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Gerard Damiano, director of the popular pornographic film Deep Throat that lent its name to a Watergate whistle-blower, has died. ...

15% of female veterans tell of sexual trauma
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 27 2008 23:00

About one out of seven female veterans of Afghanistan or Iraq who visit a Veterans Affairs center for medical care report being ...

Report: Climate change affects Yellowstone
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 27 2008 22:19

From Walden Pond in Massachusetts to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, climate change has begun to dramatically affect the ...

FBI report: Anti-gay crimes up
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 27 2008 22:28

Hate crimes against gays increased in 2007, up 6% from 2006 even though the overall number of hate crimes dropped slightly, the ...

Airline passengers will likely be able to carry large bottles of liquids on airplanes some time next year, the Transportation ...

Fla. school may drop general's name
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 27 2008 21:27

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a millionaire slave trader, a ruthless Confederate general, an early Ku Klux Klan leader and the ...

Storm fraud complaints down
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 27 2008 20:30

Hurricanes Ike and Gustav are generating fewer fraud complaints than Hurricanes Rita and Katrina in part because of new anti-fraud ...

Baylor College of Medicine neurologist Joseph Jankovic is a patient man. It took him more than two decades to interest a U.S. ...

AP - With an instructor watching, an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair aimed an Uzi at a pumpkin and pulled the trigger as his dad reached for a camera.

Drug-resistant staph bacteria picked up in ordinary community settings are increasingly acquiring "superbug" powers and causing ...

Atlantic City delays smoking ban
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 27 2008 19:14

Atlantic City's less-than-two-week-old ban on smoking in casinos will soon end under a change-of-heart measure approved Monday ...

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a millionaire slave trader, a ruthless Confederate general, an early Ku Klux Klan leader and the ...

The 16-year-old driver of a sport-utility vehicle that went out of control in rural Tennessee and caused a weekend accident that ...

Police say two armed men stormed into a New York City beauty salon to shoot a man who had fled into the building to escape. He ...

Police: S.C. teen killed his pregnant mother
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 27 2008 17:00

A 14-year-old South Carolina boy faces two counts of murder in the deaths of his mother and unborn sister she was carrying, authorities ...