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Fighter jet crashes near Florida Air Force base
An Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet crashed near a Florida Panhandle highway Thursday, but the pilot was able to eject safely and there were no ...
AP PHOTOS: Impacts of the Gulf oil spill
BP has agreed to pay a $4.5 billion settlement with the U.S. government over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, 50 ...
Drought forces Midwest firm to ponder drier future
At the height of this year's drought, decision-makers at the agribusiness giant Archers Daniels Midland kept an uneasy eye on the reservoir down the ...
What's shaking fashion? An adult-quake
This season's clothes aren't taking their cues from club kids, college students or teenage rebels. There's something grown-up about some of the most ...
3 TV networks airing Sandy specials on Sunday
Less than three weeks after Superstorm Sandy came ashore on the East Coast, three television networks will offer the chance to relive the experience ...
WWII-era love letters wash ashore in NY post Sandy
World War II-era love letters written by a New Jersey woman to her boyfriend washed ashore during Superstorm Sandy. A 14-year-old found the 57 letters ...
Amazon's larger Kindle Fire HD ships early
Amazon has started shipping the larger version of its Kindle Fire HD tablet computer on Thursday, five days ahead of schedule. Amazon is short on ...
US AG sets news conference on BP spill settlement
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will speak in New Orleans about the government's $4.5 billion settlement with BP over the massive 2010 oil spill in ...
Springsteen, McCartney, Kanye set for Sandy show
Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band and Kanye West will hit the stage at a Superstorm Sandy benefit concert next month at Madison ...
Superstorm Sandy pushes US jobless claims to 439K
Superstorm Sandy drove the number of people seeking unemployment benefits up to a seasonally adjusted 439,000 last week, the highest level in 18 ...
Sao Paulo could face gang war with truce collapse
A tenuous six-year truce between police and gang members is over in Sao Paulo — that much seems clear to shopkeeper Vanuza Alves da Silva, who has ...
Calif. panel rejects quake study near nuke plant
Citing harm to marine life, California coastal regulators on Wednesday soundly rejected a utility's plan to map offshore earthquake faults near a ...
Witness: Day care owner concealed criminal history
A Texas woman convicted of murder for a fire that killed four children at her home day care lied in her application to run the business about having ...
Close calls, tragic losses in Miss. plane crash
Roger Latham had considered taking a short flight Tuesday night in his small plane with his flying instructor and a couple of other experienced pilots ...
Experts: Analysis of Indiana blast could take time
Investigators looking for the cause of a deadly Indianapolis house explosion got more support for their theory that natural gas was a factor Wednesday ...
LI couple sues Cablevision over storm credits
A Long Island couple is suing Cablevision, saying the cable company should be offering automatic credits to customers in areas that lost service due ...
Obama wants 'conversation' on climate change
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his administration has not done enough to combat global warming but said he hopes to begin his second term ...
What does it take to get people to flee a storm?
Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings, hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey ignored mandatory evacuation orders ...
Sandy, careful consumers lower US retail sales
Superstorm Sandy combined with cautious consumers to lower retail sales in October and raise concerns about weaker economic growth and a tepid holiday ...
NTSB urges safety technologies be made standard
The government should require automakers to make the latest collision prevention technologies standard equipment on all new cars and trucks, a move ...
Croatian minister gets prison term for fatal crash
Croatia's economy minister Radimir Cacic has resigned after being sentenced to prison for causing a traffic accident in Hungary in 2010 in which two ...
Power back in Santiago de Cuba 3 weeks after Sandy
Cuban authorities say power has been almost completely restored in the eastern city of Santiago nearly three weeks after Hurricane Sandy. A report in ...
Dave Matthews Band pledges $1M for Sandy relief
The Dave Matthews Band is giving $1 million to help Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts. The band announced Wednesday that the Nov. 30 opening show of ...
3 pilots flying to safety meet die in Miss. crash
Three pilots flying together to a federal safety conference died when their single-engine plane faltered in midair and crashed into a house that went ...