Kin outraged, distraught over teen's cyber suicide
AP - 1 hour ago

MIAMI (AP) - The family of a college student who killed himself live on the Internet say they're horrified his life ended before a virtual audience, and infuriated that viewers of the live webcam or operators of the Web site that hosted it didn't act sooner to save him.

Is Alaska big enough for celebrity Palin?
AP - 2 hours ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Oprah wants her, and so do Letterman and Leno. Fresh from her political defeat, Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate that would be astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor.

Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
AP - 1 hour ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator.

Astronauts face hardest spacewalk to finish repair
AP - 30 minutes ago

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint.

Neb. lawmakers OK age limit for safe-haven law
AP - 7 hours ago

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Gov. Dave Heineman signed into law Friday a bill adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that allowed 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — to be abandoned at state hospitals. The law, approved hours earlier by the Legislature in a 45-3 vote, goes into effect Saturday, and makes Nebraska the 14th state with a 30-day age cap. It had been the only state with a safe-haven law without an age limit.

Year later, baby ordered back to adoptive parents
AP - 3 hours ago

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday ordered a year-old boy back into the home of an adoptive couple who had to give him up months ago after not telling the biological family the woman was pregnant.

FBI says Ohio man threatened to bomb airports
AP - 15 hours ago

CINCINNATI (AP) - FBI officials said Friday they arrested a man who threatened to blow up Cincinnati's football stadium, two airports, Ohio River bridges, and other landmarks.

Prosecutor who had Cheney indicted yells at judge
AP - 14 hours ago

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas (AP) - A county prosecutor who brought indictments this week against Vice President Dick Cheney and others pounded his fist and shouted at the judge Friday during a routine hearing. Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra asked Presiding Judge Manuel Banales to recuse himself from the case, which alleges abuse at federally run prisons.

Daughter defends mother in Internet hoax trial
AP - 10 hours ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Missouri woman's daughter says her mother had wanted an Internet account shut down even before cruel messages were sent from it to a teenage neighbor who later committed suicide.

Connecticut takes on slippery olive oil standards
AP - 14 hours ago

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - When food importer Luciano Sclafani spied a three-liter tin of extra virgin olive oil a couple of years ago selling for $9.99, he could tell without tasting a drop that it wasn't legitimate.