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NTSB: Trains hauling gases must slow down
Nov 29 2005 9:41PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trains carrying poisonous gases should be required to go slowly through populated areas, say safety officials who investigated a crash that killed nine people when it released chlorine gas on Graniteville, S.C.
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Internet phone providers fall short on 911
Nov 29 2005 9:20PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vonage Holdings Corp., the nation's largest provider of Internet phone service, and several smaller companies could be barred from signing up new customers in many markets because they failed to meet a deadline to provide reliable emergency 911 service to all subscribers.
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CIA director defends intelligence, methods
Nov 29 2005 8:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - CIA Director Porter Goss, saying his agency struggles to penetrate terrorist sanctuaries overseas, insists that "we know more than we're able to say publicly" about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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DOE to allow more plutonium at Calif. lab
Nov 29 2005 8:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Energy Department gave clearance Tuesday to doubling the amount of plutonium that can be kept at the Livermore National Laboratory in California despite protests by some local activists that the weapons material poses a threat to adjacent residential communities.
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Panel says outdated rules idle disabled
Nov 29 2005 7:58PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal rules used to determine who's disabled are nearly 50 years old and need to be updated to reflect economic, medical and technological advances, a government panel says.
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Abramoff tied to Dorgan donation, tribe says
Nov 29 2005 5:31PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - New evidence is emerging that the top Democrat on the Senate committee currently investigating Jack Abramoff got political money arranged by the lobbyist back in 2002 shortly after the lawmaker took action favorable to Abramoff's tribal clients.
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Focus on the Family faces IRS grievance
Nov 29 2005 3:23PM (CT)
DENVER (AP) - A Washington-based group has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Focus on the Family or its founder James Dobson violated IRS rules by electioneering.
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FCC chief tells TV to clean up its act
Nov 29 2005 2:14PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Declaring television coarser than ever, a top federal regulator served notice on cable and satellite programmers Tuesday to shield children from racy shows or risk coming under sharper government scrutiny.
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Berger pleads guilty to reckless driving
Nov 29 2005 11:40AM (CT)
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger pleaded guilty Tuesday to reckless driving after an officer clocked him at 88 mph in a 55-mph zone. A judge fined him $250.
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