BOSTON – A starting lineman for the New England Patriots worked as an informant for federal drug agents after he was arrested in New York on a charge of carrying the powerful painkiller oxycodone without a prescription, an attorney said. Nicholas Kaczur, 28, wore a wire to help agents build …

ROME, Ga. – In Romania, bodies are said to be taken to gravesites in trucks, altered vehicles, wagons pulled by horses or by family members on foot. A Georgia church is planning to send a refurbished hearse to Romania, which church officials say does not currently have any. The 1987 …

PRISTINA, Kosovo – Kosovo marked its first full week of independence with prayers and protests Sunday as outraged Serbs staged demonstrations in the new nation’s tense north and across Europe. Refusing to let Kosovo secede from Serbia without a fight, up to 1,000 protesters gathered briefly in the ethnically divided …

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Investigators were searching in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday for debris from two F-15C Eagles that could help determine the cause of a mid-air crash that killed a pilot during a training exercise. Training flights from Eglin Air Force Base, where the two flights originated, have been …

WASHINGTON – The Federal Emergency Management Agency misspent millions of dollars it received from selling used travel trailers, government investigators have found. Instead of buying more trailers — as allowed under the law — FEMA used more than $13 million toward fully loaded sport utility vehicles, travel expenses and purchase …

DENVER – More than 1 billion gallons of contaminated water — enough to fill 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools — is trapped in a tunnel in the mountains above the historic town of Leadville and threatening to blow. Lake County Commissioners have declared a local state of emergency for fear that …

DETROIT – General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help. The earnings …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The first warning sign came when a sharp-eyed worker sorting pills noticed that the odd blue flecks dotting the finished drug capsules matched the paint on the factory doors. After the flecks were spotted again on the capsules, a blood-pressure medication called diltiazem, the plant …

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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – CBS asked a judge Friday to throw out a subpoena for unaired news footage that the military says includes admissions of crimes in an attack that killed 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha. “It’s incredibly important that we have an interview with the accused about the very …