Movie Review: Hancock

Cruise ship discharges studied

Federal and state environmental regulators are allowing several cruise ships to release their wastewater into Skagway waters as part of a research project.

Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July.

Gas prices hit another high for holiday weekend

Fireworks aren't the only thing skyrocketing on this Fourth of July. The price of gas has hit another all-time high.

Hollimon hits first homer in Tigers win over Mariners

Justin Verlander threw six strong innings, Michael Hollimon hit his first big league home run and the Detroit Tigers hung on to beat the Seattle Mariners 8-4 Thursday night.

Just how close 'friends' are Madonna and A-Rod?

A-Rod and the Material Girl? That's a lot of hits. Reports that Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and Madonna have become close just as their marriages are disintegrating have both the celebrity gossip industry and the sporting world _ each a chatty bunch _ buzzing with questions about the two "friends."

Man rips off wax Hitler's head

A man tore the head off a controversial Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds' new branch in Berlin on its opening day Saturday, officials said.

Toledo apartment complex fire leaves 100 homeless

Authorities in Toledo, Ohio, say a fast-moving fire at an apartment complex has destroyed eight buildings and left more than 100 people homeless.

Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons

A man has taken flight in a lawn chair hoisted by more than 150 large helium-filled party balloons in a bid to ride the wind from the central Oregon town of Bend all the way to Idaho.

2 fires still raging along Calif.'s Central Coast

Weary firefighters got no rest during the holiday weekend as a pair of out-of-control wildfires roared across the landscape along California's central coast at opposite ends of the arid Los Padres National Forest.

Kenyan village gets clinic from brothers it helped

When residents of a tiny Kenyan village sold their chickens and cattle to buy Milton Ochieng's $900 plane ticket to Dartmouth College, they told him they wanted something in return.

History of Old Point Comfort and Va.'s Fort Monroe

Highlights of the history of Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe:

Cruise ship discharges studied

Federal and state environmental regulators are allowing several cruise ships to release their wastewater into Skagway waters as part of a research project.

Va. fort's future in focus as Army plans pullout

Fort Monroe _ a Union oasis where fugitive slaves flocked during the Civil War _ returns to Virginia's control when the Army pulls out in 2011, and historians are trying to protect the future of the "Freedom Fortress."

State sued over "Cowboy Mike" case

Washington state is being sued over a rape and murder by Michael John Braae, 48, a former country singer known as "Cowboy Mike," while he was on parole.

Town fireworks display accident in Iowa injures 12

An accident during a municipal Fourth of July fireworks display injured at least a dozen people, local fire officials said.

Former Republican Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.