Associated Press - July 4, 2009 12:53 PM ET OCRACOKE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say one worker has been killed after a fireworks explosion on a North Carolina island. Four other people are critically injured in the blast on Ocrocoke, an area only reachable by ferry. They were setting up the annual Independence Day fireworks display. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian newspaper editorial is raising the prospect that Iran's main opposition leader could be arrested and tried for treason in the wake of postelection chaos. Mir Hossein Mousavi (meer hoh-SAYN' moo-SAH'-vee) maintains he won last month's vote, not hard-line incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd). KABUL (AP) - Officials say two American troops have died after Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a...
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