Ryan's ``day of reckoning'' -- as the panel called it in the 2-1 decision -- will be Wednesday, Nov. 7, unless he gets an unlikely last-minute reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court.

A Brinks Armored Truck employee was shot in front of a CVS Pharmacy store in Miami Gardens in an apparent robbery attempt.

Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital pays $725,000 wrongful death settlement.

Decision clears way for ex-general Lino Oviedo to compete in presidential elections next April

World Meteorological Organization says La Niña phenomenon can alter global weather, climate patterns

Turkey should show restraint over Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, but its security concerns are understandable, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

A group of retired senior KGB officials have called on the country's security services to end a turf war between competing agencies that has turned into a bitter public conflict.

The Defense Ministry is planning to move the Navy headquarters to St. Petersburg in the latest instance of a federal institution being shifted to the former capital -- and President Vladimir Putin's hometown.

The Central Elections Commission has limited the size and term of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's observer mission for the upcoming State Duma elections in an official invitation signed by commission chief Vladimir Churov.

TOLYATTI, Samara Region -- A powerful explosion ripped through a passenger bus Wednesday in the car-manufacturing city of Tolyatti, killing eight and injuring at least 54.

ST. GEORGE, Utah -- As he sat in jail awaiting trial, the leader of a polygamous sect renounced his role as a church prophet and said he had been "immoral" with a sister and daughter decades ago, according to court

Public domain. Drawing of Huckleberry finn with a rabbit and a gun, by en:EW Kemble from the original 1884 edition of the book. Also Online Darla Miles reports Students faced with N-word in English class Should schools ban 'Huckleberry Finn'

PR-inside.com) KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - A British expert who analyzed toxicology tests on Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer testified Wednesday that his team found no traces of a potentially deadly pesticide in samples provided by Jamaican analysts.The testimony of forensic

PR-inside.com) WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time in nearly three years, a month passed with no executions in the United States.No death sentences were carried out in October, as judges and elected officials effectively halted executions following the Supreme

PR-inside.com) LOS ANGELES (AP) - Former "Prison Break" actor Lane Garrison was sentenced to three years and four months in prison Wednesday for a drunken driving crash that killed a 17-year-old high school student."The public has the right to know

PR-inside.com) KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto abruptly canceled plans to travel outside of Pakistan on Wednesday, saying she had heard rumors the government could impose a state of emergency during her absence.The opposition leader, who was

PR-inside.com) WASHINGTON (AP) - The "Law of the Sea" treaty was primed for its first-ever Senate vote, boosted by strong support from the Bush administration and an emphatic vote of approval Wednesday by the Foreign Relations Committee.With Senate ratification, the