Sen. Kennedy recovering after seizure 05/18/2008
BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the lone surviving son in a famed political family, suffered a seizure at his Cape Cod home on Saturday morning but was recovering well enough by afternoon to watch a Red Sox game from his hospital room.
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Bush: Oil boost won’t solve issues 05/18/2008
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt - President Bush said Saudi Arabia's small increase in oil production will not solve soaring U.S. fuel prices, but he defended the wealthy kingdom Saturday against American lawmakers "screaming the loudest" for Riyadh to open its spigots.
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Saudis fear rerun of OPEC disaster 05/18/2008
WASHINGTON - When President Bush, once a Texas oilman, asked Saudi Arabia to pump more crude, he may have forgotten that the Saudis have a long memory. And that made it a good bet his mission this past week would produce a dry hole.
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A Wise move 05/17/2008
In the winter of 1965, Lucille Wise Wilcox was happily married to an Air Force pilot and was living with her three young girls in Largo, Fla., 14 miles northwest of St. Petersburg in west Florida.
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Bush fails to sway Saudis on gas prices 05/17/2008
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - President Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Arabia to relieve skyrocketing American gas prices Friday, a setback for the former Texas oilman who took office predicting he would jawbone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.
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Obama criticizes McCain’s ‘naive’ foreign policy 05/17/2008
WATERTOWN, S.D. - Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible," serving notice that he's ready to launch a full-throttle challenge to the Republican presidential contender on international relations in the general election campaign.
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Alabama sheriffs feeding inmates on $1.75 a day 05/17/2008
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Back in the day of chain gangs, Alabama passed a law that gave sheriffs $1.75 a day to feed each prisoner in their jails, and the sheriffs got to pocket anything that was left over.
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Cobb judge to stay on Nichols case 05/16/2008
ATLANTA - The judge presiding over the murder case involving accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols can remain on the case.
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McCain sees war in Iraq won by 2013 05/16/2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Republican John McCain declared for the first time Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013, although he rejected suggestions that his talk of a timetable put him on the same side as Democrats clamoring for full-scale troop withdrawals.
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Republicans abandon Bush on food, energy 05/16/2008
WASHINGTON - Congress responded speedily to voters' angst over rising grocery prices and $4-a-gallon gasoline on Thursday, bucking President Bush's veto threats with lopsided votes to boost food stamps and farm subsidies - after ordering Bush to quit pouring oil into the nation's emergency reserves.
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