SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Retired grocery clerk Bill Capell (search) has a good reason to plan his first trip to England: He’s one step away from being an earl. A relative who died last month was the 10th Earl of Essex, and the 11th, another cousin, is 61 years old and …
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MILWAUKEE – Gaylord Nelson (search), the former governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin who founded Earth Day (search) and helped spawn the modern environmental movement, died Sunday. He was 89. Nelson died of cardiovascular failure at his home in Kensington, Md., a Washington suburb, said Bill Christofferson, Nelson’s biographer and …
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SINGAPORE – Hillary Rodham Clinton, Muhammad Ali and the leaders of France and Spain joined the final, frenzied stage of lobbying as the IOC prepared to choose a host for the 2012 Olympics (search) after a high-powered, fiercely competitive five-city campaign. Clinton, a senator and former first lady, became the …
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NEW YORK – Athletes want to be rock stars and rock stars want to be athletes. Bronson Arroyo (search) gets to be both. The Boston Red Sox (search) pitcher came out this week with “Covering the Bases,” his debut album of ’90s cover songs. It’s a mix of grunge (“Black” …
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WASHINGTON – Former U.S. intelligence officers criticized President Bush on Friday for not disciplining Karl Rove (search) in connection with the leak of the name of a CIA officer, saying Bush’s lack of action has jeopardized national security. In a hearing held by Senate and House Democrats examining the implications …
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CHICAGO – Guidant Corp. (GDT) Friday said the Food and Drug Administration (search) has classified the recall of some of its recently recalled implantable heart devices as Class I, its highest priority. The products include Ventak Prizm 2 DR (search), manufactured on or before April 16, 2002, and Contak Renewal …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s interior minister said Wednesday that a terror attack was thwarted in Britain (search) before the May general elections in that country — and arrests were made in several countries — because of help from Pakistan’s government. “Before the general elections in the U.K. we received reports …
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WASHINGTON – Forty-four government scientists who also worked as consultants for drug companies violated agency regulations designed to prevent conflicts of interest, a review by the National Institutes of Health (search) shows. The review centered on whether the scientists had properly disclosed their work for the drug companies on financial …
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BEULAH, Colo. – Fresh crews and more aircraft joined the battle Tuesday against a wildfire that had forced 5,000 people to flee their homes, hoping improved weather would give them an edge. The temperature had fallen, wind was light and humidity had risen in the area of 11,700-acre blaze in …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS), the world’s biggest video game publisher, Tuesday reported a smaller-than-expected fiscal first quarter loss, but cut its full-year financial forecast, sending its shares lower. EA’s loss comes amid soft game sales and shortages of the Xbox (search) and PlayStation2 (search) game consoles. EA …
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