Sons

The son watched his father, vowing not to repeat his mistakes. The weekend before George W. Bush defeated Texas Gov. Ann Richards in 1994, he stood in the backyard of his Dallas home hitting tennis balls into the swimming pool for his dog to fetch and ruminating about the future with his media strategist, Don Sipple.

A son of Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi is behind a group of foreign and Iraqi fighters responsible for a devastating explosion in northern Iraq, a security chief for Sunni tribesmen fighting insurgents said. At least 38 people were killed and 225 wounded in the blast Wednesday that destroyed about 50 buildings in a Mosul slum. The tribal security chief, Col.

Christopher Laurie, the son of Harvest Christian Fellowship leader Greg Laurie, died Thursday in an auto accident in Riverside County, the church announced Thursday. The accident occurred about 9 a.m. on the eastbound Riverside Freeway near Serfas Club Drive in Corona. Laurie's station wagon collided with a Caltrans truck involved in roadwork in the carpool lane. Authorities were still piecing together exactly how the accident occurred. Laurie, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Harvest Christian Fellowship leader Greg Laurie told followers Sunday that the death of his son last week in a car accident hadn't shaken his faith. "I still believe," he said. "This faith we hold in Jesus Christ is real." He said the day of the accident "was the most devastating day of my life. I felt like time stood still." He said that he'd trade spots with his son if he could, but that he took solace in knowing that his son was in heaven. "I just said: 'Lord, he's yours.

The bodies of the once-feared sons and a grandson of Saddam Hussein were exhumed and reburied closer to the late Iraqi leader's grave in the small northern town where he was born, tribal elders said Wednesday. Tribal chief Ali Nida accompanied the bodies as they were taken about a mile from the cemetery in the town of Al Auja to a garden outside the hall where Hussein was interred after he was hanged Dec. 30.

Pfc. Logan McGraw said he didn't notice the man staring at him as he entered Baghdad's Camp Victory in the early-morning dusk last week. The Army master sergeant, brimming with a mixture of nervousness, excitement and trepidation, tapped him on the shoulder. "Logan, I am your father," Master Sgt. William McGraw told his 20-year-old son. The two had not seen each other since Logan McGraw was 8, and that reunion was only for a fleeting two days.

Did the son do it? That is the question of the day in Argentina's most sensational murder mystery: the unsolved slaying nearly seven months ago of Nora Dalmasso, a mother of two who was strangled in her suburban home with the belt of her robe. The case, with its intimations of sexual high jinks behind the walls of upscale gated communities called countries, generated O.J. Simpson-style blanket coverage and whodunit speculation in living rooms and cafes.

The son of Chad's president was found dead in the basement of his apartment building in a Paris suburb, and authorities were treating the case as a murder investigation, French judicial officials said. A preliminary autopsy indicated that Brahim Deby, 27, son of President Idriss Deby, died of asphyxiation from chemicals released by a fire extinguisher near his body.

The son of former Vice President Al Gore was arrested early Wednesday in Orange County on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs, the latest in a series of incidents with law enforcement agencies in recent years. Albert Gore III was taken into custody about 2:15 a.m. after Orange County sheriff's deputies stopped him for driving about 100 mph on the southbound Interstate 5 in Laguna Niguel.

J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, lost a privacy lawsuit Tuesday over the rights of a photo agency to use a picture of her son. London High Court Justice Nicholas Patten dismissed a suit filed in the name of the author's 3-year-old son, saying the legal action had "no reasonable or realistic chance of success." Rowling, 42, and her husband, Neil Murray, had sued photo agency Big Pictures U.K. Ltd.