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Judge fumes that former Edwards aide is playing him
A controversial one-time aide to former Sen. John Edwards goes to court again Friday in Pittsboro, N.C., after a superior-court judge complained he was being untruthful about making copies of a sex tape featuring Edwards and his one-time mistress.
Love among the California condors, symbol of West
A lonely cave on a cliff in the rugged Pinnacles National Monument is the setting for a story of two love birds who found one another despite unimaginable hardship and decided to bring new life into a world that almost destroyed them.
They are, of course, giant corpse-munching vultures, but wildlife biologists could not be more thrilled if they were Romeo and Juliet.
Tenn. killer may be freed, despite wild threats
Charles Turner Harrison has been institutionalized since putting a 9mm pistol to the back of his mother's head in 1984, pulling the trigger and then telling police he thought he could freeze her and revive her at will.
Palin taking witness stand in e-mail tampering case
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Sarah Palin will take the witness stand here in a case involving a Memphis lawmaker's son and her personal Yahoo! e-mail account.
Republicans look for new contract to help regain Congress
WASHINGTON - Republicans are so convinced that the fall midterm elections could be a repeat of 1994, the year that ushered them into the majority in Congress, they are reaching into the playbook for the prop that helped propel that victory: a new Contract with America.
Quebec viewed as ' sadomasochist' with 'reptilian core'
A marketing guru whom Quebec City is paying $300,000 to help with its image makeover has given an early report: Quebeckers, he says, are "completely neurotic" and their "sadomasochist" relationship with "the English" means they will never separate from Canada.
Congress honors WASP WWII pilots
Martha McKenzie Carpenter flew off to war with a puppy in her lap, towing targets for other pilots to shoot at.
Debate over wild mustangs gets emotional
CARSON CITY, Nev. - Guapo's freedom ended one chilly morning on the grounds of a prison yard surrounded by snow-capped mountains and shrubby plateaus.
Cremation first appeared in United States in 1876
Although cremation was once common in the ancient world, the practice didn't get much public attention in the United States until 1876 with the cremation of Baron Joseph Henry Louis Charles De Palm.
State-by-state cremation rates in U.S.
Slightly more than a third of all persons who died in 2006 were cremated, according to the Cremation Association of North America. But the rate of cremation varies enormously around the nation.
State............ Cremations ..... Deaths ... Percent
Alabama ............ 5,192 ....... 46,977 .... 11.05
Alaska ............. 1,846 ........ 3,354 .... 55.04
