Sunday, February 26^th

It might help him win the Republican nomination, but it could alienate workers in states like Michigan in a general election. GOP candidate Mitt Romney speaks at a rally at the Kettering University Recreation Center. (Bill Pugliano, Getty Images ...

By the CNN Wire Staff A Syrian woman wearing a scarf with pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad casts her vote on a new constitution at a polling station in Damascus on February 26. (CNN) -- In what the government touts as a move toward reform, ...

An Afghan police intelligence officer is being sought over the killing of two senior US Nato officers at the interior ministry in Kabul on Saturday. Abdul Saboor, from Parwan province, was "the main suspect" and had fled the ministry following ...

By Ed Cropley | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela remained in hospital on Sunday after keyhole surgery that officials said had left him in no danger but increased South Africans' concerns for their aging former president.

Police stood around a car behind Starbucks at the shooting scene on Enon St. in Beverly. (John Blanding / Globe Staff) By Martine Powers and Amanda Cedrone BEVERLY — The day after a Hamilton police sergeant allegedly shot a Beverly police officer ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official says government shelling has killed five al-Qaida-linked militants in a southern town, while one soldier has died in a landmine explosion in the same area. The official says the bombardment in Zinjibar ...

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the military to launch a “powerful retaliatory strike” if provoked by the South, the North's state-run media reported on Sunday. Mr. Kim's statement, issued during a visit to military units on the ...

(AP) LONG BEACH, Calif. — An 11-year-old girl is dead following an after school fight at a Long Beach elementary school, but authorities say they have no immediate plans for arrests. Police said Saturday night that the girl died at a hospital hours ...

By Mark Blaudschun After Harvard had grinded out a win over Princeton on Friday night to get within one victory of clinching at least a tie for the Ivy League title for the second consecutive year, coach Tommy Amaker talked about the next task, ...

By Danny Yadron BURLINGAME, Calif.– With the Republican presidential race Saturday transfixed on Michigan, Newt Gingrich appeared Saturday in this San Francisco suburb, in a state that doesn't hold a primary until June 5. Associated Press Newt Gingrich ...

AP Republican governors insist Obama is vulnerable, but they say they are concerned the prolonged primary race has alienated independent voters and may have badly damaged the eventual nominee. Democratic enthusiasm and Republican apprehension were both ...

By STACY MEICHTRY ROME—An Italian court on Saturday dismissed a corruption case against Silvio Berlusconi, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired on charges that the Italian billionaire allegedly paid his lawyer to give false testimony in ...

Pakistan is more than half way through its demolition of the compound where US forces killed Osama Bin Laden, in the north-western city of Abbottabad. Work began late on Saturday and bulldozers and pneumatic machinery could be heard through the night.

By Buhari Bello | JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a church in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 38, the emergency services said, and angry Christian youths ...

By PATRICK DONOHUE Follow @ProtectServeBft Get breaking news and story updates about crime, courts and emergency services in northern Beaufort County by following Protect and Serve on Twitter. Authorities released the names Saturday of the Port Royal ...

AP, Updated: February 26, 2012 12:14 IST Cincinnati: A man who was threatened with jail time for posting comments about his estranged wife on his personal Facebook page unless he posted daily apologies for a month says the court ruling violates his ...

LAS VEGAS – Marine Cpl. Alexander Degenhardt is crediting karma for landing a $2.9 million progressive slot jackpot in Las Vegas. Degenhardt was accepted as a bone marrow donor to an anonymous patient only a couple of days before hitting the jackpot ...

By Star-Ledger Staff Enlarge Star-Ledger Staff The day after the fatal fire, Vera Harrell talks about her friend Ann Jefferson, one of the five people who perished in the raging blaze on Clinton Avenue in South Plainfield. (Noah K. Murray/The Star ...

AP NEW YORK — At New York's Columbia University, fear that police might secretly be infiltrating their lives has spread beyond the Muslim student population. Freshman Dina Morris says it's "disgusting." Morris, the daughter of a Jamaican immigrant, ...

The doctor's lawyer said he had lost at least 30 pounds since he went to jail Nov. 7 By The Associated Press Michael Jackson died in 2009 of a drug overdose that Conrad Murray administered in his bedroom as a treatment for insomnia.

AN explosion destroyed a Brazilian research base in Antarctica yesterday, killing two navy personnel and injuring a third, authorities said. Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim confirmed the deaths of non-commissioned officer Carlos Alberto Vieira ...

A 2004 California law permits DNA samples taken from adults arrested for felonies to be stored in a national database. Challengers said that violates Fourth Amendment privacy protections. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / February 23, 2012 A federal ...

The Obama administration is staying mum about the possibility of opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to curb the rise in gas prices -- declining to rule it in or out while insisting all along that officials are not interested in ...

Here we are today, three days into our six-week Lenten journey. It seems a dilemma to me, to have Valentine's Day just exactly one week before Ash Wednesday. It seems rather harsh to lay an Ash Wednesday meditation concerning sin and repentance on the ...

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as a stable democracy. Abdoulaye Wade, 85, came to power in 2000 after ...

The trial of 43 pro-democracy activists, including at least 16 Americans, is due to begin in Egypt. They are accused of receiving illegal funding from foreign governments, including the US. The case has severely strained relations between Egypt and the ...

AN explosion destroyed a Brazilian research base in Antarctica yesterday, killing two navy personnel and injuring a third, authorities said. Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim confirmed the deaths of non-commissioned officer Carlos Alberto Vieira ...

By Scott Smith SAN QUENTIN — Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine said in a death row interview Saturday that he's sorry. Not for killing anybody — something he steadfastly denies he did, despite a 2001 death sentence for four murders.

A 2004 California law permits DNA samples taken from adults arrested for felonies to be stored in a national database. Challengers said that violates Fourth Amendment privacy protections. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / February 23, 2012 A federal ...

The Obama administration is staying mum about the possibility of opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to curb the rise in gas prices -- declining to rule it in or out while insisting all along that officials are not interested in ...

Here we are today, three days into our six-week Lenten journey. It seems a dilemma to me, to have Valentine's Day just exactly one week before Ash Wednesday. It seems rather harsh to lay an Ash Wednesday meditation concerning sin and repentance on the ...

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as a stable democracy. Abdoulaye Wade, 85, came to power in 2000 after ...

The trial of 43 pro-democracy activists, including at least 16 Americans, is due to begin in Egypt. They are accused of receiving illegal funding from foreign governments, including the US. The case has severely strained relations between Egypt and the ...

AN explosion destroyed a Brazilian research base in Antarctica yesterday, killing two navy personnel and injuring a third, authorities said. Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim confirmed the deaths of non-commissioned officer Carlos Alberto Vieira ...

By Scott Smith SAN QUENTIN — Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine said in a death row interview Saturday that he's sorry. Not for killing anybody — something he steadfastly denies he did, despite a 2001 death sentence for four murders.

A 2004 California law permits DNA samples taken from adults arrested for felonies to be stored in a national database. Challengers said that violates Fourth Amendment privacy protections. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / February 23, 2012 A federal ...

The Obama administration is staying mum about the possibility of opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to curb the rise in gas prices -- declining to rule it in or out while insisting all along that officials are not interested in ...

Here we are today, three days into our six-week Lenten journey. It seems a dilemma to me, to have Valentine's Day just exactly one week before Ash Wednesday. It seems rather harsh to lay an Ash Wednesday meditation concerning sin and repentance on the ...

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as a stable democracy. Abdoulaye Wade, 85, came to power in 2000 after ...

The trial of 43 pro-democracy activists, including at least 16 Americans, is due to begin in Egypt. They are accused of receiving illegal funding from foreign governments, including the US. The case has severely strained relations between Egypt and the ...

AN explosion destroyed a Brazilian research base in Antarctica yesterday, killing two navy personnel and injuring a third, authorities said. Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim confirmed the deaths of non-commissioned officer Carlos Alberto Vieira ...

By Scott Smith SAN QUENTIN — Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine said in a death row interview Saturday that he's sorry. Not for killing anybody — something he steadfastly denies he did, despite a 2001 death sentence for four murders.

A 2004 California law permits DNA samples taken from adults arrested for felonies to be stored in a national database. Challengers said that violates Fourth Amendment privacy protections. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / February 23, 2012 A federal ...

The Obama administration is staying mum about the possibility of opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to curb the rise in gas prices -- declining to rule it in or out while insisting all along that officials are not interested in ...

Here we are today, three days into our six-week Lenten journey. It seems a dilemma to me, to have Valentine's Day just exactly one week before Ash Wednesday. It seems rather harsh to lay an Ash Wednesday meditation concerning sin and repentance on the ...

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as a stable democracy. Abdoulaye Wade, 85, came to power in 2000 after ...

The trial of 43 pro-democracy activists, including at least 16 Americans, is due to begin in Egypt. They are accused of receiving illegal funding from foreign governments, including the US. The case has severely strained relations between Egypt and the ...

AN explosion destroyed a Brazilian research base in Antarctica yesterday, killing two navy personnel and injuring a third, authorities said. Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim confirmed the deaths of non-commissioned officer Carlos Alberto Vieira ...

By Scott Smith SAN QUENTIN — Convicted serial killer Wesley Shermantine said in a death row interview Saturday that he's sorry. Not for killing anybody — something he steadfastly denies he did, despite a 2001 death sentence for four murders.

A 2004 California law permits DNA samples taken from adults arrested for felonies to be stored in a national database. Challengers said that violates Fourth Amendment privacy protections. By Warren Richey, Staff writer / February 23, 2012 A federal ...

The Obama administration is staying mum about the possibility of opening up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to curb the rise in gas prices -- declining to rule it in or out while insisting all along that officials are not interested in ...

Here we are today, three days into our six-week Lenten journey. It seems a dilemma to me, to have Valentine's Day just exactly one week before Ash Wednesday. It seems rather harsh to lay an Ash Wednesday meditation concerning sin and repentance on the ...

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) -- Senegal's octogenarian incumbent president is seeking a third term, a bid that has sparked deadly protests and threatened the nation's reputation as a stable democracy. Abdoulaye Wade, 85, came to power in 2000 after ...

The trial of 43 pro-democracy activists, including at least 16 Americans, is due to begin in Egypt. They are accused of receiving illegal funding from foreign governments, including the US. The case has severely strained relations between Egypt and the ...