SANTA ANA, Calif. – Three young men, including the son of a former law enforcement official, were convicted Wednesday of sexually assaulting an unconscious teenage girl with a pool cue, juice bottle and cigarette as they filmed themselves on videotape. The jury returned convictions on a total of 15 felony …

WASHINGTON – A terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was a commander for Usama bin Laden (search) during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and helped the Al Qaeda leader escape his mountain hide-out at Tora Bora in 2001, according to a U.S. government document. The document, …

WASHINGTON – Major League Baseball (search) gave a congressional committee about 400 pages of documents on drug testing and said commissioner Bud Selig (search) was willing to testify at Thursday’s hearing on steroid use. Lawyers for Jason Giambi (search), Frank Thomas and Rafael Palmeiro asked the committee to withdraw subpoenas …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration blacked out almost all the information in hundreds of documents before releasing them to a conservative organization looking into President Clinton’s (search)controversial pardons four years ago on his last day in office. The only items not deleted from the material are the names of the …

A picture is worth a thousand words when it comes to sun protection. Call it the “scared straight” approach to sun protection. Ultraviolet (UV) photography lets people glimpse their skin’s hidden sun damage (search) — premature wrinkles and spots waiting to surface. “Ultraviolet cameras are readily available, relatively inexpensive, and …

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ROME – A journalist who was held hostage in Iraq for a month and later shot by U.S. troops as she was being driven to freedom was released Thursday from the hospital, where she was treated for a wound to her shoulder. Giuliana Sgrena (search) left Celio Military Hospital, where …

NEW YORK – Three decades after forming in a Dublin high school and still on top of the music world, U2 (search) was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (search) on Monday, joined by the O’Jays, Percy Sledge, The Pretenders and Buddy Guy. In hours befitting rock …

DOUGLAS, Ariz. – The U.S.-Mexican border is nearly 2,000 miles long. America’s determination to keep illegal aliens out is matched only by their desperation to get in. “The reality is that hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world are successfully sneaking into the United States,” said Dave …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Gunmen killed two district police chiefs and two other Iraqis in attacks in Baghdad on Thursday, the latest in a steady wave of insurgent strikes against the nation’s security forces. Assailants in two cars opened fire on a pickup truck carrying Col. Ahmed Abeis (search), the head …