A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday. read more...
The Afghan government was holding secret talks with the Taliban's No. 2 when he was captured in Pakistan, and the arrest infuriated President Hamid Karzai, according to one of Karzai's advisers. read more...
The mother of a Colorado nursing student who fled to Europe to join a terrorist murder cell described her daughter as an 'insecure' person who 'had no idea what she was getting herself into.' read more...
New HIV infections are increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes who don't seek help because of laws that criminalize these practices, the head of the U.N. AIDS agency said Monday. read more...
A California car wash owner says hes rather amused after two Internal Revenue Service agents visited his business to demand he pay a debt -- of four cents read more...
A New Hampshire woman who fled her home in a manic state, leaving her husband and young son behind, left few clues when she abandoned her car 150 miles away in another state on a highway median in a snowstorm. read more...
