A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to murdering a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in the mountains east of San Diego.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:35 pm
A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:35 pm
California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, authorities said Friday.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:15 pm
A key U.N. committee approved a resolution Friday urging Iran to halt the persecution of political opponents following the country's disputed presidential election and release those still detained.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:20 pm
A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand is not paid.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:15 pm
U.S. Sen. John McCain predicted success in the Afghan war effort Friday if President Barack Obama makes a decision quickly to send the reinforcements requested by his top commander there.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:15 pm
A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying…
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:20 pm
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:20 pm
Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:20 pm
Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:10 pm
A lesbian who deserted the U.S. military and fled to Canada must be given another chance to plead her case for refugee status, Canada's Federal Court ruled Friday.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:10 pm
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
Nov 20, 2009 | 5:20 pm
The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government insurrection was sentenced Friday to 13 1/2 years in prison by a federal judge.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:05 pm
Spokesman says world's largest atom smasher circulates beam of protons after yearlong repairs.
Nov 20, 2009 | 4:05 pm
A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
Nov 20, 2009 | 3:50 pm
The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station.
Nov 20, 2009 | 3:50 pm
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois governor who ordered Thomson Correctional Center built said Friday he’s not worried about security if the prison eventually holds Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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Students barricaded themselves inside buildings on University of California campuses to protest a 32 percent increase in student fees and budget cuts that have led to slashed programs and lost jobs.
Nov 20, 2009 | 3:45 pm
As East Moline residents debate whether to start their own ambulance service, the city’s current ambulance provider has decided to open a new ambulance garage on Avenue of the Cities.
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Former U.S. Rep. Richard Gephardt pushed Friday for Iowa to expand its focus on public health, arguing the state has the medical infrastructure in place to make it a leader in the field.
Nov 20, 2009 | 3:30 pm
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