OXON HILL, Md. - GOP Chairman Michael Steele has dropped his re-election bid after falling behind in balloting for the leadership of the Republican National Committee.
NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) - Former NFL star Lawrence Taylor pleaded guilty Thursday to sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute, misdemeanor charges that carry no jail time but require him to register as a sex offender. (more…)
KILN, Miss. (AP) - The sister of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre was jailed on $40,000 bond after a brief appearance Thursday in a Mississippi courtroom, a day after she was arrested during a methamphetamine bust. (more…)
CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Richard Daley says the Chicago stop of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s U.S. visit next week is “a big deal.” (more…)
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) - Rangers in Rocky Mountain National Park have reached a 55-year-old Chicago man who tumbled about 900 feet down a mountain while backcountry skiing.
Park officials say the man, who was with two other skiers, has several injuries from the accident Wednesday. The man’s name hasn’t been released and the extent of his injuries isn’t known.
Rangers got word of the accident by cell phone and reached the man around 3 p.m.
The man was at 10,600 feet elevation.
Nine members of the Larimer County Search and Rescue were expected to meet the park employees on the mountainside to help with the rescue.
The park is about 70 miles northwest of Denver.
WOODWARD, Okla. (AP) - In a scene straight from the movie “A Christmas Story,” an 8-year-old Oklahoma boy got his tongue stuck to a metal pole after he licked it on a dare. (more…)
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Tweeting about what club “y’all” are going to tonight? Must be from the South. Looking forward to “suttin” special? Then you probably live in New York. Think that new movie was “koo?” Northern California. (more…)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Even as Parkinson’s disease began taking its toll on Dick Winters, who led his “Band of Brothers” through some of World War II’s fiercest European battles, the unassuming hero refused, as always, to let his men down. (more…)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It’s not just people who get sick from stress. (more…)
BALTIMORE (AP) - A fight at a Baltimore nightclub spilled onto the street early Sunday and led to an eruption of gunfire that killed a police officer and another man and left four people hurt, police said. (more…)
