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Since they first walked the planet, humans have either buried or burned their dead. Now a new option is generating interest -- dissolving bodies in lye and flushing the brownish, syrupy residue down the drain.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

One killed in North Carolina tornado

Authorities began combing through the wreckage Friday caused by a reported tornado that killed one person and injured three others in central North Carolina.

Full Story updated 5/9/2008 8:54 AM

Investigation at Death Valley ranch where Charles Manson hid

National Park Service officials say the Death Valley ranch where Charles Manson was arrested will be closed for a second time this year to search for possible human remains.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 7:05 AM

Putin signals he intends to stay the one in charge

When Boris Yeltsin left the Kremlin eight years ago, he gave Vladimir Putin the pen he had used to sign important documents and decrees, a gesture symbolizing the transfer of power to Russia's new president.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Saudi women shedding their veils for sport

The players bounded into the gym, shedding their long black cloaks and veils to take to the basketball court. Up this night: Jeddah United against the Jaguars, as 30 women spectators hooted and hollered from the stands.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Graduation: When the 'name game' gets serious

A week from Saturday, 453 new graduates will cross the commencement stage on the lawn of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn. Among them: Nokuthula Sikhethiwe Kitikiti, Udochukwu Chinyere Obodo, and Baitnairamdal Otgonshar.

Full Story updated 5/9/2008 9:00 AM

Platypus's genome as strange as you'd expect

SYDNEY, Australia -- Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus -- one of nature's strangest animals with a bill like a duck's, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Drug companies defend TV advertisements before Congress

Some of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies defended their TV advertisements Thursday from Democrats pushing for tougher marketing restrictions.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 9:16 AM

Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child

It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman -- she's pregnant with her 18th child.

Full Story updated 5/9/2008 8:34 AM

Global food shortage rooted in deteriorating soil qualities

Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're planted in.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Mexico's top cop shot dead

Mexico's acting federal police chief was shot dead Thursday outside his home -- a brazen attack that comes as drug traffickers increasingly lash back at a nationwide crackdown on organized crime.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Housing aid bills faces Bush veto

The House on Thursday passed a massive homeowner rescue plan to provide cheaper, government-backed mortgages to half a million debt-ridden borrowers and bolster an economy crippled by the housing crisis.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

McCain's wife won't release tax returns

Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Al-Qaida leader in Iraq reported arrested in Mosul

Iraqi police commandos captured the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq in a raid in the northern city of Mosul, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in what could mark a significant blow to the Sunni insurgency in its last urban stronghold.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Clinton urges supporters to ignore rising calls for her to quit race

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Barack Obama's support among working, white Americans has diminished. Her fresh comments about race dogged her Thursday as she pressed on with her struggling candidacy.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Human factors contributed to storm's wrath

A cyclone with winds up to 120 mph. A low-lying, densely populated delta region, stripped of its protective trees.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

Foreign aid finally let in, but not U.S.

Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale.

Full Story published 5/9/2008 12:29 AM

A photo gets 'em every time

Police in Bensalem, Pa., say they had no trouble tracking down a robbery suspect, because the victims had taken his picture while chatting with him at a bar a short time before the theft.

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