Report: AIDS ‘crisis' across South
AIDS specialists are calling for a fundamental rethinking of AIDS policy after a new study showed HIV and AIDS rising dramatically in the South even as they drop everywhere else in the country.

State troopers battle big gas bills

In big, wide-open Montana, a state trooper might have to drive more than 100 miles to answer an emergency call, and routinely puts several hundred miles on the odometer in a day.

South Texas starts post-storm cleanup

Residents across south Texas and in northern Mexico slogged through knee-deep muddy waters, tiptoed around downed power lines and dug through debris Thursday, but were thankful that Hurricane Dolly was not as powerful as they had feared.

Victim of Facebook profile wins suit
A businessman won damages Thursday against an old friend who put libelous and unauthorised information about him on the social networking Web site Facebook.

Nuclear launch crew falls asleep
Three ballistic missile crew members in North Dakota fell asleep while holding classified launch code devices this month, triggering an military and national security investigation.

TSA: Airlines cause 'watch list' errors

Airlines are to blame for many of the "false positives" that flag passengers with names similar to those on the terrorism watch list, the Transportation Security Administration chief says.

Dow ends day down more than 280
Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and finanical sector worries.

Many seniors' insomnia in their heads

Old people are known to be lousy sleepers, but a new study suggests it might all be in their heads, at least for many of them.

Secret memo OK'd harsh CIA tactics
A Justice Department memo issued in 2002 and released Thursday offered protection — method by method — to CIA interrogators using harsh techniques.