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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A Frontier Airlines passenger was taken into custody Wednesday on the tarmac at Mineta San Jose International Airport after reportedly making statements about bombs on a flight from Denver, police said. The man was taken from Frontier Flight 169 at about 10 a.m. after it taxied to a halt short of the gate. He was questioned by the FBI and San Jose police, who were in charge of the investigation, authorities said. A passenger told flight attendants the man was acting suspiciously, talking about bombs and writing in a notebook, said FBI spokeswoman LaRae Quy....

Oh, No ! More Animals in the News !! London: Researchers from Emory University of Texas, and The University of Louisiana have made a careful study of two separate groups of chimpanzees – in an effort to determine whether the primates have any “altruistic impulses”. Both groups noted ,when chimps are provided with treats, they are not the least bit inclined to share them with other chimps – despite clearly identifiable “begging gestures” by their less fortunate counterparts. ( Oddly enough,the same behavior has been observed in self-described liberals – who tend to contribute far less to the needy than...

On Thursday, September 22, Katharine DeBrecht's children's book, Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, available only two days before from World Ahead Publishers, ranked second only to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Amazon's children's book category. How does an author go from obscure to famous in a matter of hours? Liberals Under My Bed! is a humorous story about two brothers who dream that their efforts to start a lemonade stand are thwarted by liberals (who look all too familiar) intent on controlling every aspect of the boys' business. In the process of...

VIENNA, Austria - The United Nations' nuclear watchdog was scrambling for solutions to the Iran crisis, as U.N. nuclear inspectors in Tehran Wednesday installed the last surveillance cameras before Iran can resume full uranium conversion. International Atomic Energy Agency board members were discussing how to persuade Iran to resume a voluntary suspension of uranium conversion and enrichment. They have the authority to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council, action that could trigger punitive sanctions, but there was no talk of that at an emergency meeting of the agency's 35-nation board. The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,...

PARIS, 3 June (IPS) Prince Reza Pahlavi joined his voice to other Iranian dissidents inside and outside Iran to urge Iranians not to participate in the coming presidential elections and do not give popular legitimacy a “discredited regime”. “With more than 20 million votes, (outgoing President) Mohammad Khatami was not able to implement his reform program, what can a Hashemi Rafsanjani do, a man who is also very unpopular?”, the 45 years-old son of the late Iranian Monarch observed during a press conference held in Paris on 2 June on the invitation of the French-American Press Association, referring to reports...

DULUTH, Ga. — Local police are investigating the disappearance of a Georgia woman who is supposed to get married on Saturday. Jennifer Wilbanks has not been seen since she went jogging in Duluth, Ga., Tuesday night, Gwinnett County police said. Wilbanks, 32, described as 5-foot-8, 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, was last seen in the downtown Duluth area at 8:30 p.m. She was wearing a gray sweatshirt, blue sweatpants and blue New Balance running shoes. Her fiancé, John Mason, said Wilbanks left the house around 8:30 p.m. for her jog "in good spirits" and said she would...

CALLER: Quick comment. I'm not understanding why a blood relative wouldn't make this decision and not a non-blood relative. My question is, if this happened 15 years ago, and this gentleman and his wife decided between them that they would pull the tube and let each other die if they were in this kind of a situation, what took him eight years to make that decision and why didn't he make it in those first eight years and has now had another seven years tacked on?KING: Michael doesn't want to respond (UNINTELLIGIBLE). George [Felos], you want to respond? FELOS: Sure....

Dear St. Louis Freepers, I read a web page online that said suspicious men of Middle Eastern descent were reported Aug. 2002 at three separate fire stations in St. Louis. The men used video cameras to record the facility, asked suspicious questions about load capacity, emergency equipment and floor plans. All the men were chased away by the fire safety personnel. I've performed dozens of web searches to confirm this information but haven't found it anywhere. Can anyone in St. Louis confirm this? I'm building a report on terrorism and would greatly appreciate any help that comes my way. Thank...

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday said she will turn down the vice presidential candidate slot if it's offered to her by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry. Mrs. Clinton was asked in an NBC "Today" show interview what she would do if Mr. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, asks her to be his running mate. "Well, I don't think that will happen," Mrs. Clinton told Katie Couric in the interview, taped earlier this week and aired yesterday. "I've made it clear I don't want that to happen, and that my answer will be no if it does happen. I'm not ... I'm not prepared to do that." Political strategists had varying opinions of what her remarks mean. "People are looking for hidden motives every time she opens her mouth," complained Democratic analyst Donna Brazile, who said the remarks are consistent with Mrs. Clinton's stated goal of running for another Senate term. "[T]hat's where she's going to keep her focus," Ms. Brazile said. Others said Mrs. Clinton, who was elected in 2000 as the junior senator from New York, has her sights set on the presidency, and her remarks yesterday back that up. "My sense is that she doesn't like to play second fiddle to anyone and you're seeing that in this decision," said Republican strategist David Winston. "She's a pretty ambitious, focused person. I'm not sure that vice president is what she views as her goal." Mr. Winston said he assumes Mrs. Clinton, "would identify the best situation for her [to run for president] is an open-seat presidency, and therefore she's looking at 2008." Under this scenario, Mr. Kerry would lose this year's election and Mr. Bush would be leaving a two-term presidency in 2008, so there'd be two new candidates vying for the office — a more favorable environment for a challenger than facing a sitting president, he said. "I'm not implying that she wants Kerry to lose ... but in terms of the most favorable for her, that's the most favorable," he said. Mr. Winston said turning down an opportunity to be vice president means Mrs. Clinton runs the risk Mr. Kerry will win, thereby complicating her potential plans to seek the presidency in 2008. On the other hand, if she were to be Mr. Kerry's running mate this year and they lose, that also could hurt such plans, he said. Democrats strongly dismissed all this speculation. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, said it's "far-fetched and silly" to say Mrs. Clinton's statements on the "Today" show indicate some "grand strategy" of a presidential run in 2008. "If she was strategizing about how to be the [presidential] nominee for the future, she should do everything she could to be vice president," he said. He said a vice presidential slot is a good jumping-off point for a presidential run, plus keeping her name in the mix as a potential vice president would give her much-coveted national attention over the next months.</p>

<p>KAANAPALI, Hawaii — A weeklong trip that was supposed to celebrate a year of hard work and success for some 500 cheerleaders began on a tragic note with the death of one of their own.</p> <p>Police were investigating how a high school cheerleader invited to perform at the Hula Bowl (search) college all-star game plunged naked to her death from a ninth-floor hotel balcony.</p>

FORT HUACHUCA -- As a precaution, a small part of a housing area was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a resident there received an unsolicited package with anti-government messages. The package was one of three anti-government mailings received this week by families on post, Fort Huachuca officials said this morning. The packages did not contain powder or other hazardous materials but did have "unsolicited anti-American government propaganda," said Frank Shirar, the post's deputy public affairs officer. The fort's emergency response team and the FBI responded around 3:45 p.m., and traffic to the area around Stedman Street was stopped, said Lt. Col....

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (CSM) - Above the entry for Sept. 11, 2003, in Mohammed Al-Mulaifi's personalized calendar is a short eulogy. "Osama, you are an honor to your people," it begins. "Let us be honest with ourselves: Who does not like Osama? God knows that we love him! How can we prevent ourselves from loving a person who humiliated the greatest atheist state and the (Christian) cross protector and soiled it with dust?" Not until halfway through the poem does it become clear that Mulaifi is paying homage not to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but to Osama bin Zeid,...

Police closed a section of Punchbowl Street yesterday, causing a major traffic tie-up during the afternoon rush hour, after a state employee placed a suspicious envelope on a stone wall along the sidewalk of a state office building. An employee of the state Department of Accounting and General Services at the Kalanimoku Building received the envelope, became suspicious and called 911 because of the wording and the way it was lettered, said fire Capt. Richard Soo. The package had arrived by mail about 8:30 a.m. yesterday. The employee brought it to the attention of the comp-troller. An employee from the...

HEBER CITY, Utah (AP) - A fire caused about $100,000 in damage to a motel, and the Muslim owner said he has been getting threatening phone calls for about a year. Police Sgt. Jason Bradley said the fire Sunday night at the Alpine Lodge was suspicious. The fire began in a room rented by a man who paid cash, showed no identification and was seen leaving with another man just after the fire started, co-owner Mazhar Tabesh said. Tabesh said he gave the registration papers to police, but the name was scrawled and hard to read. He said the threatening...

Perhaps about 3 to 5 weeks ago, a FReeper made a report about some suspicious video filming of the Bank of America Tower in Seattle. The FReeper made a report to building security. Will you please step forward or can someone remember who it was? My company has an interest in talking with security at the property and would like to know exactly when the report was made. Thanks.

Topic: White Water Larry Case Free Speech Newsletter 5/17/96 Brian Brazil "Larry Case and The Clinton Cocaine Video" - Brian Brazil, Free Speech Newspaper, May 17, 1996 In early April, Free Speech Newspaper was contacted by Larry E. Case, a retired investigator from Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Larry Case advised Free Speech Newspaper staff he desired to place an ad for what amounts to an archive of Bill Clinton related video and audio tapes. Case submitted ad copy for the proposed sale of the tapes. Free Speech Newspaper made a verbal contract to create the ad and put it on...

<p>JONESVILLE, Ind. -- The Indiana State Police are investigating why a man killed in a car crash was carrying three identifications and four checkbooks with different names.</p> <p>Police initially thought there were two occupants in the car that crashed late Sunday, killing Q. Naim Abdullah, 24, of Plainfield.</p>