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The USS New York has left its namesake city after finishing up its inaugural visit. Read More

A North Carolina man has been charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old girl, but police were still searching for the child Thursday, two days after she was reported missing. Read More

The FBI is investigating a death threat against U.S. Rep. Brian Baird. Read More

Funerals are getting under way for some of the 11 victims whose bodies were found on the Cleveland property of a registered sex offender. Read More

Authorities say an early morning blaze swept through a house in Dallas, killing a couple and their 5-year-old son. Read More

The Colorado parents who reported their 6-year-old son floated away aboard a helium balloon will plead guilty to some charges in an attempt to keep the family together, the attorney for the boy's father said Thursday. 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

Coast Guard boats, planes and helicopters searched the roiling ocean off Cape May on Thursday for three commercial fishermen whose boat sank, and colleagues of the missing men prayed for a miracle. 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

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

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