ROME (AP) — British and U.S. forces freed an Italian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in a dramatic rescue Tuesday after retrieving a message in a bottle tossed by hostages from a porthole alerting...
CHICAGO (AP) — White House chief of staff Bill Daley says he'll return to his native Chicago after the 2012 election.
Daley tells WMAQ-TV he has committed to stay with President Barack Obama in Washington...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Over the past month, one by one, people suspected in domestic battery cases in northeast Kansas have been set free with no charges against them. Prosecutors say they're overwhelmed...
LONDON (AP) — An English auction house is selling a chunk of metal it says came from the buttock of a bronze Saddam Hussein statue that was toppled in Iraq in 2003.
Charles Hanson, of Hansons Auctioneers,...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — A man who allegedly tried to pass himself off as a Shreveport police officer during a fight in a parking garage has been arrested on a charge of impersonating a police officer.
Police...
LONDON (AP) — Big Ben has a little bend.
Experts say the neogothic clock tower — one of the world's most recognizable landmarks — is gently leaning to one side. Documents recently published...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal fisheries official says an aerial survey has failed to find a juvenile killer whale last seen swimming in a river in southwest Alaska. NOAA Fisheries spokeswoman...
MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Four hours into a family fishing trip, rough waves flipped a 22-foot boat off the Florida Keys, tossing eight people overboard. Seven of them, including a 4-year-old girl, survived...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Hardware store manager Mike Dowling wants to be clear: His shovels might slow an attacking zombie, but you'll need something else to put the final nail in the creature's coffin.
"I...
ROME (AP) — State TV in Italy says pirates have attacked an Italian cargo ship carrying 23 crew members in waters off Somalia.
The ship's owner, D'Alessio Group, said five armed men conducted the...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — Health officials are looking at ways to stem the rising number of syphilis cases in northwest Louisiana.
There were 142 cases of primary and secondary syphilis in adults in Caddo...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country.
Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is giving Muslim...
