Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - On the morning after the house party on Johnson Street, Jenna Foellmi and several other twentysomethings lay sprawled on the beds and couches. When a friend reached over to wake her, Foellmi was cold to the touch.
Read Drinking games prove deadly to college students
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce Monday, calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children."
Read A-Rod's wife alleges infidelity in divorce papers
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Hurricane Bertha continues to strengthen as it moves over the central Atlantic Ocean.
Read Bertha becomes 1st hurricane of Atlantic season
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - She'd spent a lifetime less than an hour's drive away, but it had never crossed Joquetta Johnson's mind to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. What, she wondered when a friend suggested it, could a park in rural, lily-white West Virginia hold for a black teacher from Baltimore?
Read Park Service seeks to reach changing population
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - Animal rights activists and ranchers are clashing over a federal proposal to euthanize wild horses as a way to deal with their surplus numbers.
Read Proposal to euthanize wild horses spurs debate
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - In the past few years, Rich Nieto's work has started earlier and lasted longer.
Read Officials predict longer and stronger fire season
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - A few times a year, Bryson Garbett loads up his family and heads to a national park, often one in southern Utah.
Read Noise inescapable in some flagship national parks
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has called for a congressional inquiry into the state's most populous county, saying recent events show that its legal system "has been tarnished."
Read Congresswoman calls for inquiry into Texas county
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Posted Monday July 7, 2008, 3:04 am, Over one day old
AP - British birder Annie Andreae bristles at being called a "twitcher" — friendly slang in England for someone who will drop everything at the drop of a hat to get a glimpse at a must-see bird.
Read Bird watchers as far as Britain flock to Alaska
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Posted Sunday July 6, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old
AP - Federal officials are considering a tentative proposal that calls for capturing or killing infected elk in Yellowstone National Park to eliminate a serious livestock disease carried by animals in the area.
Read Focus on elk as disease persists near Yellowstone
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