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Hurt dog limps into New Mexico ER

March 17, 2010

The patient was only slightly injured when he limped into a hospital in the northwest New Mexico city of Farmington.

Social Security needs Uncle Sam's IOUs

March 17, 2010

The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in a small town: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

Busy bees, but hives are besieged

March 17, 2010

More than three years after beekeepers starting seeing the sudden disappearance of hive populations, scientists have yet to find the cause for colony collapse disorder.

Levi Johnston ordered to pay child support

March 17, 2010

The teen father of Sarah Palin's grandson has been ordered to make interim child support payments of $1,750 per month to Palin's daughter.

Yes, we do still make things in America

March 17, 2010

Even as U.S. companies move production of everything from board games to dishwashers to other countries, American factories churn out billions of dollars worth of goods.

NATO to oversee most troops in Afghanistan

March 17, 2010

A major reorganization of allied forces in Afghanistan will centralize both American and other foreign troops under the direct command of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the senior U.S. and NATO commander in the theater.

Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath (AP)

March 17, 2010

In this photo taken March 14, 2010, women wait to receive medical attention for them and their children outside the women's clinic run by the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Operation, at the makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in the Petionville Golf Club in Port-au-Prince. Women, girls and children as young as 2 years old, already traumatized by the loss of homes and loved ones in Haiti's earthquake, now are falling victim to rapists in sprawling and unmanageable tent cities that have become home to hundreds of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.


Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face US trial (AP)

March 17, 2010

FILE - This April 1998 picture shows al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 that bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. (AP Photo)AP - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.


Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice (AP)

March 17, 2010

This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked itself on the cable attached to the camera.  In a surprising discovery that shakes the idea of where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.


New immigrants avoiding big cities, study finds (The Christian Science Monitor)

March 17, 2010

Leroy Watson holds a sign in support of hundreds of young people participating in a youth immigration rally, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Chicago, where Tania Unzueta, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of Illinois and seven other young people decided to 'come out' publicly about their illegal immigrant status during the rally. They are among dozens nationwide who hope sharing their stories and risking deportation will help get immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)The Christian Science Monitor - US immigrant populations are spreading out, a study released Monday found.


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