WASHINGTON -- President
Barack Obama has written
a personal letter to
North Korean leader Kim
Jong Il as part of an
intense effort to draw
the reclusive nation back
to nuclear disarmament
talks, a senior State
Department official said
Tuesday.
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. --
Two climbers missing on
Mount Hood for the past
five days are likely dead
and a search will not
resume any time soon
because of severe
avalanche danger,
officials said Tuesday.
NEW YORK -- The
blockbuster trade sending
Roy Halladay to
Philadelphia and Cliff
Lee to Seattle could be
completed Wednesday, and
it's become a four-team
swap that involves
Toronto shipping a
prospect to Oakland.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- The
book returned to the New
Bedford Public Library in
Massachusetts this week
wasn't overdue by a week,
a month or even a year.
It was nearly a century
overdue, and the fine
came to $361.35.
WASHINGTON -- It wasn't a
state dinner, and they
didn't crash it on
purpose. Still, a Georgia
couple who showed up at
the White House a day
early for a tour somehow
wound up at an
invitation-only breakfast
with President Barack
Obama and the first
lad...
WASHINGTON -- Prodded by
President Barack Obama,
Senate Democrats won
tentative backing from
one holdout and worked
intensely to satisfy
another Tuesday as they
grappled with the last,
lingering disputes
blocking passage of
health care legislation
by ...
MILWAUKEE -- Cities
around the country that
have installed
energy-efficient traffic
lights are discovering a
hazardous downside: The
bulbs don't burn hot
enough to melt snow and
can become crusted over
in a storm - a problem
blamed for dozens of
accid...
SHENANDOAH, Pa. --
Federal prosecutors
charged three police
officers in a racially
tense Pennsylvania coal
town with orchestrating a
cover-up in the fatal
beating of a Mexican
immigrant by altering
evidence or lying to the
FBI in a hate crimes case
ag...
NEW YORK -- The hunt for
Tiger Woods is on, or at
least the first
photographs of the golf
superstar since his
late-night car crash and
damaging news of his
marital problems.
COPENHAGEN -- If they
fail to reach a climate
deal in Copenhagen, world
leaders flying in their
private jets and huddling
in five-star hotels will
have little to show for
their efforts beyond a
big, fat carbon
footprint.