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Ore. teen accused of planning to attack school

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 26th

By STEVEN DUBOISAssociated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon teenager intended to blow up his school in a plot "forged and inspired by the model of the Columbine shootings" and he will be charged with attempted aggravated murder, a prosecutor said late Saturday. Grant Acord, 17, will be charged

Huge crowd cheers Argentine leader's 10-year rule

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 26th

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and DEBORA REYAssociated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez rallied a huge crowd Saturday night celebrating the 10-year government that she and her late husband Nestor Kirchner began in 2003. Her voice breaking, she called it a

Egypt top court rules against religious slogans

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

By AYA BATRAWY and MARIAM RIZKAssociated Press CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Saturday against parts of an election law approved by the Islamist-led legislature that had lifted a long-standing ban on the use of religious slogans during campaigning. The decision is

Russian police detain activists, foes at gay rally

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

MOSCOW (AP) - Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country's first-ever gay pride march. Russian police said they arrested at least 30 gay rights

Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

By MARTHA MENDOZAAP National Writer SARATOGA, Calif. (AP) - One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her parents she was spending the night with a friend. The friend claimed she was

Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

By BARRY SCHWEID and BRETT ZONGKERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial climate of the city." When it

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

Hezbollah chief commits to victory in Syria

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

By BASSEM MROUEAssociated Press BEIRUT (AP) - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group vowed to help propel President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria's bloody civil war, warning that the fall of the Damascus regime would give rise to extremists and plunge the Middle East into a "

Journalist and author Haynes Johnson dies at 81

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on May 25th

By BARRY SCHWEID and BRETT ZONGKERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movement and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post