WASHINGTON – Residents across the Washington, D.C., area say they are scared and taking as many precautions as possible in response to the spate of unsolved shootings that has spread to at least four different jurisdictions. “Things were different after 9/11, but now people must be even more paranoid,” said …
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KABUL – Afghan election officials racing to meet a narrowing window for a possible presidential runoff said Friday they will recount a sample of 10 percent of suspect ballot boxes to speed long-delayed results of the disputed election. Preliminary results from the Aug. 20 vote show President Hamid Karzai winning …
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Four men were arrested and a fifth is being sought in connection with the campus gang rape of an 18-year-old female Hofstra University student. The four suspects — only one of whom is a student at the school — were arrested on Long Island, N.Y., on Monday; …
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Michigan police say a 35-year-old mother used the Internet to track down the son she gave up for adoption a decade ago, seducing and raping the teenage boy when she found him after an online search. Aimee Louise Sword of Waterford Township, near Detroit, was arraigned this week on three …
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A virus known to cause leukemia and tumors in animals can be found in some prostate tumors and might be one cause of prostate cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. They found xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus or XMRV in 27 percent of the human prostate tumors they looked at, …
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NEW YORK – Microsoft Corp. has filed five lawsuits aimed at halting the flow of malicious online advertising. The Redmond, Washington, software maker filed the claims Thursday in Washington state court against five unknown individuals under the business names Soft Solutions, DirectAd, qiweroqw.com, ITmeter INC. and ote2008.info. Microsoft’s associate general …
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WARM SRPINGS, Ga. – A Georgia woman is in jail after police say she forced her son to kill his pet hamster with a hammer as punishment for bad grades. The sheriff of rural Meriwether County told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Thursday that the 12-year-old boy told his teacher about the …
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The news that is not White House approved… Mr. and Mrs. Madison Avenue The Obamas are quickly becoming the first family of advertising. Take a look at one of PETA’s new ads featuring Michelle Obama. There’s only one problem: The animal rights group did not ask the first lady for …
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General Motors Corp. is back in the electric motor business. The automaker said Tuesday that starting in 2013, it plans to build its own electric motors for hybrid and electric vehicles. GM has been getting electric motors for those vehicles from suppliers, but wants to make the motors in-house in …
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DETROIT – The North American International Auto Show has reopened after a small electrical fire forced the evacuation of thousands of people from exhibit halls at Detroit’s Cobo Center. No injuries were reported in Thursday afternoon’s fire. The show reopened several hours later. The fire was in the rafters above …
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