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Feds probe Ford Escapes for sticky throttles
Government safety regulators are investigating complaints that throttles can stick on older-model Ford Escape and Mazda Tribute SUVs and cause them ...
Beloved Vermont restaurant rebuilding after Irene
A flood-ravaged family restaurant known for decades as the social center of this Vermont ski town was hoisted off its foundation Tuesday by a crane ...
Obama campaign sues over Ohio early voting law
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Ohio's top elections official in a dispute over the ...
Perry calls for 'transparency' for all candidates
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, weighing in on whether Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should release more tax returns, says he believes all ...
FBI dogs detect scents of Iowa cousins near lake
Authorities searching for two young cousins drained an Iowa lake Tuesday after FBI dogs detected the girls' scents near where their bicycles were ...
Carjacker will be Texas' 1st single-drug execution
An inmate who once bragged about the headlines generated by the carjacking and murder that sent him to death row will be noted in Texas history for ...
Lawyer: Texan to fight allegation he killed doctor
A Texas plastic surgeon plans to fight allegations that he paid another man thousands of dollars in silver bars to kill a fellow doctor who was dating ...
2 bodies in Detroit River; no heads, hands, feet
The decapitated bodies of a man and a woman were pulled from the Detroit River and a nearby canal on Tuesday, about an hour before a fisherman ...
Lakota man sues SD hospital over surgical scars
A lawyer for a Native American man who claims the letters KKK were carved into his stomach during surgery has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit ...
Aerial banner demands removal of Paterno statue
A company that's towing a banner over Penn State demanding the removal of a Joe Paterno statue has a history of controversy, according to aviation ...
Prosecutor: Zimmerman judge shouldn't step down
The prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin shooting case says a motion by the defense asking the judge to disqualify himself is without merit.
APNewsBreak: Widow revives 20-year-old murder case
Lisa Hill became a widow at age 21 when her young husband was shot and left to die in the New Mexico desert after he was kidnapped by two fugitives.
Judge won't remove himself from Cole bombing case
The military judge presiding over the war crimes trial of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole rejected a motion Tuesday ...
Residents warned: 6-foot lizard loose in Colorado
A sheriff has warned residents in a tourist town northwest of Colorado Springs that a strong, aggressive 6-foot lizard that eats small animals — ...
Bobcat that broke into Washington prison to be OK
Security is tight at the Monroe Corrections Complex to keep 2,400 Washington state prisoners locked up, but it couldn't stop a bobcat from breaking in
Arizona sheriff shocked by comedian's profanity
Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio says he's shocked by comedian George Lopez's profanity-laced tirade against him. Lopez made the comments about the top cop ...
Calif. restaurants duck weak state foie gras ban
California's new ban on the production and sale of foie gras took eight years to go into effect, but restaurants have wasted little time in finding ...
US homebuilder confidence vaults to 5-year high
Confidence among U.S. homebuilders is swelling to a five-year high, with many now anticipating that sales of new homes will strengthen this year even ...
NCAA boss won't rule out death penalty for Penn St
The president of the NCAA says he isn't ruling out the possibility of shutting down the Penn State football program in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky ...
Cat makes 6-mile trek back to NH home
Animal rescue league officials say they don't know how a black cat walked about 6 miles in three days to find his way back home in New Hampshire.
AP Interview: Death row inmate says new law unfair
Daniel Webb is awaiting execution for the 1989 kidnapping and murder of a Connecticut bank executive, but he believes he is also paying a price for ...
NYC bus driver catches girl who fell 3 stories
A New York City bus driver was being hailed as a hero for saving a 7-year-old girl who fell three stories from an air conditioning unit outside a ...
2nd bogus bomb threat closes US-Canada crossing
A bogus bomb threat forced the closure of the Ambassador Bridge for several hours, the second such threat to a major crossing connecting Detroit to ...
Seahawks' Lynch arrested for investigation of DUI
Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch was arrested over the weekend in the Oakland area for investigation of DUI, the California Highway Patrol ...