2008 Woodie Awards
Nation
California teenager launches non-profit group, 'Inconvenient Youth'
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PALO ALTO, Calif.- A 17-year-old Palo Alto, Calif., girl has launched what she hopes will become a nationwide youth movement focused on global warming. Last weekend, some 80 teenagers gathered at Stanford University for a three-day conference that marked the kickoff of Inconvenient Youth, a campaign founded by Castilleja School rising senior Mary Doerr.
Men not expected to be charged with Obama threats
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DENVER - Three men who authorities initially feared were plotting to assassinate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention are facing only gun charges - signaling they never posed a real threat. A federal law enforcement official in Denver said the three men and a woman also arrested on Sunday are not expected to be charged with making threatening statements, conspiracy or other national security-related crimes.
Inmates, considered dangerous, on the loose in New Mexico
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CLOVIS, N.M. - Five of eight inmates who escaped from a county jail after shimmying up pipes and cutting a hole in the roof remained at large yesterday and were considered dangerous. Among them were a convicted murderer and another man charged with murder.
McCain quotes former Clinton ads to use as fire power against Obama
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PHOENIX - Republican John McCain is stealing a chunk from Hillary Rodham Clinton's best-known TV attack, questioning in his own ad whether Barack Obama is ready for that 3 a.m. phone call signaling an international crisis. The McCain spot debuted yesterday just hours before Clinton was set to praise Obama in an address at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Mississippi town scene of largest single-workplace immigration raid
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LAUREL, Miss. - The largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history has caused panic among Hispanic families in this small southern Mississippi town, where federal agents rounded up nearly 600 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally.
Miami students, faculty shot at in Guatemala
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Two Miami University professors and three graduate students are safe and back in Oxford after being ambushed by gunmen in Guatemala. On the morning of June 23, the group was five miles from the Belize border when two men wielding rifles stepped out of the underbush 10 feet in front of the van.
Man who drove vehicle into 'The Pit' gets up to 33 years
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HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - A man who drove a rented sport utility vehicle into a lunchtime crowd on the University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill campus was sentenced yesterday to up to 33 years in prison. Orange Superior Court Judge Carl Fox ordered a prison term of 26 years and two months to 33 years for Mohammed Taheri-Azar, 25, for the 2006 attack at The Pit, a gathering spot outside the student union.
