4 January 2006
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: racking up store credit all over the place
Contrary to earlier reports, only one miner has survived the West Virginia mine explosion.
U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad kills family of 12.
Iran breaks European agreement, says it will resume uranium enrichment, or rather, it's building a bomb.
Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to corruption charges, will name names, serve 10 years in the clink.
Somali government close to returning to Mogadishu.
Analysis shows that as things currently stand, the easiest thing may be to convert the Capitol into a minimum security prison.
In the event of a dirty bomb, the Homeland Security Department advises reoccupying contaminated areas over letting all that fuss impede everyday life.
Abramoff ran for student council president in 1972. Heading into a runoff election, he was disqualified for exceeding the spending limit.
Though digital projection may give new hope to movie theaters in the war against bootleggers, the real money is actually in the popcorn.
Swedish Pirate Party hopes to gain entry to Parliament on its platform of, well, piracy.
CNN advocates child exhibitionism in the pursuit of snow days.
New Yorkers: Meet your new City Council speaker, Christine Quinn, "the most powerful openly lesbian or gay official in the country." And next: the world!
"The animals most like men," the validity of life on Mars, and other scanned entries from a 1920s encyclopedia.
Volkswagen studies American drivers to build the perfect American car--which, as it turns out, has three wheels.
Willie Nelson gets better mileage when his car is running on vegetable oil.
Farmers find small cows make better pets, eating.
The long history of people doing dumb things near wild animals--and the subsequent maulings.
Study shows that as the price of alcohol goes up, the sale of cheaper--and substantially more--booze does too.
Video: Disturbing "stabilized" version of the Zapruder JFK assassination film.
The party in New York after the transmission of the first transatlantic cable was absolutely blinding.