Yahoo! News: U.S. News/ What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate (AP)

AP - What now for the Gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling.

 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News/ Commercial pilot sentenced for drug-masking powder (AP)
AP - A former US Airways Express pilot will spend nine months in prison for selling a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he claimed was "100 percent" effective in helping drug-using truck drivers, pilots and train engineers pass federally mandated drug tests. 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News/ Backer of NYC mosque gave to Hamas-linked charity (AP)

AP - One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center near ground zero is a Long Island medical clinic owner whose expressions of sympathy for Palestinians included a donation to a charity later shut down for links to Hamas.