Daily Digest
More anxiety on Wall St.: Stocks dive,
oil soars
NEW YORK (AP) – Elation in the financial mar-
kets over the 700 billion bank bailout plan evaporated
Monday and was replaced by all-too-familiar anxiety,
pummeling stocks and sending oil prices to their biggest
one-day gain. Worries that the rescue package would
cost too much, drive up inflation, swell the already-
bloated deficit and hurt the ailing economy also led
global investors to flee the U.S. dollar....
Bush seeks to assure leaders about
bailout plan
NEW YORK (AP) – President Bush sought to as-
sure anxious world leaders on Monday that the United
States is taking ”bold, aggressive, decisive action” to
rescue the crisis-ridden economy with a 700 billion bailout
package. ”The whole world is watching to see if we can
act quickly,” Bush said, prodding lawmakers in Wash-
ington to approve his plan....
FBI searches apartment in Palin
hacking case
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI searched the res-
idence of the son of a Democratic state lawmaker in
Tennessee over the weekend looking for evidence link-
ing the young man to the hacking of Republican vice
presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail ac-
count, two law enforcement officials told The Associ-
ated Press on Monday....
Biden says ad that mocked McCain was
’terrible’
WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama’s running
mate says a campaign ad that mocked Republican pres-
idential candidate John McCain as an out-of-touch, out-
of-date computer illiterate was ”terrible” and would not
have been done had he known about it....
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Brazilian woman finds fame as McCain’s
old flame
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) – A former model
and ballerina is making headlines across Brazil after
being identified as John McCain’s lover 51 years ago.
Maria Gracinda Teixeira, 77, says she is the woman
the Republican presidential candidate fondly described
- though never named - in his 1999 book ”Faith of My
Fathers.”...
Woman whose dogs mauled neighbor
gets 15 to life
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A woman whose dogs
viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hall-
way of their apartment building seven years ago was
sentenced Monday to 15 years to life in prison....
Resetting immune system in bid to beat
scleroderma
WASHINGTON (AP) – First Bari Martz’s fingers
turned blue. Then she started gasping for breath, and
her joints stiffened so that she couldn’t even open her
hands. Doctors diagnosed scleroderma, part of an in-
sidious family of diseases where the immune system at-
tacks a patient’s own body, sometimes enough to kill....
Robert Wagner reveals love affair with
Stanwyck
NEW YORK (AP) – Robert Wagner’s marriage to
Natalie Wood was known to all. His love affair with
Barbara Stanwyck was a secret - until now. In his
new memoir ”Pieces of My Heart,” Wagner writes of
his four-year romance with the star of such classics as
”Stella Dallas” and ”Double Indemnity.”...
Construction workers complain about
nude skater

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Portland Police took

a waterfront Lady Godiva down a notch this week.
Barely. They were getting calls about a nude skater
whizzing past tourists and rush-hour commuters....

Carmona, Sheffield, 2 others suspended

for brawl

DETROIT (AP) – Cleveland pitcher Fausto Car-

mona was suspended six games and Detroit slugger
Gary Sheffield was penalized four games Monday for
their brawl last week....