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A cow that escaped a slaughterhouse dodged vehicles, ran in front of a train, braved the icy Missouri River and took three tranquilizer darts before being recaptured six hours later. News of the heifer’s adventures prompted a number …

An interior designer who admitted to poisoning trees on the edge of Stanley Park to improve her view will avoid a criminal record after her lawyer argued the “coast to coast humiliation” she has suffered is punishment enough.

An ordinary fruit sticker that mysteriously ended up on a $20 bill could spur collectors to bid up to 1,000 times the bill’s face value at an auction Friday.

Dundee, Scotland, will be the site later this month of a test of Internet lampposts, the latest in a series of measures designed to widen the appeal and availability of wireless networks around the world. This one at the …

An 11-year-old girl died of bird flu in Turkey on Friday, the country’s third death from the virus, officials said.

Have you ever wondered how the No-Fly List gets constructed? Like the majority of us I assumed that there is an agent that scours intelligence and makes a decision based on a set of criteria that a lot of bespectacled …

Democratic U.S. Rep. John Murtha said the military is suffering from what he calls “the administration’s constantly changing, undefined, open-ended military mission in Iraq.”

Missouri Republicans scrambled yesterday to try to distance themselves from Jack Abramoff and the corrupt lobbyist’s donations after he pleaded guilty mail fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion charges.

Is interstellar travel on the horizon?

Maybe. And if so, it may be at “warp speed”.

The Department of Energy and the Air Force are funding research into a magnetic bottle/gravitational field drive that would in effect be the “hyperspace …