News Elsewhere

News Elsewhere headlines from the Arizona Daily Star

Words, actions from U.S., Iran inflame tensions - (Found July 11, 2008 )

WASHINGTON The United States and Iran appear on a collision course, firing off mixed messages that are raising world tensions and roiling oil markets amid fears that an eventual confrontation may be military.
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Italian court grants man's appeal to allow his daughter to die - (Found July 11, 2008 )

ROME An Italian court on Wednesday granted a man's request to disconnect the feeding tube of his daughter, who has been in a vegetative state for 16 years, lawyers said.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247642.php

MADD: Tainted-cookie suspect was doing service - (Found July 11, 2008 )

LAKE WORTH, Texas A teenager suspected of delivering drug-laced cookies to a dozen police stations in north Texas was fulfilling court-ordered community service work for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the organization said Wednesday.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247641.php

Conn. man survives when lunchbox stops bullets - (Found July 11, 2008 )

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Carlos Juarez figures his lunchbox saved his life.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247640.php

N.C. employee refuses to lower flags for late Helms - (Found July 11, 2008 )

RALEIGH, N.C. A longtime North Carolina state employee has chosen to retire instead of lowering flags to honor former Sen. Jesse Helms, saying in an e-mail that the late conservative had a "doctrine of negativity, hate and prejudice."
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247638.php

New York Times corrects front-page photo caption - (Found July 11, 2008 )

NEW YORK The New York Times ran a lengthy correction Wednesday after the newspaper learned that a recent front-page photo of a crying Zimbabwean baby with casts on his feet misrepresented the boy's injuries.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247637.php

FDA panel to weigh suicide risks of epilepsy drugs - (Found July 11, 2008 )

WASHINGTON Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, is trying to persuade government regulators not to add stern warnings about suicide risks to its best-selling epilepsy drug.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247636.php

Female inmates doing time on Calif. fire lines - (Found July 11, 2008 )

GOLETA, Calif. Tracey Johnson wields a chain saw, tosses branches and rakes brush under the punishing sun and a heavy pack as smoke from a raging wildfire looms over the mountains nearby.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247635.php

Jamie Lynn Spears poses with baby for mag cover - (Found July 11, 2008 )

NEW YORK Weeks after giving birth to daughter Maddie Briann, Jamie Lynn Spears is showing off the newborn, sharing memories of a "perfect" delivery and longing to be a Southern soccer mom.
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/247634.php

Former Revlon model, cover girl Dorian Leigh dies - (Found July 11, 2008 )

WASHINGTON Dorian Leigh, an early supermodel who made Revlon's 1950s "Fire and Ice" cosmetics line famous, has died at age 91.
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