Palin Announces Resignation, Will Transfer Power To Lt. Gov. (Wasilla, AK) -- Saying she's taking her fight for what's right in a new direction, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has announced she's stepping down from her post. In an announcement in Wasilla with her family, Palin remarked that she feels that she has endured multiple false accusations of ethics violations ...Read & Hear More
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Eastern Afghanistan (Khost) -- Two U.S. soldiers have been killed in southeastern Afghanistan during an attack on a base by the Taliban. The attack in Paktika province came just after the recent launch of a major operation against the Taliban in the south ...Read More
Dodd Unveils Public Health Care Option (Washington, DC) -- Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has unveiled a government run public health care option, at a cost much lower than original estimates. Dodd, who worked with Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy on the proposal, says original estimates pegged such a program at one-trillion-dollars over the next ten years ...Read More
State Retirement Program Far Exceeds Expectations (Hartford, CT) -- The early retirement program put in place to help cut the state budget deficit has far exceeded expectations. The program was expected to lead to around three-thousand retirements, which would have saved the state around 700-million-dollars in the upcoming two year budget cycle ...Read More
Rell Signs Dairy Industry Aid Bill (Hartford, CT) -- Governor Jodi Rell has signed legislation that seeks to help Connecticut dairy farmers stay in business in increasingly difficult times. The bill calls for a 40-dollar fee being placed on the filing of land records with the state, with the money being distributed to dairy farmers based on how much milk they produce ...Read More
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Ruth Madoff Booted From Manhattan Penthouse (New York, NY) -- Ruth Madoff was kicked out in the cold Thursday. Five U.S. Marshals served the wife of admitted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff with a federal court order forcing her to vacate her Manhattan penthouse ...Read More
Michael Jackson Replica On Display At DC's Madame Tussauds (Washington, DC) -- Fans of the late Michael Jackson are peering into the windows of the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington, DC. A replica of the King of Pop is now on display. Madame Tussauds in New York shipped the wax figure to Washington ...Read More
Statue Of Liberty Crown To Reopen Saturday (New York, NY) -- Some folks will be celebrating their Fourth of July by climbing up to the Statue of Liberty's crown. The crown, which has been closed to the public since the 9-11 attacks, is reopening Saturday ...Read More
