This is a rush transcript from “The Journal Editorial Report,” May 17, 2008. PAUL GIGOT, FOX HOST: Up next on the “Journal Editorial Report,” forget West Virginia. The big election story was in Mississippi this week. Republicans are reeling after losing another congressional seat. Is it a sign of trouble …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says a woman has been charged with armed robbery after holding about 15 people hostage at an Orlando bank. No one was injured. A spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Friday that 41-year-old Donna Sue Bynum of Irving, Texas, tried …
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MOSCOW – A Russian cargo plane crashed near a Siberian city Monday, killing all nine people aboard, an official said. The An-12 cargo plane went down near the city of Chelyabinsk, some 1,000 miles east of Moscow, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andriyanova said. The plane took off from the …
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WASHINGTON – Police in Tarpon Springs, Fla., said there was “no question” that Deborah Jeane Palfrey committed suicide by hanging Thursday, but that was not enough to stop immediate speculation that the infamous “D.C. Madam” was the victim of murder. Hustler magazine publisher and free-speech advocate Larry Flynt — one …
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LOS ANGELES – Lindsay Lohan will make a guest appearance on the season finale of ABC’s “Ugly Betty.” The 21-year-old actress is set to play an old schoolmate of America Ferrera’s character Betty Suarez on the show’s May 22 season closer, according to the trade paper Variety. Both Variety and …
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, is writing a book that will reflect on the turmoil after his arrest last year in an airport sex sting. Craig, 62, is retiring from in January after 18 years in the Senate and a decade in the House. He told KTVB-TV in Boise, …
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – More than 200 Taliban suspects ended a weeklong hunger strike at a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar after a parliamentary delegation promised their cases would be reviewed, a lawmaker said Monday. Lawmaker Habibullah Jan said the three-member delegation received written demands from the prisoners …
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DETROIT – Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has implemented a new policy that text messages sent on city-owned devices are considered private. Kilpatrick and his ex-top aide face perjury charges for testimony they gave during a whistleblowers’ trial that they didn’t have a romantic relationship. Sexually explicit text messages have contradicted …
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A 3-year-old girl from England has a rare condition that confines her to darkness most days, according to an online report from the News & Star. Alice Tyson of Moorhouse, England, suffers from xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare condition that means exposure to sunlight, even for short periods, will permanently damage …
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FORT WORTH, Texas – An Arlington woman who caused her lover’s shooting death by falsely crying rape was found guilty Friday of involuntary manslaughter. Tracy Denise Roberson, 37, cried slightly when the verdict was announced after jurors had deliberated for more than a day. The punishment phase was set for …
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