Luciole Press Blog: Monthly Archives for May 2008

Thousands flee China quake area over flood fears; mountainslide engulfed village and trapped river, which is going to spill over the debris and flood. Good news: Russian rescuers saved woman trapped for 127 hours

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2008 5:51 PM | Add Comment

Marine who died after cross-state chase wrote of war stress and that his life was in a spiral downward: after losing two soldiers in his unit, Willard J. 'Will' Twiggs said "I cannot describe what a leader feels when he does not bring everyone home"

Posted by kluciole at 5/17/2008 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Look at the size of these boulders dislodged by the quake in China

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2008 2:52 PM | Add Comment

During a speech to the NRA, Mike Huckabee makes remark about gun aimed at Obama

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2008 2:48 PM | Add Comment

Losing racehorses in Puerto Rico condemned to die: Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive, killed by lethal injection at a clinic tucked behind the Hipodromo Camarero racetrack

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2008 1:49 AM | Add Comment

Senate votes to roll back media ownership rule, nullifying FCC rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. Obama issues statement supporting vote

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2008 1:02 AM | Add Comment

Check out Luciole Friend Alison Mackie's BLOG. She is the author of The Gypsy Chronicles. See her video, and watch a video of Estrella Morente singing!

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 10:46 PM | Add Comment

From The New York Times: Tiny Bodies in a Morgue, and Grief in China. Parents beg reporter: "“We’re telling you the truth... Get the truth out.”

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 5:32 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Several time World Champion surfer Kelly Slater rides a wave during competition in the Billabong Pro surfing tournament on the legendary reef break in Teahupoo, Tahiti

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 5:11 PM | Add Comment

China: Quake death toll could reach 50,000. Burial pits are being dug as troops try to deal with bodies and hunt for survivors. China now accepting foreign aid missions.

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 5:06 PM | Add Comment

Woman indicted in Missouri MySpace suicide case; Lori Drew allegedly helped create a MySpace account posing as a young boy who courted, then harassed 13-year-old Megan Meier, who hanged herself after receiving cruel messages

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 4:59 PM | Add Comment

A Protestant town's 'conspiracy of good' in Vichy France; during World War II, in defiance of the Vichy and Nazi regimes, they hid some 4,000 Jews, many of them children

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 4:53 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

California's top court legalizes gay marriage; "Same-sex couples could tie the knot in as little as a month." Religious and social conservatives pressing for ballot measure to ban gay marriage in November

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 4:47 PM | Add Comment

ASPCA gives cats, dogs personality tests to find perfect owners: Meet Your Match program assesses "Feline-ality" and "Canine-ality"

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 1:47 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

8-months-pregnant woman rescued from quake rubble in China

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Clinton Superdelegate Brad Ellsworth reveals he voted for Obama in Indiana primary, but will still vote for Clinton as a superdelegate

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 1:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Edwards praises Clinton while endorsing Obama; "We are a stronger party" because of her involvement and "we're going to have a stronger nominee in the fall because of her work," he said

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 1:16 AM | Add Comment

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says more visits by private American citizens to Iran might help bridge differences between the two countries

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 1:12 AM | Add Comment

Rescuers clear key roads to China quake epicenter; they have been digging with bare hands for those who are trapped

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2008 12:07 AM | Add Comment

10-year-old scholar Moshe Kai Cavalin takes Calif. college by storm by "seeing things simply...not putting up mental blocks other students do"

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2008 8:21 PM | Add Comment

Michael Moore aims for followup on `Fahrenheit 9/11'

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2008 8:18 PM | Add Comment

ENTRY UPDATED: Photo: A father cries as he waits for rescue workers to dig through the rubble of a collapsed school in the hope of finding his daughter in Hanwang, China

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2008 8:15 PM | Add Comment

The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species Wednesday because of the loss of Arctic sea ice, but also cautioned the decision should not be viewed as a path to address global warming

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2008 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Edwards endorses Obama in move to unify support

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2008 5:46 PM | Add Comment

McCain's wife sells Sudan-related investments worth more than $2 million. Republican Natl. Committee spokesman Danny Diaz says: "Democrat candidates, including Barack Obama, (have) the very same type of holdings"

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2008 5:37 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Sarah Jessica Parker wears hat by English favorite Philip Treacy for London premiere of "Sex and the City"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:40 PM | Add Comment

Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise: "a growing number of unwanted horses are being starved or turned loose to fend for themselves in the U.S. West"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:35 PM | Add Comment

Photo: A rescuer helps a trapped student out of the debris at Wudu Primary school in Sichuan province, China

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:31 PM | Add Comment

Determined Clinton wins W.Va., says race not over: "The White House is won in the swing states. And I am winning the swing states"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:26 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Crescent moon in Minsk, Belarus

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:18 PM | Add Comment

Televangelist John Hagee apologizes to Catholics

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Anonymous rape tests are going nationwide next year, so victims too afraid or ashamed to go to police can still gather evidence should they decide to press charges later. States will pay for these "Jane Doe rape kits"

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:07 PM | Add Comment

From Wales: 'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks. In 2001 UK census, 390,000 listed "Jedi" as their religion

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2008 6:00 PM | Add Comment

UPDATE: Magnitude 7.9 China quake death toll rises to nearly 10,000

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2008 5:33 PM | Add Comment

Polish Holocaust hero Irena Sendler — credited with saving some 2,500 Jewish children — dies at age 98

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2008 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Magnitude 7.8 hits central China. State media: 900 students buried by quake; 107 people reported dead.

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2008 3:48 AM | Add Comment

Woman pays off 1976 parking ticket issued in Mich. with a note saying "Please don't try and track me down. I am a respectable lady"

Posted by kluciole at 5/12/2008 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, Chile

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 8:57 PM | Add Comment

Nepal police detain more than 600 female Tibetan protesters

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 8:54 PM | Add Comment

McCain faces doubts among Republican conservatives, many of whom are "showing it with symbolic votes against him in primary contests"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 5:18 PM | Add Comment

Boat carrying one of the first international shipments of Myanmar aid sinks; death toll climbs beyond 28,000

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 5:12 PM | Add Comment

Rebate excludes many taxpayers with foreign spouses

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 5:09 PM | Add Comment

New Poster for La Luciole Magazine. Painting by Diana Bonebrake

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 2:57 AM | Add Comment

Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer, who performed at La Scala, dies at age 80. Known as La Diva Turca — the Turkish Diva

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 2:55 AM | Add Comment

Photo: porkfish and sergeant major fish swim near Neptune Memorial Reef near Key Biscayne, Florida.

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 1:45 AM | Add Comment

Data from Columbia disk drives survived the shuttle accident

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 1:39 AM | Add Comment

19 dead in Missouri, Oklahoma after new round of tornadoes

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2008 1:37 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A two-headed snake named Tom and Jerry at the Vivarium exposition in Offenburg, Germany

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 11:26 PM | Add Comment

Mother's Day celebration reaches 100th anniversary; creator Anna Jarvis was "increasingly disturbed as the celebration turned into an excuse to sell greeting cards, candy, flowers and other items"

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 11:17 PM | Add Comment

Daniel Suson is armed with a doctorate in astrophysics and a mission to stop yelling at his television, be elected to political office, and inject "evidence-based decision making" into public policy

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 11:10 PM | Add Comment

Prague zoo sets out to save the Indian gharial, a crocodile-like animal on the brink of extinction

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 11:06 PM | Add Comment

Widower seeks change in Mass. law after life insurance claim denied in young wife's death

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 3:45 PM | Add Comment

Greatness! Check out Baby and his new poster for La Luciole Magazine

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A Chio on a car antenna in San Salvador. Chios are native to El Salvador.

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Narrow escapes for CNN reporter Dan Rivers in Myanmar, evading authorities while filing reports on the cyclone aftermath

Posted by kluciole at 5/10/2008 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Photo: What does a one day old Scarlet Macaw chick look like? At ZooAve Center for the Rescue of Endangered Species in La Garita, Costa Rica

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 11:49 PM | Add Comment

Why Clinton Stands to Lose Millions

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 11:43 PM | Add Comment

Food for thought: Opinion column... Jack Kelly: "Obama Needs a History Lesson"

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 11:39 PM | Add Comment

Plame seeks to resurrect lawsuit in CIA leak case

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 10:03 AM | Add Comment

Luciole Art Editor DIANA BONEBRAKE is having a birthday May 10th!

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 2:30 AM | Add Comment

U.S. economic anxiety hits women harder

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 2:27 AM | Add Comment

Photo: St Paul's Cathedral is floodlit in pink light during the City Salute sunset pageant in London

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 1:56 AM | Add Comment

Putin signals he intends to stay in charge of Russia

Posted by kluciole at 5/9/2008 1:53 AM | Add Comment

Photos: A supercell that became a Tornadic vortex signature (TVS) lights up the night sky with lightning over Amarillo, Texas

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2008 11:16 PM | Add Comment

Country music superstar Eddy Arnold dies at 89

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2008 11:07 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Moon over Patagonia. View of the sunset in Bariloche, in the Patagonian Andes, Argentina

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2008 12:53 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Two Galapagos giant tortoises at Riga Zoo in Lativia

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2008 12:19 AM | Add Comment

Australia's Koalas at risk from climate change, threatened by rising level of carbon dioxide sapping nutrients from their food source, eucalyptus leaves

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2008 12:10 AM | Add Comment

Photo: American Goldfinches hang upside-down on a bird feeder framed by colored bottles

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2008 12:08 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Chile. Eruption of the Chaiten volcano

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 1:06 PM | Add Comment

More photos of Beauty, the injured Bald Eagle who will receive a new beak te repair an injury. See earlier blog posting for an article about Beauty.

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:56 PM | Add Comment

Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:53 PM | Add Comment

US diplomat: 100,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:46 PM | Add Comment

Tired voters say Democrats' primary fight divisive. One voter says "no matter which one gets in, I'm unimpressed by both of them at this point"

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:41 PM | Add Comment

Cuba refuses to give writer/blogger Yoani Sanchez a visa to collect prize given by El Pais in Spain

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 1:14 AM | Add Comment

New York's Met Museum showcases superheroes' impact on fashion

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 1:11 AM | Add Comment

Photo: woman pushing a stroller with child wearing a face mask outside a children's hospital in Beijing; 27 children have died from the viral outbreak

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:39 AM | Add Comment

Mangrove destruction partly to blame for Myanmar toll, says ASEAN chief

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:33 AM | Add Comment

Nigeria oil rebels pledge truce if Carter mediates

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:29 AM | Add Comment

Adult suicide victims who were abused as children have clear genetic changes in their brains, showing abuse and neglect have biological effects

Posted by kluciole at 5/7/2008 12:20 AM | Add Comment

Kuwaiti envoy's son charged in Poland with kidnapping three Jewish teenagers at a hotel, and claiming he had a bomb

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 5:21 PM | Add Comment

From Britain: Majority of supporters of the governing Labour Party want Prime Minister Gordon Brown to step down

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Oregon parents hear Afghanistan gun battle on voice mail from their son

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 5:13 PM | Add Comment

First international aid reaches Myanmar after cyclone

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 5:09 PM | Add Comment

Obama wins N.C. primary, Clinton leads in Indiana

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 5:06 PM | Add Comment

Pentagon warns of June pay crunch for troops, saying "the US Army will not be able to pay its soldiers beyond June 15 unless Congress acts"

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 5:03 PM | Add Comment

Violin virtuoso Philippe Quint to play in airport in thanks to cab driver Mohamed Khalil, who returned his lost $4 million 285-year-old violin

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 4:42 AM | Add Comment

World Health Organisation claims child-killing virus in China may be yet to peak, "but will not threaten Beijing's Olympic Games in August"

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 4:38 AM | Add Comment

Update: Myanmar state radio says cyclone death toll soars above 22,000 with 41,000 missing

Posted by kluciole at 5/6/2008 4:32 AM | Add Comment

Photo: A visitor walks through a poppy field at Showa Memorial Park in Tachikawa, suburban Tokyo

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 9:31 PM | Add Comment

On eve of Indiana and N.C. primaries, Clinton and Obama duel on gas prices and over which candidate "gets it"

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 9:27 PM | Add Comment

Update: Myanmar cyclone death toll to rise past 15,000. At least 10,000 are dead in one town, Bogalay

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 9:21 PM | Add Comment

Almost 4,000 die in tropical cyclone Nargis in Myanmar; Toll could hit 10,000

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 9:05 AM | Add Comment

How to Fight Global Warming at Dinner: Substituting chicken, fish or vegetables for red meat can help combat climate change

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 8:14 AM | Add Comment

Four Tips for Getting Rid of Clutter the Eco-Friendly Way

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 8:10 AM | Add Comment

Sea lions shot dead while they lay in traps meant to humanely catch them on Columbia River as salmon battle rages

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 6:07 AM | Add Comment

Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia's ban on interracial marriage led to landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, has died at age 68

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 6:01 AM | Add Comment

Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle, the "bionic beak"

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 1:30 AM | Add Comment

Physician-drafted report seeks to answer: Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Public health law expert Lawrence Gostin: "such rules could exclude care for the poorest, most disadvantaged citizens who suffer disproportionately from chronic disease"

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 1:21 AM | Add Comment

Rogue large wave about 16 feet high crashes on South Korea's west coast, killing 9, injuring 14

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2008 1:16 AM | Add Comment

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