The theft of a Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer decoration from a Santa's House display in northern Pennsylvania proved an irresistible inspiration for police poetry. Sgt. Brett Williams began the report on the Williamsport Police morning watch hot sheet, "'Twas the week before Christmas..." and the familiar rhythm took hold. He described how early Wednesday, "there arose such a clatter. I answered the radio to see what was the matter."
Nearly a decade after the NAACP condemned a "virtual whiteout" in broadcast TV, the civil rights group said major networks have stalled in their efforts to further ethnic diversity on-screen and off.
Aging facilities run by the Federal Aviation Administration are plagued by problems including foggy control tower windows and water dripping from the ceiling, according a new inspector general's report.
Headlines about steroids are down, and so are home runs. One year later, the stigma of the Mitchell Report has worn off for most players and baseball is convinced it has moved on. But has there been a permanent change, with less reliance on big boppers and greater focus on small ball, the kind played by the AL champion Tampa Bay Rays?
The widespread raping of women and girls in eastern Congo is condoned by both the country's army and its rebel groups and has been used as a weapon of war, a leading human rights group said Friday.
Another government report is now in book form. The bipartisan study on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, released officially Wednesday, will also be issued as a paperback.
An international migration organization appealed Tuesday to countries to keep open their doors to immigrant workers despite the global economic crises.
Early treatment for babies born with the virus that causes AIDS can significantly increase their chances of survival, according to a report Monday by four U.N. agencies.
Michael Vick put family pets in rings with pit bulls and thought it was funny watching the trained killers injure or kill the helpless dogs, a witness told federal investigators during the dogfighting investigation that brought Vick down.
Greece, Turkey and Belarus have missed deadlines to destroy their land mine stockpiles, as required under an international treaty, said a report Friday by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
U.S. cotton production is expected to drop to 13.5 million bales this year, down nearly a third from last year, after farmers planted fewer acres in favor of higher-priced crops and took a hit along the Gulf Coast from hurricanes Gustav and Ike.
The Agriculture Department on Monday lowered its forecasts for this year's U.S. corn and soybean harvests, pushing up the prices of both commodities while knocking down the shares of meat producers.
Heart ailments, infectious diseases and cancer remain the world's top three killers, the U.N. health agency said Monday.
Excerpts from a 19-page document, "Freddie Mac Field Program State by State Summary Report," dated Dec. 12, 2005. It shows that Freddie Mac and Republican consulting firm DCI targeted 17 GOP senators in a campaign to build opposition to a tough regulatory bill. The campaign began shortly after the Senate Banking Committee sent the measure to the full Senate on July 28, 2005.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday increased its monthly forecast for this year's corn and soybean harvest due to wetter weather, potentially lowering commodity prices.
Nearly half the countries that participated in the Beijing Olympics failed to tell organizers where their athletes were so they could be drug tested outside of competition.
Tim Donaghy is in prison, and David Stern doesn't want anyone else in the NBA to get in trouble because of gambling.
The World Health Organization halved its estimate of the number of people who get malaria each year, saying Thursday that better measurement techniques had cut the number from 500 million people to 247 million.
The Agriculture Department on Friday reduced its forecast for this year's corn and soybean harvests due to drier weather, potentially leading to higher commodity prices.
The United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after the 9/11 attacks, a forthcoming independent study concludes.
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday.
If Hurricane Katrina was one big lesson in government bungling, Gustav has been an open-book test of whether the politicians learned anything from the disaster.
The Irish Republican Army is fading away in Northern Ireland and poses no security threat to the British territory, international experts concluded Wednesday in another landmark for peacemaking.
This Labor Day finds workers in worse shape than they've been in years, according to a scorecard released Monday by Rutgers University.
Reported incidents of mortgage fraud jumped 42 percent nationwide, with Florida reporting the highest number of cases, according to industry data released Monday.
According to a new report led by the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. "faces the possibility of much more rapid climate change by the end of the century than previous studies have suggested." The report, commissioned by the U.S.
Barack Obama and his aides did not try to cut any deals with Illinois' embattled governor, who is accused of trying to sell the president-elect's vacant Senate seat, according to an internal review.
The Levin-McCain Report, when fully declassified and circulated, will tell Americans a good deal about our history. It will help define what will become known as the "torture presidency" of George W. Bush.
In the slow-motion train wreck that became the current economic meltdown, our bipartisan political establishment and the sycophantic punditburo have been wrong over and over and over again.
The credit crunch is not nearly as severe as the U.S. authorities appear to believe and public data actually suggest world credit markets are functioning remarkably well, a report released on Thursday says.
A bipartisan Senate report released today says that former Defense Secretary Donald H.
Excerpt: "Dateline NBC" will offer a report on missing Caylee Anthony next week. Her mother, Casey Anthony, has been charged with first-degree murder in the toddler's disappearance. The newsmagazine has rejoined the lineup and airs at 10 p.m. Fridays on WESH-Channel 2.
A report published by the Heritage Foundation refutes the picture painted by the msm that our military is made up of the poor and disadvantage who cannot find employment elsewhere.
A top cop mistakenly shot himself in the thigh after giving his daughter a lesson in gun safety, police said.
The United Nations expressed concern Tuesday about overcrowding and "grave human rights violations" of detainees in Iraqi custody - in one case, 123 men crammed into a single cell.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Cindy Anthony and her private investigator Tuesday had still not reported their claims that someone hacked into her email account and sent unauthorized messages to Eyewitness News and other people.
Just prior to Thanksgiving I was given the task of providing a turkey dinner for 5 monks from Thailand. I had asked for help to be sure that I included dishes that were "traditional" across the country. Several people helped me to assure that I met my goal.
A top cop mistakenly shot himself in the thigh after giving his daughter a lesson in gun safety, police said.
A top cop mistakenly shot himself in the thigh after giving his daughter a lesson in gun safety, police said.
The United States' war on drugs has failed and will continue to do so as long as it emphasizes law enforcement and neglects the problem of consumption, a Washington think tank says in a report co-chaired by a former president of Mexico.
China not happy about other people's opinions, not really news. Probably the most interesting part of this is that the UN insisted on a point the Olympics should have "solved," according to China's promises.
Math can be hard enough, but imagine the difficulty when a teacher is just one chapter ahead of the students.
Did you know that you can buy a keystroke logger for $23 or pay $10 to have someone host your phishing scam? Having a botnet at your fingertips will cost you $225, and a tool that exploits a vulnerability on a banking site averages $740 and runs as high as $3,000.
A study on the European energy sector reports that electricity generation has fallen to its lowest level in ten years.
US officials on Thursday told scores of firms offering security in Iraq that their personnel will lose immunity from prosecution under a new US-Iraq security pact due to take effect in January.
Excerpt: INCEST monster Josef Fritzl is fighting plans to lock him away in a psychiatric prison with a brain-eating cannibal who hates paedophiles.
The international system for tracking and cutting off terrorist financing has achieved major successes but is fraying seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, two former Treasury Department officials report.
OK, that's a cheap keyword attempt, but I want to thank each of those men. They have possibly no idea of the magnitude of activism their shows create. They made politics funny, while relevant, and drawing a stark opposition of news vs. "infotainment".