» Mo. woman pleads, will be sentenced in stolen baby attack (AP)
09/05/08 20:40 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - A woman accused of slashing a young mother's throat, kidnapping her newborn and passing off the child as her own for five days reached a plea deal Friday and will be sentenced this summer.

» Military adds armor to Iraq vehicles as roadside bombs surge (AP)
09/05/08 20:39 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - The U.S. military is reinforcing the sides of its topline mine-resistant vehicles to shore up what could be weak points as troops see a spike in armor-piercing roadside bombings across Iraq, The Associated Press has learned.

» Judge sends wrestler's son to jail for 8 months for crash (AP)
09/05/08 20:38 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving. Nick Bollea was led off to begin his sentence immediately after Friday's ruling. He will be on five years&..

» U.S. senators urge Bush to visit Tibet during Games (Reuters)
09/05/08 20:32 from Yahoo! News: Top StoriesReuters - A group of senior U.S. senators urged President George W. Bush on Friday to visit Tibet when he travels to China in August to attend the Beijing Olympics.

» MLB suspends Mariners slugger Sexson for 6 games (AP)
09/05/08 20:21 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - Seattle slugger Richie Sexson was suspended for six games and fined Friday by Major League Baseball after charging the mound and throwing his helmet at a Texas pitcher the previous night.

» U.S. sees record world food crops easing crisis (Reuters)
09/05/08 20:15 from Yahoo! News: Top StoriesReuters - Good weather will help the world's farmers reap record wheat and rice crops this year, the U.S. government said on Friday, which should allay fears of shortages and help bring prices down from current high levels.

» Blackwater unlikely to face charges in Iraq shooting (AP)
09/05/08 20:10 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - Blackwater Worldwide, the security contractor blamed by an angry Iraqi government for the shooting deaths of 17 civilians, is not expected to face criminal charges — all but ensuring the company will keep its multimillion-dollar ..

» Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident (AP)
09/05/08 20:05 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive tha..

» Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case (AP)
09/05/08 19:29 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is trying to resurrect a lawsuit against those in the Bush administration she says illegally disclosed her identity.

» Kentucky death row inmate: 'I'm ready and I'm sorry' (AP)
09/05/08 19:15 from Yahoo! News: Top Stories AP - Marco Allen Chapman is ready to die. After more than three years of waiting for courts to consider an appeal he never wanted, the death row inmate may soon get his wish and become the first person executed in Kentucky since 1999.