NEW YORK – For KC of KC and the Sunshine Band (search), falling off the stage during a concert is definitely not the way he likes it. Uh huh, uh huh. KC, whose real name is Wayne Casey (search), took a headfirst fall off a 6-foot-high stage while performing Saturday …

RALEIGH, N.C. – There are some 144,000 unmarried couples living together in North Carolina, and they are all breaking the law — a statute that has been on the books since 1805. The law against cohabitation (search) is rarely enforced. But now the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to …

ROME – The White House on Thursday expressed fresh regrets over last month’s shooting death of an Italian intelligence officer in Iraq by U.S. troops as President Bush and his two immediate predecessors met with Italian officials and mourned the death of Pope John Paul II (search). Free live streaming …

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Police nationwide were on the lookout Monday night for an ex-convict suspected of killing two people and raping a teenage girl in a 24-hour crime spree. Stephen Stanko (search), 37, is suspected of strangling a female librarian he lived with in South Carolina and shooting a …

LONDON, England – Millions of divorced Anglicans in Britain have done what Prince Charles (search) and Camilla Parker Bowles (search) plan to do next week — remarry in a civil ceremony followed by a blessing from their pastor. But none of them has been heir to the throne and the …

HARTFORD, Conn. – Hundreds of people converged on the Capitol steps Wednesday in a last-minute effort to erode legislative support for civil unions (search). Though supporters claimed to have enough support for the bill to pass, protesters held out hope that Gov. M. Jodi Rell (search) would say no. “The …

WILMINGTON, Del. – Coca-Cola Co. (KO) on Tuesday reported an 11 percent drop in quarterly net income, hurt by weak soft drink sales in North America, higher expenses and a jump in taxes due to a repatriation of foreign earnings. The world’s largest soft drink maker, however, said it had …

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Investigators searched the Las Vegas home of a woman who claimed she scooped up a mouthful of finger along with her chili at a Wendy’s restaurant last month. City police, working with their counterparts in Las Vegas, served the warrant Wednesday as they investigated how a …

IDYLLWILD, Calif. – Two lost hikers who survived three nights in the frigid San Jacinto Mountains said they stumbled upon the campsite of a man who vanished a year ago and were able to scavenge food, clothes and matches from his backpack. Brandon Day and Gina Allen were rescued Tuesday …

BRISTOL, R.I. – First Lady Laura Bush said Saturday that, more than previous generations, this year’s college graduates are faced with solving problems that lie beyond the nation’s borders. Bush, speaking to about 900 graduating students of Roger Williams University, said because the world is so interconnected, disasters such as …