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A 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who says he's too fat to be executed humanely passed a pre-execution exam Tuesday and was cleared to receive a lethal injection as the U.S. Supreme Court denied his latest appeal. Read More

A Marine who fled to Mexico shortly before he was charged with killing a pregnant comrade is fighting extradition in a move that prosecutors said could delay or endanger the chances of him going to trial in the U.S. Read More

It was a wild, chaotic scene across a rugged swath of the San Fernando Valley as the fall wind-driven fire season arrived with a vengeance. Read More

U.S. Supreme Court denies appeal by Ohio double murderer to stop execution Tuesday. Read More

An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family in a murder-suicide. A 90-year-old Ohio widow shoots herself in the chest as authorities arrive to evict her from the modest house she called home for 38 years. Read More

Powerful winds stoked three major wildfires on Tuesday morning after destroying dozens of homes, forcing thousands to flee and leaving two people dead. Read More

The National Hurricane Center says a tropical storm is expected to develop later in the day out of a tropical depression that is dumping heavy rain on the Netherlands Antilles islands. Read More

A double murderer who says he's too fat to be executed humanely has passed a pre-execution exam and is cleared to receive a lethal injection Tuesday. Read More

Thousands of pet owners whose dogs and cats died last year after eating contaminated pet food traced to China could be close to a $32 million settlement. Read More

Water built this southwestern Wisconsin village. Now water is draining the life out of it. Read More

Former presidential candidates Bob Dole and George McGovern both saw their presidential ambitions quashed in landslide elections. Read More

A Michigan mother drove roughly 12 hours to Omaha, so she could abandon her 13-year-old son at a hospital under the state's unique safe-haven law, Nebraska officials said Monday. Read More

A former U.S. Army sergeant who has been living in Canada as a war resister has been denied refugee status there. Read More

A jury has convicted a woman of capital murder for the shooting and beating deaths of four people in suburban Houston in 2003. Read More

Hoping to combat the "snitch" label that often leads to silent suffering, six Utah schools have introduced a Web site that allows students to anonymously report bullies. Read More

A teacher initially placed on leave over a book controversy has been charged with trying to have sexual contact with three students, allegedly even asking one girl what she would do for a better grade. Read More

Former U.S. Rep. Paul G. Rogers, a Democrat who earned the nickname "Mr. Health" for his work on environmental and health care legislation during a 24-year career in Congress, has died. He was 87. Read More

Two sisters-in-law were struck by large waves on the Kauai shore and were pulled out to sea, and a snorkeler also died over the weekend as high surf hit Hawaii. Read More

U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt of Ohio suffered broken ribs and vertebrae when she was struck by a car while jogging last week, but the damage wasn't discovered until after she fainted from pain on an overseas trip, her spokesman said Monday. Read More

The parents of four young people killed by a sheriff's deputy and the lone survivor of his shooting spree last year claim in a lawsuit that the gunman's law-enforcement superiors were negligent in supervising him and giving him access to weapons. Read More