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Wisconsin authorities on Saturday searched for a father who they say is linked to the deaths of his two young daughters and their mothers. The man has been charged in two of the slayings and police have warned that he is armed and dangerous. Read More

Showing no emotion and with his parents a few blocks from the courthouse, an Indiana teenager pleaded not guilty to killing his 10-year-old brother. His mother and father were greeting mourners who came to pay respects to their slain younger son. Read More

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus was romantically involved with a former staffer when he recommended her earlier this year to become the next U.S. attorney for Montana, a spokesman said. Read More

A train splashed with a green stripe carried 450 U.N. officials, delegates, climate activists and journalists from Brussels to the climate summit in Copenhagen on Saturday to symbolize efforts to reduce the convention's carbon footprint. Read More

New details on the response to the first shootings of what would become the Virginia Tech massacre show that at least two administrators alerted their family members well before the rest of the campus was notified that a gunman was on the loose. Read More

A Flint woman accused of starving her adopted quadriplegic daughter to death and stashing the body in a storage unit pleaded no contest Friday to involuntary manslaughter. Read More

Joining most major colleges nationwide, Colorado State University has banned concealed weapons on campus with a vote that pitted faculty asking for a prohibition against students demanding the right to carry guns. Read More

A spokesman for Sen. Max Baucus says the Democrat nominated Melodee Hanes, a former staffer who also happens to be his girlfriend, for the U.S. attorney position in his home state of Montana earlier this year. Baucus and Hanes apparently entered into a relationship in the summer of 2008 after the lawmaker separated from his wife. Read More

Early season snow was expected across the Appalachians on Saturday as an intense, low-pressure system developed off the Eastern Seaboard. Read More

Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son has turned to friends in high places _ including Whoopi Goldberg and Al Roker _ to help him make the case that he is too sick and doesn't deserve to go to prison for plundering his philanthropist mother's fortune. Read More

The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles could elect the first openly gay bishop in its 114-year history, after naming its first woman to the same rank. Read More

One worker was killed and two others were injured when a boiler failed at a Valero petroleum refinery in eastern Texas. Read More

A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says the Montana Democrat was in a romantic relationship with the woman he nominated for U.S. attorney. Read More

Sheriff's officials say a woman caught trying to use a man's ski pass at Keystone Resort in Colorado claimed she was in the middle of a sex change. Read More

A Southern California man who claimed to spy on mosques for the FBI provided the agency with valuable information for a federal prosecution, a court transcript showed on Friday. Read More

Tensions between black and Asian students at a public high school erupted in a series of assaults over two days, leading to 10 suspensions and several students seeking medical treatment. Read More

New charges have been filed against an Ohio pediatrician awaiting trial on child sex abuse allegations. Read More

A defense attorney for Rod Blagojevich says the former Illinois governor will take the stand at his fraud trial but claim his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if called to testify in a $90 million civil suit. Read More

A judge has threatened to sentence an Arizona man to 25 days in prison for leaving jugs of water in the desert for illegal immigrants. Read More

As of Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, at least 852 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EST. Read More