OUJDA, Morocco – Morocco (search) began deporting would-be immigrants Monday, with a flight carrying 140 Senegalese taking off for Dakar after hundreds of Africans stormed razor-wire border fences in recent weeks in two Spanish enclaves. The Royal Air Maroc (search) flight took off from Oujda, in northeast Morocco. Moroccan police …

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Smurfette is left for dead. Baby Smurf is left crying and orphaned as the Smurf’s village is carpet bombed by warplanes — a horrific scene and imagery not normally associated with the lovable blue-skinned cartoon characters. These are the scenes being shown as part of a new …

NEW ORLEANS – Two New Orleans (search) police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations. There will be a criminal investigation, and the three officers were to be suspended, arrested …

NEW YORK – When it comes to reading or arithmetic, Marvin Calvin is delighted to help his two children. He missed out on many of the duties of parenthood during a 10-year stretch in prison for armed robbery. But when it comes to MP3 players, video game consoles, computers or …

WASHINGTON – Marine Gen. Peter Pace (search) took over Friday as the military’s top leader, facing an unpopular war in Iraq, recruitment shortfalls at home and the possibility of an expanded role in domestic disasters. At Pace’s swearing-in, several Marines who have served with the Vietnam (search) veteran said he …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” October 27, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Conservatives have been slamming the president’s nominee ever since she was announced, saying Harriet Miers (search) lacked ideological purity and intellectual heft. The president was also …

IRVINE, Calif. – Seventeen candidates in Southern California’s heavily Republican Orange County competed Tuesday in a special election for the nation’s only open House seat, a vacancy created when Rep. Christopher Cox (search) left to become chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The race was expected to become a …

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Amish search Dr. Harry Hull, the state epidemiologist, said the cases do not pose a threat to the general public because most people have been vaccinated against polio (search) and are unlikely to have contact with Amish people. But he said he expects to find more …

DELCAMBRE, La. – First the floodwaters dislodged massive burial vaults from the earth. Then the vaults yawned open, and out floated hundreds of coffins. And when the coffins opened, their contents drifted away, too. Along with the despair they brought to the living, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (search) also evicted …

BOSTON – Former Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra (search) rescued two women who had fallen into Boston Harbor late last week, his uncle and a witness told the Boston Herald. Garciaparra, who played for the Chicago Cubs (search) last season, was with his uncle in his Charlestown condominium at about …