Articles filed under Associated Press
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Food prices outpace inflationOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- This morning, your bowl of cereal and milk probably cost you 49 cents. Last year, it was 44 cents. By next year, it could be 56 cents. It's enough to make yo...
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Simplicity bassinet suspected in infant deathOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - PINEVILLE, Mo. -- Federal consumer safety officials are investigating a Simplicity Inc. bassinet design after local authorities blamed the death of a 4-month-old girl in...
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German, Frenchman share physics NobelOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - The effect is called giant magnetoresistance, but it enables amazing things at the miniature level. Two European scientists won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday f...
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Child pornography charges filed against children's performerOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD -- A man who was a former minister and police officer, and who has worked as a clown, is in federal custody after being charged with possessing child pornogr...
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Low-fat turkey cutlets can make meal prep a snapOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - When it comes to turkey, slow-roasting comes to mind before quick-cooking. Not so in the healthy kitchen. Turkey breast cutlets are thin slices of skinless meat that coo...
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German Gerhard Ertl wins Nobel chemistry prize for chemical reaction researchOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces, which are key to und...
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Miller, Coors beers to merge in U.S.Oct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- The nation's second and third-largest brewers, Miller and Coors, are planning to blend their U.S. operations to help them compete in a struggling U.S. indus...
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Environmental activists scale Chicago Board of TradeOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - Several environmental activists are under arrest this morning after police say they briefly scaled the Chicago Board of Trade and unfurled a 50-foot banner to protest th...
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Settlement ends legal battle over acid rainOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A $4.6 billion settlement Tuesday by one of the last holdouts among polluting power companies signals the end of a long legal debate over acid rain -- and ...
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Defendant in Mo. abductions gets life sentences after guilty pleas in kidnapping, sodomy casesOct 09, 2007 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS -- The long trail of pain inflicted by Michael Devlin drew toward a close with him describing in court how he assaulted an abducted boy, seemingly oblivious to...