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Superhero can't save bat-infested town in Georgia
AMERICUS, Ga. – The grand historic mansions of this Southern town have become infested with millions of bats – so many that the sky turns black with each sunset. So many that not even the neighborhood Batman can help.
- PUBLIC EYE
Reeve's kids carry the torch
Christopher Reeve's children are carrying on their dad's crusade: finding a cure for paralysis. Alexandra and Matthew Reeve both serve on the board of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which Reeve established to fund research for therapies and a cure, People magazine reports in its Nov. 13 issue.
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American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
November is American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. The U.S. Census Bureau presents some statistics.
- Cost of filling up
- Amnesiac can't return to his past to go into future
LACEY, Wash. – He's flipped through the photographs, listened to the stories, read through all the letters. But more than a month after he left his home in Washington state and woke up in Denver with no memory, Jeff Ingram still has no idea who he is.
- Shortage eases rules on children's flu shots
SACRAMENTO – Citing a shortage of flu vaccines for young children, the California Department of Health and Human Services said yesterday it would make an exception to a new law requiring mercury-free vaccines.
- REGION UPDATE
O.J.'s publicity rights off-limits to Goldman
SANTA MONICA – O.J. Simpson has won a legal battle against the father of a murder victim who had sought control of the former football star's publicity rights to help satisfy a judgment in a wrongful-death lawsuit.
- Photo: Off course
- FIELD POLL
Race for lieutenant governor an even-steven contest
SACRAMENTO – Democrat John Garamendi and Republican Tom McClintock are tied in the race for lieutenant governor, while Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown has expanded his large lead over Republican state Sen. Charles Poochigian in his bid for attorney general, according to the latest Field Poll.
- Angelides still touts party's campaign
Seeking to shore up the liberal vote in Tuesday's election, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Angelides yesterday in San Diego declared his opposition to the planned border fence and reaffirmed his support for same-sex marriage.
- Mont. voters could decide which party controls the Senate
BILLINGS, Mont. – Beyond the mountains of this big sky state where a bruising political campaign nears an end, the contest between Republican Sen. Conrad Burns and Democratic rival Jon Tester will help determine far more than who represents Montana in Washington.
- Terror profile planned for all entering, leaving U.S.
WASHINGTON – The federal government disclosed details yesterday of a border-security program to screen all people who enter and leave the United States, create a terrorism risk profile of each individual and retain that information for up to 40 years.
- Houston mayor halts free flu shots at voting sites
HOUSTON – The city has stopped offering free flu shots at early voting sites after Republicans alleged it was a ploy by the mayor to lure more Democrats to the polls.
- NATION UPDATE
Shakira a winner at Latin Grammys
NEW YORK – Shakira's smoldering “La Tortura,” a duet with Alejandro Sanz, won song of the year honors at the Latin Grammys, while Argentine rocker Gustavo Cerati had a leading two wins at last night's ceremony.
- Sheriff, others in Va. accused of reselling drugs they seized
ROANOKE, Va. – A sheriff and 12 current and former officers in a hard-luck rural county that once billed itself the “Sweatshirt Capital of the World” were charged yesterday in connection with a scheme to resell drugs seized from criminals.
- Sting gets 'worst of the worst'
WASHINGTON – Nearly 11,000 sex offenders, gang members and other fugitives were swept up in what the Justice Department yesterday called a sting targeting the “worst of the worst” criminals on the run.
- CIA's interrogation methods could complicate terror trials
WASHINGTON – Riddled with legal gray areas, U.S. military trials for 14 high-level terror suspects and other detainees could bog down over questions about the CIA's interrogation tactics.
- Paul Newman TV spot backs Lieberman's rival Lamont
HARTFORD, Conn. – Ned Lamont may be trailing in the polls, but he's got one of America's biggest celebrities going to bat for him: Paul Newman.
- Beijing courts Africa's vast resources
BEIJING – Billboards here show elephants and giraffes roaming the savanna. Traffic has been curtailed and construction sites shut down. Beijing has put on its best face to court Africa, “the land of myth and miracles,” as official posters call it.
- Russian gas company to hike rate to Georgia
MOSCOW – The state-controlled company Gazprom said yesterday that it wants to more than double the price of natural gas for Russia's southern neighbor Georgia in 2007. The sharp increase, if implemented, is likely to reopen the debate on whether Russia is using its vast energy resources as a political weapon.
- Rice says Iranian missile tests aimed to show 'they are tough'
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran test-fired dozens of missiles, including the Shahab-3 that can reach Israel, in military maneuvers yesterday that it said were aimed at putting a stop to the role of world powers in the Persian Gulf region.
- Video of lavish Myanmar rites leaked
BANGKOK, Thailand – A video of an extravagant wedding for the daughter of Myanmar's military leader has raised questions about the lifestyles of members of the ruling junta in the impoverished country.
- Elephants run amok in Indonesia; 1 man killed
PEKANBARU, Indonesia – A wild elephant trampled a man to death while others destroyed parts of palm oil plantations on Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said.
- Israel detains Palestinian men as fighting in Gaza heats up
JERUSALEM – An Israeli air strike killed four members of Palestinian militant group Hamas today, Hamas sources said. They said the vehicle the four were traveling in was targeted by a missile in Gaza City.
- U.S. shuts Web site posting Iraqi atom bomb primer
In March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
- WORLD UPDATE
Paper: Air control erred in Brazil crash
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – The flight recorder transcript from the executive jet involved in Brazil's worst air disaster reveals that its U.S. pilots were told by air traffic control to fly at the same altitude as a Boeing 737 before the planes collided over the Amazon rain forest, a newspaper reported yesterday.
- Attacks kill 49, including dean at university
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A blood-drenched October has passed into a violent early November as a motorcycle rigged with explosives ripped through a crowded Shiite market in Sadr City yesterday and suspected Sunni insurgent gunmen killed a Shiite dean of Baghdad University.
- U.S. military believes kidnapped reservist is being kept alive
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A senior U.S. military spokesman said yesterday that an Iraqi-American soldier kidnapped in Baghdad 10 days ago was believed to be alive and in the hands of his original captors.
- Daily developments
Sgt. Kraig D. Foyteck, 26, of Skokie, Ill., was killed Monday in Baghdad by small-arms fire.
Sgt. Michael R. Weidemann, 23, of Newport, R.I., died Tuesday in Hit when an explosive detonated near his vehicle.
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