ANAHEIM, Calif. – Anaheim police shot and killed a man during a freeway gun battle linked to an earlier shooting that left an officer wounded, authorities said. A woman motorist also was injured early Monday in the second shooting. Officers tried to pull the man over shortly after midnight as …

WASHINGTON – The crowd at Tim Russert’s funeral Wednesday would have made a great panel on his Sunday morning news show. The two men vying to become president, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, were there, as were members of Congress, television journalists and several generations of politicians from both …

OLNEY, England – A frying pan-wielding Web designer won the British leg of an annual pre-Lent pancake race that pits Olney, England, against Liberal, Kansas. Amanda Brear, 42, covered the 415-yard course between Olney’s market square and its church in 1 minute, 9 seconds while carrying a pancake in a …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran will launch two more research rockets into space before putting its first domestically built satellite into orbit, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, claiming the first rocket launch earlier this month was a success. The hard-line president, speaking at a rally marking the 29th anniversary of the …

Filming was under way Thursday for “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth movie in the hit series, and a production still from the film shows just how much star Daniel Radcliffe has grown up since the first Potter flick. Click here to see Radcliffe in the new film …

Ferrum College canceled classes and went on lockdown Tuesday as police searched for a man who was seen with a handgun on campus, officials said. College President Jennifer Braaten activated an alert system and ordered the lockdown after a member of the housekeeping staff reported seeing a young man walk …

LOS ANGELES – The father of Britney Spears was named her temporary conservator Friday, putting him in control of her welfare a day after she was whisked to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. While James Spears was named conservator of the troubled pop star herself, he and an attorney, …

DETROIT – The state’s highest court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by the city’s mayor to prevent documents from being made public that detail a city settlement that helped conceal an apparent affair with a top aide. The Michigan Supreme Court unanimously upheld two lower court rulings ordering the release …

CICERO, Ill. – Catalina Garcia, the youngest of four children, was studying to be a teacher. Now, her family is preparing to lay her to rest. Garcia, 20, was one of five young people slain last week at Northern Illinois University by a gunman whose girlfriend said he recently stopped …

Doctors successfully removed a 2-inch nail from an Indian man’s genitals after he admitted himself to a hospital due to abdominal pain and the inability to speak, the Bahrain Gulf Daily News reported Wednesday. An X-ray of the man, who was not identified, showed the nail lodged in his urethra. …