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Rice shrugs at meeting with top NKorean envoy - Added 5 weeks ago

The United States and North Korea are about to have their highest-level face-to-face contact in four years, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says it's no big deal. Rice will meet this week in Singapore for the...

Plane emergency landing interrupts Ohio air show - Added 5 weeks ago

A Northwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing Sunday at Dayton International Airport, interrupting the city's air show. The Boeing 757 was en route from Tampa, Fla., to Detroit when a computer for one of its...

Gun advocacy group tours Idaho zoo while armed - Added 5 weeks ago

Idaho members of a group that advocates for the right to openly carry handguns in public are turning heads by touring Zoo Boise while packing guns on their hips. Ten members of OpenCarry.org were allowed into the zoo...

Soldier in famous photo never defeated 'demons' - Added 5 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:TXELP468-0707081238 -->Officers had been to the white ranch house at 560 W. Longleaf many times before over the past year to respond to a "barricade situation." Each had ended uneventfully, with Joseph Dwyer...

Firefighters keep wary eye on Calif. thunderstorms - Added 5 weeks ago

Scattered showers forecast for California's northern mountains Sunday are unlikely to extinguish wildfires that still threaten homes and could bring more lightning to the charred region, fire officials said. The...

Alabama man turns 112, still spends days drawing - Added 5 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:NY108-0101001302 -->!!-- pobj:ALKB102-0101001304 -->!!-- pobj:ALKB103-0101001307 -->!!-- pobj:ALKB105-0101001313 -->!!-- pobj:ALKB101-0101001259 -->Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen,...

Apparent conjoined barn swallows found in Arkansas - Added 5 weeks ago

An apparent set of conjoined twin birds _ an incredibly rare find _ has been discovered in Arkansas, authorities said. The bodies of the barn swallows, which are attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue,...

It's the law: No sagging pants in Chicago suburb - Added 5 weeks ago

Be careful if you have saggy pants in the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood. Village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public. ...

Arrest made in stolen N.J. horse statue - Added 5 weeks ago

Police say a bronze horse statue stolen from a now-defunct New Jersey racetrack has been broken up and sold to a salvage yard for a fraction of its value. At the going rate, the bronze from the 1-ton statue sells for...

Lake's demise took business down the drain with it - Added 5 weeks ago

Not a cloud in the sky and the temperature is flirting with 90 degrees. Usually, it doesn't get any better than this for the Tommy Bartlett water ski show. But only about 200 people fill the 5,000-seat stadium on the...

Hazleton mayor named Pa.'s Mayor of the Year - Added 5 weeks ago

The mayor of Hazleton, Pa., who drew nationwide attention for his crackdown on illegal immigration, has been named the state's Mayor of the Year. Pennsylvania State Mayors Association gave Lou Barletta the honor...

Tropical Storm Dolly forms in western Caribbean - Added 5 weeks ago

Tropical Storm Dolly has formed in the western Caribbean sea. The National Hurricane center has issued a tropical storm warning for the Yucatan peninsula from the Border of Campeche, Mexico. At 11:45 a.m. EDT, the...

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Tropical storm Dolly has formed in the western Caribbean sea; 4th of Atlantic hurricane season. ...

Mo. man kills wife, sister-in-law and self - Added 5 weeks ago

Police in Missouri say a man has killed his wife and her sister, and has brutally beaten his brother in law, before taking his own life in a community outside St. Louis. St. Louis County police say 57-year-old Boris...

As wars lengthen, toll on military families mounts - Added 5 weeks ago

Far from the combat zones, the strains and separations of no-end-in-sight wars are taking an ever-growing toll on military families despite the armed services' earnest efforts to help. Divorce lawyers see it in the...

Dream of gas tax holiday falters over job losses - Added 5 weeks ago

The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. Despite calls from the...

Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices - Added 5 weeks ago

Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance industry....

Teen charged in death of Ohio woman shot on porch - Added 5 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:OHCLE501-0716081516 -->Cleveland authorities have charged a 17-year-old in the fatal shooting of a woman who was gunned down as she grieved the cancer death of her mother while sitting on her front porch. ...

Search team finds no sign of Steve Fossett - Added 5 weeks ago

A team of elite athletes and expert mountaineers has ended a weeklong hunt for Steve Fossett, finding no sign of the missing adventurer or his plane but eliminating miles of rugged terrain from areas that still must be...

Stunt pilot joins National Aviation Hall of Fame - Added 5 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:OHDAY101-0103002010 -->Stunt pilot Sean Tucker, who has thrilled air show audiences with daredevil moves in more than 1,000 performances, said he got his start by trying to face his flying fears. As a young...

Woman in Pa. baby mystery partially eviscerated - Added 5 weeks ago

Investigators hoped to confirm Sunday the identity of a woman whose body was found bound with duct tape with her uterus cut open in the apartment of another woman who falsely claimed a newborn baby was her own. The...

Rapper DMX arrested at Phoenix mall - Added 5 weeks ago

Rapper DMX was arrested at a Phoenix mall Saturday on suspicion that he gave a gave a false name and Social Security number to a hospital to get out of paying for medical expenses. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio...

Search continues for missing Fort Bliss soldier - Added 5 weeks ago

A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday. "Hey sis he's gone so when my check comes I'm going to buy a futon," Army Pfc. Jeneesa...

Small plane crashes in northeast Texas; 3 killed - Added 5 weeks ago

A single-engine plane crashed shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing all three people aboard and sparking a fire that burned two rural acres, authorities said. It was not immediately known what caused the accident,...

Today in History - July 20 - Added 5 weeks ago

Today is Sunday, July 20, the 202nd day of 2008. There are 164 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to...

Investigation of Houston crane collapse begins - Added 5 weeks ago

Federal investigators on Saturday began trying to figure out why one of the world's largest mobile cranes toppled over, killing four contract workers and injuring seven others. Officials said it could take time before...

Lawsuit exposes growing rift among King children - Added 5 weeks ago

For years, they were the picture of solidarity: the four children of Martin Luther King Jr. carrying on the legacy of the civil rights icon. But a lawsuit over how their father's estate is being run has left a rift in...

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Hurricane Bertha downgraded again to a tropical storm; should be absorbed by larger storm. ...

Inmate loses weight, escapes through jail vent - Added 5 weeks ago

A man charged with murder escaped from jail early Saturday by climbing through an air conditioner vent, authorities said. The vent was less than a foot wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing...

Treasure in the trash: $20K earrings found in NYC - Added 5 weeks ago

Diamonds in the rough? Try a $20,000 pair of the glinting gems in a reeking truckload of trash. A Staten Island jeweler has gotten her 3-carat diamond earrings back after she, her husband and city sanitation employees...

Pig caper: Police investigate swiped swine in Iowa - Added 5 weeks ago

Where's the pork? Authorities in western Iowa are looking for a thief with a very big payload _ 120 market hogs. The Palo Alto County Sheriff's Office says that someone swiped the swine from a hog confinement in...

Most Calif. fires contained; stubborn blazes left - Added 5 weeks ago

Cooler weather has allowed fire crews to corral most of the wildfires across California, but a handful of stubborn, hard-to-reach mountain blazes Saturday were still keeping residents from their homes. Firefighters...

Tropical Storm Cristobal forms off Southeast coast - Added 5 weeks ago

Tropical Storm Cristobal churned off the Southeast seaboard after it formed Saturday, the first storm to threaten the U.S. this hurricane season, forecasters said. The storm strengthened from a tropical depression,...

Bees swarm motorists on N.J. Turnpike - Added 5 weeks ago

Drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike have to cope every day with traffic jams, pollution and even the occasional deer. They ran into a new obstacle Saturday as thousands of honeybees swarmed around their vehicles. ...

WTC survivor staircase moves again at ground zero - Added 5 weeks ago

A staircase people used to escape the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, attack has been moved for a second time on the ground zero site. The 22-foot-high survivors' staircase was moved Saturday from the...

San Francisco to vote on prosecuting prostitutes - Added 5 weeks ago

A measure that aims to keep prostitutes from facing criminal charges has qualified for the November ballot in San Francisco. The measure would bar authorities from spending money to investigate or prosecute people for...

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows - Added 5 weeks ago

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: ___ ABC's "This Week" _ Pre-empted by coverage of the British Open golf tournament. ___ CBS' "Face the Nation" _ Sen. Barack Obama; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. ___ ...

Terrorist in NYC hijacking, bombing granted parole - Added 5 weeks ago

A Croatian terrorist has been granted parole and will be deported to his homeland after serving 30 years of a life prison term for hijacking an airliner and planting a bomb that killed a New York City police officer. ...

Stunt pilot to join National Aviation Hall of Fame - Added 5 weeks ago

Stunt pilot Sean Tucker, who has thrilled air show audiences with daredevil moves in more than 1,000 performances, said he got his start by trying to face his flying fears. As a young pilot in the 1970s, Tucker had an...

Conjoined barn swallows cause stir in Arkansas - Added 5 weeks ago

It's an Arkansas bird story that at first might be hard to swallow. A pair of conjoined barn swallows, attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle tissue, will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution for study and...

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Tropical Storm Cristobal forms off the Southeast coast; forecasters predict heavy rains. ...

Library confrontation points up privacy dilemma - Added 5 weeks ago

Children's librarian Judith Flint was getting ready for the monthly book discussion group for 8- and 9-year-olds on "Love That Dog" when police showed up. They weren't kidding around: Five state police detectives...

Conn. candidates line up for public financing - Added 5 weeks ago

Barack Obama may have abandoned public financing for his presidential campaign, but in Connecticut legislative candidates are lining up to get campaign cash from the state government. About 70 percent of the Nutmeg...

Dream of gas tax holiday faltered over job losses - Added 5 weeks ago

The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel will have to go up if they go anywhere. Despite calls from the...

Guns ruling spawns legal challenges by felons - Added 5 weeks ago

Twice convicted of felonies, James Francis Barton Jr. faces charges of violating a federal law barring felons from owning guns after police found seven pistols, three shotguns and five rifles at his home south of...

Blessed are the boxers, altered for wounded troops - Added 5 weeks ago

Blessed are the boxer shorts. Members of the St. James United Church of Christ in Michigan plan to take 150 boxer shorts to the altar Sunday for a blessing. The shorts have been modified for wounded veterans who wear...

Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices - Added 5 weeks ago

Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance industry....

Qantas flight leaves Los Angeles after bomb threat - Added 5 weeks ago

A Qantas jetliner has departed from Los Angeles for Australia after the airline and law enforcement authorities determined a bomb threat was a hoax. The flight scheduled to leave for Sydney at 10 a.m. finally left at...

NJ beach town mayor sez 'Fuhgeddaboudit!' to blog - Added 5 weeks ago

To the Staten Island girls who may have been taught to fight dirty in Brownies, Ken Pringle is sorry. To the muscle-bound, tanned-as-coconut-shell visitors he referred to as "guidos," employing a term widely considered...

Putrid whale carcass parts stink up Oahu street - Added 5 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:NY110-0717080451 -->Getting the rotting corpse of a dead sperm whale off Oahu's North Shore was only the start of the problem. Then residents had to deal with the smell of decomposing whale when big chunks of...