Barack Obama is wearing a wristband in memory of a soldier killed in Iraq, given to him by a mother who said she wants the Democratic presidential candidate to keep others from dying.

When Steven Kazmierczak strode from behind a screen onto the stage of a Northern Illinois University lecture hall carrying four guns, he saw rows of students lined up in an auditorium that sloped toward him.

A 19-year-old college student missing since she was abducted nearly a month ago was strangled by a serial rapist who has attacked at least two other women and may strike again, Reno police said Saturday.

President Bush is betting Congress will hear him better from the heart of Africa than it does from down the street in Washington.

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SAVANNAH, Ga. — A vase of red roses sat in front of the church altar today, flanked by portraits of Truitt Byers and a blue baseball cap with the logo for Dixie Crystals — the brand of sugar produced by

BATON ROUGE, La. — A majority of Louisiana's 47 Republican National Convention delegates tell the Associated Press they intend to back for Senator John McCain for president.

MADISON, Wis. — The online gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter said it was an unnerving coincidence that he also sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University.

GRAND COLLINE, Haiti — Far from the spreading slums of the Haitian capital, past barren dirt mountains and hillsides stripped to a chalky white core, two woodcutters bring down a towering oak tree in one of the few forested valleys

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters last summer — and they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military's chief interrogator here said.

LANSING — Many top Democrats in Michigan are saying a "do over" presidential caucus isn't needed and would be too expensive and difficult to pull off.

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A 27-year-old San Pablo man was shot and killed early this morning in San Pablo, police said. San Pablo police did not release the victim's name or many details about the crime. At 2:17 a.m. officers responded to the 2900

The northbound and southbound lanes of I-71 are closed between exits 28 and 32 near Lebanon after a tanker truck spilled hazardous material on the highway.

Alex Gordon made four free throws over the final 24 seconds, and No. 19 Vanderbilt held off Florida 61-58 on Saturday to remain ...