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LOS ANGELES — After two postponed attempts, daredevil Felix Baumgartner will try again to break the world’s free-fall record at 23 miles above Roswell, N.M., and become the first skydiver to surpass the speed of sound.
CHICAGO — Kenai the sea otter was only a pup in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez tanker leaked 11 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska.
CHICAGO — Kenai the sea otter was only a pup in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez tanker leaked 11 million gallons of oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Paul D. Ryan’s first debate performance was nothing like his opponent expected. It was 1998, and Ryan was a 28-year-old Wisconsin congressional aide with powerful Washington mentors. Lydia Spottswood was a nurse and president of the Kenosha City Council, who thought helping her community was fun.
PACHUCA, Mexico — Even in death, drug lord Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano got no rest on Wednesday, his missing corpse the subject of a federal manhunt in northern Mexico and his elaborate mausoleum in this city locked and empty.
LOS ANGELES — Stan Lee Media, an Internet company that shut down more than a decade ago and has been mired in litigation ever since, has filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Walt Disney Co.
KENOSHA, Wis. — Miles Tooher, a 65-year-old whose patio furniture business is going under in the conservative Milwaukee suburb of West Allis, thinks Republican Mitt Romney could help turn the economy around if he could win the presidency.
AKRON, Ohio — What a difference two weeks — and a lackluster debate performance by President Barack Obama — has made for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in key swing states.
CHICAGO — A Chuck E. Cheese employee is accused of stabbing a woman with a box cutter after an argument about a salad plate, Chicago police said.
PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of his sentencing Tuesday, Jerry Sandusky starts a 30-day assessment process at Camp Hill prison that will decide his ultimate placement among the state’s 27 prisons.
LEXINGTON, Va. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney slammed his rival’s international strategy as weak Monday in a speech at Virginia Military Institute.
DETROIT — Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. has retired effective immediately amid a scandal involving his relationship with a female officer in the department, Mayor Dave Bing announced at a news conference Monday morning.
MIAMI — Edward Archbold was willing to do anything to win an exotic python — even if it meant eating bugs both crunchy and slimy.
The parents of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi — who committed suicide after his roommate used a webcam to spy on him and a male lover — have decided not to sue anyone, choosing instead to focus their attention on a foundation named after their son.
WASHINGTON – The campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney traded sharp accusations of lies and distortions Sunday as the race headed into its final month roiled by last week’s debate.
WASHINGTON — Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Sunday that he doesn’t think the scandal over his affair with a family housekeeper has cost him credibility as a high-profile political voice in the nation.
CHICAGO — By the time Gregory Weiler II was in his late teens, his family said, the Elk Grove Village, Ill., native was well down a path toward destruction.
DENVER — With the presidency hanging in the balance, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney clashed sharply Wednesday in their first debate, trying to convince voters they’re uniquely qualified to lead the country to full recovery from the worst economic downturn since the 1930s.
HONG KONG — The death toll from a ferry collision in Hong Kong waters rose to 38 on Tuesday, as seven crew members, including the two captains, were arrested on suspicion of endangering people’s lives at sea.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden, no stranger to gaffes, said Tuesday at a campaign event in Charlotte, N.C., that the middle class has “been buried the last four years.”
