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National Guard ends rescue efforts in flooded area
The Louisiana National Guard says they've wrapped up rescue operations in Plaquemines Parish, which was hit hard by flooding as Isaac stormed through.
Documentary producer found dead in likely suicide
A documentary producer who worked with Leonardo DiCaprio on the environmental film "The 11th Hour" has been found dead. Coroner's spokesman Ed Winter ...
NM inmate uses Popsicle sticks in escape attempt
New Mexico corrections officers say an inmate escaped his jail cell by breaking a window bar with a razor blade and a Popsicle stick but changed his ...
Retailers brace for possible Eastern ports strike
A union representing dock workers at the East Coast's busiest port has authorized a strike if a contract deal isn't reached by the end of next month, ...
Official: Lindh, other Muslim inmates are defiant
American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and other Muslims housed at a special federal prison unit in Indiana have used the veil of religion to show ...
La. official: Levee will be breached amid flooding
A state official says the levee in southeast Louisiana's Isaac-flooded Plaquemines Parish will be breached to relieve pressure on it. State Coastal ...
Families sue over Kansas grain elevator blast
Family members of four people killed in a grain elevator explosion last year in northeast Kansas are suing employees of Bartlett Grain Co., including ...
NYC man gets 40 years to life for dismembering boy
A hardware store clerk was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping, killing and dismembering a lost ...
Isaac brings higher gas prices, south and north
Drivers are being hit with the biggest one-day jump in gasoline prices in 18 months just as the last heavy driving weekend of the summer approaches.
Ohio man says hair cutting shamed his Amish father
A hair-cutting attack on an Amish bishop left him so ashamed that he stopped preaching and refused to attend a family wedding because he didn't want ...
Records show troubled life for accused Md. shooter
The teenager accused of shooting an intellectually disabled classmate at a suburban Maryland high school was accustomed to firearms in the home and ...
Officials may breach levee as Isaac storms inland
Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on Wednesday, inundating parts of a mostly rural area southeast of New Orleans, ...
Prosecutors seek Colorado shooting suspect's notes
Prosecutors in the Colorado movie theater mass shooting trial will attempt to convince a judge Thursday that investigators should have access to the ...
Oil price falls as crude supply rises
Oil prices fell Wednesday as U.S. supplies of crude rose for the first time in a month and finance ministers from industrialized nations pleaded with ...
Lennon killer wants to live with minister if freed
The man who killed ex-Beatle John Lennon said in his most recent parole bid that he hoped to live and work with an upstate New York minister if ...
In NYC, identifying the dead, and finding closure
On a wind-swept island off New York City, the remains of 850,000 people rest in pine boxes in a grid of covered trenches — but many are not resting ...
Levee in La. may be intentionally breached
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says coastal officials may intentionally break a levee on the east bank of flooded Plaquemines Parish to relieve pressure ...
Fake coyotes used to scare geese at Mich. beach
A Michigan community that's fed up with geese fouling up a beach is hoping fake coyotes encourage the birds to land elsewhere. The Livingston County ...
Officials: Levees, pumps holding up as Isaac hits
Officials say New Orleans' flood protections system is holding up so far as Hurricane Isaac storms through the area. Army Corps of Engineers ...
Mont. rancher shoots bear that breaks into house
A Montana rancher shot and killed a black bear that broke into his house along the Rocky Mountain Front and raided the pantry. Lane Yeager told the ...
Tracking Isaac: The latest on the hurricane's path
Isaac began its long, slow trek inland on Wednesday, hours after it made landfall over southeastern Louisiana. Driving rains and heavy winds pelted ...
Isaac nears New Orleans, floods rural La. levee
Hurricane Isaac pushed water over a rural levee to flood some homes, knocked out power and immersed beach-front roads in Louisiana and Mississippi ...
Crook who stole 3,500 Pillow Pets avoids jail
A Southern California man who stole 3,500 Pillow Pets from an Oceanside warehouse has avoided jail. The North County Times (bit.ly/U9NOc5) reports ...
Isaac threatens storm surge, floods all day
Hurricane Isaac is moving slowly inland toward New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico and threatens dangerous storm surge and flooding all day. The U.S.
Alinea and Eleven Madison Park to swap places
Chicago's Alinea and New York's Eleven Madison Park, two of the nation's highly acclaimed restaurants, announced Tuesday they will be trading places ...