State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing unusual about the rate of birth defects among infants in a San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the largest toxic waste dump in the West.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:40 pm
Three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens have been acquitted of all charges in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:35 pm
Federal wildlife officials plan to move a handful of endangered Sonoran pronghorns to the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in western Arizona next winter in hopes of establishing a new population of the rare animals.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:30 pm
The man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday, then fled, and he is considered dangerous, authorities said.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:30 pm
Prominent Irish victims of Catholic sexual abuse have written to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to take responsibility for the church's concealment of child molestation by forcing out bishops implicated in the decades of cover-up.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:30 pm
Canada's government says it will appeal a British Columbia court ruling that sanctioned North America's first safe injection site for drug users.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:15 pm
A North Carolina court is halting the retrieval of a John Edwards sex tape after a former aide to the presidential candidate balked at a judge's demand that a security officer accompany the ex-aide.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:15 pm
Ted Anthony, a veteran editor and correspondent for The Associated Press who has helped develop social media strategies and new storytelling techniques in AP newsrooms, has been named an assistant managing editor for the news cooperative.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:15 pm
U.S. and Afghan forces pushed Tuesday to the edge of the southern Afghan town of Marjah, poised to seize the major Taliban supply and drug-smuggling stronghold in hopes of building public support by providing aid and services once the insurgents are gone.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:10 pm
A Michigan man who had hundreds of live and dead Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes in his home has been sentenced to five years of probation in a mental health program and ordered not to own animals.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:10 pm
Top New York Democrats were silent Tuesday as Gov. David Paterson, already fighting to remain politically viable, fought to lay to rest unconfirmed rumors and news reports of womanizing and drug use.
Feb 09, 2010 | 2:05 pm
Evening classes beginning at 5 p.m. on the Western Illinois University-Quad Cities and Macomb campuses are canceled today due to a forecast of hazardous winter weather conditions, including blowing snow.
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A retired Army master sergeant who pleaded guilty to bribery and money-laundering charges stemming from his time in Iraq has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:50 pm
A worker who was in a Connecticut power plant when it exploded on Sunday tells The Associated Press there was a smell of natural gas in the plant less than an hour before the blast.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:50 pm
A lawyer for a Rutgers University graduate student charged with a January security breach at Newark Liberty Airport that led to worldwide flight delays entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday and defended his client as "simply a lovesick man who made a mistake."
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:40 pm
U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia's top military officer said Tuesday.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:30 pm
Homeowners in mud-ravaged foothill towns north of Los Angeles packed their cars and fled Tuesday as evacuation orders took hold and a new winter storm approached.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:30 pm
Police in at least two states are increasingly using a DNA crime-solving technique that some legal experts say amounts to guilt by association: If your brother, father, uncle or son has been in trouble with the law and is in a DNA database because of it, you, too, could fall under suspicion.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:25 pm
A former state legislative aide testifying in a public corruption trial delved into his sex life Tuesday, saying under cross-examination that he had been having problems with sexual performance for which he received medical treatment.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:25 pm
Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key opposition leader, crippling the only serious threat to the ruling party's stifling grip on power.
Feb 09, 2010 | 1:15 pm
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