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An attorney for a former Southern Illinois University student accused of trying to threaten a deadly shooting rampage wants the charge thrown out on free-speech grounds. Read More

A jury that convicted a man of capital murder in the beating death of an Arkansas TV anchorwoman is now weighing whether to impose the death penalty. Read More

Authorities plan to resume their search of a rural western Missouri property where they believe they may find bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse. Read More

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The Associated Press-iVillage Food poll on dinnertime habits was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from Nov. 5-9. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,006 adults. Interviews were conducted with 806 respondents on landline telephones and 200 on cellular phones. Read More

Pass the gravy _ plus the phone and the remote control. It's dinnertime in America. Read More

The man who shot the son of Washington Lt. Gov. Brad Owen's has died. Read More

Dr. William Ganz, a pioneering cardiologist and one of the inventors of a specialized catheter, has died. He was 90. Read More

An Oregon woman had filed for divorce just a week before her estranged husband opened fire at the suburban Portland office park where she worked, fatally shooting her and injuring two of her co-workers before killing himself. Read More

Police say a pilot tried to hit officers with his plane at a small Georgia airport. Read More

A medical examiner in Texas believes she has found another victim of a serial killer who terrorized Houston in the early 1970s. Read More

On a cold, rain-soaked Veterans Day, President Barack Obama walked slowly through the white, stone markers at the section of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he oversees as commander in chief. Read More

Virginia's governor declared a state of emergency Wednesday as unrelenting rain from the remnants of a tropical storm soaked the state, while officials in North Carolina braced for another day of heavy rain. Read More

A Connecticut woman who was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee revealed her heavily disfigured face on television Wednesday, saying she is blind and has to eat through a straw, but isn't angry. Read More

A stench around the home of a suspected serial killer returned stronger than ever Wednesday as police searched the house next door for more bodies and carried out bags of evidence. Read More

As of Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, at least 836 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 Tuesday at 10 a.m. EST. Read More

A fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex that failed to sell at auction in Las Vegas last month has been bought by a private buyer who intends to see it displayed in a museum, an auctioneer told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Read More

A suburban Chicago jury said Wednesday that a convicted murderer should be executed for the rape and killing of a 10-year-old girl kidnapped from her home 26 years ago _ a case that helped lead to landmark death penalty reforms in Illinois, including a moratorium on executions. Read More

Seven men have been indicted on second-degree murder charges in the fatal beating of a man in a fight outside a Boston nightclub in August. Read More

Death penalty possible for Fort Hood massacre suspect, but military executions have been rare Read More