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A Florida man opened fire on his family after Thanksgiving dinner, killing his pregnant sister, 6-year-old cousin and two other relatives before speeding off and initiating a statewide manhunt, police said Friday. Read More

The popular Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed, state and county officials said Friday. Read More

In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran immediately stop building its newly revealed nuclear facility and freeze uranium enrichment. Read More

Even after the U.S. and China set targets this week for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the world's combined pledges ahead of next month's climate summit fall far short of what experts say is needed to avert dangerous global warming. Read More

As of Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, at least 849 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

As of Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, at least 4,366 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Read More

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His father was a lifelong scalloper, his uncles are fishermen, and 23-year-old Chris Pinto realized as he got older that fishing is "in my blood." It just didn't look like it was in his future. Read More

Florida authorities: Tiger Woods injured in early morning car accident outside his mansion Read More

Members of one of America's oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday _ for the first time _ for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago. Read More

The Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed. Read More

A Wyoming family's Leonberger dog has given birth to a litter of 18 puppies. Read More

A former doctor who practiced medicine in Ohio and West Virginia has admitted to making pipe bombs that were part of an arsenal seized at his apartment after two explosions, federal agents say. Read More

Authorities say a man in Colorado apparently tried to steal an ATM by hauling it away with a truck. Read More

New Mexico officials say a suspected drunk driver hit and dragged a 72-year-old man 200 feet under his pickup truck. Read More

Cell phones, the subject of tugs of war between parents, teachers and students across the nation, are taking on a new role in the classroom: learning tool. Read More

About 50 dogs rescued from puppy mills in Missouri should soon be finding loving homes on New York's Long Island. Read More

A suburban Phoenix family is suing after their father's body slipped from a shattered casket when it was dropped into a grave during a burial ceremony. Read More

The mayor of Revere, Massachusetts, has verbally reprimanded the fire chief for allowing a firefighter to ride a department ladder truck nine miles to his wedding. Read More

Imagine: It's 1895. A steel baron hires New York's Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted to build a town in western Pennsylvania where mill workers can live, work and play. By the turn of the century, Vandergrift's rounded buildings and roads flow along the contours of the Kiskiminetas River. Read More