WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bush pushes programs in weekly radio address
President Bush made clear Saturday in his weekly radio address he is not backing away from his economic stimulus proposals, under attack by Democrats for helping corporations at the expense of the unemployed.
The president said he also will propose a $364 million increase in the Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, program, which counsels mothers on child nutrition and health care, and an additional $73 million to help pay for new residential training centers.
"I am committed to building a strong economy that spreads its benefits to everyone," Bush said. "This goal reaches beyond politics or party, and I'm confident that Congress will join me in the work ahead."
Pennsylvania: New visitor center for battlefield unveiled
Architects unveiled the design of a new museum and visitor center at Gettysburg National Military Park, where modern, spacious facilities will be concealed in a complex that looks like a cluster of old farm buildings.
The public got its first look Friday at a New York architecture firm's plans for the $95 million museum and visitor center. The new complex is to be built less than a mile from the current visitor center, which is near the cemetery where President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address during the height of the Civil War.
Although it is designed to look like a old-style Pennsylvania farm complete with a stone grain silo and tin-roofed circular barn the center will house two theaters, a cafeteria, a bookstore, classrooms, interpretive exhibits and other modern amenities.
California: Genetic research destroyed in lab fire
A fire tore through university laboratories and destroyed valuable genetic research that took years to develop, officials said.
The fire broke out early Friday and gutted the top floor of a University of California, Santa Cruz lab. It later flared up twice more and destroyed the inside of a second lab, said UCSC Fire Chief Charles Hernandez said.
Manuel Ares, chairman of the molecular, cell and developmental biology department, said many of the genetic strains in his lab took 14 years to develop and could take that long to replace. His work was related to the Human Genome Project, a national effort to identify the tens of thousands of genes in human DNA.
Boston: Priest's abuse victims get apology from prelate
Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston delivered an emotional apology last week for allowing an accused child molester to continue serving as a parish priest for nearly a decade and ordered officials in his archdiocese to report such accusations to civil authorities in the future.
Law was responding to allegations that he assigned John Geoghan to various parishes throughout the 1980s even though Law and other church officials knew that Geoghan had been accused of sexually abusing children in at least three parishes.
Geoghan, who was removed from parish duty in 1993 and from the priesthood in 1998, faces two criminal trials, the first of which opens Monday.
"My apology to them and their families, and particularly to those who were abused in assignments which I made, comes from a grieving heart," Law said.
Virginia: Democrat takes reins of governor's office
Mark Warner was inaugurated Saturday as governor, putting Democrats back in control of the executive branch after eight years of Republican rule.
In his inaugural address, Warner vowed to work with legislators to solve the state's budget problems.
Warner, who built a multimillion dollar empire by selling the novel idea of cellular telephones 20 years ago, spent almost $5 million of his money on his campaign.
He ran to the middle on issues like guns, abortion and taxes.
Warner succeeds Jim Gilmore as governor.
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