Asia LeeSh... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961663/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:31:10 -0400 MSNBC http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961663/ Some 200 opposition supporters mobbed the US Embassy in Zimbabwe, seeking refuge amid new reports of violence against dissenters. Activists received good news, however, as two women who led peaceful ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960930/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:34:03 -0400 West Australian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960930/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California firefighters made a desperate stand as darkness fell on Thursday to save more than 4,000 homes and other structures from a pair of out-of-control wildfires burning a... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961899/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:41:34 -0400 Reuters http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961899/ ' }, { url: 'http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/06/28/image4216768g.jpg', alt: 'A tattered American flag flies in front of a house that was overcome by floodwaters in Winfield, Mo.', text: '... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961184/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:43:54 -0400 CBS News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961184/ DALLAS (AP) - Former TWA flight attendants had to fight for jobs after American Airlines bought their carrier. Now they're first in line to be laid off as American and American Eagle cut 6,800 jobs. ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960929/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:59:02 -0400 ABC 7 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960929/ Young offenders in SF illegally get no more break Minors who commit crimes while in the United States illegally will be turned over to federal immigration officials, a reversal of a nearly 20-year-old... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961840/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:52:46 -0400 Federal News Radio http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961840/ FAIRFIELD, Calif. (CBS) ― A local professional poker player sent straight to jail and accused of selling teenage girls for sex. "He was really sweet and sensitive," says Leilani Neal. "They lo... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961559/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:46:50 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15961559/ WASHINGTON (AP) - The 32nd president stares resolutely from his wheelchair, cast in the kind of immortal bronze reserved for the leaders we remember as distant paragons of national virtue. Yet somethi... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960933/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:33:08 -0400 Examiner http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15960933/ Cyber-Link Triggers 1st Vt. Amber Alert Federal prosecutors allege that Jacques used a pair of online identities to manipulate his young accomplice into thinking she was working with several men who ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958759/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:04:00 -0400 ABC News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958759/ LOS ANGELES: Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died of congestive heart failure. He was 83. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959864/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:32:35 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959864/ STAUNTON, Va. - Three West African bushmen recruited to build a mud-hut village at the Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia have been denied visas because officials say the men were poor, didn't speak ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959114/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:31:13 -0400 MSNBC http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959114/ PHILADELPHIA - Police have a suspect in the 1985 killing of a teenage boy whose body was found in a thicket months after he left home on a bicycle, a coroner said Thursday.The death of 13-year-old Dav... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959113/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:31:16 -0400 MSNBC http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959113/ OMAHA, Neb. -- A group of Boy Scouts who were at a camp hit by a deadly tornado will get to meet President George W. Bush in Washington at the end of the month.The Boy Scouts of America Mid-America Co... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958515/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:09:04 -0400 KETV 7 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958515/ star Jason Biggs and his new bride are planning a proper ceremony in Napa Valley, California in August - after exchanging vows in a courthouse in April. The actor surprised family and friends when he... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958438/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:55:16 -0400 Inside Baltimore http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958438/ GOP Sen. John Warner asks for report on speed limit's link to gas saving, fuel prices Congress set 55 mph limit in 1974; it was repealed in 1995 Warner says limit saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day, l... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959138/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:50:44 -0400 CNN http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959138/ WEATHERFORD, Texas - A man was sentenced to more than 4,000 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting three teenage girls.A day after finding James Kevin Pope guilty, jurors sentenced him to 4... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959115/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:31:14 -0400 MSNBC http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959115/ MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday that a shake-up in the leadership of his campaign was part of a "natural evolution" as the organization becomes m... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958991/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:47:01 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958991/ NTSB: Cargo carrier received threat before fire Federal investigators say a cargo carrier whose plane was burned in an unexplained fire had received a threat a few days before. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959388/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:52:45 -0400 Federal News Radio http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959388/ More Photos Oil prices headed into the busy Fourth of July break by racing past $145 a barrel for the first time Thursday. The story was no different at the gas pump, where the national average soar... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958760/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:03:58 -0400 ABC News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958760/ WASHINGTON: President George W Bush hailed the release of hostages, three of them US nationals, from Marxist FARC rebels in Colombia, even as the White House said the operation had no "connection" wit... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958516/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:32:43 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958516/ NEW YORK (AP) ― Jon Lester pitched a sharp five-hitter while the Boston Red Sox roughed up Andy Pettitte, beating the New York Yankees 7-0 on Thursday night to end a five-game losing streak. A... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958989/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:46:59 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958989/ CLEVELAND -- A federal jury on Thursday convicted the former top accountant at the Cleveland Catholic Diocese of tax charges and acquitted him of more serious charges related to alleged kickbacks. Th... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959819/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:31:57 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959819/ DALLAS -- American Airlines says it could cut 900 flight attendant jobs as it reduces flights to cope with record high fuel costs. The Fort Worth-based airline expects to reduce jobs for pilots and me... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15957985/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:37:44 -0400 The China Post http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15957985/ SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― It's gone to recovery mode, searching for the body of a man that jumped in the American River from one of the local bridges near Discovery Park. Several people saw him jum... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958484/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:46:42 -0400 UPN 31 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958484/ V Australia celebrates American Independence Day by announcing direct flights between Brisbane and Los Angeles. New flights to offer travellers freedom of choice from 1 March 2009 - $1234* return econ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958053/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:26:15 -0400 Travel Blackboard http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958053/ The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958986/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:46:54 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958986/ Drifter pleads in Wis. torture-homicide case A member of a gang of drifters who was accused of helping to kill another woman in the group and of torturing the woman's 11-year-old son pleaded no contes... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959387/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:52:44 -0400 Federal News Radio http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959387/ ISTANBUL - The United States representation in the Turkish city of Istanbul celebrated the anniversary of the country`s independence on Wednesday. The U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul hosted a recep... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958264/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:10:19 -0400 Turkish Press http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958264/ OMAHA, Neb. (AP) ― Nebraska Beef Ltd. is expanding a recall announced earlier this week to include all 5.3 million pounds of meat it produced for ground beef between May 16 and June 26.Federal... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958990/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:47:00 -0400 WBZ4 http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958990/ Jeannine Aversa, The Associated Press July 3, 2008 - 6:10 p.m. WASHINGTON - Wall Street companies sharply scaled back their borrowing from the U.S. Federal Reserve's emergency lending program over th... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958073/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:22 -0400 Canadian Business http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958073/ A diplomatic showdown is brewing over the return of a Serbian basketball player accused of pummeling an American student into a coma in an upstate New York bar. The Serbian fled for his homeland with ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958761/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:03:51 -0400 ABC News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958761/ The recall involves two youth beds by Bayside Furnishings of San Diego, Calif. The beds are the LaJolla Boat Bed and the Pirates of the Caribbean Twin Trundle Bed. They were sold at Costco and other s... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958566/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:29:55 -0400 USA Today http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958566/ LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For years Hollywood's paparazzi have hounded celebrities, but now -- with help from local politicians, a lawyer in the Monica Lewinsky case, and even Malibu surfers -- they are... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959420/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:41:40 -0400 Reuters http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959420/ NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959421/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:41:38 -0400 Reuters http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15959421/ The solvent that was dumped in the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton on Wednesday night was naphtha, a petroleum-based substance used in paint thinners, officials said Thursday. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958444/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:32:44 -0400 CBC News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15958444/ As the hunt wound down for the man suspected in a killing spree that left eight people dead in two states, a disheveled Nicholas T. Sheley walked calmly into a Subway restaurant in suburban St. Louis,... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956722/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:57 -0400 The Examiner http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956722/ Utah state employees. As in: "Thank God It's Thursday."In a yearlong experiment aimed at reducing the state's energy costs and commuters' gasoline expenses, Utah is about to become the first state to ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956721/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:55 -0400 The Examiner http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956721/ Sales plunged 11% to 204.6 million units for the six months ending June 29, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That compares with 229.8 million units scanned in the first half last year, which was down 1... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956494/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:22:15 -0400 KeralaNext http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956494/ (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)U.S. Attorney Tom Anderson, left, answers questions as Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell, right, looks on during a news conference, Thursday, July 3, 2008, in Burlington... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956723/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:29:58 -0400 The Examiner http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956723/ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BLOOMINGTON, Ill. -- Police have given the all-clear at the headquarters of State Farm insurance in Illinois after a witness reported seeing a man with a gun headed toward the ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956354/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:21:24 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956354/ WASHINGTON: The justice department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Ara... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15955575/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:32:15 -0400 Times of India http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15955575/ In this May 3, 2006 file photo, former track star Tim Montgomery enters Manhattan federal court in New York. Montgomery pleaded guilty Thursday July 3, 2008 to a federal heroin distribution charge day... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956355/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:21:23 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15956355/ MIAMI (Reuters) - The call girl linked to the sex scandal that prompted the resignation of then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in March has dropped a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against "Girls Gone Wild"... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15955585/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:28:16 -0400 Reuters http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/154063713fe5da1f/id/15955585/