Extra cheese, no deadbeats: Child-support suspects shown on pizza boxes
CINCINNATI — Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms — wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support.
Senators question Gonzales’ credibility in prosecutors’ firings
WASHINGTON — Republican support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales eroded Sunday as three key senators sharply questioned his honesty over last fall’s firings of eight federal prosecutors. Additionally, two Democrats joined the list of lawmakers calling for Gonzales’ ouster.
CSU faculty agrees to 10 day extension; strike still possible
SAN FRANCISCO — Faculty and administrators locked in a nearly two-year contract dispute at the nation’s largest four-year public university system agreed Sunday to a temporary contract extension that could ward off a threatened strike.
16-year-old girl killed outside chaperoned house party
SACRAMENTO — Jelisa Office was not the kind of 16-year-old girl who went to parties much, and the straight-A student was usually busy with studies or her fast-food job.
Dueling LA immigration rallies mark anniversary of massive march
LOS ANGELES — Dueling immigration rallies Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of a massive pro-immigrant demonstration that jammed downtown streets with a half-million protesters and framed new debate in Washington.
2 bombs kill 5 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
BAGHDAD — Roadside bombs killed five U.S. soldiers in Iraq Sunday, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital, the military said.
Around the globe: Iran partially suspends U.N. cooperation
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran announced Sunday that it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, citing the “illegal and bullying” U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to stop enriching uranium.
Powerful quake rocks Japan; 1 dead, 170 injured
KANAZAWA, Japan — A powerful earthquake struck central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast. The quake was followed throughout the day by aftershocks.
Attack against Iraqi deputy PM seen as inside job
BAGHDAD — The suicide attack against Iraq’s Sunni deputy prime minister is now seen as an inside job carried out by a member of his own security detail — a distant relative who had been arrested as an insurgent, freed at the official’s request, then hired as a bodyguard, a senior security official and an aide to the victim told the Associated Press on Sunday.
Senator who battled cancer pushes smoking bans
SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Jenny Oropeza knows what it’s like to battle cancer, and she doesn’t want others to face the same fight.
Britain may extend N. Ireland power-sharing deadline, hails Protestant ‘breakthrough’
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Britain said Sunday it intends to try to hand power immediately to a new Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland — but is open to Protestant demands for an extension to May.
Australian terror suspect faces new round of Guantanamo trials
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — After a nomadic decade that carried him from the Australian outback to the battlefields of Afghanistan, David Hicks ended up locked away at this remote U.S. base in Cuba, accused of training with al-Qaida and fighting for the Taliban.
Blair calls for U.N. action against Sudan to end Darfur violence
ES SALLAM, Sudan — Britain and Germany called Sunday for tougher action against Sudan to end four years of bloodshed in Darfur, where the new U.N. humanitarian chief warned of a possible collapse in the massive effort to aid refugees from the violence.
New heart stents pass key tests, but long-term safety questions still linger
NEW ORLEANS — A new crop of experimental heart stents have passed some key safety and effectiveness tests and may one day offer alternatives to the controversial stents currently used to keep unclogged arteries open, doctors reported Saturday.
Extra cheese, no deadbeats: Child-support scofflaws shown on pizza boxes
CINCINNATI — Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms — wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support.
Thinking outside the egg, scientists propose interspecies cloning
SAN FRANCISCO — It was nearly a decade ago that Jose Cibelli plugged his own DNA into a cow’s egg in a novel cloning attempt that was condemned as unethical by President Clinton and landed the Michigan State University researcher in a mess of controversy.