WASHINGTON – Boeing Co. (BA) expects a dip in commercial plane orders next year after a record-setting surge in 2005, a senior executive at the plane maker said on Tuesday. Boeing, along with European rival Airbus, is on track for its best-ever year, with 806 firm commercial plane orders already …
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LAS VEGAS – There will be no romantic reunion — Jessica Simpson filed for divorce Friday from Nick Lachey. The couple had jointly announced their separation Nov. 23 following months of rumors that their tabloid-friendly relationship had soured. Simpson cited irreconcilable differences in a divorce petition filed in Los Angeles …
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PASADENA, Calif. – Two weeks after rover Opportunity‘s robotic arm failed to extend, engineers traced the problem to a stalled motor and fixed it. The mishap happened on Nov. 25 when Opportunity tried to unstow its arm to examine a layered outcrop in the Martian plains. But the arm, which …
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WASHINGTON – A U.S. grand jury has indicted eight Mexican drug makers on charges they sold steroids to Americans via the Internet in what the Drug Enforcement Administration said Thursday was its largest operation against suppliers of the banned substances. Indictments in U.S. District Court in San Diego include charges …
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PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the legislation passed last summer giving raises to hundreds of officials — repealed last month after a public outcry — was constitutional. In a ruling last Thursday, the court said it would hear a constitutional challenge by a political activist …
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy on Tuesday awarded Textron Inc.’s (TXT) Bell Helicopter unit and Boeing Co. (BA) a $1 billion contract to buy components for 16 V-22 tiltrotor aircraft through September 2009. The Navy said the contract would pay for long lead components associated with the manufacture and delivery …
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WASHINGTON – While honoring civil rights hero Rosa Parks, President Bush on Thursday delighted modern-day black leaders by calling on Congress to renew the provisions of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act that are set to expire. On the 50th anniversary of Parks’ refusal to give up to a white …
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BAGHDAD, Iraq – Gunmen kidnapped the 8-year-old son of a bodyguard for a judge in Saddam Hussein‘s trial, the father said Wednesday. Karim Salam was taken Tuesday as he played in front of his parent’s house in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Kamsarah, according to his father, Salam Hirmiz Gorgis. …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Birmingham judge set an April 2007 date for the start of the U.S. government’s civil trial against former HealthSouth Corp. Chief Executive Richard Scrushy, according to court documents filed late Thursday. A Birmingham jury in June found the ousted HealthSouth chief not guilty of directing a …
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CAIRO, Egypt – A statement signed by an Iraqi insurgent group said Thursday in an Internet posting that it killed a kidnapped U.S. security consultant. The White House said it could not confirm the death. The statement, posted on an Islamic militant Web forum, did not identify the hostage and …
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