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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police arrested three teenagers Saturday in the beating of a homeless man in a park. The teens, all 15-year-old Fort Lauderdale residents, were charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, police said in a statement. The charges stem from an attack on William Teeters, 44, …

DHAKA, Bangladesh – The death toll in Bangladesh and India rose to at least 95 and nearly 1,000 remained missing Thursday after storms capsized boats, toppled houses and washed away roads, news reports and officials said. Rescuers recovered 30 more bodies overnight, pushing the death toll in Bangladesh to 49 …

WASHINGTON – An official overseeing oil leasing says he was directed in the 1990s to remove a provision concerning royalty payments, leading to a financial windfall to oil companies, the Interior Department’s inspector general said Wednesday. He also unleashed a broad rebuke of his department’s record on ethics. Inspector General …

WASHINGTON – Oil prices jumped almost $2 Wednesday after briefly dropping to nearly $60-a-barrel, while natural gas futures plunged to their lowest level since December 2002. The 7 percent decline in natural gas futures reflects that “storage is at a record, and there’s no demand,” said Fimat USA broker Mike …

EL PASO, Texas – Heavy rain flooded roads in the Southwest on Monday as the rapidly weakening remnants of Hurricane John spread across the border from Mexico, where up to 20 inches had fallen on parts of the Baja Peninsula. A half-mile section of Interstate 10 near downtown El Paso …

It was the early 1960’s and tent dresses, white go-go boots, and Vidal Sassoon haircuts were all the rage. But what captured the attention of most women was the “pill” — a new method of pregnancy protection that promised to revolutionize a woman’s sex life. And it did. Today there …

NEW YORK – Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday called for immediate action to stop global warming, calling the phenomenon a “climate crisis” that demands attention from American leaders. Gore, a Democrat who narrowly lost the 2000 presidential race to George W. Bush, decried the lack of action on …

ABC’s upcoming miniseries “The Path to 9/11” is generating a firestorm among members of the Clinton administration, who claim the two-part, made-for-TV film is filled with factual errors and lies. Three members of the administration — former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger …

PITTSBURGH – In his first two weeks in office, the city’s new mayor announced changes to his staff, readied a budget proposal, attended a handful of news conferences — and laughed it up on the “Late Show with David Letterman.” It’s been a full schedule for the Pittsburgh native and …

McKINNEY, Texas – Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a suspect in the July slaying of a real estate agent who was found stabbed to death in a model home. Kosoul Chanthakoummane, 25, was arrested on a charge of capital murder late Tuesday in connection with the death of …