SEATTLE -- A 12-year-old Washington state boy was killed Saturday when a log rolled over him during a Boy Scout outing in the Olympic National Forest, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's office.
The boy, of Silverdale, and three other ...
Ten years after Pat Tillman's death by friendly fire, it's still not certain who shot the NFL player-turned-Army-corporal in Afghanistan. But one of the three Army Rangers who opened fire says he can't shake the fact that he might be at fault.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- President Bashar Assad made a symbolic Easter visit Sunday to the heavily damaged town of Maaloula, a Christian landmark enclave recaptured from Islamist rebels last week by government forces.
The president's visit, broadcast ...
When she was 4, Doris Pilkington Garimara was uprooted from her home in western Australia and sent to a camp for "half-caste" aboriginals, where she grew up believing she had been abandoned and forgotten by her mother.
Decades passed before she ...
ARACATACA, Colombia -- The world will bid farewell to Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Monday in a star-studded event in Mexico City's Palace of Fine Arts. Literary luminaries from around the world and heads of state will attend.
In ...
For almost a month, people in the Kansas City area lived through what amounted to a horror movie without an ending.
According to the narrative described in court documents, it would take cutting-edge and occasionally controversial law enforcement...