| George Lindsey, known as TV's Goober Pyle, dies Posted:  George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.
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| Extreme right leader lashes Greece's 'traitors' Posted:  The leader of an extreme-right, anti-immigrant party on course for shock success in Greece's general elections Sunday lashed out at those he described as "traitors" responsible for the country's financial crisis and said his party was ushering in a "revolution."
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| Socialist Francois Hollande wins French presidency Posted:  Socialist Francois Hollande has declared victory in France's presidential election, railing against austerity measures and urging national unity after a bitter campaign against Nicolas Sarkozy.
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| Mayweather impressive, still shuns Pacquiao Posted: Floyd Mayweather Jr. was getting ready to make his ring walk about the time Manny Pacquiao arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Philippine Airlines Flight 102. He'll be occupying a cell at the Clark County Detention Center by the time Pacquiao makes his way to this gambling city for his June 9 fight with Timothy Bradley. |
| Paul wins majority of delegates from Maine GOP Posted:  With Mitt Romney's nomination all but decided, Ron Paul supporters wrested control of the Maine Republican Convention and elected a majority slate supporting the Texas congressman to the GOP national convention, party officials said as the two-day convention neared its end Sunday. The results gave the Texas congressman a late state victory.
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| Greece: Socialist party head calls for coalition Posted:  Greece's former finance minister and Socialist party leader called for a broad coalition government of pro-European parties, ruling out a two-party government with his conservative rivals after his party received a drubbing in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
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| Airstrike kills senior al-Qaida leader in Yemen Posted:  An airstrike Sunday killed a top al-Qaida leader on the FBI's most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said. The airstrike resembled earlier U.S. drone attacks, but the U.S. did not immediately confirm it.
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| Wife saw bullet hole while Skyping with soldier Posted:  An Army nurse showed no alarm or discomfort before suddenly collapsing during a Skype video chat with his wife, who saw a bullet hole in a closet behind him, his family said Sunday.
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| Greek election returns show bailout at risk Posted:  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek voters enraged by economic hardship deserted traditional governing parties in droves at elections on Sunday, putting the country's future in the euro zone at risk, according to an early projection by the Interior Ministry. The projection, confirming a pattern in earlier exit polls, showed the two parties supporting an EU/IMF bailout that is keeping Greece from bankruptcy would struggle to form a workable coalition government. ...
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| Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy in French vote Posted:  Francois Hollande was elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades on Sunday, dealing a humiliating defeat to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shaking up European politics.
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| GOP leaders start to rally around Romney _ sort of Posted:  Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but it's not exactly a stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee.
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| Moscow protesters arrested in march against Putin Posted:  A demonstration by at least 20,000 people on the eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration as president turned into a battle with police Sunday after some protesters tried to split off from the approved venue and march to the Kremlin.
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| NASCAR's McClure stable, alert after accident Posted: NASCAR driver Eric McClure is stable and alert at a Birmingham hospital after an accident Saturday night at Talladega Superspeedway. |
| Pakistan clashes kill at least 12: officials Posted:  Militants attacked a Pakistani military convoy in the country's troubled northwest Sunday, prompting clashes that killed at least 12 people, including nine security forces, officials said.
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| Biden OK with equal rights for married gay couples Posted: Vice President Joe Biden says he's "absolutely comfortable" with gay couples who marry getting the same civil rights and liberties as heterosexual couples, a stand that gay rights advocates interpreted as an endorsement of same-sex marriage. |
| Sarkozy supporters Posted:  Supporters of right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy look at the second round results of the French Presidential elections in Paris. His opponent Socialist candidate Francois Hollande was elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades.
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| Sarkozy concedes Posted:  Right-wing incumbent candidate Nicolas Sarkozy addresses his supporters after the second round results of the French Presidential elections in Paris. Sarkozy conceded defeat to his Socialist rival Francois Hollande on Sunday and signalled that he intends to step back from frontline politics.
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| Israeli leader moves toward September elections Posted:  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday signaled he wants to hold new elections in September, more than a year ahead of schedule, setting up a brief campaign that polls suggest will propel him to another term in office.
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| French election: live report Posted:  1915 GMT: Hollande is expected to speak at Place de la Bastille, where thousands of supporters have gathered to celebrate, later on this evening. Down there at the moment, French flags are flying, some revellers are trying to climb the July Column, the monument to France's 1830 Revolution which stand in the middle. "Sarko's finished!", "Hollande president!" and "We won, we won!" are among the shouts coming from the crowd.
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| Debate Ala girl's death plays out on Facebook Posted:  Relatives and friends of the grandmother and stepmother charged with running a 9-year-old girl to death as a punishment have been defending and attacking the women on Facebook and in at least one case nearly divulging what could be considered evidence.
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| Friend: Mom, 3 kids had moved to Ariz. recently Posted:  A woman and her three young daughters who authorities say were abducted from Tennessee had recently moved to Arizona because two of the girls had asthma, a family friend said Sunday.
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| Russian police battle anti-Putin protesters Posted:  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian riot police beat protesters about the head with batons and detained more than 400 on Sunday after clashes broke out at a Moscow rally by thousands of people against Vladimir Putin on the eve of his return to the presidency. Opposition leaders Alexei Navalny, Boris Nemtsov and Sergei Udaltsov were among those detained during violence that showed the depth of divisions and tensions in Russia as the former KGB spy starts his six-year third term on Monday. ...
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| Man wanted in USS Cole bombing killed in Yemen: tribal chief Posted:  Yemeni Al-Qaeda leader Fahd al-Quso who was wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole has been killed in an air raid in eastern Yemen on Sunday, a tribal chief told AFP.
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| What's at stake as 6 European nations vote Posted:  Six European countries are holding elections Sunday. Here is a quick look at what's at stake:
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| Greek Socialist leader calls for pro-bailout unity government Posted:  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos called for a national unity government of all pro-bailout parties, but warned that forming such a coalition would be difficult. In his first public comments since polls closed in Sunday's election, Venizelos said his PASOK party had paid the price for handling the country's sovereign debt crisis. "For us in PASOK this day is extremely painful," he said. "We knew the price would be big but we decided to pay it. We embittered people to protect the nation's future. "The possibility of a national unity government must be explored. ...
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| Sarkozy in Paris Posted:  Right-wing incumbent candidate Nicolas Sarkozy adresses his supporters after the second round results of the French Presidential elections in Paris. His opponent Socialist candidate Francois Hollande was elected France's first Socialist president in nearly two decades, dealing a humiliating defeat to Sarkozy.
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| Feelings run deep in Wis. recall; few undecided Posted:  Al Trossen feels like a wanted man. The former Teamster voted for embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 2010 but isn't sure who to support in the state's historic recall election next month.
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| Projections: Greek conservatives win most votes Posted: Official projections in Greece's election show the conservative New Democracy party winning the most votes, with 19.18 percent, far short of the amount needed to form a government. |
| Job disability a headache for recovery Posted:  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Monica Soltes was excited 10 years ago to leave Merrill Lynch and start her own business as an independent financial planner in San Diego. After she fell off a porch at her cousin's cottage and broke her elbow, her dreams unraveled. Following multiple surgeries that confined her to bed, Soltes was diagnosed with a hormonal disease that is weakening her bones. She also ran out of money, signed up for disability benefits and has been unable to work again. The 47-year-old from Michigan is among the 8.7 million American workers on the U.S. ...
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| Turkish premier: Syrian regime weaker every day Posted:  President Bashar Assad's grip on Syria is getting weaker by the day and "victory is close," Turkey's prime minister said Sunday in an address to thousands of cheering Syrians who fled a brutal crackdown on an anti-regime uprising.
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| War against SD tree bugs enlists unlikely fighters Posted:  Joe Shark's Native American heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation where he grows apples and gooseberries, but a threat from an enemy no larger than a fingernail impelled him to grab a saw and join the loggers.
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| Greek voters punish 2 main parties Posted: Greeks angered by a vicious and protracted financial crisis punished their two main parties in national elections Sunday, with exit polls projecting them both hemorrhaging support and no party gaining enough votes to form a government. |
| After 'Merkozy', Berlin braces for 'Merkhollande' Posted:  Germany's Angela Merkel will be forced to forge consensus with French president-elect Francois Hollande, despite pulling for his rival, say analysts, who think their rapport might be warmer than expected.
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| Muti to conduct Vivaldi, Verdi concert for Pope Posted:  Riccardo Muti will be conducting a concert in the Vatican in honor of Pope Benedict XVI.
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| Gorilla gets jaw surgery after scuffle at Neb. zoo Posted: It was a bit of a zoo at the Nebraska Medical Center over the weekend, when a special patient came in for jaw surgery. |
| Italy votes in local election, first since Monti Posted: Italians voted Sunday in the first elections since Mario Monti was tapped to save Italy from its debt crisis — balloting seen as a gauge of public anger over parties supporting his austerity measures and disillusionment over Italy's traditional political blocs. |
| Heavy fighting rocks eastern Syria ahead of poll Posted:  AMMAN (Reuters) - Fighting between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces erupted in an oil producing province in eastern Syria, residents and activists said on Sunday, the eve of a parliamentary election the authorities say shows reforms are under way. Rebels armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked tank positions in the east of the provincial capital Deir al-Zor, in response to an army offensive against towns and villages in the tribal area bordering Iraq that has killed tens of people and stopped others reaching supplies and medical care, they said. ...
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| Sarkozy concedes defeat in French election Posted:  Nicolas Sarkozy has conceded defeat in France's presidential elections, saying he called challenger Francois Hollande to wish him "good luck" as the country's new leader.
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| Socialist Hollande ousts Sarkozy as French leader Posted:  PARIS (Reuters) - Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France's presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe that could start a pushback against German-led austerity. Hollande beat conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy by a decisive 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent, based on partial results, bringing the centre-left back to government after a decade in opposition. The outgoing president conceded defeat within 20 minutes of the last polls closing at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT), telling supporters he had telephoned Hollande to wish him good luck. ...
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| Georgia's patriarch baptizes 400 babies Posted:  The patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church presided over the baptism of hundreds of babies in a Tbilisi cathedral on Sunday as part of an effort credited with helping raise the birth rate in this former Soviet nation.
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