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Volunteers spent the weekend searching but have found no sign of a missing British exchange student from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Hundreds of passengers have taken ill with an intestinal bug on a Celebrity Cruise ship's third straight trip from South Carolina.
Officials say a collision between a transit bus and light-rail train in downtown Houston has sent 18 people to the hospital.
Prosecutors urged a federal judge Monday to turn down ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's request to delay his corruption trial, saying public interest in the case warrants a speedy resolution.
Two Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot the Minneapolis airport have agreed not to fight the revocations of their licenses but could fly again.
The fiance of a mother whose minivan was found on a private Puget Sound beach is using his Web site to plead for information leading to the safe return of the woman and her 8-year-old son.
Prosecutors say they've reached a plea agreement with an Arkansas woman who drove into a lake during a nighttime thunderstorm, killing her three young sons.
Space shuttle Discovery has some leaky valves that could delay its launch next month.
The head of Rhode Island's emergency management agency says there is no immediate threat that a dam on a flooded river in West Warwick will fail.
Police in Ohio have brought more charges against a Walmart shopper accused of punching children in the head for kicks.
As hundreds of injured survivors of the Haiti earthquake overwhelmed Florida hospitals in January, state officials pleaded with the federal government for basic information about arriving patients but got little assistance, e-mails obtained by The Associated Press show.
A Colorado man who sparked fears of an assassination plot against Barack Obama has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a separate theft case.
Thousands of people ripped off in a widespread scam by New York City taxi drivers who illegally doubled the rate of their rides could get some money back, but that is less likely to happen for those who paid with cash and didn't keep their receipts, the city said Monday.
The medical examiner in Washington, D.C., says an autopsy shows a man who opened fire at the Pentagon nearly two weeks ago died from gunshot wounds to his head and arm.
An Ohio woman claims in a lawsuit that a Pennsylvania plastic surgeon used the wrong kind of breast implants on her, then kept her knocked out longer than necessary and continued with the botched operation on the advice of her fiance.
Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods along Fargo's Red River on Monday as residents began preparing to keep the looming flood waters away from their homes.
