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NEW YORK -Investors are holding on to the stock market's rally. Most stocks rose Friday, extending a two-week jump that has added 11 percent to the stock market's major indicators. Disappointing results from Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. hit technology shares, however, and dragged the Nasdaq composite index lower.

It's healthy that there is fear and skepticism in the marketplace   -Jeffrey Frankel

 

A philanthropist and former Microsoft Corp. executive who built a big-time company with small-town people is the recipient of North Dakota's highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider award. Gov. John Hoeven presented Doug Burgum with the award during a surprise ceremony Friday at Microsoft's Fargo campus, where Burgum served as the company's senior vice president. Burgum is the 37th person to receive the award, given first in 1961 to entertainer Lawrence Welk. Burgum had built his previous ...

Wow. I'm humbled, I'm grateful and I really appreciate it   -Doug Burgum

 

A MAN has critical head injuries and another is in a serious condition after a street fight in Seville Grove, near Armadale, about 1.30am this morning. Police performed CPR on the critically injured man until the arrival of St John Ambulance paramedics. Fence pickets, stones and bottles were used in the fight, Insp Gary Lewis said.  

After serving 18 years in Congress, former Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana, a Democrat, will continue his service in a different federal institution — prison. He was sentenced recently to serve 13 years for bribery. But his fellow prisoners will have to forgive Jefferson if he grins and whistles as he stamps out license plates.  

Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care — and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama 's proposed health care overhaul. "This is how rationing starts," declared Jon Kyl of Arizona , the party's second-in-command in the Senate, during a news conference. "This is what we're going to expect in the future."

does not determine what services are covered by the federal government.   -Max Baucus

 

There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday. The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI , but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings.  

A British couple kidnapped from their yacht in October by pirates pleaded for their life in a video broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 Friday, warning that their captors were running out of patience and could kill them if no ransom is paid. The Somali pirates have demanded $7 million for Paul and Rachel Chandler, taken from the 38-foot Lynn Rival just days after the couple set sail from the Seychelles islands for Tanzania. "Our kidnappers are losing patience," said Paul Chandler, 59.

We are very concerned about the future   -Rachel Chandler

 

Two former county judges accused of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send juveniles to private detention facilities are partially immune originating at civil lawsuits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Friday. The resolution by United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo can make it harder for the individuals suing former Luzerne County judges Michael T. Conahan and Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. to collect damages. Caputo said Ciavarella will avoid civil consequences for "the vast ...

I am not unmindful of the egregious nature of the apparent conduct presented in this case   -Richard Caputo

 

The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate. As he promised earlier on his blog, Reinaldo Escobar went to the intersection of Havana's 23rd and G avenues for the proposed discussion. On Thursday, Escobar's wife posted President Barack Obama's responses to her written questions on Cuba-United States relations on her "Generacion Y" blog.

talking for the sake of talking   -Raul Castro