Want to take charge of your own taxes this year? If you’ve got a reasonably simple return — you don’t own your own business, say, or you don’t actively trade stocks — you may want to join the millions of people planning to file online. Not only will you get …
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NEW YORK – The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $234 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled against a notorious “Spam King,” Sanford Wallace, and his partner, Walter …
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NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenyan officials backed by armed police are forcing thousands of Kenyans displaced by postelection violence to leave a refugee camp, witnesses said Wednesday. The head of Doctors Without Borders, Remi Carrier, said local officials accompanied by armed police officers were going from tent to tent Wednesday in …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hezbollah’s deputy leader said Thursday that the militant group will return things to normal in Lebanon after the government reversed key decisions that triggered days of bloody conflict. The comments by Sheik Naim Kassem came after a meeting between Hezbollah representatives and a high-powered Arab delegation that …
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PITTSBURGH – A public high school teacher nabbed in a heroin sting returned to school for the rest of the day before she was suspended with pay, Pittsburgh police said. Mary Steck, 51, taught science at Perry Traditional Academy. She is charged with possession of heroin and possession of drug …
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua – Tropical Storm Alma lashed the coast of Central America with heavy rains and high winds on Thursday after becoming the first such storm of the eastern Pacific season. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Alma had maximum sustained winds near 65 mph and was expected to …
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CLEARWATER, Fla. – A judge in Florida says the 17-year-old son of wrestler Hulk Hogan should serve eight months in jail for reckless driving. Nick Bollea was led off to begin his sentence immediately after the ruling Friday afternoon. He will also be on five years of probation and lose …
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WASHINGTON – Attorney General Michael Mukasey is defending former government lawyers who drew up the legal basis of the Bush administration’s use of harsh interrogation methods against terror suspects. Mukasey told Boston College Law School graduates Friday that lawyers doing their part to protect the country in the aftermath of …
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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he will meet Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday. Abbas visited Washington last week and has complained that months of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have yielded no progress. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the region for talks with Palestinian and …
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NEW YORK – Production of ABC’s “Ugly Betty” is moving to New York. The announcement was made Monday by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor David Paterson and ABC Studios President Mark Pedowitz. They say the show will take advantage of a 35 percent tax credit from the city and state when …
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