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GREENBRIER, Ark. – The central Arkansas town of Greenbrier has been plagued for months by hundreds of small earthquakes, and after being woken up by the largest quake to hit the state in 35 years, residents said Monday they're unsettled by the increasing severity and lack of warning. The U.S...

ATLANTA — Kirkland, who lived in Macon, Ga., performed Saturday night at the Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin, the final stop in a four-city swing through Florida in February. (Image www.bobtjeblues.com)An 88-year-old blues legend known as the "Gypsy of the Blues" was ****** in Florida when his...

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WASHINGTON – Toyota Motor Corp. recalled 2.17 million vehicles in the United States on Thursday to address accelerator pedals that could become entrapped in floor mats or jammed in driver's side carpeting, prompting federal regulators to close its investigation into the embattled automaker. The...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Four Americans taken hostage by Somali pirates off East Africa were shot and ****** by their captors Monday, the U.S. military said, marking the first time U.S. citizens have been ****** in a wave of pirate attacks plaguing the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean for years. U.S...

WASHINGTON – Call them brain pacemakers, tiny implants that hold promise for fighting tough psychiatric diseases — if scientists can figure out just where in all that gray matter to put them. Deep brain stimulation, or DBS, has proved a powerful way to block the tremors of Parkinson's disease...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday. The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year...

BEIJING – Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) ***** from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years, the hospital said Friday. Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but...

LOS ANGELES – A TV reporter who lapsed into gibberish during a live shot outside the Grammys said she was terrified when it happened and knew something was wrong as soon as she opened her mouth. KCBS-TV reporter Serene Branson's incoherence Sunday fueled Internet speculation that she suffered...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. The massive sunspot, which astronomers say is the size of Jupiter, is the strongest solar flare in...

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PASADENA, Calif. – A NASA spacecraft zipped past a comet half the size of Manhattan in a Valentine's Day rendezvous that scientists hope will shed light on these icy solar system bodies. Speeding at 24,000 mph, Stardust zoomed by comet Tempel 1 on Monday night, snapping six dozen...

PHOENIX (AP) — An 84-year-old Arizona man says he survived five days in the desert by eating dinner leftovers and straining window washing fluid to stay hydrated. A helicopter spotted 84-year-old Henry Morello on Saturday north of Phoenix. He had been missing since Feb. 7. Morello says his...

LOS ANGELES – Health officials on Saturday were investigating complaints of respiratory illnesses that a media report said affected dozens of people after a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles that was part of a larger conference. The Department of Public Health issued a statement...

PHOENIX – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk while holding onto a cart, mouth the lyrics to easy songs and have simple conversations, according to ******, staff and her doctors. Mark Kelly said in an interview broadcast Monday on NBC that he can ask his wife questions and she can respond. "The...

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases. Obama's new budget projects that the deficit for the current year will surge to an all-time...

QUEBEC CITY, Canada (AFP) – A winter wonderland on the outskirts of Quebec City has become one of Canada's hottest attractions and most sought out accommodations. Guests huddle for warmth in ******** bags on beds of ice, bonnets pulled over their ears to prevent frostbite, while sipping...

Even before President Hosni Mubarak left office on Friday, a number of hats were already in the ring to succeed him. Egypt's political future remains in flux, and it's unclear how soon the emerging contenders will get to make their bids for the now vacant presidency. So far, the Supreme Council...

he time has come for developers to slash and burn the budgets of multimillion-dollar games, an industry vet says. Mark Cerny, who has worked on everything from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 to MLB 08: The Show, spoke yesterday at the Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (DICE) Summit in Las Vegas...

The fans inside Cowboys Stadium for Super Bowl XLV had as good a view of the flyover by four F-18 fighter jets as those watching at home. With the roof closed on Jerry Jones' $1.2 billion stadium, people in attendance were ****** to watch the flyover on the massive high-def screens inside. A...

CAIRO – Egypt's military announced on national television that it stepped in to "safeguard the country" and assured protesters that President Hosni Mubarak will meet their demands in the strongest indication yet that the longtime leader has lost power. In Washington, the CIA chief said there was...

Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology are reportedly under federal investigation for human trafficking and using unpaid labor, according to the New Yorker (via Huffington Post). The charges surfaced in a profile of Oscar-winning writer-director Paul Haggis ('Crash'), who left Scientology in...

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head January 8, is regaining part of her ability to speak, her spokesman said Wednesday. C.J. Karamargin would not divulge what Giffords has said, other than saying she asked for toast...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors said Tuesday they plan to charge Lindsay Lohan with felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace reported stolen from a jewelry store last month — the most serious count the actress has faced in more than three years of trouble with the law. District Attorney's spokeswoman...

Who says the world is only full of bad news? NASA has largely dismissed a Russian report that an asteroid larger than two football fields could hit Earth by 2036. In other words, you can relax. Known as "99942 Apophis," the 900-foot-long asteroid has had the attention of scientists for some...

G Electronics wants the U.S. International Trade Commission to bar the import of the PlayStation 3 into the United States, according to a complaint. The complaint, filed Friday with the ITC and first reported by Bloomberg yesterday, claims that the Blu-ray player in the PlayStation 3 ********...

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Microsoft's co-founder lets loose in an interview with Sanjay Gupta At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, one of the chief luminaries of the American tech industry, and perhaps its most recognizable face, Bill Gates, is hard at work pushing countries of the world to step up...

In 2004, NASA scientists announced that there was a chance that Apophis, an asteroid larger than two football fields, could smash into Earth in 2029. A few additional observations and some number-crunching later, astronomers noted that the chance of the planet-killer hitting Earth in 2029 was...

ARLINGTON, Texas – Angry fans outside a Cowboys Stadium fence chanted “Let us in,” “Jerry sucks,” and “We want seats” while being denied inside access for Super Bowl XLV on Sunday. The ticketed fans, estimated between 200-400, were denied entry inside the stadium because temporary seating...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The astronaut husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will head to space in April, a stunning decision coming almost one month to the day that his wife was shot through the head. The congresswoman not only survived, by all accounts she is making good progress in rehab...

Before everyone gets too excited: the wrongful death suit brought by Katherine Jackson against AEG Live was allowed to proceed on Wednesday by Judge Yvette Palazuelos. However: little remains of the case. Katherine Jackson’s attempt to wrest millions from AEG Live was “gutted,” as on one...

LAS VEGAS – Comic David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and other prominent political figures vaulted him to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, has died in Las Vegas, his ****** confirmed Saturday. He was 77. Frye died at his home Monday of cardiopulmonary...

Sgt. James B. Hurley on a bridge near the property he lost to foreclosure while serving with the National Guard in Iraq. (Erik Holladay for The New York Times) While Sgt. James B. Hurley was away at war, he lost a heartbreaking battle at home. In ********* of a law intended to protect active...

Daniel Arsham's apartment in Brooklyn is the only pint-sized place we've ever wanted to live in. It's a mere 90 square feet — that's about big enough to fit a toothbrush — but the decor's so sleek and minimal, we'd trade in our own sardine can in a heartbeat. The apartment's a loft attached to...

LONDON (Reuters) – British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website. "The arrests were related to recent...

LOS ANGELES – Charlie Sheen's publicist says the actor has been hospitalized with severe abdominal pains. Publicist Stan Rosenfield says Sheen has had a history of hernia problems and that the unidentified woman who made the early morning 911 call on Sheen's behalf "said he had severe stomach...

PHILADELPHIA – Winter-weary residents got out their boots and shovels yet again as another storm moved up the East Coast on Wednesday. The storm brought a mix of rain and snow to areas from Tennessee into New England. The snow was expected to get heavier by afternoon and could complicate the...

TOKYO (AFP) – Toyota Motor is to recall nearly 1.7 million vehicles worldwide including 1.2 million in Japan and 421,000 overseas over a fuel leak risk, the automaker and the Transport Ministry said on Wednesday. Toyota and the ministry said the recalls include around 245,000 of its luxury...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – ****** services officers often get calls reporting "huge," monstrous reptiles, only to arrive and find an itty-bitty garden snake. The 5-foot Monitor lizard wandering around a condo complex in the city of Riverside was way bigger than ****** control officer Jenny Selter...

DETROIT – General Motors Co. sold more cars and trucks in China last year than it did in the U.S., for the first time in the company's 102-year history. Despite GM's growth in China, Toyota Motor Corp. held onto the title of world's largest automaker. The Japanese company reported 8.42 million...

In Japan Tokyo, where land is limited and every inch of space is a fortune to own, a hotel room can cost a bomb to stay overnight. So the Japanese came up with an idea of just a 2×1 meter size bedroom for rental for people who just need a place to ***** and nothing more. A Chinese citizen went...

SEATTLE (Reuters) – A shooting on Sunday at a Wal-Mart store in Port Orchard, Washington, just west of Seattle, left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded, authorities said. A suspected gunman and a young woman were ****** in the gunfire, but it was not immediately certain whether...

MOSCOW – The Russian state RIA Novosti news agency says an explosion at Moscow's busiest airport has ****** 23 people and wounded 130. The news report cites the Health Ministry. RIA Novosti says Monday's explosion in the arrivals hall at Domodedovo Airport may have been caused by a suicide...

LOS ANGELES – Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who inspired television viewers to trim down, eat well and pump iron for decades before diet and exercise became a national obsession, died Sunday. He was 96. LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro...

BRIDGEPORT -- The woman sought for questioning in the ********** of a sick baby girl from Harlem Hospital two decades ago turned herself in to local police and the FBI late Sunday morning. Ann Pettway is now in the custody of the FBI in Bridgeport. Agents are attempting to talk to her about...

Two days Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was transferred from Tucson to a Houston rehabilitation center, she remains in intensive care because of a buildup of fluid in her brain. The fluid, doctors said Saturday, doesn't appear to be infected, but the Houston Chronicle's Todd Ackerman reports, it will...

MOSCOW – After 233 days in a locked steel capsule, six researchers on a 520-day mock flight to Mars are all feeling strong and ready to "land" on the Red Planet, the mission director said Friday. The all-male crew of three Russians, a Chinese, a Frenchman and an Italian-Colombian has been...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Canadian police have arrested a man accused of helping stage suicide bomb attacks in Iraq, including one that ****** five U.S. soldiers, officials said on Wednesday. The man, identified by Canadian authorities as Sayfildin Tahir Sharif, was arrested in Edmonton, Alberta at...