Feeds TOKYO (AP) A year after his Internet empire came crashing down, turning Japan's most famous dot-com mogul into a business pariah and celebrity defendant, Takafumi Horie and a captivated nation will learn Friday whether his name will be cleared.

Posted on Thu, Mar. 15, 2007 A reward of $2,500 is being offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for beheading a special-therapy dog for a St. Paul teenager then placing the head on the girl's front porch. The Humane

A furious row over competing projects - one to build a flood barrier for Venice, the other to construct a suspension bridge for Sicily - says everything about the current state of the nation. When it comes to grand infrastructure projects, Italy rarely

Posted on Thu, Mar. 15, 2007 Judge decided not to investigate phone tip in St. Paul cop's murder trial BY SHANNON PRATHER Pioneer Press Attorneys for the man convicted of murdering St. Paul police Sgt. Gerald Vick are seeking a new trial on the grounds

Feeds David Pogue to the rescue! With Microsoft bombarding us with a new operating system - Vista - and a complete remake of Microsoft Office - Microsoft Office 2007 - it's not unusual to see many a human scratching his head to make sense out of the

6.8m Marseilles drug case by Brian Reyes A Gibraltarian single mum could face up to 10 years in a French jail after prosecutors in Marseilles claimed she is linked to a seizure of nearly 3.5 tonnes of cannabis resin on the border between Spain and

The US electorate sent a clear, unequivocal message in the November mid-term elections. End the Iraq war and bring home the troops. Many supporting war in the 109th Congress lost out to more moderate voices taking over their seats because voters want