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First Case of Fearsome TB Strain Found in US

14 hours 21 minutes ago |AP

LANTANA, Fla. (Dec. 27) - It started with a cough, an autumn hack that refused to go away. Then came the fevers. They bathed and chilled the skinny frame of Oswaldo Juarez, a 19-year-old Peruvian vis ...

$128 Million Powerball Ticket Sold in Kentucky

8 hours 37 minutes ago |AP

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Dec. 27) -- Anyone who bought a Powerball ticket in Kentucky is going to want to double-check it. Kentucky lottery officials say there was a single $128.6 million winning Powerball t ...

Terrorism Suspect Had Privileged Upbringing

6 hours 10 minutes ago |AP

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LAGOS, Nigeria (Dec. 27) - As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunt ...

New Year's Eve Ball Gets Special New Crystals

5 hours 22 minutes ago |AP

NEW YORK (Dec. 27) - The New Year's Eve crystal ball that drops in Times Square will have a new kind of sparkle when it descends at the stroke of midnight Thursday, and revelers will be able to toast ...

Sick Man on Detroit Flight Prompts Security Scare

12 hours 38 minutes ago |AP

ROMULUS, Mich. (Dec. 27) - Armed officers on Sunday rushed aboard the same Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day, but the perceived threat wasn't much of a danger ...

Charlie Sheen Accused of Using Weapon

9 hours 18 minutes ago |AP

ASPEN, Colo. (Dec. 27) - Authorities say actor Charlie Sheen is accused of using a weapon in an alleged case of domestic violence in Aspen. Sheen spent part of Christmas Day in jail after being arres ...

In Death, Little Boy Teaches Others How to Live

3 days 16 hours ago |AP

CHICAGO (Dec. 26) -- The disarming smile of a 4-year-old boy with a buzz cut brightens an otherwise drab newspaper page, where whole lives are summed up in 3 inches of tiny newsprint. Danny Stanton's ...

Photos of the Year

1 day 12 hours ago |Sphere

The news comes to us every day, all day long, in a torrent of words. Countless words on computer screens. More words on printed pages. Words heard on radio and TV. So many words that they all start t ...

Passenger Says He Helped Thwart Terror Attack

1 day 5 hours ago |CNN

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(Dec. 26) -- Passenger Jasper Schuringa told CNN that with the aid of the cabin crew, he helped subdue and isolate Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was charged Saturday with trying to destroy a plane. ...

Prison Forecast: Getting Gray and Overcrowded

3 days 18 hours ago |Sphere

(Dec. 26) -- A Manhattan judge sentenced Anthony D. Marshall to one to three years in prison Monday for stealing millions of dollars from his mother, the late philanthropist and grande dame of New Yo ...

Notable Deaths of 2009

1 day 7 hours ago |Sphere

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This year saw the deaths of artists and athletes, politicians and pioneers, the seemingly ordinary and the obviously extraordinary. The deaths were sometimes expected, like the loss of the world's ol ...

Capitol Statuary Lineup Isn't Set in Stone

3 days 17 hours ago |Sphere

Architect of the Capitol

WASHINGTON (Dec. 24) -- Heidi Fitzgerald stared at the larger-than-life statue of Roger Sherman in the Capitol crypt and was clueless. "Do you know who he is?" she asked another visitor. "I would hav ...