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BURBANK, Calif. _ Even the most ardent fans of porn star Julie Meadows are unlikely, it seems safe to say, to have ever seen her like this. Read More

Active weather was expected to develop nationwide on Monday. Read More

A Kansas lawmaker says he's sorry if he offended anyone by criticizing President Barack Obama while wearing a cap that calls opossum "the other dark meat." Read More

A veteran Los Angeles police detective is due in court to hear whether there is enough evidence against her in connection with the decades-old murder of her ex-boyfriend's wife. Read More

A competency hearing for the man accused of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart is entering its second week with the testimony of a psychiatrist who's expected to discuss the suspect's religious writings. Read More

Retired firefighter Ed Johann was a teenage apprentice seaman on Dec. 7, 1941, when he spotted Japanese planes coming in over Pearl Harbor. Read More

A police officer responding to a domestic disturbance was shot dead outside a suburban Pittsburgh home where another man was killed inside, authorities said. Read More

Condemned killer Kenneth Biros could become the first person in the country put to death with a single dose of an intravenous anesthetic instead of the usual _ and faster-acting _ three-drug process if his execution proceeds Tuesday. Read More

A psychiatrist is expected in federal court Monday to discuss the religious writings of Elizabeth Smart's alleged abductor, a self-proclaimed prophet who is said to have claimed in his work that she went with him willingly as a young girl and with the permission of her parents. Read More

One man was shot in the face and another was severely beaten when a fight erupted early Sunday during a birthday party at a downtown Baltimore hotel, police said. Read More

An investigation is under way after someone broadcast a false report of an "officer-involved shooting" over a police radio frequency in the northwestern Washington city of Port Angeles. Read More

Stunned horse owners, trainers and stable hands visited the blackened site Sunday where a barn fire killed two workers and 43 horses at a harness-racing track in southwest Ohio. Read More

More than 500 people in the Northwest filed claims against the Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus in advance of a November deadline, alleging members of the Catholic order sexually abused them as children. Read More

Police say a search of a Chicago home didn't turn up any of the items stolen from former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (bluh-GOY'-uh-vich) attorneys. Read More

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin greeted hundreds of admirers in Sioux City on Sunday, fueling speculation about a possible presidential run in 2012. Read More

A Harvard professor says CNN Headline News host Nancy Grace's relentless questioning of a Florida mother three years ago contributed to her suicide, according to a filing in the family's wrongful death case. Read More

Authorities say a 16-year-old girl has killed herself by stepping in front of a vehicle on a Los Angeles County freeway. Read More

Forget the ads, debates and endorsements. Read More

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

Ed Johann will always remember the sound of planes diving out of the sky to bomb U.S. battleships, the explosions and the screams of sailors. He still recalls the stench of burning oil and flesh. Read More