PORTLAND, Maine — Gay marriage was put to a vote in Maine on Tuesday in a closely watched referendum that gay-rights activists across the country hoped would prove for the first time that their cause can prevail at the ballot box. Voters had to decide ...
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - An Atlanta couple missing for more than a year and a half has been officially declared dead by a judge as family members established scholarships and planned a memorial in Georgia for the pair. ...
ZURICH — Roman Polanski's legal team fired the first shot Tuesday in a lengthy battle over his possible extradition to the United States, asking a Swiss court to release the filmmaker from prison immediately. The Swiss Federal Criminal Court announced ...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn speaks in 1994; his "The Gulag Archipelago" was banned, and he was exiled. (Associated Press file photo ) MOSCOW — The book that made "Gulag" a synonym for the horrors of Soviet oppression will be taught in Russian high schools, ...
NEW ORLEANS -- About a dozen Tulane football players have come down with what the school describes as flu-like symptoms. An athletic spokesman says two have tested positive for the variety that includes swine flu. Roger Dunaway said Friday that all the ...
A car carrying Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford, chairman of the troubled Stanford Financial Group, arrives at Federal court in Richmond, Va., Friday, June 19, 2009. Stanford was indicted Friday on charges his international banking empire was really ...
WICHITA — George Tiller's slaying has accomplished what anti-abortion activists tried to do for decades: shut the doors to his Kansas clinic forever. The announcement Tuesday from Tiller's family was a tainted victory for the nation's anti- abortion ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, U.S. military officials said Tuesday. His is the fifth apparent suicide at the offshore U.S. prison, which President Barack Obama hopes to close by January. ...
barrier -- and changed America in so many ways -- Robinson was honored Wednesday all around the majors with the sport's annual Jackie Robinson Day. NEW YORK -- Introduced to a standing ovation, Rachel Robinson stepped to the podium at Citi Field and ...
FARGO, N.D. — Officials in Fargo ordered a mandatory evacuation of one neighborhood and a nursing home tonight, after authorities found cracks in an earthen levee built around the area. Residents were not in immediate danger, and the mayor said there ...
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