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Aussies win annual Empire State Building climb
A pair of Australians won a race to the top — or to the 86th floor, anyway. Aussies captured the top spots in the men's and women's races in the ...
Raccoons make home atop Wash. construction crane
Workers using a tower crane to build a 304-unit apartment complex in Seattle have run into a complication: two raccoons climbed 150 feet up the crane ...
Camel OK after enclosure escape, clipped by van
Officials believe a camel that escaped its enclosure twice Tuesday before being clipped by a minivan probably just wanted to be around some other ...
2 children and 1 woman killed in Denver shooting
Two young children and a woman were killed and a third child was wounded in a shooting at a northeast Denver house, police said Wednesday. The wounded ...
Suit: Answering calls, scanning emails deserves OT
Does scanning emails and answering calls from bosses on your smartphone after hours constitute work that should be compensated? A lawsuit winding its ...
Colleague: Ex-DA worked to keep notes from defense
A former Texas prosecutor who worked for an ex-district attorney at the center of a wrongful conviction case said Wednesday that his former boss ...
Boy Scouts delay decision on policy excluding gays
Caught in an ideological crossfire, the Boy Scouts of America is putting off until May a decision on whether to ease its policy of excluding gays.
1865 baseball card fetches $92K in Maine auction
A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rural Maine yard sale has been auctioned for $92,000. Saco River Auction Co. in Biddeford held an ...
Texas prison escapee caught after 16 years
A Texas prison escapee on the run for almost 16 years has been captured by authorities in Mexico and awaits extradition to the U.S. to finish serving ...
Authorities: 4 dead in fiery highway crash in Ga.
More than two dozen cars, pickup trucks and tractor-trailers collided Wednesday morning in a fiery pileup on a foggy Georgia interstate, killing at ...
Miami woman jailed after flipping off judge
A Miami woman has been jailed on contempt charges after flipping off a judge during a drug possession hearing. Miami television station NBC 6 ...
Families: Slain Newtown educators acted bravely
As a little girl, Lauren Rousseau would create make-believe classrooms with dolls and a small blackboard. And when a gunman invaded Sandy Hook ...
Lawyer to seek psych exam for vet in SEAL's death
An attorney for the Iraq War veteran accused of killing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend at a Texas shooting range said Wednesday that he will ...
Pa. mistrial declared when prosthetic eye pops out
An assault trial over a fight that cost a man his left eye ended in a mistrial Wednesday when his prosthetic eye popped out as he was testifying, ...
Missouri researchers ID largest prime number yet
Mathematicians at the University of Central Missouri have identified the largest prime number yet, but good luck remembering it. The university said ...
Monopoly fans vote to add cat, toss iron tokens
The Scottie dog has a new nemesis in Monopoly after fans voted in an online contest to add a cat token to the property trading game, replacing the ...
Mexico seeks culprits in rape of 6 Spaniards
Armed, masked men who raped six Spanish tourists in the Mexican resort of Acapulco spared the lone Mexican woman in the group because of her ...
Bulgaria: IDs, location of 2 terror suspects known
The two living suspects behind a bus attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year have been identified and both are now living in ...
Minn. cancels moose hunting as population plummets
Minnesota canceled its moose hunting season Wednesday, citing a precipitous decline in the moose population, as researchers try to get a handle on why ...
Calif. tour bus collision death toll rises to 8
The driver of a pickup truck struck by a careening tour bus died Wednesday at a California hospital, bringing the death toll from the mountain road ...
Conn. couple named 'longest married' in US
John and Ann Betar weren't supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped ...
Frail Mo. teen found cuffed in parents' basement
Authorities found a frail 17-year-old boy handcuffed to a pole in his parents' Kansas City basement, where he said he'd been kept since his father ...
Prized Bosnian cultural relic won't show in NYC
Officials in charge of Bosnia's national monuments said Wednesday they rejected an offer by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to exhibit one of ...
Frail Mo. teen found chained in parents' basement
Authorities say they rescued a frail 17-year-old boy whom they found handcuffed to a pole in his parents' Kansas City, Mo., basement. Police said ...
1 dead as truck crashes, dangles over I-95 in Fla
Rescue crews used an elevated ladder to reach a bakery truck dangling precariously over the edge of an elevated overpass ramp after a fatal crash.