If it worked for you Amos, it is because your computer has a cookie from their website because you or someone who uses the computer you are using, at one time registered with that site. That is what "by subscription" means with online newspaper sites.

George's link didn't work for me, and won't work for others who are not registered with that newspaper. Hence my courtesy link to MSNBC for those who wanted to read about it immediately.

At the time I looked in on this thread, at Google News there were only 14 story links carrying the news, nearly all were subscription sites. By now, over an hour later, there are 320 links to stories carrying the news, many of which are not subscription sites. So the links to both the San Jose Mercury News site George provided, and the MSNBC link I provided, are largely irrelevant.

For those of you unfamiliar with Google News, the link provided to all stories will show whether a subscription (ie registration and acceptance of the site's cookie) is required to get through to the story. Some sites allow you through to that story only without registering. Others don't, and you must register in order to read their story.

However, most links to news stories at Google or Yahoo in the US papers are virtually identical, because they are simply wire copies of stories.