Today is Saturday, July 04th, 2009
A dam, weakened by heavy rains, broke near the Grand Canyon early Sunday, causing flooding and forcing officials to pluck hundreds of residents and campers from the gorge by helicopter. No injuries were immediately reported.
About 300 people were evacuated over a ten-hour period Sunday, including tourists and members of the Havasupai tribe that live in [...]
Some viewers contacted 9NEWS Saturday, questioning the design of the credentials to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination at INVESCO Field at Mile High.
The viewers say with the stars and blue field in the lower left corner, it looks like an upside down American flag. Published flag etiquette states the stars should always be displayed in the upper left corner. An upside down flag represents an international symbol of extreme distress.
Matt Chandler with the Obama campaign says the flag is not upside down. He says it is a stylized flag designed to blend the stars on Senator Obama’s shirt with the flag blowing in the wind.
Natalie Wyeth with the Democratic National Convention Committee sent 9NEWS the following statement Saturday night: “The DNCC community credentials incorporate patriotic design elements. They do not depict an actual American flag. The DNCC has full and complete respect for the flag and all rules of display.”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Russia is playing a “very dangerous game” with the U.S. and its allies and warned that NATO would not allow Moscow to win in Georgia, destabilize Europe or draw a new Iron Curtain through it.
Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early morning alert to supporters, perhaps as soon as Wednesday morning, aides said.
Suspected drug hit men opened fire on a family gathering at a tourist town in northern Mexico killing 13 people including a baby.
The masked hit men sprayed the party with bullets on Saturday as they drove past the dance hall where the family was gathered outside in Creel, Chihuahua state, near the U.S. border.
The shower of bullets killed a 1-year-old in the arms of an adult, as well as three teen-agers and a university professor, said a spokesman for the Chihuahua attorney general’s office on Monday.
“They can kill each other, but to shoot dead innocent people, young students, professors … it is not possible,” a weeping 60-year-old resident told local Chihuahua daily El Diario after the attack.
The shooting was believed to be part of a drug gang feud and the government sent 160 federal police and soldiers to Creel following the attack.
Creel in the remote and snowy Sierra Tarahumara mountains is a key narcotics smuggling point en route to Mexico’s border with the United States.
Michael Phelps swims for a record-breaking eighth gold in a single Games on Sunday to end a stunning week of achievement in the Olympic pool.
The American has hogged the headlines over the first week with his quest to beat Mark Spitz’s record, but late on Saturday Jamaican Usain Bolt also etched his name into Olympic history by becoming the fastest man on earth.
Patrick Ruffini has nailed it. Don’t buy into all of the stories out there that have written Hillary Clinton written off as the VP candidate.
My guess is that it’s all theatrics, building up to the big ’surprise’ announcement. If I’m wrong, come back here and tell me about it in 9 days…. I don’t think I am.
The reasons to think Hillary Clinton will not the Democratic VP nominee are myriad. Among them:
Sasquatch or no sasquatch, a press conference Friday about a Bigfoot discovery felt like a zoo.
A man holding a “Honk for Bigfoot!” sign greeted news vans that pulled up to Palo Alto’s Crowne Plaza Hotel. Over 200 people - purportedly serious journalists despite one wearing a Bigfoot costume - packed into a sweaty conference room for the big announcement that the mythical creature had finally been found.
Prosecutors filed felony drug charges against Craig Phillip Robinson, an actor best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on NBC’s “The Office.”
According to documents released Friday, police in Culver City arrested Robinson on June 29 on suspicion of possessing MDMA, also known as ecstasy, and methamphetamine. He was released the same day after posting bail, jail records show.
The struggling privately owned Mrs. Fields Famous Brands, owner of the famous mall-based cookie stands and TCBY yogurt stores, said Friday it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, according to a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
