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Obama wins North Carolina in Democratic race; Clinton leading in Indiana

WASHINGTON - Democratic front-runner Barack Obama easily captured North Carolina on Tuesday and was running just slightly behind Hillary Clinton in Indiana, rebounding after his roughest few weeks in ...

Baby satisfactory after being found in yard waste bin

ST. LOUIS - Remembering a forecast of rain, Wesley Falker decided to dump his grass clippings in a yard waste bin rather than leave them until morning. Falker now thinks a higher power was making s...

8 in NYC accused of torturing, robbing drug dealers

NEW YORK - A gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by holding their families hostage or threatening to squeeze t...

Man who killed girlfriend is executed - 1st inmate put to death in US after 7-month pause

JACKSON, Georgia - A man who killed his live-in girlfriend was executed Tuesday, the first inmate put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of lethal injections. Willia...

TV video shows Philly officers kicking, hitting 3 suspects

PHILADELPHIA - A half-dozen police officers kicked and beat three men pulled from a car during a traffic stop as a TV helicopter taped the confrontation. The video, shot by WTXF-TV, shows three pol...

Suspect dies after shootout in wealthy west London neighbourhood

LONDON - British authorities say a suspected gunman is dead after trading fire with police while holed up in a house in a wealthy west London neighbourhood. Marksmen from Britain's Metropolitan pol...

First international aid reaches Myanmar after devastating cyclone

YANGON, Myanmar - International aid began to trickle into Myanmar on Tuesday, but the stricken Irrawaddy Delta, the country's rice bowl where 22,000 people perished and twice as many are missing, rema...

Clinton seeks game-changer in battle with Obama in Indiana, North Carolina

WASHINGTON - Democratic front-runner Barack Obama wanted to seal the deal and Hillary Clinton was furiously fixed on upending the extraordinary U.S. nomination race in crucial contests Tuesday in Indi...

Police involved in shootout in wealthy west London neighbourhood

LONDON - Heavily armed police called in a negotiator to deal with a suspected gunman after a shootout Tuesday in a wealthy west London neighbourhood. Officers were called to Markham Square after re...

L.A. gang member-turned-author gets six years in prison for carjacking

LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles gang member who wrote a critically praised autobiography behind bars has been sentenced to six years in state prison for a 2006 carjacking. Kody (Monster) Scott, 4...