HILLSBORO, Ore. – A woman accused of killing an expectant mother and cutting her child from the womb may have contacted other pregnant women in the weeks before she settled on a victim, detectives say. The new details emerged as prosecutors awaited autopsy results to determine if the child ever …
Read More »Scientists Study Mutant Mice to Uncover Secrets of Longevity
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A scientist at Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine will share in an $8.6 million federal grant to continue his study of aging and longevity. The grant announced Tuesday designates Andrzej Bartke as the lead researcher of a team that includes scientists at the Mayo Clinic, the …
Read More »Iran Hangs 2 Sunni Militants Convicted In Deadly Mosque Bombing
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s state TV says authorities have hanged two members of a Sunni militant group behind a mosque bombing last month that killed 25 people. The report says the two men were hanged Saturday at a prison in the city of Zahedan, near Iran’s southeastern border with Pakistan …
Read More »Study Points to Possible Reversal of Down Syndrome
Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome that hinder learning and make it hard for the brain to develop normally, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. They said mice with a rodent version of Down syndrome that …
Read More »North Carolina Man Faces Charges in 1985 Double Murder
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – A North Carolina man serving time in a Georgia prison is set to face murder charges Monday in the murder of his brother and sister-in-law more than two decades ago. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said 48-year-old Sean Patrick McDuffy is being extradited back to North Carolina …
Read More »Is Case Finally Closed on '65 UFO Mystery?
In the chronicles of UFO oddness, there’s been a long-standing oddity — some say folklore, others deem it reality. This saga, now over four decades old, centers on a reported out-of-the-sky incident involving the small town of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. The date is Dec. 9, 1965: Residents see a ball of …
Read More »Shooting at Maryland Halloween House Party Kills 1
CLARKSVILLE, Md. – Howard County police say two people were shot at a late-night Halloween Party in Clarksville that turned deadly. Police say 19-year-old Aaron Thomas Brice of Silver Spring, was found dead at the scene early Sunday. Twenty-two-year-old Nathaniel Quick of Columbia was taken to the University of Maryland …
Read More »8 Children Drown After Boat Carrying Students Capsizes Off India
NEW DELHI – At least eight children drowned Wednesday when a boat carrying at least 35 students capsized in southern India, police said. Rescue workers were searching for the other children and their fate was not immediately known, said Vasudev, a local police official who uses only one name. The …
Read More »14 Protesters Arrested on UCLA Campus During Board Meeting
LOS ANGELES – University of California police have arrested 14 noisy protesters and dispersed dozens of others outside a meeting at UCLA where the regents committee approved a 32 percent boost in student fees at University of California campuses. Scores of protesters chanted outside the building as the university Board …
Read More »Tea Party Express Hits Las Cruces, Mexico
This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” September 1, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, they’re angry about health care, angry about taxes, angry about the exploding size of our government, and they …
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