LOS ANGELES - The owner of six Southern California medical marijuana dispensaries, including one store linked to an accident that killed a motorist and paralyzed an officer, are facing federal drug and money laundering charges.

SKOWHEGAN, Maine - If you're in the market for a roomy brick-and-stone Victorian - complete with some pretty impressive security features - look no further

CONSTANTINE, Mich. - Andria Baker has pretty much always been present.

That's because the pair shook hands with one another Monday for 9 1/2 hours, trying to beat a handshaking record of about nine hours set by two Germans. The Guinness Book of World Records still must confirm the feat, one

The real twins finally met each other in 2001. The case has been working its way through the courts since 2004. A decision is expected soon on whether the three women deserve damages, said Sebastian Socorro Perdomo, a lawyer for

The balloon that was to carry daredevil Michael Fournier to his jump height separated from its gondola when it was on the ground near North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and floated away. Pictures on Fournier's website, www.legrandsaut.org, show the 90-meter-high (295-foot) balloon

Former leader Lee Kuan Yew, 84, and his son, the current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, took the stand as part of a hearing to determine defamation damages against the opposition Singapore Democratic Party and its leader Chee Soon Juan,

The 41-year-old man was discovered on Monday when workers detected an unusually high temperature in the freezer and realised the hatch was not securely fastened. "A morgue manager opened the hatch, saw two people lying inside, felt scared enough to

The woman discovered she had an identical twin when she was mistaken for someone else in a shop in 2001. The two sisters , who were not named, found they were born in the same hospital in 1973 around the

A Mesa man suspected of robbing a 7-Eleven and posing as a clerk was arrested Monday during a routine traffic stop in Phoenix.

Human rights remain in danger 60 years after the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, said London's Amnesty International.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak joined a chorus of voices Wednesday demanding Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation in the wake of a bribery scandal.

Canadian fisheries officials arrested three men in southwestern Nova Scotia after seizing 5,300 undersized lobsters from a fishing boat.

At least 30 percent of all U.S. combat troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, Pentagon officials said.

Diplomatic efforts were under way in Beijing to restart talks aimed at getting North Korea to be transparent about its nuclear program.

Semaj Booker, 10, tried to board a Southwest Airlines flight by pointing to a man in front of him and saying, ''I'm with him.''

Police ordered an x-ray of his stomach, which revealed the stolen jewelry.

Foreign ministers from five countries with Arctic coastal waters are meeting in Greenland to discuss claims to the region.