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Venezuela to hold term-limit vote
January 16, 2009 - PoliticomVenezuela will hold a vote to determine whether to remove term limits to permit President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election, officials said. The vote is scheduled for Feb. 15, Globovision reported Friday. Student groups have orchestrated several protests...
Israeli officials may OK cease-fire
January 16, 2009 - PoliticomIsraeli officials may vote this weekend to declare a cease-fire in Gaza, a government spokesman said.Mark Regev, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said the Israeli security Cabinet could vote Saturday night to call a cease-fire in Gaza, The...
Pro-playoff 'fan alliance' formed
January 16, 2009 - SportFormer USC star Anthony Davis announced the creation Friday of a grassroots fan alliance to push Congress to help create a college football playoff system.Davis, an all-America player for USC in the 1970s and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame...
New Orleans Krewe has coconut for Obama
January 16, 2009 - SocialA New Orleans Carnival Krewe, the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, hopes to present President-elect Barack Obama with a specially designed coconut.Zulu President Charles Hamilton Jr. left for Washington by train Friday morning, with the coconut carefully...
Spain: Bomb blast blamed on ETA
January 16, 2009 - MovieA bomb blast that hit a television transmitter in northern Spain's Basque country was blamed on a Basque separatist group. No one was hurt in the blast believed to be set by the group known as ETA, the Basque acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom, El...
Man who did not know he was shot dies
January 16, 2009 - PoliticomA 69-year-old Illinois man who did not realize he had been shot by a burglar died of the wound days later, police said.Robert Bunn Sr., who lived alone in Belleville, called police Jan. 8 after he was awakened by someone in his house and struggled with...
- January 16, 2009 - Politicom
The judge in the corruption case of former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has demanded answers from the U.S. Justice Department about a whistle-blower complaint.The Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News reported Friday that by 5 p.m. Saturday, Attorney General Michael...
Supply boat sinks off Alaska coast
January 16, 2009 - PoliticomThe seven crewmen abandoned ship Thursday in Alaska after drifting sea ice hit their supply boat, officials said.The Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News reported Friday that they abandoned the sinking ship Thursday. The vessel was delivering supplies to an...
Custody hearing postponed for Adolf Hitler
January 16, 2009 - PoliticomA child custody hearing for a 3-year-old boy named after Adolf Hitler and his two sisters has been postponed, New Jersey authorities said.Heath and Deborah Campbell, who live in rural Hunterdon County in the western part of the state, gained national...
BART officer pleads not guilty
January 16, 2009 - PoliticomA former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of an unarmed man at an Oakland, Calif., BART station.Johannes Mehserle, 27, was arrested in Nevada late Tuesday night and waived extradition to California...