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Charity worker finds $7,500 among donated shoes - Added 1 week ago

This stacks up among the better finds at a Goodwill store: $7,500 in cash stuffed in a shoebox. A recent Bulgarian immigrant found the money during her first day on the job last week at a Goodwill near St. Louis in Glen...

Former IRA militant fights deportation in S. Texas - Added 1 week ago

A former IRA militant and escaped political prisoner who has lived in immigration limbo for 25 years in California may see it all unravel from inside a South Texas federal detention center. Pol Brennan, convicted...

Sex charge dropped against ex-Texas police chief - Added 1 week ago

Prosecutors have dropped the remaining charges against a former police chief acquitted last week of sexually assaulting one of his officers after a drunken party. District Judge Letty Lopez's office confirmed that she...

Capitol Visitor Center opens after delay, overrun - Added 1 week ago

Three years behind schedule and almost $360 million above budget, the Capitol Visitor Center prepares to open its doors to millions of tourists who now must endure long lines without food, restrooms or shelter to catch...

Cardinal: Abortion undermines common good - Added 1 week ago

The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, opening a national church meeting Monday, said that continued support for abortion rights will undermine any advances in social justice that come from a new president...

All US airports to have family screening lanes - Added 1 week ago

Airports across the country will have designated security lanes for families to move through preflight inspections at their own pace, just in time for the busy Thanksgiving travel season. The Transportation Security...

Tickets, parade bands, balls: An inaugural how-to - Added 1 week ago

Looking for one of the 240,000 tickets to President-elect Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009? Want your marching band to play in the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue? Seeking a ticket to one of the many glitzy...

House Democrats' campaign chief will stay on - Added 1 week ago

The architect of the 20-seat gain by House Democrats last week is staying on as their campaign chief for the 2010 midterm elections. Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland has agreed to a request by House Speaker Nancy...

Former DNC chief files candidate papers in Va - Added 1 week ago

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe signed papers Monday signaling a possible run for governor next year in Virginia. McAuliffe told The Associated Press he set up a campaign committee and...

Bush: care for wounded troops inspiring - Added 1 week ago

President Bush on Monday visited wounded U.S. troops and said their treatment and progress was inspiring. Bush met privately for more an hour with 18 patients who were injured in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He...

Court turns down appeal in sealed case - Added 1 week ago

The Supreme Court has turned aside a legal newspaper publisher's challenge to court decisions sealing an entire case from public view. The justices did not comment Monday on their order denying the appeal of The New...

Court denies appeal over victim impact evidence - Added 1 week ago

The Supreme Court has turned down appeals from death row inmates seeking to limit videos and similar material prepared by murder victims' families for juries. The order Monday comes in two California cases in which...

Gag order sought in Florida tot murder case - Added 1 week ago

Prosecutors are seeking a gag order in the case of a young Florida mother charged with killing her 3-year-old daughter. The state wants to bar attorneys, Orange County sheriff's investigators and the parents of the...

NC teen who studied crash deaths dies in wreck - Added 1 week ago

A North Carolina teenager who studied teen highway deaths as a senior high school project is dead after a crash. 18-year-old Shannon Nicole Adkins graduated last spring after turning in a report about the risks facing...

Texas councilman tells teens to hoist saggy pants - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:TXDAM104-1108082033 -->!!-- pobj:TXDAM103-1108082032 -->!!-- pobj:TXDAM102-1108082032 -->!!-- pobj:TXDAM101-1108082030 -->Dallas Councilman Dwaine Caraway is on a mission: He wants those wearing low-hanging,...

Mom of slain NJ girl fights to keep killer jailed - Added 1 week ago

Rosemarie D'Alessandro wants the New Jersey Parole Board to know something about her 7-year-old daughter before it decides whether to release the man who raped and killed her little girl. So when she testifies at her...

Nurse in Times Square war photo reunites with Navy - Added 1 week ago

A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday _ days before she is to serve as grand marshal of...

Michelle Obama has her own transition to work out - Added 1 week ago

This is the transition you don't hear so much about: Michelle Obama is getting ready for a new life as first lady, giving plenty of thought to what kind of profile she will carve out for herself in the White House. She...

Obituaries in the news - Added 1 week ago

Robert L. Krechevsky WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Robert L. Krechevsky, a federal bankruptcy judge who oversaw a case involving the collapse of real estate giant Colonial Realty, has died. He was 86. Krechevsky, who...

Drunken drivers roll down state information gaps - Added 1 week ago

A Texas man arrested on suspicion of first-offense drunken driving posted a $200 bond and walked out of a Nebraska jail without facing a judge. Only this wasn't his first DUI arrest, or second, or even his third. It...

Texas clout takes a hit as Democrats take control - Added 1 week ago

Had voters re-elected Rep. Nick Lampson to Congress, he would have taken the helm of a House subcommittee that oversees NASA projects and guides its budget. But voters in the district that is home to Johnson Space...

Philly lawyer's mural of justice draws objection - Added 1 week ago

In the city where a young nation held some of its earliest Supreme Court sessions, attorney Paul Rosen can't imagine a better place for a mural about justice. But his opponents say Rosen _ like justice _ must be blind...

NYC Astor co-op is back on market with price cut - Added 1 week ago

Even the palatial New York City apartment of late society doyenne Brooke Astor isn't immune from the housing crunch. Months after the elegant pre-war apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue was first placed on the market...

Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact - Added 1 week ago

President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural...

Today in History - Nov. 10 - Added 1 week ago

Today is Monday, Nov. 10, the 315th day of 2008. There are 51 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 10, 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. On...

Ga. lottery numbers - Added 1 week ago

Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the Georgia state lotteries: Cash 3 Evening 0-2-6 (zero, two, six) Cash 4 Evening 3-5-5-3 (three, five, five, three) Fantasy 5 4-18-21-25-26 (four,...

Paloma weakens quickly after slamming Cuba's coast - Added 1 week ago

Hurricane Paloma leveled hundreds of homes along Cuba's southern coast before rapidly losing steam over land Sunday, weakening from a dangerous Category 4 storm into a tropical depression in less than a day. Crashing...

Report: US conducted secret ops in Pakistan, Syria - Added 1 week ago

The U.S. military has conducted nearly a dozen secret operations against al-Qaida and other terrorist groups in Syria, Pakistan and other countries since 2004, The New York Times reported Sunday night. Citing anonymous...

Farrakhan says Obama draws a 'oneness of spirit' - Added 1 week ago

After months of silence about his support for Barack Obama, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said in an address Sunday that the new president-elect has a God-given capacity to handle any burdens he'll face as...

Police: Hispanic attacked by white NY gang, dies - Added 1 week ago

Police say a Hispanic man has been attacked on Long Island by a gang of white teenagers and stabbed to death. Suffolk County police officers responding to an emergency call Saturday night say they found 37-year-old...

Obituaries in the news - Added 1 week ago

Robert L. Krechevsky WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Robert L. Krechevsky, a federal bankruptcy judge who oversaw a case involving the collapse of real estate giant Colonial Realty, died Thursday. He was 86. Krechevsky,...

2 accused of threatening Obama kept on lockdown - Added 1 week ago

Two white supremacists accused of plotting to assassinate Barack Obama are on lockdown in their Tennessee jail cell. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Sunday that 20-year-old Daniel Cowart of Tennessee and...

Tennessee lottery numbers - Added 1 week ago

Here are the winning numbers selected Sunday in the Tennessee state lottery: Cash 3 Evening 9-5-4 (nine, five, four) Cash 4 Evening 8-6-8-3 (eight, six, eight, three) ...

Protests sweep across Calif. on post-Prop 8 Sunday - Added 1 week ago

On the first Sunday after a gay marriage ban passed in California, activists rallied in defiance, including hundreds of protesters outside an Orange County megachurch whose pastor brought Barack Obama and John McCain...

Churches across America reflect on Obama election - Added 1 week ago

Jubilation, pride and relief permeated pews and pulpits at predominantly black churches across the country on the first Sunday after Barack Obama's election, with congregrants blowing horns, waving American flags and...

Haiti school disaster sparks anger, wider concerns - Added 1 week ago

Angry Haitians stormed the twisted wreckage of a collapsed school on Sunday to demand rescuers speed up a search for victims, while officials worried about the stability of other buildings across this desperately poor...

Marines credited with rescues in Calif. motel fire - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:CAANR102-1019080934 -->!!-- pobj:CAANR101-1019080934 -->Off-duty Marines are being credited with saving lives after spotting flames and smoke at a California motel and rousing sleeping guests. Orange County...

Released Texas child killer suing over confinement - Added 1 week ago

A man who killed an 8-year-old girl is accusing Texas officials of illegally depriving him of the chance to re-enter society. U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel will consider the lawsuit this week but isn't expected to...

Transition, too, for Michelle Obama to first lady - Added 1 week ago

She's been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, is every bit as high-powered as Hillary Rodham Clinton was and has praised Laura Bush's calm and rational approach to issues. So what kind of first lady will Michelle Obama...

US transfers Libyan money to Lockerbie victims - Added 1 week ago

The U.S. said Sunday it has begun transferring more than $500 million in Libyan compensation money to the families of American victims of the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. More money is on the way...

Troubled half-century of urban renewal in SF - Added 1 week ago

Holding her cane and shuffling carefully down the sidewalk in the city's Jazz Preservation District, 88-year-old Leola King stopped and looked at the words stamped in concrete: Leola King's Birdcage, 1505 Fillmore. ...

Social workers boosting expertise on money woes - Added 1 week ago

!!-- pobj:NY400-1022081618 -->Against the backdrop of the economic meltdown, a movement is building within the ranks of America's social workers to make their profession more adept at helping clients overcome financial...

Israelis, Palestinians reaffirm peace commitment - Added 1 week ago

Israeli, Palestinian and international negotiators pledged Sunday to continue peace talks launched last year by President Bush, even though the quest for peace will certainly outlast his administration. But future...

From Bush to Obama, anatomy of White House change - Added 1 week ago

Nearly 8,000 jobs waiting to be filled. Empty file drawers. Missing computer hard drives. Even furniture piled in the hallways. Talk about a startup. The most powerful office in the world has less than three months to...

INSIDE WASHINGTON: Auditors go easy on contractors - Added 1 week ago

Instead of seeing red, Pentagon audit managers saw business as usual after being told that a major military contractor failed to open all its books for review. At a meeting of Defense Contract Audit Agency staff in...

So much else happened while people eyed election - Added 1 week ago

While you were fixated on the election campaign and on the collapsing economy and your vanishing retirement investments, stuff happened. Iraq stood tough _ against the U.S. Afghanistan bled. Guantanamo refused to...

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Paloma rapidly losing strength, downgraded to tropical storm over Cuba with 70 mph winds. ...

Cash found in Ohio house's walls becomes nightmare - Added 1 week ago

A contractor who found $182,000 in Depression-era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars, but he feels some vindication. The windfall discovery amounted to little more than...

Like Lincoln and FDR, Obama faces nation in crisis - Added 1 week ago

All presidents are tested. Few walk into the Oval Office when the nation is in the throes of multiple crises. Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President-elect Obama is facing a banking emergency. Like Abraham Lincoln,...

US, Russian diplomats seek to ease tensions - Added 1 week ago

In what may be one of her last such sessions as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice met with her Russian counterpart in an effort to cool simmering tensions between the two superpowers in the final months of the Bush...