6 trapped in Utah coal mine cave-in (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:41:29 GMT
AP - Six miners were trapped in a coal mine Monday by a cave-in so powerful that authorities initially thought it was small earthquake.

Copter takes pictures of bridge wreckage (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:30:28 GMT
AP - A helicopter with a camera mounted in its nose on Monday made slow sweeps as low as 30 feet above the wreckage of a freeway bridge collapse to take pictures of the debris in precise detail as Navy divers were to resume searching for victims.

Iraqi political crisis grows (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:33:54 GMT
AP - Iraq's political crisis worsened Monday as five more ministers announced a boycott of Cabinet meetings — leaving the embattled prime minister's unity government with no members affiliated with Sunni political factions.

Israeli, Palestinian leaders meet (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:05:02 GMT
AP - In their first meeting on Palestinian soil, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday he hopes to launch negotiations "soon" on establishing a Palestinian state, his clearest promise yet to tackle a final peace deal.

Bush says US, Pakistan to track al-Qaida (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:43:45 GMT
AP - President Bush said Monday the U.S. and Pakistan, if armed with good intelligence, can track and kill al-Qaida leaders. He stopped short of saying whether he would ask the Pakistani president before dispatching U.S. troops into that nation.

Flight delays at worst level in 13 years (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:00:43 GMT
AP - U.S. flight delays are at their highest level in at least 13 years, and analysts say fliers can expect more of the same for the rest of the summer.

Blogger Outed: 'Fake Steve' is Dan Lyons (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:26:41 GMT
AP - At long last, someone has cracked one of the technology world's biggest mysteries — the identity of Fake Steve, a sharp-tongued blogger who had tech aficionados in stitches with a satiric diary purporting to be from Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Stocks rebound in volatile trading (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:57:05 GMT
AP - Wall Street surged higher in a volatile session Monday, offsetting the losses it incurred Friday but showing more fractiousness than conviction in an advance that lifted the Dow Jones industrials 286 points.

Lohan family has problems east and west (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:35:21 GMT
AP - Ah, Long Island — land of Amy and Joey, birthplace of the bellicose Baldwin brothers, where Lizzie Grubman plowed her SUV through a nightclub parking lot and Billy Joel slammed three cars into assorted inanimate objects.

Yankees beat Jays for 4th straight win (AP)
Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:52:40 GMT
AP - Jesse Litsch's first pitch of the second inning went behind Alex Rodriguez's legs, an apparent message. The Yankees responded with some hard play — and another win. Robinson Cano hit a go-ahead, two-run double in a four-run sixth inning, Andy Pettitte won consecutive starts for the first time this season and the Yankees beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Monday to extend their winning streak to four.