The Free Standards Group and its Linux Standard Base work group Tuesday announced the formation of the Linux Standard Base Desktop Project (search ), with the support of Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linspire Inc., Mandriva SA, Novell Inc., RealNetworks Inc., Red Hat Inc., Trolltech, Xandros Inc. …
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NEW YORK – Stocks slid Monday, with the Dow and S&P 500 hitting the lowest level in about five months, after General Motors Corp. (GM) said auto parts supplier Delphi Corp.’s bankruptcy filing could cost it as much as $12 billion. The Nasdaq Composite Index slipped to a three-month low. …
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Female varsity athletes are more apt to be injured than their male counterparts, even when they are playing the comparable sport, California researchers report. Each year, 2 million high school athletes are injured in this country, costing $1.8 million dollars, report the researchers in a recent presentation at the American …
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WASHINGTON – It began with a clumsy forgery, led President Bush to backtrack on his own State of the Union address, already has sent one person to jail and has ruined another’s career as a covert operative. The cast of characters in this latest tale of Washington intrigue — the …
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NAPLES, Fla. – After an excruciatingly sluggish journey to the U.S. mainland, Hurricane Wilma (search) slammed into southwest Florida early Monday, bringing blinding rains and howling 125-mph winds that whipped trees, road signs and other debris into the air. About 6 million residents lost power and at least six people …
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This is a partial transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from Oct. 14, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. BRIT HUME, HOST: On Friday, I sat down with Vice President Dick Cheney (search) for an interview at the White House. Much of it was taken up with questions …
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More U.S. women are surviving breast cancer than a generation ago. Chalk it up to advances in screening and treatments since 1975, researchers report in The New England Journal of Medicine. Which has been the bigger help — screening or new treatments? Scientists from seven different organizations tackled that question …
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NEW YORK – One of two white men charged in the baseball bat attack of a black man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a hate crime. Anthony Ench (search), 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted robbery and second-degree attempted assault as a hate crime, prosecutors said. Brown said Ench admitted kicking …
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LOS ANGELES – Tori Spelling’s (search) husband has filed for divorce, a little more than a year after the couple married. The couple separated last month. Actor and writer Charlie Shanian (search) is seeking spousal support from Spelling, according to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday. Spelling, …
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GRANTVILLE, Kan. – A flash flood that stranded a freight train, washed out bridges and left one woman clinging to a corn stalk was beginning to recede, officials said. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (search) declared a state of emergency in four northeast Kansas counties, and three of them remained under a …
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