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Wine experts: worst grape harvest in half century

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 17th

By RAF CASERTAssociated Press BRUSSELS (AP) - Winemaker Cherie Spriggs had watched the bad weather over southern England's vineyards all season long. It just wasn't good enough for Nyetimber, her award-winning sparkling wine. "I have never seen a situation like this before," Spriggs

Portugal government faces backlash over austerity

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 16th

LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Portugal's coalition government is facing a hail of criticism after announcing steep tax increases in its draft budget for next year. Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar met Tuesday with the governing parties' lawmakers, aiming to quell signs of revolt in their ranks ahead

Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 12th

By BRIAN SKOLOFFAssociated Press PHOENIX (AP) - A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the Arizona-Mexico border, a mayor in Mexico said Friday. "It was a burst of gunfire," Nogales Mayor Ramon

Mexico capo killed, then body stolen by gunmen

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 9th

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and E. EDUARDO CASTILLOAssociated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) - The death of the founder and leader of Mexico's brutal Zetas cartel in a firefight with marines outside a baseball game near the Texas border was perhaps the biggest coup of President Felipe Calderon's war

Veteran AP Georgia newsman Dick Pettys dies at 66

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 9th

By DON SCHANCHE Jr.Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) - From Georgia's last segregationist governor to the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction, Dick Pettys covered Georgia politics for The Associated Press for more than three decades. His reputation for fair and accurate

Maine's 6 Senate hopefuls all hail from elsewhere

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 8th

By DAVID SHARPAssociated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Maine has always been proud of the commodities it claims as homegrown, among them Stephen King, L.L. Bean, lobster, and a host of political icons including Edmund Muskie, George Mitchell and Olympia Snowe. But no matter what happens in the

Bonnie and Clyde guns sell for $504K at NH auction

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 30th

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - Two guns once in the possession of notorious gangsters Bonnie and Clyde when they were killed in a hail of gunfire sold at a New Hampshire auction Sunday for more than half a million dollars. The guns were two of 134 artifacts that sold for a total of $1.1 million at the auction

Georgian grape pickers show government's challenge

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 30th

By LYNN BERRYAssociated Press SAGAREJO, Georgia (AP) - The green grapes that Temuri Dolenjashvili and his wife snipped from the vines Sunday and emptied by the bucket into the back of their truck provide the only income for their extended family of five. The harvest also gave a welcome day'

Syrian refugees in 4 countries talk of pain, fear

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 29th

By Bassem Mroue and Jamal Halaby and Lara Jakes and Marjorie Olster and Sameer N. YacoubAssociated Press A woman loses her children, her husband and both legs. A penniless family is forced to flee from Syria back to Iraq. Camps are overflowing with people and with bitterness, and refugees are

Will Ohio's economic uptick be a boon for Obama?

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on September 29th

By SHARON COHENAP National Writer CANTON, Ohio (AP) - In this crucial battleground in campaign 2012, William Healy and Joe Halter stand on opposing sides of the great divide: How to jump-start the economy? Healy, the Democratic mayor of Canton, recalls how, in the grim early days of 2010, when