An eagerly awaited expansion pack to the online video game “World of Warcraft” will not be ready in time for the key Christmas holiday season, the game’s maker said Tuesday. Gamers will instead have to wait until January to plumb the depths of Outland in “The Burning Crusade,” the “World …

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, a Republican who held “endangered salmon bakes” and once accused federal agents of using black helicopter gunships, died Monday in a car crash, her daughter said. She was 68. Chenoweth-Hage, whose arch-conservative, often libertarian and sometimes extreme views made her popular …

NEW YORK – Wall Street rose modestly Thursday, nudging the Dow Jones industrial average to its third straight record high close as investors welcomed upbeat retail sales and jobless claims figures. The Dow closed at 11,866.69, according to preliminary calculations, surpassing the record of 11,850.61 set Wednesday. The blue chip …

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Police have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the killing of former heavyweight boxing champion Trevor Berbick, who was bludgeoned and left to die in a church courtyard next to his family’s home in a rural Jamaican hamlet. Several residents of the remote farming community in …

WASHINGTON – President Bush said Wednesday the United States would stop North Korea from transferring nuclear weapons to Iran or Al Qaeda and that the communist regime would then face “a grave consequence.” Bush refused to spell out how the United States would retaliate. “They’d be held to account,” the …

GAZA CITY, Gaza – Israeli troops Monday shot and killed seven Palestinians, including a militant who led a rocket-launching operation, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. Fourteen others were wounded in the attack on the first day of the three-day Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, officials said. The Israeli army said it …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are Yum Brands Inc., Alcoa Inc. and California Pizza Kitchen Inc. • FOXBusiness.com’s Investing Center Gannett Inc. (GCI) is expected to report earnings per share for the third quarter of $1.11, according to …

SAN FRANCISCO – Even for the most devoted pet lovers, there’s a limit to how far they will go to have their favorite feline or canine for life. Genetic Savings & Clone, a biotechnology company that sold cloned pets, sent letters to its customers last month informing them it will …

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Leadership of a fraternity expressed remorse Thursday after members admitted to stealing more than 10,000 copies of a University of North Carolina student newspaper with a lead story on hazing at the frat, newspaper officials said. The story in the stolen issues of the Daily Tar …

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. – The husband of a slain prostitute found near Atlantic City sat in front of a cross Saturday as he cried and prayed for his late wife, whose body was found here less then a week ago. At a makeshift memorial service outside the Golden Key …