http:///252/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Ledger-Enquirer.com en-us Copyright 2008 Ledger-Enquirer.com AP Nation/World 60 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:29:42 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys support@Ledger-Enquirer.com http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469477.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469477.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:29 EDT North Korea said Sunday it will resume dismantling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the U.S. removed the communist country from a list of states Washington says sponsor terrorism. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469557.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469557.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:14 EDT Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday the rift between his mainstream Palestinian faction and archrival Hamas must end. The Hamas leader, meanwhile, said the time is right for reconciliation. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469535.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469535.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:09 EDT (EDITORS: This is another in a regular series of articles by McClatchy's Washington Bureau on the impact of the financial collapse of Wall Street.) http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469305.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469305.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:09 EDT After making landfall over mainland Mexico, Norbert weakened Sunday from a hurricane to a tropical storm, weather officials said. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469123.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469123.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:04 EDT About 2,500 people who fled when a corrosive liquid overflowed from a tank at a chemical plant and evaporated were allowed to return home Sunday after authorities determined that no toxins remained in the air. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469530.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469530.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:44 EDT President Dmitry Medvedev watched a missile soar from Russia's rain-soaked northern forests toward a target thousands of miles away on Sunday, capping a weekend of launches reminding audiences at home and abroad about the country's nuclear might. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468526.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468526.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:34 EDT A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468975.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468975.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:29 EDT European leaders meet Sunday in search of a common response to a spreading financial crisis that has ricocheted across the Atlantic to their shores and to try to preserve the bloc's unity. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468468.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468468.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:14 EDT A car bomb exploded Sunday in a commercial street of southwestern Baghdad, killing seven people and wounding nine others, police said. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469523.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469523.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:09 EDT Two populist parties appeared poised for a strong showing Sunday in parliamentary elections that could usher in a governing coalition aligned more toward Russia than Europe. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469521.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469521.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:44 EDT Chicago's police superintendent is denying a news report that officers in his command are working the streets less aggressively out of fear of being second-guessed by him. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469520.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469520.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:14 EDT Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic church four new saints, including an Indian woman whose canonization is seen as a morale boost to Christians in India who have suffered Hindu violence. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469228.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469228.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:54 EDT The attorney for a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague says his client is fighting extradition to the United States. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469510.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469510.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:39 EDT The French president's office says that a former member of the Italian left-wing Red Brigades terrorist group won't be extradited to Italy because of ill health. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469491.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469491.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:19 EDT Separate battles between government forces and Tamil separatists across Sri Lanka's volatile northern region killed 30 rebels and two soldiers, the military said Sunday. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468528.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468528.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:19 EDT Authorities say a rock struck by a car ignited a wildfire in California's Napa Valley that destroyed a home and a barn and threatened several wineries. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468618.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468618.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:04 EDT The latest in a barrage of suspected U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's northwest killed five people, but none were believed to be foreign al-Qaida fighters, officials said Sunday. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469408.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469408.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:14 EDT For decades, the U.S. has vowed to reduce its dependence on imported oil and to find a reliable source to meet the nation's growing oil needs. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469438.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469438.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:14 EDT In November 2006, before Gov. Sarah Palin took office, a respected former Republican governor sounded the alarm against Alaska's powerful oil and gas industry. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469344.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469344.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:54 EDT Taliban militants launched a surprise attack on a key southern Afghan town, sparking a battle that killed some 60 insurgents, an Afghan official said Sunday. A second clash in the same region killed another 40 militants. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468958.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468958.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:24 EDT Damnation was the dominant theme Saturday in a new Vienna State Opera production of Charles Gounod's Faust. But redemption triumphed in the form of wonderful singing and a powerful orchestral performance. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469049.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/469049.html Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:19 EDT Shops, businesses and schools were shut in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Saturday to protest a visit by the Indian prime minister who inaugurated the first train line in the disputed Himalayan region. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468630.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468630.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:29 EDT National forests and parks - long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels - have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468424.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468424.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:54 EDT Alton Ellis http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468005.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468005.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:19 EDT As of Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008, at least 4,181 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468863.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468863.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:49 EDT Pilots of hot air balloons on Saturday mourned the loss of one of their own in a fiery crash at Albuquerque's famous festival, even as they said another pilot fighting for his life after the accident would want them to keep flying. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468875.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468875.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:34 EDT Christians in Mosul are fleeing their homes after a spate of killings this week that left 12 Christians dead in one of the largest Christian communities in Iraq. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468856.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468856.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19 EDT Two Arab-owned apartments were set ablaze in the Israeli town of Acre amid clashes between Jews and Arabs, police said Saturday. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468474.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468474.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:14 EDT The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468835.html http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/252/story/468835.html Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:09 EDT Leaders of the world's most industrialized nations agreed Saturday to work together with the U.S. Treasury Department and international institutions to attack the widening financial crisis that threatens them all.