Two top North Korean diplomats were traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to hold talks with Gov. Bill Richardson, the governor’s spokesman said.
North Korean envoys, Richardson to meet
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40 inmates hospitalized after California prison riot
Forty prison inmates were sent to hospitals, four of them airlifted, after a riot erupted at the California Institution for Men in Chino, a spokesman said. The melee broke out at about 8:30 p.m
Tainted pain reliever tied to children’s deaths
A toxic chemical added to a popular pain reliever likely killed two dozen children in Bangladesh, health officials said Tuesday. That means Samantha Orobator and John Watson could be home within weeks, the spokesman said.
Staten Island Ferry crash injures 10
A Staten Island Ferry lost power and hit a pier Wednesday at full speed, resulting in one serious injury and nine minor injuries, a Coast Guard spokesman said. Coast Guard boats were on the scene, the St. George Terminal on the north shore of Staten Island
Questions raised about AT&T help in ‘Idol’ voting
Some fans of "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert think their favorite singer may have been robbed of the "Idol" crown by Arkansas employees of AT&T, a major sponsor of the talent competition. Since the final count is a secret, there is no way to know if text-message votes cast at two AT&T-sponsored parties in “Idol” winner Kris Allen’s home state of Arkansas made a difference in the outcome. Lambert and Allen — who are good friends and share the same publicist — are not talking about this
Suu Kyi’s doctor allowed back in after delay
Nobel Prize-winning democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi met with her doctor Monday after being barred from seeing him over the weekend, a spokesman for her party told CNN.
Kiefer Sutherland charged with assault
Actor Kiefer Sutherland has been charged with misdemeanor assault after he was accused of head-butting fashion designer Jack McCollough at a New York nightclub early Tuesday, police said. Sutherland was charged after he arrived at a New York police precinct Thursday afternoon to answer investigators’ questions about the incident. McCollough claims that he was “the victim of a vicious, violent, unprovoked assault,” according to a statement from his publicist
Brown, bank chiefs thrash out G-20 plans
Top executives of leading international banks were meeting the British prime minister and treasury chief Tuesday to discuss kick-starting the global financial system ahead of next month’s G-20 summit. About a dozen representatives of U.S., Japanese, German and South African banks were at Downing Street to meet with Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Chancellor Alistair Darling, a spokesman for the Treasury said.
Passenger: People were ‘flying’ around the plane
About 30 people were injured Friday when a Northwest Airlines flight suffered turbulence before landing at Japan’s Narita International Airport, a Northwest spokesman said. Three people where seriously injured, fire officials said.
30 injured on 747 flight to Japan
About 30 people were injured Friday when a Northwest Airlines flight suffered turbulence before landing at Japan’s Narita International Airport, a Northwest spokesman said.