AP: Roman Polanski’s long-delayed criminal case will return to a courtroom for a hearing later this week. A court hearing is expected to take place Wednesday.
AP: Egypt is putting in an underground barrier at its border, to stop goods being smuggling into Gaza through tunnels. Hamas opponents are hoping the steel barrier could starve the Gaza rulers into submission.
CBS News: Casey Johnson, heiress to the Johnson & Johnson business empire and fiance to Web celebrity Tila Tequila, has died at the age of 30. Did prescription drugs have anything to do with the socialite’s untimely death?
AP: Landslides and a tsunami destroyed the homes of about one-third of the population on a Solomon Island, but lives were likely spared as residents with memories of previous disasters fled quickly to higher ground.
CNN: Former professional basketball star Jayson Williams was hurt early Tuesday when he apparently crashed a sport utility vehicle into a tree, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department told CNN. Williams’ black Mercedes hit the tree at a
Senator John McCain told Iraqis that he ‘hopes and believes’ that criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of killing Iraqi civilians will be reinstated.
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Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com ABC News: The issue started with reports that the City of Bozeman decided Monday to spend about $50,000 of its $621,000 in stimulus money to replace aging courts with a new rubber tiled
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com Townhall: I thought I heard him wrong but after thirty seconds I went back and, sure enough, Mr. Leg Thrill used a strong “B” instead of a “P.” Editor’s note: For comparison
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com ABC News: President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equality’s board
CBS News: Tiger Woods paid as much as $60,000 for sex with escorts and made monthly payments of between $5,000 and $10,000 “to keep his harem quiet,” according to the new issue of Vanity Fair, which features a topless Tiger
KPHO: A homeless person found the driver’s body near the railroad tracks some 25 feet from the roadway and called 911 from a nearby service station, officers said.
AP: Dubai opened the world’s tallest structure on Monday, and a statement said it was 828 metres (2,717 ft) high. Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum renamed the tower Burj Khalifa after the president of the United Arab Emirates
