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CHICAGO – A Southwest Airlines jet that skidded off a runway at Midway International Airport and into a city street needed about 800 more feet of runway to come to a safe stop, federal investigators said Thursday. The Dec. 8 accident killed a 6-year-old boy inside one of two vehicles …

MIAMI – For years, Caroline Lamarre dreaded the annual “Secret Santa” tradition of picking a name out of a hat and giving her secret match a gift. She’d have to find a time when all her friends could get together to draw names, and people would have to draw again …

HOUSTON – A condemned prisoner who got a taste of freedom last month when he escaped from a county jail said Wednesday his flight was worth it even though he was caught after three days on the run. “It was great,” Charles V. Thompson, 35, said from death row in …

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Beside gentle seas, survivors, friends and family remembered the fury of the Indian Ocean tsunami that swept away more than 200,000 people in 12 countries one year ago Monday and laid waste to entire communities in one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. On …

NEW YORK – The executive board for the city’s transit workers union approved a tentative new contract late Tuesday, five days after it ended a paralyzing bus and subway strike that stranded millions of commuters. The tentative contract, announced by union President Roger Toussaint, would give workers a 10.9 percent …

LOS ANGELES – Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the birth of the smallest known solar system. Peering through ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists observed a brown dwarf — or failed star — less than one hundredth the mass of the sun surrounded by what appears to be a …

NORWALK, Ohio – Child-welfare workers had heard rumors that a couple kept some of their 11 adopted children in cages two years before the youngsters were removed from the home, a witness testified in a custody hearing Tuesday. Officials tried to follow up on the rumors in 2003, but Michael …

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia’s governor on Tuesday spared the life of a convicted killer who would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. Robin Lovitt‘s death sentence was commuted to life in prison without parole a …

More than two years after Blaster turned the summer of 2003 into an IT administrator’s worst nightmare, the worm is still very much alive and there are fears within Microsoft that thousands of Windows machines will never be completely dewormed. According to statistics culled from Microsoft’s Windows malicious software removal …