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Ky. man claims penis amputated without consent - Added 7 weeks ago

A Kentucky man who claims his penis was removed without his consent during what was supposed to be a circumcision has sued the doctor who performed the surgery. Phillip Seaton, 61, and his wife are seeking unspecified...

Analysis: Bush holds Washington blame-free - Added 7 weeks ago

How did it happen, America's grave financial crisis? President Bush offered a bunch of explanations but held Washington completely blameless, painting a picture of a government standing innocently on the sidelines as...

Mining company in cave-in fights worker comp claim - Added 7 weeks ago

The mining company faulted by federal officials for a cave-in that killed six miners last year is fighting a worker's compensation claim filed by the family of one of the victims. With his paycheck, coal miner Juan...

Mother of missing Fla. toddler sued for defamation - Added 7 weeks ago

A woman has filed a lawsuit claiming a missing Florida girl's mother has accused her of kidnapping the child. Casey Anthony says she last saw her 3-year-old daughter, Caylee, in June with a baby sitter named Zenaida...

12 racehorses die in fire at La. breeding center - Added 7 weeks ago

Investigators say 12 thoroughbred racehorses have died after fire trapped them in a barn at a Louisiana training and breeding center. Sheriff's investigators, the state fire marshal and agents from the federal Bureau...

FCC revives emergency communications plan - Added 7 weeks ago

The Federal Communications Commission approved a new framework for the creation of a nationwide emergency communications network Thursday amid concerns that the ongoing economic crisis may make it difficult to attract...

Man falls to death after police stun gun shock - Added 7 weeks ago

An officer appears to have violated police department guidelines when he used a Taser stun gun on a naked, distraught man teetering on a building ledge, officials said Thursday. Inman Morales, 35, was pronounced dead...

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Utah Legislature convenes on $272 million budget shortfall. ...

Japan holds diaper fashion show _ for adults - Added 7 weeks ago

One after the other, the models strutted across the stage to bouncy '80s dance tunes, all showing off designs of the same article of clothing _ adult diapers. Japan has one of the world's most rapidly aging societies,...

Dozens of Miss. cottages condemned after Gustav - Added 7 weeks ago

In Donnell Landtroop's state-supplied cottage, mold grows on the walls and dried mud coats the floor, the foul remnants of Gustav, the second hurricane in three years to leave her family homeless. The Labor Day storm...

Feds blame tank, training in fatal W.Va. blast - Added 7 weeks ago

Federal inspectors are blaming a fatal explosion at a West Virginia convenience store in part on a propane tank being located too close to the building. The blast in January 2007 killed four people and injured six. ...

Razor recalls scooters, Dirt Quads - Added 7 weeks ago

About 103,000 Chinese-made Razor scooters were recalled Thursday after four people received cuts that required tendon surgery. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said some of the company's PowerWing three-wheeled...

Iowa college apologizes for offensive typo - Added 7 weeks ago

The president of an Iowa college says he's sorry about an unfortunate and offensive typo in a school handbook. A calendar entry for Feb. 16, 2009, was supposed to read "Black History Lunch and Learn." Instead, it says...

Obama effigy found hanging from Ore. campus tree - Added 7 weeks ago

Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act that outraged students and school leaders...

Man arrested outside Obama home wanted job - Added 7 weeks ago

Authorities say a man arrested near Barack Obama's Chicago home told police officers he wanted to speak with the presidential hopeful about getting a job. Thirty-one-year-old Omhari Sengstacke was ordered held in lieu...

Trump tops off Chicago tower; endorses McCain - Added 7 weeks ago

Donald Trump says the proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial industry is a "black eye" for an American economy that was "rushing into one big depression." Trump spoke Wednesday at the topping off ceremony for...

Presidential hopefuls at Day 2 of Clinton confab - Added 7 weeks ago

There are plenty of current and former world leaders at the Clinton Global Initiative, starting with the founder, former President Bill Clinton. So it should be no surprise that the two men looking to join those ranks...

Mo. prison program fosters family ties behind bars - Added 7 weeks ago

The crayons, construction paper and toddlers scattered on the floor suggest a typical daycare center or kindergarten classroom. The armed guards and surveillance cameras reveal a painful reality. The handful of inmates...

Bush warns 'entire economy is in danger' - Added 7 weeks ago

President Bush said Wednesday that lawmakers risk a cascade of wiped-out retirement savings, rising home foreclosures, lost jobs and closed businesses if they fail to act on a massive financial rescue plan. "Our entire...

Cops: Biker gang masquerades as Christian ministry - Added 7 weeks ago

In more than 25 years at the helm of his biker-inspired Christian ministry, Phillip Aguilar has counseled Hells Angels, married Mongols and provided a place to crash for just about every hog-riding gangster and drug...

A hunt in garbage helps solve eco-terrorism spree - Added 7 weeks ago

A business owner checking a trash container for scrap cardboard was alarmed by something else: gas masks, maps, an M-80 explosive, arson photos and anti-government writings. "It was kinda scary," Andy Wishaw recalled....

India PM to meet Bush as Congress weighs nuke deal - Added 7 weeks ago

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is visiting Washington to rally support in Congress for a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement reached long ago with the Bush administration. Congressional approval of the deal...

Tweet: Utah govt. gives live updates - Added 7 weeks ago

In Utah government, blogging is becoming so 2007. The new cool for state agencies and politicians is quickly becoming Twitter, a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows people to post 140 character...

Dozens recount Republican convention experiences - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:MNPAU101-0924082254 -->One young man claimed he was tortured while in police custody. One woman got a face full of police pepper spray. But another woman said an officer kindly gave her a ride when he noticed...

Analysis: Bush holds Washington blame-free - Added 7 weeks ago

How did it happen, America's grave financial crisis? President Bush offered a bunch of explanations but held Washington completely blameless, painting a picture of a government standing innocently on the sidelines as...

FAA says progress being made on runway safety - Added 7 weeks ago

Under pressure to reduce close calls on airport runways, federal aviation officials say they are making progress. The numbers tell a different story. Over the past year, the National Transportation Safety Board says 23...

Police: Milk vomit frat prank causes Ariz. crash - Added 7 weeks ago

Police say members of an Arizona State University fraternity vomited milk from a campus bridge and caused a car crash that injured two people. Tempe police Sgt. Steve Carbajal says the prank caused a woman in one car...

Report: Briefly stolen key helped in NM jailbreak - Added 7 weeks ago

An agent investigating last month's escape of eight jail inmates says prisoners probably stole a key left in a door by a corrections officer doing plumbing work at the time, then returned it before anyone noticed. Four...

Ike-battered Galveston allows residents to return - Added 7 weeks ago

Ten days after Hurricane Ike, this devastated beach town reopened to residents Wednesday with stern warnings about what still lurks on the island _ rotting cattle carcasses, snakes and swarms of mosquitoes _ and what...

Documents: Ivins bragged he knew anthrax killer - Added 7 weeks ago

Bruce Ivins, the Army scientist accused of carrying out the 2001 anthrax attacks, e-mailed himself last year saying he knew who the killer was, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. "Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!!! I...

Today in History - Sept. 25 - Added 7 weeks ago

Today is Thursday, Sept. 25, the 269th day of 2008. There are 97 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 25, 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and...

Analysis: Bailout blues may help define Bush term - Added 7 weeks ago

Talk about a rough way for a Republican president to end two terms in office: The era of big government is back. Just when the war in Iraq is going better, President Bush finds himself with a domestic crisis so vast it...

Rat bite wakes NY firefighter sleeping at station - Added 7 weeks ago

An upstate New York fire department smells rats after one of the rodents bit the nose of a dozing firefighter. Glens Falls acting Mayor John Diamond says the firefighter awoke Saturday with a pain and saw blood and...

Calif. mom called vengeful at gang murder trial - Added 7 weeks ago

!!-- pobj:LA105-0717071350 -->A mother was seeking revenge for disrespect when she drove her son and his fellow gang members to a deadly confrontation with a rival gang, prosecutors said Wednesday at her murder trial....

Officer cites abusive US interrogations in Iraq - Added 7 weeks ago

The Iraqi prisoner had valuable intelligence, U.S. special forces believed, and they desperately wanted it. They demanded that expert American military trainers teach them the same types of abusive interrogation...

Obama, McCain call for cooperation on economy - Added 7 weeks ago

Joint statement on economy's problems by Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain released Wednesday. "The American people are facing a moment of economic crisis. No matter how this began, we all have a...

O.J. witness says he took plea after 'revelation' - Added 7 weeks ago

A former defendant in the O.J. Simpson kidnapping and armed robbery case testified Wednesday that he decided to take a plea deal and accuse Simpson in court after God answered his prayers with a revelation telling him...

Fla. jury convicts teen in killing of classmate - Added 7 weeks ago

A teenager who mental health experts say wanted to become a serial killer was convicted Wednesday of luring his 14-year-old friend to a middle school bathroom and stabbing him to death in 2004. A jury deliberated for...

Inmate admits to planning hit job on head of NYPD - Added 7 weeks ago

A jail inmate admitted that he tried to hire a hit man to blow up the New York Police Department's headquarters and kill its commissioner, prosecutors said Wednesday. David Brown, 39, pleaded guilty to criminal...

Rice disappointed with North Korea-nuclear move - Added 7 weeks ago

The Bush administration warned Wednesday that North Korea would isolate itself from the world community if it backtracks and reactivates the plant that once provided plutonium for an atomic test explosion. North Korea...

Text of President Bush's speech on economic crisis - Added 7 weeks ago

Text of President Bush's speech Wednesday on the economic crisis and a financial rescue plan, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions: ___ BUSH: Good evening. This is an extraordinary period for America's economy. Over...

Accused of passing gas, man charged with battery - Added 7 weeks ago

A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrolman has been charged with battery on a police officer. Jose A. Cruz, 34, of Clarksburg, was pulled over early Tuesday for driving without...

Obituaries in the news - Added 7 weeks ago

Dick Lynch EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) _ Dick Lynch, who starred at cornerback for the New York Giants during their glory years in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a longtime radio analyst for the team, died...

Conn. Democrats delay plan to censure Lieberman - Added 7 weeks ago

Connecticut Democrats, angry that Sen. Joe Lieberman is campaigning for the Republican presidential candidate and criticizing his own party's nominee, agreed Wednesday to circulate a resolution to censure the veteran...

Senate approves bill to probe civil rights murders - Added 7 weeks ago

The Senate passed legislation Wednesday that would give the Justice Department more money to investigate unsolved murders from the civil rights era. The bill authorizes $10 million annually over 10 years to help the...

California law outlaws text messages while driving - Added 7 weeks ago

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law making it illegal to read or send text messages while driving in California. The bill imposes a $20 fine for a first offense and $50 for repeat offenders using any electronic...

Fed. judge in Va. rejects sniper Muhammad's appeal - Added 7 weeks ago

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected an appeal from convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, who was sentenced to death for masterminding a 2002 killing spree in the Washington, D.C. region that left 10 people dead. ...

NJ farm flings pumpkins with giant catapult - Added 7 weeks ago

One New Jersey farm has a special attraction to go with the season's hay rides and corn mazes: giant pumpkin catapult. A group of middle school students who became obsessed with the medieval weapon asked northern New...

Calif. high school's main rivals are fire ants - Added 7 weeks ago

They're a relentless force on the gridiron, with a stinging defense. But don't expect anyone to cheer for the Rialto High School fire ants. Discovered by a groundskeeper last week, the venomous red pests have set up...

Maine anchor gets hate mail for Palin resemblance - Added 7 weeks ago

A Maine TV news anchor who bears a resemblance to the Republican vice presidential nominee says she's been getting "hate mail and nasty phone calls" from viewers who think she's trying to copy Sarah Palin's signature...