YouTube has ruined many a life, but the reputation of a whole state? Bringing new meaning to the motto "We dare to defend our rights," two Alabama state senators came to blows on the Senate floor last week.
Freelance journalist Gordy Slack has written the first book-length treatment of the trial that caught the nation's attention during the summer of 2005, The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything: Evolution, Intelligent Design, and a School Board in Dover, Pa.
This weekend features another live auction at Alexander Autographs, where lots of JFK and Jackie O items will be up for sale. A rare signed wedding picture, with an estimated price of $12,000, is just a little bit of the stuff our pals at Alexander have to offer. They traffic in all sorts of historical documents, autographs, and Americana. This auction, for example, includes bronze-clad plaster castings of Abraham Lincoln's hands, John Lennon's signature on a book about spies, and a note written by Jurgen Stroop, the Nazi SS leader who ordered the torching of the Warsaw ghetto.
AP - A bomb ripped through a police bus in a crowded civilian area in Kabul on Sunday, killing more than 35 people, officials said, in what appears to be the deadliest attack in the capital since the fall of the Taliban.
AP - Security forces in Baghdad have full control in only 40 percent of the city five months into the pacification campaign, a top American general said Saturday as U.S. troops began an offensive against two al-Qaida strongholds on the capital's southern outskirts.
AP - Atlantis was cleared Saturday to return to Earth this coming week after the space shuttle's heat shield was judged capable of surviving the intense heat of re-entry, and a U.S. astronaut reached a milestone with the longest single spaceflight by any woman.
The prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team rape case was disbarred Saturday for unethical conduct, and the chairman of the disciplinary committee blamed "political ambition" for his downfall. The panel unanimously found that Mike Nifong's actions involved "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation."
Coalition forces found ID cards of two missing U.S. soldiers in a raid on a suspected insurgent house in Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday. Computers, video equipment and weapons were also found at the empty house said to be linked to al Qaeda in Iraq, a statement said. Spc. Alex Jimenez and Pvt. Byron Fouty have been missing since May 12.
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