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Federal court ruling vetoes national no-call list

By Kelly Phillips · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 2:30 a.m.

More than 1.5 million Hoosiers now have peaceful dinners due to Indiana's telephone privacy act, which protects them from unsolicited telemarketing calls.

Hundreds injured in earthquake in Japan

By Alyson Brodsy and Eric Talmadge · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:05 a.m.

TOKYO -- A strong quake with a magnitude of 8 rocked the northern Japan island of Hokkaido early Friday, injuring more than 160 people, knocking out power, derailing a train and touching off an industrial fire.

Bush, Dean lead battle for money

By Alyson Brodsy and Sharon Theimer · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 1:04 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Howard Dean is setting a torrid pace in the contest for dollars in the Democratic presidential campaign but it's still President Bush who is proving to be the superstar in raising campaign cash overall.

Baghdad hotel bombed, 1 dead

By Alyson Brodsy and Steven R. Hurst · Friday, Sept. 26,2003 12:46 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A bomb exploded outside a Baghdad hotel housing NBC staff, killing a guard and injuring a Canadian sound engineer. Earlier Thursday, Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on Iraq's U.S.-picked Governing Council, died, five days after she was shot by gunmen. The bomb was placed about three feet from the wall of the al-Aike Hotel in south-central Baghdad in a hut that housed the hotel's generator, Iraqi police said. It killed the Somali night watchman as he slept. Lt. Col. Salman Kareem said the damage to the hotel was minimal, involving mainly broken glass. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.

East Coast plagued by more thunderstorms

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 25,2003 1:34 a.m.

RICHMOND, Va. -- East Coast residents recovering from Isabel are cleaning up again after new storms, including tornadoes, brought down more trees, flooded already saturated areas and knocked out power, forcing some people to empty refrigerators they'd just refilled.

Rumsfeld tells Congress $87 billion is 'affordable'

By Alyson Brodsy and Ken Guggenheim · Thursday, Sept. 25,2003 1:31 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress Wednesday that President Bush's $87 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan was an affordable and needed investment in international security. But a top Democrat questioned whether the American people have ever blessed the U.S.-led Iraqi reconstruction effort now under way.

Clark to speak in Indiana

By Mitch Blacher · Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 2:07 a.m.

After declaring his candidacy for U.S. president Wednesday, former NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark will speak in Indiana tonight in one of his first campaign appearances. DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., will host Clark as he now becomes the 10th Democrat to attempt to unseat President Bush in 2004.

Stories of destruction, survival from the East Coast

By Jackie Corgan · Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 1:58 a.m.

Area residents made a mass exodus from their homes to local hardware stores to stock up on post-hurricane essentials: generators and chain saws. One particular Home Depot in Norfolk had a line of hundreds waiting for their chance to enter the store. With large rollers and shopping carts, people were allowed one-by-one through the doors with the disclaimer on a make-shift sign: "Only 1 Generator Per Customer, Please."

Optimism reigns in wake of damage

By Jackie Corgan · Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 1:54 a.m.

Irony dealt its heaviest hand when, on our way to North Carolina, I called the newsroom trying to ask for locations of Red Cross centers and dispatched emergency crews on the northeastern coast. While on the phone with my editor, the signal cut out as I tried to maneuver my car in the dark with Zach, our photographer, passed out in the passenger seat.

IU alumni experience hurricane's rains 240 miles from coast

By Jackie Corgan · Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 1:54 a.m.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- IU alumni are no strangers to hurricanes, even those who were born and raised in Kokomo, Ind. Graduates Chris Carmichael, Hunter Gray and Shawn Sowers, now residents of Raleigh, N.C., sat through the winds of Hurricane Isabel on their front porch Thursday, enjoying the warm breezes. "It really wasn't a bad storm," Sowers said, noting Raleigh's central location on North Carolina's mainland. "It was kind of like your spring in Indiana. Kind of warm."

Generic AIDS medications increase treatment success rates

By Alyson Brodsy and Chris Tomlinson · Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 1:46 a.m.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Poor nations that have suspended patents on AIDS drugs to allow the use of generic equivalents have shown greater success in treating those infected with the disease, a medical aid agency said Monday. But, a report by UNAIDS said most countries are still not meeting their goals in battling the pandemic. Medecins Sans Frontieres released a report contracted by the World Health Organization on how the group has used generic drugs to treat AIDS patients in 10 countries.

Two dead in Iraq car bombing

By Alyson Brodsy and Steven R. Hurst · Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 1:45 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomber killed an Iraqi policeman and himself outside the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad Monday, a month after a deadly bombing there. The attack, which came as the United Nations considers expanding its role in Iraq, also injured 19 people, including two Iraqi U.N. workers.

Heads of state meet to discuss counterterrorism

By Alyson Brodsy and Dafna Linzer · Tuesday, Sept. 23,2003 1:45 a.m.

NEW YORK -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan, opening an international conference on counterterrorism hours after the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was attacked for a second time, said world leaders must deal with the roots of terrorism if they are to fight it more effectively.

East Coast recovers from Isabel

By Jackie Corgan · Monday, Sept. 22,2003 2:35 a.m.

The East Coast is beginning to recover after Hurricane Isabel hit land Thursday, damaging areas in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. All four states have been declared federal disaster areas. The hardest hit region was North Carolina's Hatteras Island where an inlet was cut between Hatteras and Frisco, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Clinton honors Peres in Israel

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 22,2003 2:14 a.m.

TEL AVIV, Israel -- A parade of global figures, from Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev to actress Kathleen Turner, filed into Tel Aviv Sunday to celebrate the 80th birthday of former prime minister Shimon Peres, the Nobel laureate, visionary of peace and oft-failed political candidate. The extraordinary guest list reflected global appreciation for Peres' efforts toward a "New Middle East" -- the title of his 1995 book dismissed by many here as utopian

Around The Nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 22,2003 1:35 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking five commercial jets on each U.S. coast before it was modified several times, according to interrogation reports reviewed by The Associated Press.

U.S. finds no smallpox in Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and Dafna Linzer · Friday, Sept. 19,2003 5:47 p.m.

Top American scientists assigned to the weapons hunt in Iraq found no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime was making or stockpiling smallpox, The Associated Press has learned from senior military officers involved in the search.

Hurricane Isabel pounds N.C.

By Alyson Brodsy and Emery P. Dalesio · Friday, Sept. 19,2003 2:38 a.m.

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. -- Hurricane Isabel plowed into North Carolina's Outer Banks with 100 mph winds and pushed its way Thursday up the Eastern Seaboard, weakening to a tropical storm by evening but not before swamping roads and knocking out power to more than 2.5 million people.

Germany, France push for Iraqi sovereignty

By Alyson Brodsy and Tony Czuczka · Friday, Sept. 19,2003 1:03 a.m.

BERLIN -- France signaled Thursday it would help Germany train a new Iraqi police force as both nations renewed their pressure for quickly handing over the country's government to the Iraqis. French President Jacques Chirac, speaking after talks with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, emphasized he would like to see the transfer of power in postwar Iraq as soon as possible -- "in a matter of months, not years."

Bush blames Arafat for violence

By Alyson Brodsy and Terence Hunt · Friday, Sept. 19,2003 1:01 a.m.

CAMP DAVID, Md. -- President Bush told Palestinians on Thursday that if they want peace, they must have a leader who fights terror. He said Yasser Arafat "has failed as a leader" and accused him of forcing the resignation of a prime minister who had worked for peace. "Hopefully, at some point in time, a leadership of the Palestinian leadership will emerge which will then commit itself 100 percent to fighting off terror," Bush said as he met at the presidential retreat here with Jordan's King Abdullah II, a vital ally in the Middle East.