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CNN
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A Dutch man once considered a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway has told a television station he dumped her body in a swamp, Aruba's chief prosecutor told CNN...
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CNN
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Phillip Garrido, who is accused of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old and then holding her captive for 18 years, apologized in a jailhouse letter sent to a television station, the California station said Thursday...
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CNN
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Firefighters are close to containing half of the massive Station Fire north of Los Angeles, fire officials said Thursday...
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FOX News
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A man tried to extort $25,000 from a gas station owner by claiming he was a federal agent who had information linking the businessman to Al Qaeda and threatening to jail him, prosecutors said Friday.
George Tabora, 44, was charged with attempted extort..
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Yahoo News
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A service station that offered discounted gas to senior citizens and people supporting youth sports has been ordered by the state to raise its prices.
Center City BP owner Raj Bhandari has been offering senior citizens a 2 cent per gallon price break a..
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FOX News
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No criminal charges will be filed in the case of Sacramento, Calif., mother of three who died early this year while competing in a water-drinking contest run by a local radio station, FOXNews.com has confirmed.
Sacramento County District Attorney Jan S..
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CNN
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Kathryn Hire: With one woman and five men aboard, the space shuttle Endeavour launched early Monday morning and is heading to the international space station. Endeavour's two-week visit is the first of NASA's five final shuttle missions before the space agency retires its aging space shuttle fleet later this year. It's also the last major construction project on the 11-year-old space station, according to SPACE.com...
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MSNBC
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An explosive device caused minor damage to an empty military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday, shaking guests in hotel rooms high above.
Police blocked off the area to investigate the explosion, which occurred at about 3:45 a.m., shatt..
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CNN
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New York police said a small explosion outside a military recruiting station in Times Square early Thursday caused minor damage. The explosion occurred around at 3:45 a.m. There were no reported injuries.
Two witnesses, a man and a woman, told a local..
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MSNBC
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A massive fire erupted at a natural gas pumping station in a rural area, spreading to houses and killing an undetermined number of people, authorities said.
Officials weren’t sure what started the fire late Tuesday at the Columbia Gulf Natural Gas pu..
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SF Gate
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A 20-year-old man is dead and another man is recovering after being shot on the street near the MacArthur BART station, police said today.
Nathan Taylor and Donte Davis, 18, both of Oakland, were found around 1:20 p.m. Wednesday near Apgar Street and M..
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SF Gate
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Astronaut Daniel Tani had hoped to spend Christmas with his family, but that was before fuel tank problems scrapped two scheduled December launches of the space shuttle Atlantis, which would have taken him home from the international space station. Now th..
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www.insidebayarea.com
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Sprawled on his stomach outside a gas station in Golden Valley, Minn., Al Hixon had a police officer's boot planted on his neck and pepper spray shot deep into his nostrils, scorching his lungs. Moments earlier, Hixon had been pouring oil into his blue Ja..
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FOX News
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A gas station cashier who was held up on the job and helped track down the robber has been fired.
The company that owns the station said Cynthia Lopez lost her job because her cash drawer was $16 over its $50 limit.
"We do have policies on cash limi..
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CNN
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Spanish-language network Telemundo has placed a newscaster on leave while it investigates whether her romantic relationship with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa breached journalistic ethics, TV station KVEA said Thursday. The Telemundo affiliate announced the..
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FOX News
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Bill Barnes says he was scratching off a losing $2 lottery ticket inside a gas station when he felt a hand slip into his front-left pants pocket, where he had $300 in cash.
He immediately grabbed the person's wrist with his left hand and started throwi..
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SF Gate
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Dozens of drivers waited for hours on end today to take advantage of a rare sight: gas in San Francisco for less than $3 a gallon.
The going-out-of-business deal -- $2.99 a gallon for regular, a penny more for higher octane -- happened at the Shell sta..
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Yahoo News
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Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative opened the nation's first "terror-free" gas station...
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BBC News
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After repeated delays, the Arabic TV station al-Jazeera has announced a launch date of 15 November for its English-language news channel...
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