SIERRA MADRE, Calif. (AP) - Crews overcame a threatening flare-up during the night and worked Monday to halt a wildfire northeast of Los Angeles that ...
Read More »HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Vietnam is ending a child adoption agreement with the United States after being accused of allowing baby-selling and corruption, ...
Read More »Police say an Austrian man has confessed to imprisoning his daughter in a windowless cell for 24 years while fathering seven children with her. One child ...
Read More »R. Caputo is drafting legislation to prohibit those under 18 from buying super-caffeinated energy drinks and supplements. The head of Brazil's oil agency ...
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) - On the day his firefighter son was lost, killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Deputy Fire Chief James Riches also lost some of his ...
Read More »JERUSALEM (AP) - With his Mideast shuttle winding down Monday, Jimmy Carter picked up the phone in Jerusalem and called the Hamas boss in Damascus one ...
Read More »ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Most families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech have agreed to an $11 million state settlement that will compensate ...
Read More »MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - The former president of a fraternity at Rider University has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a pledge who drank himself ...
Read More »NEW YORK (AP) - J.K. Rowling said Monday that her efforts to halt a publisher's "Harry Potter" lexicon have been crushing her creativity. Rowling said ...
Read More »ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - Authorities who removed 219 women and children from a polygamist compound were struggling Sunday to determine whether they had ...
Read More »A German court rejected a restaurant employee's claim for monetary compensation after an irate customer threw a half eaten kabob at her while calling ...
Read More »SOCHI, Russia (AP) - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing ...
Read More »TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - State legislators are questioning Gov. Jon S. Corzine's plan to offer early retirement incentives to state workers to try to save ...
Read More »Sweden's famed Absolut vodka will become absolutely French - in ownership at least - following a successful $8.34 billion bid from Pernod Ricard - a spirits ...
Read More »CHICAGO (AP) - From the Sydney Opera House to Rome's Colosseum to the Sears Tower's famous antennas in Chicago, floodlit icons of civilization went dark ...
Read More »DETROIT (AP) - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn ...
Read More »Eighties pop star George Michael is embarking on his first North American tour in 17 years starting in June. Consumers are facing record food prices ...
Read More »GREECE (AP) - Even before the Olympic flame was lit Monday, a protester of China's human rights policies disrupted the solemn ceremony, foreshadowing ...
Read More »Heather Mills was awarded $48.6 million from Paul McCartney in their divorce settlement. TBD Records, Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" and animation Web ...
Read More »ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - David Paterson was officially sworn in as New York's governor on Monday, becoming the state's first black chief executive and vowing ...
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