Fri, Jul 10th, 2009 | U.K. |

This time last week, 16-year-old Paddy Higgins was on holiday with friends in Newquay, Cornwall's brashest resort, partying alongside several thousand teenagers all celebrating the end of their exams. On Monday morning, he was found dead at the bottom of ...Read More

Three British 'raiders' killed in Holland police chase

Mon, Nov 16th, 2009 | U.K. |

The men allegedly blew up an ATM cash machine to remove it from a wall in the town of Driel, south west of Arnhem, on Friday night. Officers chased their car, which then overturned on the A12 motorway, near Utrecht, and ...Read More

Haunting Fort Hood Memorial With Empty Boots, 21 Gun Salute, Taps

Tue, Nov 10th, 2009 | U.S. |

Haunting Fort Hood Memorial With Empty Boots, 21 Gun Salute, Taps The bark of a 21-gun salute and a mournful "Taps" puncutated the silence today as several thousand soldiers, family members and survivors gave an emotional farewell to the 13 victims of the Fort Hood massacre. The service, which included President Obama ...Read More

Jane's Addiction and lots of zombies close out Voodoo Fest

Sun, Nov 1st, 2009 | Entertainment |

Jane's Addiction and lots of zombies close out Voodoo Fest NEW ORLEANS — Fairies danced with evil clowns, rock stars roiled seas of fans and zombies gathered en masse at the music-festival-slash-freak-show that became the Voodoo Art and Music Festival this Halloween weekend. Singer Perry Farrell of headlining group Jane's Addiction ...Read More

Boeing Doubles Bets on Strategy for 787 Already Two Years Late

Thu, Oct 29th, 2009 | Business, Most Viewed |

Boeing Doubles Bets on Strategy for 787 Already Two Years Late Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co.’s decision to put a newassembly line for the 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina, insteadof its historic Seattle hub, doubles its bets on a global supplystrategy that is more than two years late delivering the ...Read More

Patrick Swayze's widow feels sadness 'on a cellular level'

Wed, Oct 28th, 2009 | Entertainment |

Patrick Swayze's widow feels sadness 'on a cellular level' NEW YORK - Patrick Swayze's widow has told a crowd near Los Angeles that the loss of her husband of 34 years has left her with sadness "on a cellular level." Lisa Niemi, making her first public comments since Swayze's death ...Read More

Patrick Swayze's widow makes first public comments since death, saying sadness overwhelming

Wed, Oct 28th, 2009 | Entertainment, Top Stories |

Patrick Swayze's widow makes first public comments since death, saying sadness overwhelming NEW YORK (AP) - Patrick Swayze's widow has told a crowd near Los Angeles that the loss of her husband of 34 years has left her with sadness "on a cellular level." Lisa Niemi, making her first public comments since Swayze's ...Read More

Obama on Va. governor's race: It's not over yet

Tue, Oct 27th, 2009 | Politics |

NORFOLK, Va. -President Barack Obama urged Virginians Tuesday to elect a Democrat as governor next week, but party officials braced for a defeat that could take some sheen off Obama's first year in office. Last fall, Obama became the first Democratic ...Read More

Pa. jury returns verdict after finding Prempro-breast cancer link; thousands of cases pending

Mon, Oct 26th, 2009 | Business |

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Philadelphia jury returned a sealed punitive-damages verdict Monday against drugmaker Wyeth Pharmaceuticals after finding a link between a woman's breast cancer and the hormone-replacement drug she took. Connie Barton's case is one of a handful of Prempro ...Read More

Thousands line up for H1N1 vaccinations in Fairfax and DC

Sat, Oct 24th, 2009 | Most Viewed |

Pregnant women and parents with drowsy young children began pouring into the Fairfax County government center for swine flu vaccinations at 9:12 a.m., the first bit of movement in a line of several thousand people that circled the building, angled ...Read More

Balloon crash-lands in Colo.; no sign of boy

Thu, Oct 15th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

FORT COLLINS. Colo. - A family's runaway experimental balloon aircraft crash-landed after floating away from home, but there was no sign of a 6-year-old boy authorities thought had been inside. The bizarre scene played out live on television. The balloon rotated ...Read More

Apple, Playing Catchup With Zune, May Add iPhone FM

Wed, Oct 14th, 2009 | Most Viewed |

Now that the speculation on an Apple tablet has died down (with no tablet yet launched), the latest rumor on the mill has the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker developing a software upgrade that would add FM functionality to its smartphone ...Read More

'Jon & Kate Plus Eight' recap: Learning Curve

Tue, Oct 13th, 2009 | Entertainment, Most Viewed |

'Jon & Kate Plus Eight' recap: Learning Curve The time had come for the sextuplets to head off to kindergarten. It's a rite of passage for families across the nations, and I say families because as much as Kate's making this about herself might irk some, it is ...Read More

'Where The Wild Things Are' Stars Reveal Their Histories With The Book

Tue, Oct 13th, 2009 | Entertainment |

'Where The Wild Things Are' Stars Reveal Their Histories With The Book BEVERLY HILLS - It's a rite of passage. It's the flexing of one of our most important muscles: imagination. But most importantly, it's pure and simple fun. It is the reading of Maurice Sendak's classic 1963 book "Where the Wild Things ...Read More

How the Nobel Peace Prize Is Awarded

Fri, Oct 9th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

President Obama, the third sitting American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was selected from a so-called "short list" of 5 to 20 finalist candidates. The Norwegian Nobel Committee's deadline for nominations was February 1, just 11 days after Obama's ...Read More

Crowds Gather To Await Spacecraft's Lunar Plunge

Fri, Oct 9th, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech, Top Stories |

It's a Silicon Valley-based mission intended to be cheap, fast and spectacular — a 1,300-pound spacecraft crashing into the moon in the hope of detecting water that might someday help astronauts return there. Hours before scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center ...Read More

Thousands mob Detroit center in hopes of free cash

Thu, Oct 8th, 2009 | U.S. |

Thousands mob Detroit center in hopes of free cash DETROIT -- Scuffles erupted as several thousand Detroit residents jockeyed, pushed and shoved Wednesday to get free money being offered to only 3,500 of the city's recently or soon to be homeless. Several received medical treatment for fainting or exhaustion while ...Read More

Google Offers Advice On Strong Passwords

Wed, Oct 7th, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech |

would like to remind you to for your online services.Coincidentally, several thousand users of Windows Live Hotmail, along with some users of Gmail and Yahoo Mail, are in need of new passwords. SANS Internet Storm Center handler Adrien de Beaupr is advising ...Read More

Microsoft Blocks Hacked Hotmail Accounts

Tue, Oct 6th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

Microsoft has taken the extraordinary step of blocking all access to thousands of Hotmail accounts that were compromised as a result of massive Internet scam."Several thousand Windows Live Hotmail customers' credentials were exposed on a third-party site," as a result of the ...Read More

Weather aids defense of Calif. mountain town

Mon, Oct 5th, 2009 | Top Stories, U.S. |

Weather aids defense of Calif. mountain town WRIGHTWOOD, Calif.—Firefighters made progress Monday against a wildfire near a Southern California mountain town as weather turned calm and cool. Evacuation orders remained in effect for several thousand residents of the Wrightwood area but there was little flame visible in ...Read More

Candidates defend voting records

Mon, Oct 5th, 2009 | U.S. |

Candidates defend voting records It happens so often now that it’s almost become a rite of passage for candidates who are new to the political arena: the embarrassing revelation that they haven’t actually voted much in the past. The latest example comes from California, where ...Read More