DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation, that she has asked for a meeting. “I would be very willing to meet with them,” the former Arkansas governor responded Tuesday while campaigning in western Iowa. “I would tell them we’ve come a long way in research, in … Continue reading
Kansas City will likely dodge the big icicle early today, forecasters say, but a cold front late today could change rain into an ice storm. A swath of the Midwest from Oklahoma through central Kansas and into Northwest Missouri did get severe ice conditions overnight and this morning, said Julie Adolphson, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill. Ice one-inch thick was reported at St. Joseph and Maryville. Areas north of Kansas City got more rain, up … Continue reading
Eddie Van Halen was hot for a clean-up crew. While the legendary guitarist was out on a reunion tour with his eponymous band and its original frontman David Lee Roth, a broken water main near his Hollywood Hills home started a mudslide that ended up trashing his backyard early Monday morning. According to the Los Angeles Times, the incident occurred at approximately 1 a.m. when an air valve on a 26-inch main ruptured, unleashing a torrent of watery mud … Continue reading