Marijuana Smokers March To Their Own Bong
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Thousands of people are getting fired up and taking their tokin' to the streets.Saturday, May 3 marks the 10th Annual Worldwide Marijuana March, which will draw nearly a million people in 240 cities --...
Senator's Husband Admits Paying For Sex
TROY, Mich. (AP) -- The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told police he paid a prostitute $150 for sex at a hotel, according to a police report.
Gay Partner Initially Barred By Pentagon
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Defense Department initially blocked the domestic partner of Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin from going on a congressional delegation trip on a military plane -- but acquiesced after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked that the partner be allowed.The Pentagon says it was...
Del. Panel Probes Teacher's Obama Remark
DOVER, Del. (AP) -- A Delaware state commission is investigating allegations that a fifth-grade teacher told her class she wouldn't vote for Barack Obama because he is "scary" and a Muslim.The mother of a 10-year-old student complained, saying her daughter's teacher made...
Sex Offender Runs For Mayor Of Suburb
WILMER, Texas (AP) -- A registered sex offender collared in an Internet sting four years ago is running for mayor of a small Dallas suburb.James Brian Sliter (SLY'-ter) says he's sorry and needs to prove he can be an asset to his community. The 42-year-old was arrested after...
Judge Awards NYC Diplomatic Millions
NEW YORK (AP) -- Foreign diplomats get great parking spots, but their home countries can't escape the U.S. tax man.A federal judge has ordered the governments of India, Mongolia and the Philippines to pony up $57.6 million in real estate taxes in a case that reached the U.S....
Wife Of Ex-NJ Gov Denies Threesome Claim
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The estranged wife of former New Jersey governor James McGreevey says published reports that she engaged in sexual trysts with McGreevey and a campaign aide aren't true.Dina Matos McGreevey says in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the reports are...
Democratic Rivals Agree To Play Nicer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- On this presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton can agree: They sometimes disagree with their trash-talking supporters and will try to cool it.
No One Votes In Florida Election
TAMARAC, Fla. (AP) -- Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all? That's the situation city officials in Tamarac are facing. No voters showed up Wednesday night to cast a ballot in an annexation referendum for an unincorporated Broward County community.There...
How Silda Spitzer Can Deal With Hubby's Hooker Habit
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- With all eyes on former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, whose shocking sex scandal led to his resignation, a divorce expert has some tips for his shamed spouse, Silda.
Entrepreneur Offers Hillary $1 Million To Take It All Off
LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- A millionaire in Los Angeles is offering Hillary Clinton $1 million to pose nude.
McCain Flashes Temper At Reporter
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Republican Sen. John McCain, showing a flash of the temper he is known for, repeatedly cut off a reporter Friday when asked whether he had spoken to Democratic Sen. John Kerry about being his vice president in 2004.
Political Activist Dishes Out Knowledge With Ice Cream
OAKLAND, Calif. (Wireless Flash) -- Popsicles and politics can go hand-in-hand.{image_1130}Just ask Aaron Gach,...
Molossia, A Tiny Yet Proud Country -- Smack Dab In Reno
RENO, Nev. (Wireless Flash) -- If America isn't working for you, create your own country.{image_1129}That's...
Vt. Town Votes on Bush 'Indictment'
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) -- Voters in this southern Vermont town were deciding Tuesday whether to approve a measure calling for the indictment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on charges of violating the Constitution.
This Just In: I'm Running For Office
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Longtime KEZI anchor Rick Dancer led off the 11 o'clock news with word that a Republican had announced his candidacy for Oregon secretary of state. The candidate: Rick Dancer.After ABC's Academy Awards coverage ended Sunday, its Eugene affiliate spent the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama said he has successfully quit smoking cigarettes despite the pressures of a closely contested and lengthy presidential campaign."I've been chewing on this...
Ex-Philly Mayor's Brother A Tax Cheat
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The eccentric older brother of Philadelphia's last mayor was convicted of three tax-evasion charges Friday but acquitted of four fraud counts over what prosecutors had described as a kickback scheme at the city-owned airport.The jury, which deliberated over nearly...
Gator Fans' Georgia Plates In Jeopardy
ATLANTA (AP) -- A harassed minority -- Florida Gators fans in Georgia -- got the chance this month to show their school pride on their license plates, but legislators are attacking the new privilege with a full-on blitz.Unhappy that some states, including Florida, make it difficult or...
NY Times, McCain Stand Off Over Story
NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York Times story examining
McCain Says Report On Lobbyist Not True
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- John McCain emphatically denied a romantic relationship with a female telecommunications lobbyist on Thursday and said a report by The New York Times suggesting favoritism for her clients...
Former NJ Gov's Split From Wife Drags On
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- They've bickered over whether she knew he was gay, whose tell-all book would sell better, whether a poster of a nude man hanging over his new lover's bed had to come down before she'd allow their 6-year-old to visit.
Ethics Committee Admonishes Craig
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate Ethics Committee says Idaho Sen. Larry Craig acted improperly in a men's room sex sting.In a letter Wednesday, the ethics panel says Craig's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea in a June arrest at a Minneapolis airport was an effort to evade legal...
Mellencamp Songs Off McCain's Playlist
PHOENIX (AP) -- It may be "Our Country," but it's John Mellencamp's song.
Card Shows Rudy Celebrating With Sox
NEW YORK (AP) -- Yankee fans won't like it, Red Sox fans won't like it and Rudy Giuliani certainly won't like it. When Topps baseball cards hit the stores this week, about one in every 70 packs will include a picture of Giuliani, fist raised in victory, celebrating with the Sox on...
Methodist Ministers Against Bush Library
DALLAS (AP) -- Some Methodist ministers are making a final yet improbable attempt to stop George W. Bush's presidential library, museum and public policy institute from being built at Southern Methodist University.They say United Methodist law requires approval from the church's...
Report Says Democracies Enable Despots
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Authoritarian rulers are violating human rights around the world and getting away with it largely because the U.S., European and other established democracies accept their claims that holding elections makes them democratic, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report...
A Curse? No Higher Office For NYC Mayors
NEW YORK (AP) -- Is there a curse on City Hall?Rudy Giuliani this week became the latest victim of a political urban legend -- that New York City mayors who aim for higher office will always miss.Giuliani's bid for the Republican presidential nomination collapsed after a...
Ore. Mayor In MySpace Flap Faces Recall
ARLINGTON, Ore. (AP) -- Opponents of a small-town eastern Oregon mayor who created a buzz with scantily clad pictures of herself on MySpace have collected enough signatures to force a recall vote.Carmen Kontur-Gronquist's photos featured her posing on a town fire engine wearing only a...
Vermont Anti-Bush Petition Lambasted
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) -- A town petition making President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney subject to arrest for crimes against the Constitution has triggered a barrage of criticism from people who say residents are "wackjobs" and "nuts."In e-mail messages,...
