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Machine gunfire broke out during a birthday party at a downtown Baltimore hotel, critically injuring three people. Read More

The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has elected a lesbian as assistant bishop, underscoring Episcopal commitment to accepting same-sex relationships despite enormous pressure from other Anglicans to change that stand. Read More

Police sought help from the public Saturday as the search for a Wisconsin man wanted in the deaths of his two young daughters and their mothers stretched into its third day. Read More

A 15-year-old cheddar made in Wisconsin, possibly the most mature cheese for sale in the country, is selling well despite the $50-per-pound price tag, its producer said Saturday. Read More

A graduate student has been accused of fatally stabbing a 77-year-old Binghamton University anthropology professor. Read More

Sarah Palin poked fun at herself in a speech to journalists Saturday night, drawing laughter when she announced she "came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian Embassy." Read More

Sarah Palin poked fun at herself in a speech to journalists Saturday night, drawing laughter when she announced she "came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian embassy." Read More

The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, whiEpiscopal Diocese of Los Angelesch is already deeply fractured over the first. Read More

William A. Wilson, the first American to serve as ambassador to the Vatican and a member of President Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet" of advisers, has died. He was 95. Read More

Authorities say a Tucson man has died after parachuting from a cell phone tower at night and hitting high-voltage power lines. Read More

A member of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (blah-GOY'-uh-vich) legal team says he has been informed Chicago police have a search warrant and are looking for eight computers and a safe stolen from offices of two other lawyers in the case. Read More

President Barack Obama talked about his ideas for job creation in a city whose very name conjures Rust Belt images of shuttered factories, high unemployment and persistent hopelessness. Read More

For almost 100 years, the multicolored image of St. John the Divine has gazed down from a stained glass window in the choir loft of First Baptist Church. Read More

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen, a spokesman said Saturday, ending days of speculation about the country's level of representation at the landmark conference. Read More

Louisiana got its earliest snowflakes ever as people across the South awakened to a dusting of powder. Read More

Obese students at a historically black college near Philadelphia won't have to take a fitness class to graduate after all. Read More

A Georgia elections board has certified the vote making former state Sen. Kasim Reed Atlanta's mayor-elect. Read More

A New York City woman faces charges that she tricked her husband's pregnant mistress into taking a drug that would cause an abortion. Read More

Election board certifies vote with Kasim Reed as Atlanta's next mayor; recount expected. Read More

The Roman Catholic church says it has exonerated a Long Island priest of allegations that he molested a teenager. Read More