Hwy 1 closed for avalanche
New sites to train the police
Debt motivated murder?
23 people rescued from ice
Police warn of thin ice
3 byelections announced
Khamenei's son takes over
Iran vows to expand attacks
Device thrown at protest 
Oil prices surpass $100
Economic shift emerges
Hudson's Bay unwinds
Brier final set 
Flurry of goals lead to win
Blazers win two straight
Fox News apologizes
'Country' Joe dies 
Will and Grace star dead
World News
Cruiseship Captain detained
Italian media report that the captain of a cruise liner that ran aground with some 4,000 people aboard has been detained for questioning in the case. Sky...
Joe Paterno: 'Didn't know where to go'
Former Penn State coach Joe Paterno says he "didn't know which way to go" after an assistant coach came to him in 2002 saying he had seen retired...
Iran says CIA behind assassination
Iran said Saturday it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran, state media...
S&P defends European downgrade
Ratings agency Standard & Poor's is defending its decision to downgrade nine European countries, reiterating that Europe's leaders aren't doing...
5.8 earthquake hits northern Philippines
The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting a magnitude-5.8 earthquake in the Babuyan Islands region off the northern tip of the Philippines. The U.S.G.S. said the...
Cruise ship runs aground off Tuscany
The Italian coast guard says a luxury cruise ship has run aground off the coast of Tuscany and that at least three bodies have been retrieved from the sea....
Hackman hospitalized after bike crash
Gene Hackman's publicist says the veteran Oscar-winning actor was briefly hospitalized after a truck bumped him from behind while he was riding a bicycle in...
Rabbits stolen from cooking class
More than a dozen rabbits that were reported stolen the night before a rabbit-cooking class have turned up at an adoption agency in Portland, Oregon. The...
US launches full probe of Marines
Pentagon officials worry that outrage over a video purporting to depict Marines urinating on Taliban corpses will tarnish the reputation of the entire military....
Billionaire bridge owner jailed
A judge ordered the 84-year-old owner of Detroit's Ambassador Bridge to jail Thursday for failing to meet court orders on a construction project linking the...
Mexican police take 6-year-old's toy
Police in this border city repented Thursday over ticketing a 6-year-old boy for reckless driving, driving without a license and not having his vehicle...
World shames urinating Marines
Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses, an act that appears...
Police ticket 6-yr-old & impound his toy
Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez ticketed a 6-year-old boy for reckless driving, driving without a license and not having his toy motorcycle...
Russian space junk to crash to Earth
A Russian spacecraft designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most...
Alaska town - help we have no shovels
When you're trying to clear nearly 15 feet of snow, a regular shovel just isn't going to cut it. As residents in the fishing town of Cordova and 57...
French journalist killed in Syria
A French TV cameraman has become the first Western journalist to be killed in the 10-month-old Syrian uprising, dying in a barrage of grenades during a...
Murder at Mexican mall
Two decapitated bodies were found inside a burning SUV early Wednesday at the entrance to one of Mexico's most luxurious malls, feeding fears drug violence...
NASA rover changes path to Mars
NASA's latest rover to Mars fired its thrusters Wednesday to adjust its course to the red planet for a landing in August. Deep space antennas tracked the...
US denies killing of Iranian scientist
The United States denied any role in Wednesday's killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist, the latest in a series of events that have exacerbated tensions...
Pandas: one 'paw' closer to release
If you go into the woods today . . . . six pandas bred in captivity wandered into an enclosed nature preserve in their native central China on Wednesday, a step...
