St. Louis — Kids accused of crimes in the city are getting their day in court in as little as two weeks, under new goals in the St. Louis Family Court that have… Continue reading

Gary Peel, a former lawyer at the powerful Lakin Law Firm in Wood River, was sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison for attempting to blackmail his ex-wife with decades-old nude photos… Continue reading

The UK government will be criticised today over key aspects of children’s human rights in a report highlighting how youngsters in custody are being handcuffed or have needed oxygen after being restrained.

Analysis by the Children’s… Continue reading

· Pubs selling 14m fewer pints a day than in 1979
· Brewers call for tax freeze to halt the rise of wine

Graphic: how the costs break down

Two pints of beer
Two pints of beer in a… Continue reading

Nearly two-thirds of family doctors are poised to boycott the government’s scheme to put the medical records of 50 million NHS patients on a national electronic database, a Guardian poll reveals today.

With suspicion rife across… Continue reading

In their press release about the results of a new telephone poll, Zogby chose to marginalize Ron Paul by highlighting a demographic that was won by Rudy Giuliani, while largely ignoring… Continue reading

CSRwire reports: The Merck Company Foundation announced today a $2.8 million commitment to establish two new immunization training centers in Uganda and Zambia and to expand the Foundation’s support of two… Continue reading

A Zogby poll commissioned by Alex Jones Productions has revealed that the majority of Americans are more likely to vote for a candidate who wants to begin an immediate withdrawal of troops… Continue reading

A new nationwide Zogby telephone poll reveals that a sizeable majority of Americans are looking to vote for a candidate who protects liberty, wants to shrink government and immediately withdraw troops from… Continue reading

A MAN has appeared in a Sydney court after Customs allegedly found clothes impregnated with cocaine in his luggage.

The man arrived at Sydney airport yesterday on a flight from South America.

Officers searched his bags and… Continue reading

The number of AIDS cases worldwide fell by more than 6 million cases this year to 33.2 million, global health officials said Tuesday. But the decline is mostly on paper.

Previous estimates were largely… Continue reading

A tour bus driver had a brain aneurysm and drove off a South Carolina highway into some trees Monday, killing himself and injuring about 30 passengers, authorities said.

The aneurysm caused George William Thomas… Continue reading

You’re safer. Whoops, you’re not. Oh wait, you really are.

That summarizes the roller coaster of flood-risk assessments the Army Corps of Engineers has given in the past week to residents of one of… Continue reading

Billionaire Warren Buffett testified before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday in defense of the federal estate tax, the nation’s only tax on inherited wealth.

Buffett invoked the historical roots of the estate tax… Continue reading

The Pentagon has been concealing the true number of American casualties in the Iraq War. The real number exceeds 15,000 and CBS News can prove it.

CBS’s Investigative Unit wanted to do a report on the… Continue reading

Britons may be familiar with Rupert Murdoch, but I don’t think the UK has a beast quite like the American Fox News Channel. Celebrating its 11th year on the air, Fox is a breathtaking institution… Continue reading

Americans are accustomed to turning on the local TV news and seeing images of mayhem and murder. The world outside, it would seem, is a violent, wrathful, dangerous place.

Of course, television doesn’t always… Continue reading

A leading children’s author was told to drop a fire-breathing dragon shown in a new book - because the publishers feared they could be sued under health and safety regulations.It is just one… Continue reading

Farmers across Britain face a new levy to help pay for the soaring costs of dealing with animal diseases including bird flu, bluetongue and foot and mouth.The price of curbing the spread of infections in… Continue reading

THE parents of a little girl who allegedly starved to death have been formally refused bail after being charged with murder.

The seven-year-old girl weighed nine kilograms when her body was found at her home… Continue reading

A RE-ELECTED Coalition Government would take control of the welfare payments of people convicted of offences involving hard drugs, Prime Minister John Howard announced today.

Mr Howard said welfare recipients convicted of offences involving heroin… Continue reading

“The use of human subjects will be allowed for the testing of chemical and biological agents by the U.S. Department of Defense, accounting to Congressional committees with respect to the experiments and studies.” “The Secretary… Continue reading

So there’s these two stations over on Fort Street near Springwells in Detroit. One’s a BP and the other’s a Marathon station. Both are known for offering pretty decent gas prices downtown and… Continue reading

A 20-year-old man died this morning after a sheriff’s deputy used a taser on him to break up a fight, the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office reports. The man was identified as Jarrel Gray of Ladd… Continue reading

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has suggested an end to the trading of oil in US dollars, calling the currency “a worthless piece of paper”.

The call came at the end of a rare Opec… Continue reading

WATERLOO, Iowa - A rogue cell phone is not accepting calls, but it sure likes to dial 911 operators in eastern Iowa.

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Operators at the Black Hawk County Consolidated Communications Center said that they… Continue reading

Within its bowels, The Boeing Co. holds volumes of proprietary information deemed so valuable that the company has entire teams dedicated to making sure that private information stays private.

One such team, dubbed “enterprise” investigators, has… Continue reading

MEN’S groups are calling for mandatory paternity testing of all newborns as it emerges a record number of men are finding they are not the fathers of children they believed to be theirs.

Almost a quarter… Continue reading

A federal appeals court said today that secrecy laws forced it to exclude critical evidence about the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program from being used by… Continue reading

Within a few feet of the first boot print made on the Moon, under the ladder on which a U.S. flag was