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The Colorado parents who reported their 6-year-old son floated away in a helium balloon in what authorities say was a hoax to drum up publicity for a TV show will both plead guilty to charges in the case, the attorney for the boy's father said Thursday. Read More

Police say they have charged a North Carolina man with kidnapping a 5-year-old girl who disappeared two days ago. Read More

The Coast Guard has identified three fishermen who are missing after their boat sank in rough seas off southern New Jersey. Read More

Relentless rain swept much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, triggering coastal flood warnings and watches from North Carolina to New York's Long Island, inundating streets and forcing some rescues of stranded drivers in hard-hit Virginia. Read More

Otty Sanchez got six weeks in a state mental hospital after she was found wandering around a drug store last year, shopping for an imaginary trip to China. Read More

Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a head-on crash killed three Edinboro University students. Read More

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is scheduled to speak at a Harvard University ethics forum. Read More

A Rhode Island mother is asking for the person who stole her 4-year-old son's wheelchair to return it, no questions asked. Read More

A 76-foot Norway spruce is getting ready for its close-up, just blocks from the Broadway theater district. Read More

Authorities in Cleveland have identified a 10th woman whose remains were discovered at the home of an accused serial killer. Read More

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida were expected to continue tracking through the Southeastern U.S. on Thursday. Read More

An excavation was scheduled to resume Thursday at a rural western Missouri property where authorities believe they may find bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse. Read More

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

Johnny Cash sang about having shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Bob Marley belted out that he had shot the local sheriff, but not the deputy. 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

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