Mexican city to exhume more than 4,000 human remains for database

Authorities in the Mexican border city of Cuidad Juarez said Wednesday they plan to exhume the remains of thousands of people to get DNA samples that may help identify them and help bring order to past police practices.

A team of 30 people, including forensic anthropologists and odontologists, are already exhuming remains from cemeteries in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, said Rene Medrano, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.

The team will exhume unidentified bodies that were buried in common graves between 1991 and 2005, Medrano said. They will extract DNA samples and build a database. The remains will then be tagged …

“The Oprah Winfrey Show” (9 a.m., Channel 7): Actress Kirstie Alley; ...

"The Oprah Winfrey Show" (9 a.m., Channel 7): Actress Kirstie Alley; musician Cee-Lo Green.

"Live With Regis and Kelly" (9 a.m., Channel 9): Actress Courteney Cox; NBA star Ama're Stoudemire.

"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (3 p.m., Channel 5): Singer Pia Toscano; actress Kate Walsh; comedian Paul Reiser.

"Conan" (10 p.m., TBS): Actor Matthew Morrison; actress Alexis Bledel; music group Queens of the Stone Age.

"Late Show With David Letterman" (10:35 p.m., Channel 2): Comedian Seth Meyers; NBA star Carmelo …

Many styles at 9-day New York jazz festival

Headliners for the nine-day summer JVC Jazz Festival in New YorkCity will include Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Hampton,B. B. King, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and Sarah Vaughan.

"Our list . . . reflects the myriad tastes of the jazz fan fromall eras," festival impresario George Wein said Tuesday in announcingthe lineup for the June 24-July 2 event.

Performances won't be limited to bebop, swing and Dixieland aswas the event's predecessor, the Newport Jazz Festival, …

Stocks Waver After Strong Profit Reports

NEW YORK - Wall Street fluctuated Tuesday as investors took some reassurance from solid earnings results from blue chip names including Apple Inc. and American Express Co. but remained uneasy about the economic outlook.

Apple surpassed analysts' expectations with a 67 percent jump in fiscal fourth-quarter profit on strong sales of Macintosh computers, iPods and iPhones. The report renewed confidence in the technology sector, which has outpaced the stock market this year but which also has tended to fall the hardest when investors sell off.

And two components of the Dow Jones industrial average - American Express, one of the largest credit card companies, and chemicals …

Hyundai exec: Market needs flexible gas tax

Hyundai's top U.S. executive says consumers are skittish about the direction of gas prices and a flexible gas tax is needed to keep pump prices stable.

John Krafcik says one of the biggest factors holding consumers back from buying a new car has been uncertainty over the direction of gas prices. They can't decide whether they'll be better off with a spacious but thirsty SUV or a smaller but less roomy gas-sipper. So …

Decade Dishes Up Dietary Changes

Hemlines have gone up and down a couple of times in the lastdecade and cars have gone from guzzlers to leaner, greener machines.But the biggest changes of all in the last 10 years have probablybeen in what we eat and how we think about food and nutrition.

The Tufts University Diet and Nutrition Letter has put togethera list of some of the milestones in our food forays in the lastdecade.

The average person ate 74 pounds of beef in 1983. That droppedto 64 pounds in 1991. Chicken consumption, on the other hand, wentfrom 51 pounds a year for the average American in 1983 to 66 poundsin 1991. Meanwhile, the number of Americans who consider themselvesvegetarians just …

Hammel, Rockies beat Nats 3-2 to end 5-game skid

WASHINGTON (AP) — After winning once in 12 starts, Jason Hammel knew he had to do something different. So he changed two things.

The Colorado Rockies starter came out to the mound wearing stirrups and his pants pulled high in the style of teammate Ubaldo Jimenez. More importantly, Hammel made a change in his delivery at the suggestion of pitching coach Bob Apodaca, a switch the right-hander credited for his strong performance in a 3-2 win over the Washington Nationals on Friday night.

Between starts, Hammel (5-8) and Apodaca worked on Hammel's windup, adding a move in which Hammel brings his hands above his head. That gave Hammel a more consistent rhythm and better command of …