Bauer recalls more than 100,000 junior hockey sticks
A well-known hockey brand is recalling more than a dozen junior hockey stick models.
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Two killed in Texas tour bus crash
SAN ANTONIO -- Federal investigators believe they know what caused a tour bus to crash in Texas that killed two people.
No full record of where all swine flu vaccine went
ATLANTA -- Health officials faced with meager supplies of swine flu vaccine last fall sent doses to some surprising places: cruise ship lines, Wall Street firms and the Johnson Space Center
ND residents learn from mistakes in flood fight
FARGO, N.D. -- Before this flood season, officials in Fargo asked homeowners to clear paths in their yards so that firm and straight walls of sandbags could be placed to protect their homes. One resident cut down his tree. Another went so far to use a torch to melt the ice off his ground.
Gov't looks to restrict teen tobacco access
WASHINGTON -- The federal government has announced a sweeping new crackdown on marketing cigarettes and other tobacco products to children.
Young children help mother deliver baby in Calif.
SAN FRANCISCO -- When Alana Sanders gave birth to her fourth child, the people on hand to towel off the baby and tie its umbilical cord weren't the usual team of doctors or nurses.
House Dems look to vote on $940B health bill
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats are pushing to the brink of passage a landmark, $940 billion health care overhaul bill that would simultaneously deliver on President Barack Obama's promise to expand coverage while slashing the deficit, a strategy aimed at winning over the party's fiscal conservatives.
EPA: More pets injured by flea and tick products
WASHINGTON -- Products intended to treat cats and dogs for fleas and ticks kill hundreds of pets each year and injure tens of thousands, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday as it outlined plans to make the products safer.
Pain in the tank: Gas prices highest since 2008
Motorists are paying the highest prices for gas since October 2008. Retail gasoline prices rose on Thursday on an expected increase in demand and as more expensive spring and summer blends of gasoline make their way to the pumps.
Gov't orders recall of 1.2 million high chairs
WASHINGTON -- The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.
Cruise liner hit again with illness returns to SC
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A cruise liner hit by an outbreak of intestinal illness for a third straight trip from South Carolina returned a day early Thursday as operator Celebrity Cruises brought in extra crew to scrub the ship down for three days.
GOP loses to Democrats over health votes
WASHINGTON -- Republicans have lost an effort to force House Democrats to hold a direct vote on the health overhaul bill.
Swiss gruyere named world's best cheese in Wis.
MADISON, Wis. -- Europeans are still the world's big cheeses -- a gruyere from Switzerland has been named the world's best cheese at the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison.
Accused 'Jihad Jane' denies terror plot in court
PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia-area woman authorities say dubbed herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in an overseas terrorist plot.
Girl critically injured in beating at Fla. school
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. -- Authorities say a 15-year-old girl was savagely beaten by a teenage boy while waiting for her bus outside a Florida middle school.
E-mails warn of another Va. Tech attack
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Nearly three years after a massacre that left more than 30 dead, Virginia Tech officials are urging calm as e-mails and Internet postings originating in Italy threaten another attack on campus.
Search for Wash. state mom, son resumes
SEATTLE -- Authorities in Washington state on Wednesday resumed their search for a woman who appears to have abandoned a van on a remote Puget Sound beach over the weekend and disappeared with her 8-year-old son.
Pilot trapped under plane's wreckage for 8 hours
SANTA CRUZ, Ariz. -- Authorities rescued an injured pilot who was trapped for about eight hours in the wreckage of an experimental plane that crashed on an Indian reservation south of Phoenix.
Atty: Suspect in 9/11 remains bldg fire was drunk
NEW YORK -- A defense lawyer says a Harvard Law School graduate accused of setting a fire at a temporary New York City repository for Sept. 11 victims' remains was so drunk he barely remembers being there.
Pa. teen takes city bus on destructive drive
UPPER DARBY, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania teenager allegedly stole a city bus and went on a destructive drive.