WASHINGTON – Andy Pettitte admitted using human growth hormone in 2004, saying it was supplied to him that time by his father, The Associated Press learned Wednesday. After the Mitchell Report was released, Pettitte said he used HGH for two days in 2002 while with the New York Yankees. Last …

SAN DIEGO – A teen was stabbed five times in the stomach on Monday during a fight over how long he was taking in the bathroom, FOX6.com reports. The victim, an 18-year-old who was not identified, had been involved in an argument that turned violent when the 28-year-old who lived …

WASHINGTON – Governors pushing alternative energy development are not shying from coal, a major culprit in global warming but also a homegrown energy source and an economic lifeline for many states. Leaders of coal-rich states say clean-coal technology is a must. Governors from states without coal want more evidence the …

BUFORD, Ga. – Two off-duty officers from different police departments wounded each other in a gun fight in the middle of a road in an Atlanta suburb, authorities said. Both officers suffered non-life-threatening wounds, police said. Their conditions were not immediately known on Saturday. Officer Jay Daily, a five-year veteran …

The star of Bravo’s “Work Out” talks diet, fitness and what’s coming up on her hit show. Fitness guru Jackie Warner heads back to Bravo this April and promises an even edgier version of her hit show, “Work Out.” Dressed down in jeans and sneakers — her trademark spikey hair …

JERUSALEM – Palestinian militants in Gaza launched a rocket Tuesday that fell near the Israeli city of Ashkelon, Israeli police said, causing no injuries but threatening to upset a recent period of calm. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert left the city a short time before the rocket hit. The rocket …

WASHINGTON – President Bush says if Congress fails to approve a free trade agreement with Colombia, it will embolden U.S. adversaries like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. In a speech to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s legislative conference, he also said such a stance would send a signal to Latin America …

BOGOTA, Colombia – The former husband of French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt said Sunday that he fears Colombia’s government is offering to free imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for her release because they believe she is dead. Following the Colombian offer, France’s government sent a plane to a military airport in French …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Jury selection has begun in the retrial of a man accused of raping and strangling a fellow Eastern Michigan University student. Twenty-one-year-old Orange Taylor III is charged with murder in the December 2006 death of 22-year-old Laura Dickinson. The first jury deadlocked. The U.S. Education Department …

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a machine that can read your mind — sort of. Associate professor of psychology Jack Gallant and two researchers, Kendrick Kay and Thomas Naselaris, first trained a computer program to recognize which of a set of 1,750 photos Kay and Naselaris …