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Police say robber was really caught 'red handed' - Added 1 week ago

Police in Massachusetts say they caught a bank robber red handed _ literally. On Monday, a man gave tellers a note threatening that he had a gun at a Sovereign Bank branch in Lawrence. Bank employees managed to hide a...

God, humbug: Humanist holiday ads say just be good - Added 1 week ago

You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars. Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running...

2nd man allegedy killed by boy called doting dad - Added 1 week ago

A man allegedly shot to death by an 8-year-old boy closely followed his daughters' sporting events and texted loving messages to his family while he lived apart from them for a construction job, his wife said Tuesday. ...

US commander welcomes attention on Afghan mission - Added 1 week ago

The man who heads U.S. efforts to train and equip security forces in Afghanistan says he welcomes the attention President-elect Barack Obama says he will give on the war in that country. Maj. Gen. Robert Cone told The...

Analyst: California faces $28 billion deficit - Added 1 week ago

California's budget deficit will grow to $28 billion through June 2010 unless lawmakers take bold action, possibly including a hike in the state income tax, the Legislature's nonpartisan analyst said Tuesday. The...

Most in AP poll confident Obama will fix economy - Added 1 week ago

In one of the economy's darkest hours in decades, it looks as if people are taking Barack Obama up on his exhortations for hope and change. Seven in 10, or 72 percent, voice confidence the president-elect will make the...

Part-time veterans' nurses getting full pensions - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:PAKS101-1111081316 -->!!-- pobj:PAKS102-1111081329 -->!!-- pobj:PAKS103-1111081340 -->For Mary Ann Mackin, a retired nurse, this Veterans Day has new meaning: It marks the official end of a 20-year battle with...

Pelosi calls for emergency aid for auto industry - Added 1 week ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for "emergency and limited financial assistance" for the battered auto industry on Tuesday and urged the outgoing Bush administration to join lawmakers in reaching a quick compromise. ...

Even rich Harvard is strained by market downturn - Added 1 week ago

You know the financial meltdown is bad when even Harvard is feeling the pinch. Harvard _ America's oldest university and the world's wealthiest _ helped pioneer a model of diversified endowment investing that many...

World powers to meet anew on Iran sanctions - Added 1 week ago

Senior diplomats from six world powers are to meet this week to discuss stalled efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Thursday's meeting in Paris will bring...

GOP senators may boot Stevens from committee posts - Added 1 week ago

Sen. Ted Stevens, the Alaska Republican convicted of seven felony counts last month, faces a vote by his Republican colleagues next week on whether to kick him out of the Senate's GOP conference and strip him of plum...

Gates' visit shows US support for Ukraine, Baltics - Added 1 week ago

Defense Secretary Robert Gates was traveling to Eastern Europe on Tuesday in a deliberate show of support for Ukraine and the Baltics that also will serve to strike back at escalating Russian threats in the region. ...

Gov't nixes forest experiments; scientists upset - Added 1 week ago

For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years. ...

Parents of teens watch Nebraska safe haven law - Added 1 week ago

Yes, you have to clean your room. No, you can't go to the party. Yes, you have to ride the school bus. GET UP! Patricia Lorenz knows how hard it can be raising teens, and she knows it four times over. "They fray the...

Ice, snow make travel treacherous on Plains - Added 1 week ago

Wintry weather across much of the northern Plains caused fatal accidents in Minnesota and left a layer of ice and nearly a foot of snow in parts of Nebraska. The National Weather Service posted winter weather...

Fla. governor's plane makes emergency landing - Added 1 week ago

A plane carrying Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has safely made an emergency landing in the southwest part of the state. A news release says the plane experienced mechanical problems Tuesday afternoon and landed in...

Hawaii's quarter marks end of nationwide program - Added 1 week ago

Still reveling in the election of the first Hawaii-born U.S. president, the islands marked the issuance of its state quarter _ the last in the 50-state quarter program. Hawaii's banks began distributing the quarter...

Analysis: On the way out, it's Bush the statesman - Added 1 week ago

No matter how people remember President Bush's time in office, let there be no doubt about how he wants to end it: gracefully. Never mind that Democrat Barack Obama spent all that time deriding Bush for "failed...

No. 2 Klan group on trial in Ky. teen's beating - Added 1 week ago

The 28-acre compound that the nation's second-largest Ku Klux Klan outfit calls home features a high gate with armed guards, a stage for the group's annual gatherings and an open field for burning crosses. The Southern...

Man stopped for tinting wrongly held for murder - Added 1 week ago

A Florida man stopped because of his windshield tinting was arrested for murder and released hours later _ when fingerprint comparisons showed he wasn't the wanted man. The man was arrested after a background check...

Mormon comments give gays hope for new Utah laws - Added 1 week ago

Gay-rights activists see opportunities for their cause in Utah thanks to Mormon church officials, who strongly supported California's proposition denying same-sex couples the right to marry but said they did not object...

Big hits create bigger confusion these days in NFL - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:NJNEW501-0928081710 -->The NFL has always known how violence is inherent and celebrated in its sport _ from the once-famous "Jacked Up" segments on ESPN, to the still-famous "Hit Stick" on the "Madden NFL '09"...

Littering bust lands man in jail on drug charges - Added 1 week ago

Police said a man likely wishes he never threw trash on a highway. That's because littering wasn't the only charge filed against him. The man, 42, faces drug charges after deputies seized six pounds of methamphetamine...

Feds: NYC man claimed liquid drug was 'holy water' - Added 1 week ago

A New York City man is accused of trying to smuggle a date rape drug into the United States by putting the liquid in bottles he claimed contained "holy water." U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say...

Artist creates 'Public Prayer Booths' in NYC - Added 1 week ago

You could mistake it for a typical New York City phone booth. But instead of an image of a phone, the side panels depict folded hands _ and the word "prayer" instead of "telephone." Oh, and there's a flip-down kneeler. ...

Cheney honors veterans for a legacy of valor - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:DCSA101-1111081248 -->!!-- pobj:DCSA104-1111081324 -->Vice President Dick Cheney, presiding over the final Veterans Day remembrance of his tenure, hailed past and present U.S. troops Tuesday as the backbone of...

NY serial killer Arthur Shawcross dead at 63 - Added 1 week ago

Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who was serving life in prison for strangling 11 women in the Rochester area, has died at 63. Shawcross died late Monday at an Albany hospital, where he had been taken after complaining...

Aides: Obama suggested more help for auto industry - Added 1 week ago

President-elect Obama suggested to President Bush that the administration immediately provide extra help to struggling U.S. automakers, aides to the Democrat say, in their first face-to-face meeting since Election Day. ...

Man's body found in paper bale at Idaho plant - Added 1 week ago

Workers at a recycling plant found a man's body inside a 1,500-pound bale of paper, and investigators are trying to find out his identity and how he got there. The body was found at Hamilton Manufacturing Inc. in Twin...

Wartime economy boosts real estate near bases - Added 1 week ago

Sometimes Tim Wells felt like the only man left on his street. Thousands of soldiers were deployed out of Fort Campbell, Ky., just a few miles away, and homes in Wells' subdivision were sitting empty. But a few months...

Travel tips for the inauguration - Added 1 week ago

If You Go: HOTELS: Most downtown hotels are already filled, but there are still some rooms available in outlying areas of the city and the suburbs. Many hotels are requiring three- and four-night minimums. Travelers...

Sheriff to ban deputies from mixing drinking, guns - Added 1 week ago

The sheriff of Los Angeles County plans to prohibit his off-duty deputies from carrying their guns while drinking because several have been accused in recent years of firing weapons while intoxicated. Sheriff Lee Baca...

Today's veterans hall a mouse click away - Added 1 week ago

Veterans of past wars have long found companionship over beer and conversation at their local veterans hall. But many of those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan seek that companionship elsewhere _ online. Hoping to...

CNBC's Jim Cramer to talk at University of Iowa - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:NYEA114-1024081152 -->University of Iowa senior Alex Cullen walked by a television set as his older brother was watching a noisy guy bounce around on the screen, decapitating bobbleheads and talking about the...

NM teens deny hazing charges - Added 1 week ago

Six former high school athletes have denied charges they sexually assaulted younger teammates during a hazing incident at a preseason football camp. State District Judge Eugenio Mathis on Monday placed the boys on...

Amid poor economy, even mighty Harvard struggling - Added 1 week ago

Despite amassing an almost $37 billion endowment, Harvard University is warning that the economic slowdown has reached America's richest university. President Drew Faust said Monday the school is looking at ways to cut...

Ohio college says employee data posted on Web - Added 1 week ago

A community college in Ohio says the names and Social Security numbers of almost 1,000 employees were inadvertently left open to public view on the Internet for about a year. However, Sinclair Community College in...

Ex-FBI agents urge Va. governor to grant clemency - Added 1 week ago

Thirty retired FBI agents have joined former justice officials and others in urging Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to grant clemency to four former sailors convicted in the rape and murder of a Norfolk woman in 1997. The former...

World's ugliest dog dies after battle with cancer - Added 1 week ago

A one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world's ugliest pooch this summer has died. The St. Petersburg Times in Florida reports that Gus, a Chinese crested dog, had cancer. He was 9. Gus was rescued from a...

Gov't wants to change course of forest experiments - Added 1 week ago

For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years. ...

California governor tours superlaser system - Added 1 week ago

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who often played futuristic heroes in his movie career, came face-to-face with the world's largest laser system. The governor went to the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab in Northern...

Bush handing over power to Obama with grace - Added 1 week ago

No matter how people remember President Bush's time in office, let there be no doubt about how he wants to end it: gracefully. Never mind that Democrat Barack Obama spent all that time deriding Bush for "failed...

Gag order in case of boy charged with killing 2 - Added 1 week ago

!!-- AUDIO:248,209 -->An 8-year-old boy charged in the shooting deaths of his father and another man appeared in handcuffs at a court hearing, drawing tears from some in the audience, and the judge slapped a gag order...

Texas House panel studies response to hurricane - Added 1 week ago

Hurricane Ike left thousands homeless, millions without power and destroyed houses and businesses along the Texas Gulf Coast. But it also gave state and local governments a chance to learn from their mistakes during a...

NYC proposes bike parking rules in new buildings - Added 1 week ago

Officials are proposing new rules that would greatly expand bicycle parking in apartment and office buildings around the city, the latest step in a plan to make New York one of the most bike-friendly places in the...

Today's veterans hall a mouse click away - Added 1 week ago

Veterans of past wars have long found companionship over beer and conversation at their local veterans hall. But many of those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan seek that companionship elsewhere _ online. Hoping to...

Hawaii's quarter marks end of nationwide program - Added 1 week ago

Still reveling in the election of the first Hawaii-born U.S. president, the islands marked the issuance of its state quarter _ the last in the 50-state quarter program. Hawaii's banks began distributing the quarter...

Cops have tough time finding sober driver for boy - Added 1 week ago

Indiana state police said that after a mother was arrested for drunken driving, the three relatives who came to pick up her 1-year-old son also had all been drinking. A state trooper stopped a minivan for speeding early...

Tennessee lottery numbers - Added 1 week ago

Here are the winning numbers selected Monday in the Tennessee state lottery: Cash 3 Day 1-7-3 (one, seven, three) Cash 4 Day 2-2-4-7 (two, two, four, seven) Cash 3 Evening 6-5-3 (six, five, three) Cash 4...

Senator asks sites not to sell inaugural tickets - Added 1 week ago

The senator overseeing Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony said Monday she's writing to Internet sites like eBay asking them not to sell scalped inauguration tickets. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., also said she's...