Nation and World
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Counterfeit $100 wipes out Girl Scouts
Feb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- A pair of con artists ripped off a Girl Scout group when they exchanged a fake $100 bill for cookies, police said. The unknown couple handed over t...
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Cubans wonder: With Castro out, is reform in?
Feb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - HAVANA -- Now that Fidel Castro has retired, many Cubans are looking to his brother to let more people open businesses, own homes and even travel abroad. But it will pro...
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Patients often stop psychiatric drugs, with sometimes tragic consequences
Feb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Psychiatrists say it's a common scenario -- troubled patients stop taking their medicine, because of cost, side effects, the stigma, or delusions that they don't need it...
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Bush urges action to stop bloodshed
Feb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - KIGALI, Rwanda -- President Clinton once said on a visit to this teeming city that the U.S. and the rest of the world "could have and should have" done more to stop the ...
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Comcast, Motorola extend dealFeb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - PHOENIX -- Comcast Media Center, a unit of Comcast Corp., and Motorola Inc., both responsible for developing the first national platform for digital video services via c...
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Monet, van Gogh didn't go far
Feb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - ZURICH, Switzerland -- A frantic search for four stolen Impressionist paintings led to a most unlikely place: the parking lot of a mental hospital just a few hundred yar...
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Total eclipse of the moon Wednesday nightFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - If you missed the lunar eclipse last March here's your chance to see the show again. Wednesday the moon begins its transit across Earth's shadow at 7:43 and this t...
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Amtrak adds security teams
Feb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Amtrak passengers will have to submit to random screening of carry-on bags in a major new security push that will include officers with automatic weapons a...
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Walt Disney grows business in IndiaFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - MUMBAI, India -- Walt Disney Co. has reached a deal to more than double its stake in Indian TV and movie content maker UTV, the two firms said, underscoring the U.S. ent...
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Campbell's reduces salt in kids' soupFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -- The Campbell Soup Co.'s kid-oriented soups, which feature characters such as Dora the Explorer and Batman on the cans, are getting their second sod...