LITTLE ROCK — Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, criticized congressional Republicans for not supporting legislation to expand a children's healthcare program, saying in his party's weekly radio address, "The Republican leaders have made their choice. They want to stay in Iraq and deny our kids health care."
David Dinkins, 80, the New York mayor in the early 1990s, underwent an emergency appendectomy but was "doing well," former adviser and friend Peter Johnson Jr. said.
Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central's mock opinion news show The Colbert Report who announced earlier this month his run for president and that he will campaign only in his native state of South Carolina, will receive a key to the city of Columbia, S.C., and a proclamation that he is truly "South Carolina'sFavorite Son."
The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual head of Tibet's Buddhists, was asked during a talk on the Purdue University campus in Indiana how to best end the Iraq war and bring peace to the region, and said, "The best answer for that, I don't know."
Dawn Sherman, 14, a high school freshman, and her atheist father, radio talk show host Robert Sherman, filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Illinois law requiring a brief period of prayer or reflective silence at the start of every school day.
Jim Doyle, the Democratic governor of Wisconsin, vetoed a provision of the new state budget that would have allowed up to 1.5 ounces of liquor to be handed out as free samples in grocery stores, saying, "To me, it's absurd that you walk into a grocery store and start taking shots."
Jeff Bidelman, owner of Rare Collectibles near Johnstown, Pa., discovered piles of old coins worth as much as $200,000 in a long-abandoned home, including scores that the owner had apparently thrown down a hole in the wall.
Dawn Nyberg, 32, a former court clerk in Hennepin County, Minn., was charged with theft by swindle of public funds, forgery, and misconduct by a public officer over accusations she fixed 73 of her own parking tickets to avoid paying $5,112 in fines and late fees.
Jacob Ferguson, 35, an informant who helped convict many of the 10 radical environmentalists known as "The Family" who set 20 fires across the West from 1996 to 2001, pleaded guilty in federal court to setting fire to the U.S. Forest Service Ranger Station in Detroit, Ore., and a government pickup in 1996.
Tina Milhoane, 22, and Robert Seifer III, 24, exchanged vows at 7 Floors of Hell, the haunted house where they work in Ohio, with well-wishing zombies and witches in attendance.
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