Stocks end shortened session at new 2009 highs – Boston Globe
NEW YORK Stocks ended a holiday-shortened session Thursday at new highs for the year following upbeat reports on unemployment and durable goods orders. A weaker dollar also helped buoy the market, lifting energy and materials stocks. Christmas Eve trading was extremely light. The encouraging
Tug grounds on same reef as Exxon Valdez tanker – Boston Globe
ANCHORAGE, Alaska A tugboat put in service to help prevent another oil spill disaster in Prince William Sound ran aground on the same reef as the Exxon Valdez 20 years ago in what remains the nation’s worst oil spill. The Coast Guard said Thursday that the 136-foot tug with six crew aboard had
Angels lock up reliever Rodney for two years, $11 million – CBS Sports
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Reliever Fernando Rodney has signed a two-year, $11 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels . The 32-year-old right-hander spent his first seven major league seasons with the Detroit Tigers, including the last two years as their closer. He converted 37 of 38 save opportunities
Officials probe American plane wreck in Jamaica – Houston Chronicle
KINGSTON, Jamaica Jamaican and U.S. authorities launched a probe Thursday examining whether the pilot of American Airlines Flight 331 could have avoided an accident that cracked open the plane and sent nearly 100 people to the hospital. One alternative could have been to abort the landing and
NORAD tracking Santa on his sleigh – Syracuse Post-Standard
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is reporting the progress of Santa Claus’s annual visit to good boys and girls around the world. As darkness descended on the East Coast of the United States Thrusday, NORAD’s Web site for the mission, www.noradsanta.org , was reporting much of Europe and
Senate OK’s health care bill in victory for Obama – Boston Globe
WASHINGTON In an epic struggle settled at dawn, the Democratic-controlled Senate passed health care legislation Thursday, a triumph for President Barack Obama that clears the way for compromise talks with the House on a bill to reduce the ranks of the uninsured and rein in the insurance industry
Pope OK after woman knocks him down at Mass – USA Today
Pope Benedict XVI holds a cross as he leads the Christmas Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Thursday. VATICAN CITY (AP) A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday
Guitarist for Janis Joplin’s Big Brother band dies – KMOV
LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Gurley, the innovative guitarist who helped shape psychedelic rock’s multilayered, sometimes thundering sounds as a member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, the band that propelled Janis Joplin to fame, has died of a heart attack. He was 69. Gurley was pronounced dead
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