| Pacquiao stops Cotto to win 7th title (AP)
November 15, 2009 at 12:44 am
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|  AP - Manny Pacquiao put on yet another dominating performance Saturday night, knocking down Miguel Cotto twice and turning his face into a bloody mess before finally stopping him 55 seconds into the 12th round.
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| Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman to get early Oscars (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 11:59 pm
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|  AP - The Academy Awards won't be presented until March, but the first Oscar statuettes of the season were being handed out Saturday night at a private, black-tie dinner in Hollywood.
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| Mother of missing 5-year-old NC girl charged (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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| | AP - The mother of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared in central North Carolina was charged Saturday with human trafficking and other offenses, though authorities said they still did not know the girl's whereabouts. |
| Fire in South Korea shooting range kills 10 (Reuters)
November 14, 2009 at 10:31 pm
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|  Reuters - A fire that tore through a South Korean indoor shooting range killed eight Japanese visitors and two South Koreans, including the group's Korean guide, the fire service said Sunday.
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| White House: IL prison eyed for Guantanamo inmates (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 9:41 pm
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|  AP - The Obama administration may buy a near-empty prison in rural northwestern Illinois to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay along with federal inmates, a White House official said Saturday.
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| Govt: Medicare paid $47 billion in suspect claims (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 9:27 pm
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| | AP - The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. |
| Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leaves painful wake (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 8:18 pm
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|  AP - The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.
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| Colombia moves to calm tensions with Venezuela (Reuters)
November 14, 2009 at 8:14 pm
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|  Reuters - Colombia captured four members of the Venezuelan National Guard on Colombian soil and said on Saturday it would send them home in a gesture aimed at lowering diplomatic tensions between the neighboring countries.
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| Mourners grieve for soldiers killed at Fort Hood (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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|  AP - Hundreds of people lining the main street of an Indiana town on Saturday fell solemnly silent as the white hearse passed. Mourners waited for hours outside a Wisconsin gymnasium to say goodbye to a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.
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| A risky setting for NYC trial of 9/11 suspects (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 7:38 pm
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|  AP - In a move both politically and legally risky, the Obama administration plans to put on trial the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and four alleged accomplices in a lower Manhattan courthouse.
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| Stanford stuns USC at Coliseum again in 55-21 rout (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 6:46 pm
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|  AP - Toby Gerhart rushed for 178 yards and three touchdowns, and No. 25 Stanford emphatically followed up its historic 2007 upset at the Coliseum while essentially ending 11th-ranked Southern California's reign atop the Pac-10 with a 55-21 win Saturday.
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| Colombia moves to calm tensions with Venezuela (Reuters)
November 14, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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| Reuters - Colombia captured four members of the Venezuelan National Guard on Colombian soil and said on Saturday it would send them home in a bid to lower diplomatic tensions between the neighboring countries.
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| Crusading Calif. D.A. retires, leaves painful wake (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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| AP - The molesters drank blood, the children said, and hung them from hooks after forcing them to have sex with their parents. They murdered babies, prosecutors told jurors, and snapped photographs as the horror unfolded.
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| UCF stops Keenum in 37-32 upset of No. 13 Houston (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 3:59 pm
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|  AP - Central Florida not only found a way to slow down Case Keenum and No. 13 Houston, the Knights didn't give the nation's most prolific passer a chance to pull off another improbable comeback.
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| Govt: Medicare paid $47 billion in suspect claims (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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| | AP - The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a patient's condition, wasting taxpayer dollars at a rate nearly three times the previous year. |
| Suicide car bomb 'kills 11' in NW Pakistan (AFP)
November 14, 2009 at 10:30 am
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|  AFP - A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-filled car Saturday at a police checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 11 people, officials said.
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| Population of historic Venice totters near 60,000 (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 10:23 am
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|  AP - Historic Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000 — a largely symbolic threshold considered by some to signal the end of the city's viability.
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| Britain investigating fresh Iraq abuse claims (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 9:50 am
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| | AP - Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the U.S.-led war have leveled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female soldiers, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Saturday. |
| Iran sets up Internet crime unit (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 8:14 am
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| | AP - Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday. |
| Blast in Pakistan's Peshawar kills policeman (Reuters)
November 14, 2009 at 7:15 am
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|  Reuters - A suspected suicide car-bomber set off explosives near a police checkpost in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Saturday, killing a policeman and wounding 15 people, police said.
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| Republican bashes Dems over health care proposals (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 6:10 am
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|  AP - House Democrats missed opportunities to improve the House-passed health care bill when they rejected Republican ideas to limit lawsuits and give states more flexibility to enact innovative changes, a GOP lawmaker said Saturday.
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| "Kyoto principles" crucial in climate talks: China (Reuters)
November 14, 2009 at 4:53 am
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| | Reuters - China will insist the main principles of the Kyoto Protocol are retained in any new global climate change pact, even though others are seeking to abandon them, a high-ranking climate official on Saturday. |
| Woods falls into share of lead in Australia (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 4:23 am
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|  AP - The tee shot sailed to the right and onto a sandy path. His driver bounced left and into the gallery. Tiger Woods couldn't get anything straight Saturday in the Australian Masters.
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| US sees progress on arms control talks with Russia (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 4:11 am
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|  AP - The United States and Russia have agreed on the broad outlines of a deal to replace a major Cold-War era arms control agreement and are trying to work out remaining technical issues, U.S. officials say.
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| Some Fort Hood victims' funerals set for Saturday (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 3:58 am
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|  AP - Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger was set to deploy to Afghanistan for a second time in December, and she knew her mission: Catch Osama bin Laden. When her mother said she couldn't do it alone, the soldier defiantly told her, "Watch me."
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| Lebanon's new Cabinet leery of Hezbollah dispute (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 3:55 am
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|  AP - Lebanon's new government, a shaky coalition of Western-backed factions and the militant Hezbollah, is unlikely to tackle the chief challenge the country faces — a buildup of the Iranian-backed group's weapons — even as the rockets cause sharp new tensions with neighboring Israel.
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| Ohio executions back on with 1-drug method (AP)
November 14, 2009 at 3:31 am
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|  AP - Ohio's death chamber is set to resume executions next month using a single drug that has been used in the U.S. to euthanize pets but never to put condemned prisoners to death.
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