Israel, Hamas defy UN call for cease-fire in Gaza - Twin Falls Times-News

JERUSALEM - Israeli jets and helicopters bombarded Gaza Friday and Hamas responded with a barrage of rockets on at least two cities as both sides defied a U.N. call for an immediate cease-fire. One Israeli airstrike killed two Hamas militants and another unidentified man, while another flattened a ...

Illinois governor impeached in case of Obama's seat (2nd Roundup) - Monsters and Critics

Washington - The lower body of the Illinois state legislature voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was arrested last month for trying to sell president-elect Barack Obama's vacant US Senate seat. The House of Representatives voted 114-1 to send the case to a trial in ...

Obama presses Congress to move on economic relief - Detroit News

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama again pressed Congress on Friday for quick action on an economic recovery package, a day after Senate Democrats raised a number of objections to emerging details of the plan. Pointing to a new jobs report out Friday marking 2008 as the worst year for U.S ...

AP Top 25: Gators are No. 1, Utes surge to No. 2 - Lincoln Journal Star

MIAMI - Florida is No. 1 in the AP Top 25. Utah is perfect at No. 2, though not perfectly happy. Texas and Southern California also claimed to be the best _ but media voters didn't think so. The Gators received 48 first-place votes and 1,606 points in the poll released early Friday, after they beat ...

BALTIMORE MAYOR INDICTED - New York Post

BALTIMORE - Maryland's state prosecutor says a grand jury has indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on 12 counts, including perjury, theft and misconduct in office. The prosecutor's office announced the indictment on its Web site on the final day of a four-month grand jury session in which a City ...

Stocks slump after jump in unemployment rate - WTOP Radio

NEW YORK (AP) - Investors sent stocks sharply lower Friday after the U.S. unemployment rate shot above 7 percent _ a sign that Americans will be sticking to their tightened budgets for a while. The Labor Department said employers cut 524,000 jobs in December, a smaller decline than economists ...