ALTADENA, Calif. – Authorities who feared a woman might kill herself and her two young children said the family was found safe Friday night in Mexico. The Los Angeles Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was notified at about 11 p.m. Friday that Lisa Ruelas, 38, and her sons had been found …
Read More »In Wake of Tragedy, Families of Flight 3407 Will Seek Immediate Answers, Psychiatrist Says
The families of the people who died when Continental Airlines Flight 3407 crashed Thursday night are most likely searching for immediate answers and experiencing the first stages of the cycle of grief, said Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and FOX News Channel contributor. Flight 3407, a commuter plane coming in …
Read More »Study: Laser Therapy Promising For Milder Strokes
WASHINGTON – An experimental stroke treatment that sends laser beams into the brain may help patients with milder strokes lessen their crippling effects, U.S. researchers said on Friday. Carlsbad, California-based PhotoThera Inc’s NeuroThera Laser System failed to significantly lower stroke disability overall in 660 stroke patients in its first major …
Read More »North Korea Claims Right to Launch Missiles
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea vowed Monday to press ahead with test-firing what neighboring governments believe is a long-range missile, but it sought to portray the launch as part of a space program amid growing pressure to drop the plan. Pyongyang’s official Korean Central News Agency made the claim …
Read More »Heather Locklear Pleads No Contest to DUI Charge
Heather Locklear has evaded DUI charges by pleading guilty to a lesser offense. A court official in Santa Barbara says an attorney for the actress entered a no contest plea to a misdemeanor reckless driving charge in court Friday. Locklear was given three years of informal probation, will pay a …
Read More »Ex-Church Official Allegedly Used Stolen Funds for Vasectomy
MARION, Ind. – An Indiana prosecutor says a former church official is charged with stealing more than $276,000 from church accounts and using some of the money to pay for a vasectomy. Grant County Prosecutor Jim Luttrull says William Jeremiah Six faces eight counts of theft and one count of …
Read More »Global Economic Meltdown Leaves Many Indians Without Wives
They were supposed to be the pick of the bunch, the boys who studied hardest, got the highest grades and went on to bag bumper salaries from the West’s most prestigious companies. Now, however, those young Indian men face an unexpected pitfall: nobody back home wants to marry them. For …
Read More »Serena Williams Tops Dinara Safina for Australian Open Title
MELBOURNE, Australia – Serena Williams routed Dinara Safina 6-0, 6-3 Saturday to win the Australian Open — her 10th Grand Slam title — and return to the No. 1 ranking. It was total domination for second-seeded Williams, who looked at ease in winning back-to-back Grand Slam titles and was moving …
Read More »Aspen Bomb Plotter Had Maps to Homes of Lawyer, Judge, Elected Officials in Car
ASPEN, Colo. – A man who left four homemade bombs around Aspen on New Year’s Eve because he was bitter about his hometown had maps in his car to homes of people he’d come across over the years: a lawyer who prosecuted him, a judge who sentenced him, and several …
Read More »16 Veterans Infected After Unsterile Colonoscopy
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Veterans Affairs officials say 16 patients exposed to contaminated equipment at its medical facilities have tested positive for viral infections, including hepatitis. VA spokeswoman Katie Roberts said Friday that 10 colonoscopy patients from the VA medical center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., tested positive for hepatitis. She said six …
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