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An air tanker on its way to a wildfire in California crashed shortly after takeoff from Reno Stead Airport on Monday evening, killing all three people on board.

Anxious evacuees across America clamored to come home Tuesday after New Orleans was largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, but Mayor Ray Nagin warned they may have to wait in shelters and motels a few days longer.

Men are more likely to be devoted and loyal husbands when they lack a particular variant of a gene that influences brain activity, researchers announced yesterday -- the first time that science has shown a direct link between a man's genes and his aptitude for monogamy.

Tropical Storm Ike and the 10th Atlantic tropical depression of 2008 formed early Tuesday over the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. forecasters in Miami reported.

A 38 year old man from Oregon is dead, and Mexican police officers are accused of beating him to death. Sam and Kim Botner of Yoncalla were vacationing in Mexico near Cabo San Lucas. Sam is a crabber, and the couple were celebrating a successful season...

Kids may be worried about homework, teachers and that pesky bully this school year. But parents? They're leery about lunches..

With food prices rising and packages shrinking, parents are wondering how they'll stretch their food budgets. Children are going to get an unwitting lesson in economics, analysts say, as parents change their food-buying habits to keep costs down. .

Hurricane Hanna lingered Monday over the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos islands on a path that could hit the southeastern U.S. coast by midweek, while Tropical Storm Ike and still another weather pattern behind it raised the possibility of more havoc to come.

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mishandled highly classified notes about a secret counterterror program, but not on purpose, according to a memo by his legal team.

President Bush said Monday the turnover of control of Iraq's Anbar Province to Iraqi forces shows the once-violent region has been "transformed and reclaimed by the Iraqi people."

Labor Day is a holiday that began in 1882. Cleveland State History Professor David Goldberg says the idea originated from New York City's Central Labor Union. He explains that the motive was to create a day off for the "working man".

Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond.

ity officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning — the first mandatory evacuation since Hurricane Katrina flooded the city three years ago — as Hurricane Gustav grew into what the city’s mayor called “the storm of the century” on Saturday and moved toward the Louisiana coast.

More than three-quarters of the Gulf of Mexico's offshore oil production had been cut off Saturday as energy companies evacuated petroleum platforms in the face of Hurricane Gustav.

Gustav is growing dramatically. It is now a dangerous Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of more than 150 miles per hour.

Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort. The doors to the Superdome will be locked. Those who stay will be on their own.

Eight years of Dennis Kaufman's life has been consumed with attempting to prove the only father he's known since he was five-years-old is none other than the Zodiac Killer.

A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney's claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.

Personal incomes plunged in July while consumer spending slowed significantly as the impact of billions of dollars in government rebate checks began to wane.

The Commerce Department reported Friday that personal incomes fell by 0.7 percent in July, the biggest drop in nearly three years and a far larger decline than the 0.1 percent decrease analysts expected.

With Gustav approaching hurricane strength and showing no signs of veering off a track to slam into the Gulf Coast, authorities across the region began laying the groundwork Thursday to get the sick, elderly and poor away from the shoreline.

A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial that ended with some of the jurors shaking hands and hugging the defendant and his sobbing mother.