McCain raises $27 million in July
WASHINGTON - John McCain raised $27 million in July, his largest one-month fundraising haul since clinching the Republican presidential nomination, while the Republican National Committee brought in nearly $26 million. <...See Story

 

Little progress made in bridge repairs across US
MINNEAPOLIS - A year after the worst U.S. bridge collapse in a generation brought calls for immediate repairs to other spans, two of every three of the busiest problem bridges in each state — carrying nearly 40 million v...See Story

 

Louisiana boy's arm bitten off by alligator
SLIDELL, La. - Sheriff's deputies say an alligator has bitten off an 11-year-old boy's arm in Louisiana.

Deputies say Devin Funck was playing in a neighborhood pond in a subdivision about 20 miles northeast of ...See Story

 

Some searchers still expect to see rare woodpecker
BRINKLEY, Ark. - For the last three years, researchers in camouflage and waders have slogged through the east Arkansas woods hoping to spot a rare bird that so far seems unwilling to be seen.

Some scientists st...See Story

 

Detroit mayor, soon off to jail, talks of comeback
DETROIT - Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city — and left the door open for a return to publi...See Story

 

Record corn prices mean more expensive meat, dairy
NEW YORK - Raging Midwest floodwaters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store.

In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork,...See Story

 

1st black La. Supreme Court justice dies at 84
NEW ORLEANS - Revius Ortique Jr., a former civil rights attorney who became the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84.

Ortique died in Baton Rouge from complications with a ...See Story

 

Va. judge imposes death in guard, deputy slaying
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - A jail escapee who set off a manhunt near Virginia Tech's campus by killing a hospital guard and later, a sheriff's deputy, was sentenced to death Monday despite his attorney's pleas for leniency. <...See Story

 

Mass. mayor says no proof girls had pregnancy pact
GLOUCESTER, Mass. - The city's mayor said Monday there is no evidence a group of young girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, seeking to dispel an explosive theory put forth by the high school...See Story