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CLEVELAND – Opening statements are set to begin in the trial of an Ohio doctor charged in the 2005 cyanide death of his wife, a case delayed for years while authorities tried to extradite the fugitive defendant from Cyprus. The trial of 41-year-old Yazeed Essa starts Monday in Cleveland and …

VINELAND, N.J. – Hardcore bowlers don’t just call their main alley their lanes — it’s their house. A beloved house burned down last week after 50 years on the edge of Vineland, a city in a part of New Jersey far from the historical home of the mob and the …

Vaccines against rotavirus, which can kills babies and young children within days by causing severe diarrhea, could save 2 million children over the next decade, experts said Wednesday. Two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that vaccinating babies against rotavirus significantly cut deaths from diarrhea — …

CLEVELAND – A television news anchor appeared on the air nude in a first-person report about an artist’s photographs, drawing a record number of viewers for the time slot, the station said. Sharon Reed (search) was one of hundreds of people who participated in Spencer Tunick’s (search) nude photo installation …

So President Obama faced a few hecklers on Monday who went after him about the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Take a gander, gander takers! Now I, for one, think it’s awesome to see gay activists moving beyond the easy targets. Usually, they rag on Mormons, because they’ll take it, …

Joseph Stack, the 53-year-old software engineer who crashed his small plane into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas, was part of a growing, violent anti-tax and anti-government movement that has become increasingly alarming to law enforcement agencies. Stack, who torched his home Thursday morning before setting out on his …

You know, I’ve been racking my brain thinking of what you get someone for a one-year anniversary gift. I mean, this being the first anniversary of the big stimulus bill, I feel obliged to do something for the president – but what? After all, he’s the president. The guy’s got …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Strapped for Cash Democratic pollster Celinda Lake says Martha Coakley’s Massachusetts Senate campaign failed to commission any polls in the weeks leading up to last week’s special election because it did not have enough money. Lake tells CNN that Coakley asked national …

Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, former New York Times editor Howell Raines accuses Fox News of sabotaging Obamacare and waging a jihad against the Obama administration. Raines writes: “Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on [Fox News for conducting] a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration — …

When you think menstrual cycle, you don’t exactly think open conversation. Two authors are out to change that. Elissa Stein and Susan Kim, authors of “Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation,” decided to write a book about the history and taboos of women’s periods when Stein was too embarrassed to …