Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - It's a crime that police officers in a small eastern Arizona community can hardly fathom yet have to deal with: an 8-year-old charged in the fatal shootings of his father and another man.

WASHINGTON - It takes a brave soldier to do what Army Maj. Gen. David Blackledge did in Iraq. It takes as much bravery to do what he did when he got home.

ROCKFORD, Ill. - The nation's economic troubles play out one family at a time at the New Horizons Learning Center in this struggling city two hours northwest of Chicago.

NEW YORK - It wasn't religion that broke up his marriage to Jane Fonda, Ted Turner declares in a new memoir.

The Detroit Pistons and Denver Nuggets finally got a look at the guards they added. The San Antonio Spurs have to wonder how much more they can lose.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Barack Obama said on Saturday that now with the long presidential election season behind the nation, it is time for Americans to put aside political differences and work together to solve the economic crisis.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Sales of rifles, pistols and ammo are surging in parts of the United States, as many gun owners fear President-elect Barack Obama's administration may seek to tighten ownership of certain weapons.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The unemployment rate shot to a 14-1/2 year high last month as employers slashed jobs by an unexpectedly steep 240,000, suggesting President-elect Barack Obama will face a deep recession when he takes office.

SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni court has halved the prison sentence of an al Qaeda suspect on the U.S. list of most wanted militants after he won an appeal, judicial sources said Saturday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - North Korea has slowed disablement work at its key nuclear reactor to a snail's pace, complaining of a delay in delivery of energy aid it is supposed to receive, Japan's Kyodo news agency quoted diplomatic sources as saying.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The death toll rose to at least 75 on Saturday in the collapse of a ramshackle church school in Haiti when rescue workers uncovered a room with 17 dead, many of them children, officials said.

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited on Saturday a West Bank city that was once a bastion of Palestinian militants but is now held up by Washington as a model for self-government.

GEORGE TOWN (Reuters) - Paloma strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane on Saturday as it pounded the wealthy British Caribbean territory of the Cayman Islands and headed toward storm-battered Cuba.

KIBATI, DR Congo (AFP) - Government troops reinforced front-line positions Saturday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where calm prevailed a day after fighting broke out with rebel forces.

PETION-VILLE, Haiti (AFP) - About 50 schoolchildren and teachers were killed when a shantytown school packed with hundreds of students collapsed during classes Friday, a government official said.

CHICAGO (AFP) - US President-elect Barack Obama has promised to act "swiftly" as soon as he takes office to confront the economic crisis head on, during his first news conference since his historic election.

BANGKOK (AFP) - British authorities have revoked the visas of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, an airline official told AFP Saturday.

AUCKLAND (AFP) - Prime Minister Helen Clark conceded defeat in New Zealand's election on Saturday, after National Party leader John Key won enough seats to lead a conservative coalition.

SAO PAULO (AFP) - Looking to take the first steps towards revamping a global financial system ravaged by crisis, leaders from the main industrialized and emerging economies gather Saturday seeking common ground.

LONDON (AFP) - Arsene Wenger has billed Saturday's showdown between Arsenal and Manchester United as one of the summit meetings between England's big four that will decide this season's Premier League title battle.