Whether the Kansas governor becomes Barack Obama’s vice president or not, Kathleen Sebelius’ heightened profile could pay big dividends in an Obama administration with a plum Cabinet post or other prestigious appointment.
POINT MARION, Pa. | An 85-year-old woman pulled a gun on a would-be burglar inside her home, and then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said.
CHICAGO | A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say.
ATLANTA | Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.
NEW YORK | Scientists say they have found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory.
A survey of D.C. bartenders finds that Democrats are better tippers, have better pick-up lines and give better toasts.
SYDNEY, Australia | Life can get a little lonely for bachelors in the Australian Outback mining town of Mount Isa. So the mayor has offered up a solution: recruit ugly women.
WASHINGTON | If it weren’t for Hispanic births, the U.S. could be confronting long-term population declines similar to those in Germany, Japan and other industrialized countries.
WASHINGTON | The best path to a clogged heart may be through the wrist. About a million artery-clearing angioplasties are performed in the United States each year, and the usual route is to thread a tube to the heart through an artery in the groin.
BEAR MOUNTAIN, N.Y. | The giggles and banter echoed those at any typical summer camp, but the name of this lakeside getaway — Camp Homeward Bound — reflected an element of wishful thinking for many of the children.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. | Sen. Barack Obama kicked off his last week of campaigning before the Democratic National Convention by reaching out Monday to working women who preferred Hillary Clinton for nomination.
WASHINGTON | New rules on FBI investigations of national security cases should be delayed, top Senate Judiciary Committee members said Monday.
Asked to describe their biggest moral failings at a Saddleback Church event Saturday in California, Barack Obama noted his “difficult youth” when he experimented with drugs: “I trace this to a certain selfishness on my part. I couldn’t focus on other people.”
ORLANDO, Fla. | Sen. John McCain told fellow veterans on Monday that his Democratic presidential rival, Sen. Barack Obama, tried to legislate failure in Iraq.
WASHINGTON | Months after the 2001 anthrax mailings, FBI scientists had — but destroyed — the strain of bacteria used in the attacks that would lead them to Bruce Ivins, the top suspect.
CHICAGO | Can you chew gum and recover from surgery at the same time? British researchers say it is a great idea for some patients.
KEY WEST, Fla. | Many Florida residents took a wait-and-see attitude Monday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Florida Keys and bore down on the Gulf Coast.
KEY WEST, Fla. | Florida Keys officials opened shelters and urged visitors to leave as Tropical Storm Fay threatened to strengthen into a hurricane Sunday, but residents and tourists seemed in no hurry to evacuate.
A fresh poll showed Barack Obama up 5 points in Alaska. The National Enquirer settled a lawsuit by a Massachusetts woman accusing the tab of fabricating stories that her son born in 1984 was fathered by Sen. Ted Kennedy.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Nine years of sleuthing, advanced DNA science and cutting-edge forensic techniques have finally put a name to a mummified hand and arm found in an Alaska glacier.
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Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without much fanfare, but stubbornly hung around like an unwelcome houseguest, maintaining strength and threatening - once again - to become a hurricane.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress, had a brain hemorrhage and was in critical condition with limited brain function, a doctor said Wednesday.
Emergency crews launched airboats into submerged streets Wednesday to rescue central Florida residents trapped by rising floodwaters from a stalled Tropical Storm Fay, which soaked the state for a third consecutive day.
Dozens of members of the Havasupai tribe are returning to their remote village near the Grand Canyon for the first time since a devastating flash flood during the weekend.
A man convicted of causing a deadly commuter rail crash that he blamed on an attempt to commit suicide was sentenced Wednesday to 11 consecutive life terms by a judge who denounced him as a remorseless killer.
In a part of the country better known for missing alligators, officials locked down schools and warned residents to stay inside Wednesday until they captured a Bengal tiger that somehow escaped from its cage at an animal sanctuary.
A 9-year-old boy who was tortured and killed by a convicted pedophile in front of his younger sister might have been able to survive a shot to the abdomen had he been taken to a hospital, a doctor told a jury that will decide whether the man gets the death penalty.
O.J. Simpson's only remaining co-defendant made a last-ditch pitch Wednesday to persuade a judge to postpone the start of their armed robbery and kidnapping trial.
Police said a man called 911 and reported a robbery after a gas station employee refused to give him his money back for an unopened box of condoms.
In an Aug. 17 story about decades-old remains being identified through DNA, The Associated Press misidentified an institution. It is the National Maritime Center of Martinsburg, W.Va., not the National Marine Center.
A commercial airline pilot and convert to Islam who says his name is on the U.S. government's secret terrorist watch list has fought back, filing a federal lawsuit against the Homeland Security Department and various other federal agencies.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said he won't recommend a replacement for slain state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney before delegates gather in Denver next week for the Democratic National Convention.
A jury has ruled that a ranch company's negligence helped lead to the huge 2005 landslide that crushed part of a seaside community and killed 10 people.
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a research company to supply an experimental drug to a 16-year-old Minnesota boy who is terminally ill with a rare form of muscular dystrophy.
Three New York youngsters are on their way home from visiting relatives in war-torn Georgia after missing a bombing by just hours.
An 11-year-old boy joined four teens in a late-night gun shop heist that netted 15 firearms - then boarded a city bus for the trip home, police said.
When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.
Jenny the lonely elephant, whose pending move from the Dallas Zoo to Mexico had angered activists, isn't going anywhere after all.
A man said his friend's raccoon went crazy before it attacked him. Police say Steven Hines called police early Tuesday morning to report that he had been bitten.
Five men from a polygamist sect raided by Texas authorities in April stand accused of sexually assaulting children, but they may not be the only ones.
The National Park Service has dropped its plan to expand the visitor center at Little Bighorn Battlefield, saying the $1.1 million project would have blemished historic Last Stand Hill.
It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders.
The Appalachian Trail is getting something new along its 2,175-mile route from Georgia to Maine - a highway underpass.
Authorities say an Ohio college athlete was killed when a van carrying her cross-county team crashed in Pennsylvania.
The man dubbed the "Dinnertime Bandit" was convicted Wednesday of robbing wealthy homes in the evening, when residents turned off their alarms.
