NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country music singer Gretchen Wilson has a mantel full of awards in her Lebanon home. Her first radio single, “Redneck Woman,” spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and it earned her a 2005 Grammy. Her debut album sold 4.5 million copies. …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Barring a stay of a historic California Supreme Court ruling, same-sex couples will be able to wed in the state beginning June 17, according to a state directive issued Wednesday. The state said it chose June 17 because the state Supreme Court has until the day before …
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Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in …
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HOUSTON – Brazen jewel thieves are robbing traveling dealers around Houston in a spree of heists that has jewelers on edge. Police say the fourth holdup in three weeks occurred Thursday when three masked men walked into a restaurant, pistol-whipped a dealer in a corner booth and made off with …
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WASHINGTON – President Bush said Monday that he’s troubled by rising gas prices and will take a look at proposals to relieve the crisis but warned that there is no quick fix. “It’s been a while in the making and it’s going to be a while that we solve the …
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – All week, the chatter along the Churchill Downs backstretch has been about Big Brown running away with the Kentucky Derby. The talk ends Saturday and the real running begins in the 1 1/4-mile Derby, where the unbeaten 3-year-old colt has plenty to prove, history to buck and …
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MOUNT DORA, Fla. – A Lake County firefighter-emergency medical technician has sued an 84-year-old woman whose home she responded to on a May 2005 call. Jennifer Roland seeks unspecified damages of more than $15,000 in her lawsuit, which was filed a year ago. Roland claims she hurt her back and …
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OMAHA, Neb. – First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths of four teenage Scouts who had gone to the elite camp to learn how to …
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia’s oil minister on Sunday will address reports that the world’s largest oil-producing country is set to raise production by about 500,000 barrels per day, his adviser said. The increase would bring Saudi Arabia’s oil production to 10 million barrels a day, the country’s highest …
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LOS ANGELES – An Amber Alert for two young brothers taken by their father after he shot his estranged wife on Father’s Day has been canceled, though the boys are still missing. Nevada police canceled the alert for Diego Fabian Ortega, 5, and 3-year-old Luis Gonzalo Ortega, 3, because they …
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