CAPE MAY POINT, N.J. – Rescue teams searched waters along the southern New Jersey (search) coast on Sunday for the body of a boy scout who fell off a whale-watching boat. Rough conditions forced police and Coast Guard (search) boats to suspend the search around midday, but investigators did find …

Health experts have destroyed two-thirds of the specimens of a killer influenza virus sent as part of routine test kits around the world, but were still trying to trace two shipments that were supposed to go to Mexico and Lebanon, U.N. officials said Friday. The World Health Organization (search) has …

WASHINGTON – A boss sends a red bra to a former female subordinate who had a falling out with him. Government e-mails distribute profanity and a picture of a partly nude woman. An order to better protect patients in a medical experiment takes two years to complete. All of that …

BAGHDAD – Militants unleashed attacks in a northeastern Iraq city that left four people wounded, officials said Tuesday, as the country hosted U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld (search), a leading architect of the war. Gunmen opened fire late Monday on a police patrol in the city of the city …

BOSTON – Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX) said its first-quarter profit rose 85 percent as the medical device maker extended a more than yearlong profit surge on sales of its market-leading drug-coated heart stent (search). The company said, however, that it expects sales growth to return to more moderate levels in …

A surplus of diet food for the overweight has been a boon for the hungry in Appalachia (search). Once hot and trendy, low-carb Atkins diet foods (search) that never got sold are being shipped to food banks. Since September, 14 truckloads of Atkins Nutritional bars, shakes and breakfast mixes have …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – The chief judge agreed Wednesday to allow the defense to call Saddam Hussein and his former intelligence chief as witnesses on behalf of one of their co-defendants in their trial on charges of crimes against humanity. It was not clear when Saddam and Barzan Ibrahim would take …

NEW YORK – Oklahoma, Mississippi and the Mountain states have set the pace in increasing the imprisonment of women, while several Northeastern states are curtailing the practice, according to a new report detailing sharp regional differences in the handling of female offenders. The report, to be released Sunday by the …

WACO, Texas – On the 90th anniversary of a lynching that became known as the “Waco Horror,” nearly 100 people gathered outside the county courthouse for the reading of a community group’s resolution denouncing lynchings in the 1800s and early 1900s. The Community Race Relations Coalition wants the city and …

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A rare coin has brought a Florida couple a pretty penny. Denis Loring and Donna Levin bought the 1792 copper penny at auction last year for $437,000. They sold it in May for $660,000. The coin originally was owned by descendants of Oliver Wolcott, who …