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U.S. forecast for next 3 months: hot, hot, hot

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 10:52pm GMT

Don't expect much relief from summer heat anywhere in the USA for the remainder of the season, forecasters predicted Thursday. ...
Illinois bank standoff ends peacefully

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 10:11pm GMT

A man who was wanted in a shooting that wounded a sheriff's deputy and later took five hostages in a bank surrendered late Thursday, ...
DA: Halberstam driver to be charged

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 9:29pm GMT

Prosecutors plan to file misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charges against a graduate student who was driving David Halberstam ...
Chicken owners in cities score coop coup

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 9:18pm GMT

Dozens of cities have recently enacted ordinances regulating urban chickens. Harrison-Noonan, 51, a carpenter, got his after ...
1,800 volunteers search for missing Ohio mom

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 8:44pm GMT

About 1,800 volunteers searched neighborhoods, farm fields and woods Thursday for a woman, nine months pregnant, who disappeared ...
Body found after N.Y. Catskills flooding

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 6:36pm GMT

Searchers found the body of an 81-year-old man and were searching for three other people still missing Thursday after flash floods ...
High-tech fence on Ariz. border delayed

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 6:23pm GMT

Technical issues are delaying the completion of a multibillion-dollar high-tech fence intended to reduce illegal entry along ...
Chicago mob trial opens with blood and gore details

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 5:27pm GMT

Chicago's biggest mob trial in years started Thursday with a prosecutor urging the jury to forget what they know about movie ...
Court hears appeal of Bush assassination plot

Posted: June 21st, 2007, 3:08pm GMT

An American Muslim convicted of plotting to assassinate President Bush had been tortured into confessing and was denied his constitutional ...