Bush travels to Illinois for private fundraiser
Published on: 07/25/08 The Associated PressPresident Bush spent a second day this week traveling to raise money for Republicans, all out of public view.
President Bush spent a second day this week traveling to raise money for Republicans, all out of public view.
Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal town.
The government has endangered the public's health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West, according to a scathing audit released Friday.
Senate Democrats failed Friday to advance a measure to rein in oil market speculators, one of a series of efforts to tell voters they are serious about addressing $4-a-gallon gasoline, and they rejected Republican calls to expand offshore oil production.
A man suspected of shooting three people in a community-college computer lab lost a fistfight to one of the victims months ago and had been feuding with him ever since, a police detective said Friday.
A woman prosecutors say helped make a graphic videotape of her two visiting grandchildren has pleaded guilty in a Texas child pornography case.
Just blocks from the University of Washington, a line of people shuffle toward a food pantry, awaiting handouts such as milk and bread.
People say that Emmett Till never got justice.
More than 50 dissident Catholic groups from around the world have written an open letter asking Pope Benedict XVI to lift the church's ban on birth control.
The cries of a baby led rescuers to him in the wreckage of a home flattened by a tornado that killed his grandmother and blew his grandfather into the yard, officials said Friday.
When there's an urgent need to trace fruits and vegetables in a crisis like the salmonella outbreak, a lot of the pieces for a rapid-response system are in place. But nobody has quite figured out how to put them together to operate seamlessly in the vast American marketplace.
It would be an understatement to say traffic agents aren't well-liked on the congested streets of New York.
The panel that charged former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's aides with ethics violations in a political scandal may investigate whether Spitzer orchestrated delays in the initial probe.
Nestled among the lush forests and mountain foothills of rural southeastern Oklahoma is a soldier's utopia, a sleepy enclave where U.S. military veterans can claim their share of the American dream for pennies on the dollar.
South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem: The floodwaters they're slogging through are laced with stinging fire ants, snakes and even deadly tarantulas.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain says that Democratic rival Barack Obama's policies would have led to defeat in both Iraq and Afghanistan and caused the entire Middle East to erupt into war.
Investigators alleged Friday that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick berated and attacked them as they tried to serve a subpoena to a friend, and a judge ordered the troubled mayor to pay $7,500 and undergo random drug testing.
The first of 200 ships idled by a massive oil spill began crawling down the Mississippi River Friday after the Coast Guard reopened the waterway to traffic, but it could be days before all of the ships are cleared.
Shots were fired near a Christian radio station in central Pennsylvania after police responded to reports that an armed man was headed to the station's offices.
A former Tulane University football player convicted of attempted manslaughter for his role in a brawl outside a Bourbon Street nightclub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.