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- PUBLIC EYE'S WEEK IN REVIEW
La Lohan report
Lindsay Lohan's rep, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, lashed out at the media last week for mocking the actress' incoherent but heartfelt statement in the wake of Robert Altman's death, which closed with the sign-off, “BE ADEQUITE.”
- THE LIST
Deadliest states for drunken driving
End Needless Deaths on Our Roadways, a doctor-led advocacy group, has released its annual list of the 15 deadliest states for impaired driving.
- This day in history: 1984
More than 3,800 people died in the deadliest industrial accident in history after a cloud of gas escapes from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.
- Supreme Court to weigh in on school diversity
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is diving into a debate over school diversity that is as old as Reconstruction-era efforts to integrate blacks into the mainstream and as new as the 5:35 a.m. start time on some buses carrying students across town in Louisville, Ky.
- Castro misses birthday bash, continues string of absences
HAVANA – Fidel Castro was a no-show yesterday at a major military parade that doubled as his 80th birthday celebration, raising questions about whether the ailing leader will return to power as his public absence begins taking on a tone of permanence.
- Specialty growers join bid for subsidies
FRESNO – For decades, the fiercely independent fruit and vegetable growers of California, Florida and other states have been the only farmers in America who shunned federal subsidies, delivering produce to the tables of millions of Americans on their own.
- New park part of downtown L.A. 'renaissance'
LOS ANGELES – Developers and civic leaders are trying to reinvigorate this city's languorous downtown with a pair of billion-dollar redevelopment projects brimming with condominiums, entertainment venues and hotels.
- REGION UPDATE
Deputy probing shooting is slain
SEATTLE – A sheriff's deputy died early yesterday after he was shot in the head while investigating a shooting in the southwestern part of the city, authorities said.
- Thousands remain without power after deadly Midwest snowstorm
CHICAGO – Utility crews worked overtime yesterday to restore electrical service to thousands of customers still blacked out by the Midwest's first big snowstorm of the season.
- Oops, U.S. signal locks garage openers
DENVER – What do remote-control garage door openers have to do with national security?
- NATION UPDATE
Handcuffed teenager drowns after escape
A handcuffed Virginia teenager drowned yesterday after he fled from a Virginia State Police cruiser during a traffic stop and plunged more than 60 feet off a bridge into the Occoquan River, authorities said.
- Relaxed trucking rules pit industry versus safety advocates
WASHINGTON – As Dorris Edwards slowed for traffic near Kingdom City, Mo., on her way home from a Thanksgiving trip in 2004, an 18-wheeler slammed into her Jeep Cherokee.
- Pfizer ends trials on experimental cholesterol drug torcetrapib
Pfizer announced last night that it had discontinued research on its most important experimental drug, a treatment for heart disease. The decision is a stunning development that will seriously damage the company's prospects through the next decades.
- Congress to take parting shot at reviving expired tax breaks
WASHINGTON – Millions of entrepreneurs, teachers and parents with children in college have a financial stake in whether Congress, in the dying hours of Republican rule, revives tax breaks that expired 11 months ago.
- Bush weighs lifting of drilling ban
WASHINGTON – President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales, sea lions and the world's largest sockeye salmon run.
- New York cracks down on exotic meats
NEW YORK – A food safety inspector noticed an interesting special posted in the front window of a market in Queens: 12 beefy armadillos.
- N.H. Republicans settle phone-jamming lawsuit
CONCORD, N.H. – State and national Republicans will pay $135,000 to settle a lawsuit involving a scheme to jam Democratic get-out-the-vote calls on Election Day 2002, officials said yesterday.
- Chávez poised for re-election as Venezuelans head to polls
SABANETA, Venezuela – Hugo Chávez has called President Bush the devil, allied himself with Iran and inserted himself into election races all over Latin America.
- Bridge collapse kills at least 33 on train in India
NEW DELHI – A colonial-era footbridge collapsed onto railroad tracks in eastern India yesterday, burying a train beneath tons of red rock and killing at least 33 passengers.
- Rebels recruit despite peace deal in Nepal
DASHARATHPUR, Nepal – Young men and women sit around learning how to shoot and clean guns at a muddy camp set up by communist rebels on the edge of this Himalayan village.
- Egyptians living above ancient tombs to move
LUXOR, Egypt – After six decades of wrangling, Egyptians living in the hills near Luxor have agreed to move out and give tourists and archaeologists access to nearly 1,000 Pharaonic tombs that lie beneath their homes, the government said yesterday.
- Calderón vows pay raises for military
MEXICO CITY – Mexico's new president yesterday pledged to substantially raise the wages of the armed forces, calling them a crucial weapon against heavily armed drug gangs terrorizing the nation.
- The Week in Mexico
Gunmen killed the Mesa de Otay section police chief, his bodyguard and a secretary in Tijuana late Tuesday.
- Saniora tells Hezbollah to stop protests, resume negotiations
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Thousands of Hezbollah supporters set up camp in the heart of Beirut yesterday, starting an open-ended sit-in with a carnival atmosphere intended to pressure the U.S.-backed government of Fuad Saniora into resigning.
- No 'radiation toxicity' shown in Italian who met with ex-spy
LONDON – An Italian security consultant who tested positive for traces of the same radioactive substance that was found in the body of a fatally poisoned ex-KGB spy has not shown any signs of illness, doctors said yesterday.
- WORLD UPDATE
Bomber strikes NATO convoy; 3 dead
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A suicide car bomber targeted a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan today, apparently killing three civilians and wounding three soldiers, officials said.
- INSIDE IRAQ
Car-bomb blasts, seen as retaliatory, kill 51
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of central Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 51 people and wounding at least 86, many of whom were shopping at a crowded street market, Iraqi government officials said.
- POLITICAL IMPACTS
Shiite politico to urge Bush to seek Iranian help to end violence
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A Shiite power broker reviled by Sunni Arabs for his ties to Iran and a militia linked to sectarian violence will ask President Bush to seek Iran's help in their upcoming White House meeting and try to allay U.S. concerns over Iranian influence in Iraq.
- Daily developments
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