Nation and World
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Workers uncover rare mummified dinosaur found in North Dakota
Mar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - BISMARCK, N.D. -- Using tiny brushes and chisels, workers picking at a big greenish-black rock in the basement of North Dakota's state museum are meticulously uncovering...
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Hastert still backing Oberweis for Congress
Mar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is still supporting Republican businessman Jim Oberweis to replace him in Congress but acknowledges winning the seat back from a Demo...
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Ricin in Vegas motel apparently wasn't meant to harm others
Mar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- The man at the center of a ricin scare at a Las Vegas motel says he never had any intention of hurting anyone with the deadly biological agent, his brother ...
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NY Gov. David Paterson begins his term by admitting past affair
Mar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. -- The state's new governor revealed today that he had affairs with several women, including a state employee. The confession came a day after he took over ...
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Swarm of bees closes Calif. highway
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects flipped over on a California highway. The California ...
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Fed 'pulling out all the stops' to ease financial crisis
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve is urgently moving to contain a deepening credit crisis and restore confidence in panicked financial markets by becoming a lender of la...
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Ship's pilot charged in crash that spilled oil into San Francisco Bay
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The pilot of a ship that spilled 58,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay after crashing into a bridge last November has been charged with criminal neg...
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Paterson sworn in as New York's governor
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. -- David Paterson was officially sworn in as New York's governor today, becoming the state's first black chief executive and vowing to move past the prostit...
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7th body found in NYC crane collapse
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The last of seven bodies has been pulled from the rubble at the site of a crane collapse in Manhattan. Six construction workers and a woman in town for St. P...
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High Court to review FCC policy on profanity
Mar 16, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday stepped into a legal fight over the use of curse words on the airwaves, the high court's first major case on broadcast indecenc...