The Augusta, the newest of the Navy's Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarines, was commissioned
An emotion-charged battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over the use of beer and wine commercials on radio and television--and particularly over endorsements by celebrities who appear in the ads.
Federal prosecutors will not investigate the subway shootings of four men by Bernhard Goetz, U.S.
Sen. Thomas F.
Suspected leftist guerrillas today hurled a suitcase full of dynamite at a car carrying the head of Peru's elections board and then sprayed the vehicle with machine-gun fire, seriously wounding the official, his chauffeur and bodyguard, police said.
A neighbor and longtime friend of television minister George Vandeman pulled Vandeman's son away Thursday as the son was stabbing his father.
Two men fired a pistol and threw a grenade in a crowded courtroom Thursday, critically wounding the chief magistrate and his clerk and temporarily freeing the defendant, witnesses said.
Actress Judy Carne, 46, was released Monday from prison after serving two months for a drug conviction.
Gunmen with silencer-equipped submachine guns stopped an American University Hospital bus carrying as many as 40 people at Beirut's dividing Green Line on Saturday, climbed aboard and raked the passengers with bullets, killing three doctors and a hospital administrator, police said.
The Yokohama Taiyo Whales got 18 hits including a three-run home run by American Doug Loman in a 14-4 rout of the Chunichi Dragons Sunday in a Japanese League baseball game.
Angola's Defense Ministry said Monday that South African troops attacked the strategic town of Cuito Cuanavale about 185 miles inside southeast Angola on Sunday.
A state prosecutor, citing a lack of evidence, called today for the acquittal of three Bulgarians accused of plotting the 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
A plan by the federal government to operate a halfway house for federal prisoners in the heart of Buena Park's entertainment strip has drawn strong opposition from City Council members, residents and merchants, city officials said Wednesday.
An Ulster policeman was shot and wounded and the homes of four other officers were attacked with firebombs or gunshots during the second night of Protestant violence in the British province.
Two softball players have been convicted of assaulting an umpire during a brawl at a slow-pitch game last Oct. 31.
Lonnie Mack is one of those figures treasured by roots-rock enthusiasts and English rock-guitar stars: two instrumental hits in '63, followed by years of one-nighters, obscurity, sporadic comebacks.
Openly segregated churches and restaurants are decades in the past here, but some local blacks and Latinos have gone to court to fight what they say is a form of racism hidden but firmly entrenched in city politics.
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attack in a $100,000 life insurance fraud has been arrested in the Lomita area while driving erratically in a stolen car, authorities said Tuesday.