The latest high-stakes court hearing for O.J. Simpson in the glitzy capital of big gambles has come to a close with the former football star's defense team feeling confident.
The Metro-North commuter rail line says crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals damaged in a derailment and crash in Connecticut.
The country has gotten used to shortages of medicines and basic food items like milk and sugar but the scarcity of bathroom tissue has caused unusual alarm.
MOSCOW (AP):A UNITED States (US) diplomat was ordered yesterday to leave the country after the Kremlin's security services said he tried to recruit a Russian agent.
WASHINGTON (AP): A surprising new report questions efforts to get Americans to sharply cut back on salt, saying getting to super-low levels may not be worth the struggle.
WASHINGTON (AP):The United States Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press (AP) in what the news cooperative's top...
DHAKA (AP):Thousands of mourners gathered yesterday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure's collapse last month, the worst tragedy in the history of the...
WASHINGTON (AP):Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded programme for roughly US$223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning...
ABERDEEN (AP): Police received a call over the weekend that a man was dragging a heavily intoxicated woman under a bridge in Aberdeen.When officers arrived they found a 39-year-old man having sexual contact with a 42-year-old who had passed out.
NEW YORK (AP): The Obama administration yesterday filed a last-minute appeal to delay the sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill to girls of any age without a prescription.
PHILADELPHIA (AP): A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty yesterday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic...
WASHINGTON (AP):Immigration activists are calling on President Barack Obama to end deportations of immigrants who might be eligible for legal status under a new immigration bill.Activists have long complained of record deportations breaking up families...
BELLINGHAM (AP):Suicide stalks Indian Country, claiming more lives of native youth than those in any other population, not only in Washington, but nationally.State Department of Health statistics released this month show that, in Washington...
NEW ORLEANS (AP): The head of the New Orleans Police Department says investigators have made significant progress in their investigation of a Mother's Day shooting that wounded 19 people....
An official of the city's prosecutor's office who was not authorised to be quoted by name says the two suspects are employees of the bar where Shabazz reportedly got in a violent dispute last week.
