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• Northwest plane flies 240 km past destination; crew...
  MINNEAPOLIS - Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their ...
• Soupy Sales, pie-splattered comedian, dies at 83
  DETROIT - Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV ...
• Russian court rules against Stalin's grandson, who...
  MOSCOW - A Russian court ruled against Josef Stalin's grandson Tuesday in a libel suit over a newspaper article that said the Soviet dictator ...
• Five teens charged with setting teen on fire after...
  DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. - Authorities say five Florida teenagers have been charged after they allegedly doused a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol ...
• David Letterman apologizes to wife on Monday's Late...
  NEW YORK - David Letterman apologized to his wife on Monday's “Late Show,” saying she had been “horribly hurt by my behaviour.” The late-night ...
• Woman fined for letting 12-year-old daughter drive...
  GREAT FALLS, Mon. - A woman accused of letting her 12-year-old daughter drive three siblings to day care has been fined nearly $1,000. Angela ...
• TV host David Letterman admits affairs with female...
  LOS ANGELES - David Letterman acknowledged on Thursday's show that he had sexual relationships with female employees and that someone tried to ...
• Montana town lands Snowbirds show
  SIDNEY, Mont. - Five years of effort by farmer-rancher Bryan Prevost will pay off this weekend when the Canadian Forces Snowbirds acrobatic team, ...
• Dutch court puts 13-year-old girl under guardianship...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UTRECHT, Netherlands - Dutch judges Friday called a 13-year-old girl's plan to sail solo around the world "undeniably daring ...
• Ted Kennedy dies at 77
  HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of ...
• Dominick Dunne, who wrote stories of shocking crimes...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Author Dominick Dunne, who told stories of shocking crimes among the rich and famous through his magazine ...
• Scotland frees terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on...
  EDINBURGH, Scotland - Scotland freed the Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds today, allowing the terminally ill man to die in his homeland ...
• Canadian pleads guilty to stealing plane from...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. LOUIS - A Canadian man has pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing a plane in Canada and flying over three ...
• Woman sets herself on fire inside Miami mall, three...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI - A woman set herself on fire at a Miami mall Thursday, then walked around engulfed in flames as shocked ...
• Quarterback Michael Vick, convicted of running...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHILADELPHIA - Michael Vick, a quarterback who was convicted two years ago of running a dogfighting ring, is back in the ...
• Solid-body electric guitar inventor Les Paul dies at...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WHITE PLAINS, New York - Les
• In statement, Steven Tyler thanks those who helped...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES - Steven Tyler is thanking the South Dakota police department and others who helped him after he fell off the ...
• Eunice Kennedy-Shriver, founder of Special Olympics...
  BOSTON - President John F. Kennedy's sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special ...
• Police allege Brazil crime show host commissioned...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO, Brazil - In one murder after another, the "Canal Livre" crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the ...
• John Hughes, director of 'Sixteen Candles,'...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured and cornered the ...
• Hacker attack shuts down Twitter; Facebook...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK - A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook ...
• Philippines democracy icon, former President Corazon...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines - Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a "people power" revolt and sustained ...
• Brazil police rule Canadian boxer Arturo Gatti's...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Canadian boxer Arturo Gatti's death was ruled a suicide by police Thursday and his wife, once ...
• Woman accused of cutting baby from pregnant friend's...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CONCORD, New Hampshire - A U.S. woman accused of cutting the fetus out of her pregnant friend and then telling others she'd ...
• Microsoft lands Yahoo search partnership to escalate...
  SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp. has finally roped Yahoo Inc. into an Internet search partnership, capping a convoluted cat-and-mouse game that ...
• Georgia man kills wife, grandson and himself on...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EAST POINT, Georgia - George Doby had been married to Edna 57 years on the day authorities say he shot her to death in the ...
• Police: Ohio woman rents gun at shooting range,...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHARONVILLE, Ohio - Police say a woman rented a handgun at an Ohio indoor shooting range, got some instructions on how to ...
• Toddler, baby found crying in trash can
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAYTON, Ohio - Police say a two-year-old girl and eight-month-old boy have been found crying inside a large trash bin, about ...
• Eight-year-old girl shunned by family after rape
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX - Lured by promises of chewing gum then allegedly raped in a shed by four boys barely older than her, an ...
• Brooklyn man's arrest on kidney-selling charges...
  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWARK, New Jersey - Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a "matchmaker," but his business wasn't romance. ...