How looming tax hikes would hit typical families

Odd News

RUSSIAN NATIONALISTS WANT WEDDING SHOOTERS JAILED: MOSCOW (AP) - It was an unusual wedding escort even for Moscow's brash style: A red Ferrari led a motorcade in which guests fired celebratory shots from car windows as they sped down one of the city's main avenues near Red Square.

Show on Jesus' wife papyrus delayed amid doubts

BOSTON (AP) - The premiere of the Smithsonian Channel's documentary on a papyrus fragment that purports to show Jesus referring to his wife has been delayed until further tests can be done amid doubts about the fragment's authenticity. Research about the fourth-century papyrus fragment was released last month by Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King. She said it didn't prove Jesus was ...

Man talked to 'Dr. Phil' before confessing

Huge tax increase looms at year-end 'fiscal cliff' for virtually all taxpayers

Obama trying to avoid miscue in 1st debate

Justices open big term with new human rights case. gay marriage, affirmative action cases

Oregon farmer eaten by his hogs

COQUILLE, Ore. (AP) - Oregon authorities are investigating how a farmer was eaten by his hogs. The Coos County district attorney's office says 70-year-old Terry Vance Garner never returned after he set out to feed his animals Wednesday on his farm near the Oregon coast. A family member later found Garner's dentures and pieces of his body in ...

Court: Child porn victims can get restitution for viewers of their abuse

Nabbing 697½-pound gator a record thrill

FITLER, Miss. (AP) - The hunters knew there was a huge 'gator in wetlands where they had hunting permits. He gave them a scare before they killed him, but they got a state record - 697.5 pounds.

Masked teen killed by dad called a good kid

NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Tyler Giuliano had no trouble with the law. The teenager loved flying small planes as a Civil Air Patrol cadet and seemed happy as he played an online game with friends Wednesday night. But hours later, authorities say, Tyler was outside wearing a black ski mask and wielding a knife when he was shot by his father, who thought he was a prowler.

Officials try to explain ‘evolving’ Obama administration’s Libya attack intelligence

No sign of remains in new Mich. search for Hoffa

Odd News

IRANIAN NEWS AGENCY PICKS UP ONION ARTICLE AS FACT: CHICAGO (AP) - A joke by the satirical newspaper The Onion appears to have gotten lost in translation.

Teens arrested in taped beating of woman

Suspect buried in Virginia cemetery

Theater apologizes for actor carrying fake gun in stunt

Spire installed on WTC tower

DNA: Kidnapping suspect fathered girl

Prince Harry opens weeklong US visit

Dead Boston bombing suspect buried

Woman, parents admit roles in ex's slaying

Minn. approves gay marriage; would be 12th

Nation news briefs

TICKETS ON SALE FOR LADY LIBERTY'S JULY 4 OPENING: NEW YORK (AP) - The Statue of Liberty is reopening July 4 after Superstorm Sandy flooded the island where it stands.

Police not told FBI got Tsarnaev warning

NYC weighs allowing many immigrants to vote

Man didn’t die, sues and gets $60K

Calif. exchange granted secrecy

Ohio captive suffered 5 miscarriages

Nation news briefs

ARIZ. CLIMBER FOUND DEAD, COVERED WITH BEE STINGS: TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A Tucson climber was found dead, hanging from a southern Arizona cliff in his climbing gear and covered with bee stings.