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Police: Man fatally stabbed over NYC subway seat

AP - Sat Nov 21, 11:17 PM ET

NEW YORK - A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

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  1. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev., speaks after the U.S. Senate voted to begin debate on legislation for a broad healthcare overhaul at Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., right, and Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa looks on. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes agoSent 163 times

    WASHINGTON - A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

  2. FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2009 file photo, singer Justin Bieber appears on the NBC 'Today' television program in New York. New York police shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up and got a little too wild. Nassau County police say girls and adults in the crowd of nearly 3,000 started pushing and shoving as they waited for the 15-year-old sensation to arrive Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City, N.Y. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
    Tween Justin Bieber fans lose control at LI mall AP - Sat Nov 21, 1:49 PM ETSent 150 times

    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Police on Long Island had to shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up, and got a little too wild.

  3. FILE - Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. speaks during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Sept. 22, 2009 file photo. Kennedy says Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has barred him from receiving communion because of his support of abortion rights. The Providence Journal reported on its Web site Sunday Nov. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)
    Report: Kennedy barred from communion by bishop AP - 45 minutes agoSent 90 times

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

  4. Police: Man fatally stabbed over NYC subway seat AP - Sat Nov 21, 11:17 PM ETSent 71 times

    NEW YORK - A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

  5. The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is displayed on a computer screen in London inr 2007. Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)
    Smiling on Facebook costs Canadian her insurance AFP - Sat Nov 21, 2:08 PM ETSent 40 times

    MONTREAL (AFP) - Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.

  6. EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells AP - Sat Nov 21, 6:31 PM ETSent 36 times

    YERINGTON, Nev. - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.

  7. Sheryl Crow takes up cause of wild horses in West AP - Sat Nov 21, 4:02 PM ETSent 36 times

    RENO, Nev. - Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary.

  8. FILE - In this May 27, 2005 file photo, a Singaporean Navy vessel patrols the crowded straits between Singapore, background, and Indonesia off the coast of Batam, Indonesia. On Sunday morning, Nov. 22, 2009, an Indonesian inter-island passenger ferry sank in rough waters 90 minutes into the trip from Batam to Dumai in Riau, Sumatra, with almost 250 people onboard, police said. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, File)
    Indonesian ferry sinks; 9 dead, some 230 rescued AP - 42 minutes agoSent 35 times

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 230 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least nine people have died, an official said. An unknown number of passengers were still missing.

  9. This Oct. 24, 2009 photo shows journalist George Krimsky interviewed by The Associated Press at his home in Washington, Conn. Krimsky, newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment as a correspondent for The Associated Press, sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced. The story was the possible defection to the United States of the grandson of Josef Stalin, the notorious Communist dictator and World War II hero of the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
    AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony AP - Sun Nov 22, 1:14 AM ETSent 34 times

    WASHINGTON, Conn. - Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced.

  10. Upper-Bracket Tax May Be Needed for Afghan War Cost, Levin Says Bloomberg - Sat Nov 21, 12:01 AM ETSent 29 times

    Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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  1. Tween Justin Bieber fans lose control at LI mall AP - Sat Nov 21, 1:49 PM ET

    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Police on Long Island had to shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up, and got a little too wild.

  2. FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2009 file photo, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. gestures during a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. Kennedy's brain-cancer death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted plenty of speculation that the family's long-running political dynasty is over. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)
    Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

  3. Report: Kennedy barred from communion by bishop AP - 45 minutes ago

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

  4. Indonesian ferry sinks; 9 dead, some 230 rescued AP - 42 minutes ago

    JAKARTA, Indonesia - Rescuers saved more than 230 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least nine people have died, an official said. An unknown number of passengers were still missing.

  5. Medical staff carry a blast victim for treatment at Gauhati Medical College Hospital in Gauhati, India, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009. Two bombs exploded in India's restive northeast Sunday, police said. (AP Photo)
    2 bomb blasts leave 7 dead, 52 wounded in India AP - 2 hours, 4 minutes ago

    GAUHATI, India - Suspected militants set off two bombs outside a police station in India's restive northeast on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, police said.

  6. These undated images provided by the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety shows Li Zhongren, 42, a Chinese male who is believed to have started the initial shooting at the Kannat Tabla Shooting Range and who took his own life on Banzai Cliff with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 according to police. Li is believed to be the caretaker of the shooting range. (AP Photo/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Department of Public Safety )
    Police identify gunman in deadly Saipan rampage AP - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

    SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands - The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed at the shooting range where the deaths occurred.

  7. Smiling on Facebook costs Canadian her insurance AFP - Sat Nov 21, 2:08 PM ET

    MONTREAL (AFP) - Facebook can be a double-edged sword, a Canadian woman learned when an insurance company cut her health benefits, claiming she was healthy after seeing pictures of her smiling in bikini at the beach.

  8. In this Oct. 31, 2002 file photo, then-Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is embraced by her uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., at a campaign rally at Bowie State University in Bowie, Md. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. Kennedy's brain-cancer death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted plenty of speculation that the family's long-running political dynasty is over. (AP Photo/Roberto Borea, File)
    Sizing up the Kennedy dynasty's next generation AP - 1 hour, 27 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.

  9. In this photo released by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, scientists react in the CERN Control Center after successfully restarting the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world's largest atom smasher for exploring the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs. (AP Photo/Keystone, Brice, CERN)
    Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:06 PM ET

    GENEVA - Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.

  10. 5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping AP - Sun Nov 22, 1:17 AM ET

    LONG BEACH, Calif. - Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.

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  1. A forensic scientist displays human bones found in the jungle of Huanuco in this undated picture provided by the police. Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang suspected of killing dozens of people and selling their fat to buyers to be used for making cosmetics. Four Peruvians were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and trafficking in human fat. REUTERS/Handout
    Gang accused of killing to sell human fat Reuters - Fri Nov 20, 11:03 AM ET

    LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

  2. Demonstrators protest against the health care reform bill outside Capitol Hill. President Barack Obama's signature drive to remake US health care barely cleared a key Senate hurdle in a narrow party-line vote the White House immediately hailed as an "historic" victory.(AFP/Getty Images/Brendan Hoffman)
    Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle AP - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON - A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.

  3. Smoke billows from factories in Moscow. Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.(AFP/File/Denis Sinyakov)
    Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:34 PM ET

    LONDON - Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

  4. Members of the Ku Klux Klan protest on the steps of Fulton Chapel at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/The Clarion-Ledger, Ryan Moore)
    12 Klansmen rally briefly before LSU-Ole Miss game AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:39 PM ET

    OXFORD, Miss. - About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No. 10 LSU.

  5. Iran launches war games to protect nuclear sites Reuters - 42 minutes ago

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's armed forces launched large-scale air defense war games on Sunday to show off the country's deterrence capabilities in the face of pressure from the West over its nuclear program.

  6. Travelers line up at American Airlines counter at Reagan National Airport Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, in Washington. The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year than in 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
    More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving AP - Sun Nov 22, 3:57 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.

  7. Palin as the Church Lady The Nation - Fri Nov 20, 4:40 PM ET

    The Nation -- You gotta give Sarah Palin's book tour credit for one thing: It's really putting the passive-aggressive instincts of the religious right on public display.

  8. This Nov. 17, 2009 photo shows Betsy Charlesworth holding her son, Marty, as son, Myles, right, takes a turn at Monopoly in their kitchen in Jericho, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
    A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US AP - Sat Nov 21, 2:03 PM ET

    Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

  9. Tween Justin Bieber fans lose control at LI mall AP - Sat Nov 21, 1:49 PM ET

    GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Police on Long Island had to shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber after thousands of young girls showed up, and got a little too wild.

  10. Iran begins war games to protect nuclear sites AP - 22 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Thursday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities against any possible attack, state television reported.

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