HOUSTON – Two spacewalking astronauts hung science experiments on the outside of the space station’s new lab Friday and packed up a broken gyroscope for next week’s shuttle ride home. It was the third and final spacewalk for Atlantis’ astronauts, who arrived at the international space station nearly a week …

ST. LOUIS – Police still want to know why a 3-year-old boy was left alone at a suburban St. Louis shopping mall over the weekend. But by Monday, the child’s mother was still refusing to show up and talk with officers. The boy was discovered by employees around 8:30 p.m. …

A veteran Florida sheriff’s deputy is in hot water after she was caught on video dumping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair while he was being booked on Jan. 29, MyFOXTampaBay.com reported. The video shows Brian Sterner, 32, out of his wheelchair and on the floor while Deputy Charlotte …

WASHINGTON – The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed economic aid package. GOP senators banded together …

DES MOINES, Iowa – A seven-year casino employee fired after posting in his office a “Dilbert” comic comparing managers to “drunken lemurs” has become the subject of the strip. • Click here to watch video. David Steward was fired from the Catfish Bend Casino because management found the cartoon “very …

An 8-year-old Canadian girl died suddenly last week shortly after becoming ill, it is reported by CBC News. Kyla Ootova of Iqaluit, the capital city of Nunavut in Canada, left classes last Thursday at Nakasuk School, where she was enrolled in the third grade, because she was ill. She died …

LAS VEGAS – A convicted armed robber who broke free from a Florida prison more than 30 years ago was arrested by Metro Police in Las Vegas on Thursday along with three other fugitives, according to FOX5Vegas.com. Charles D. Free, now 61, escaped from jail in 1975 when he was …

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ST. PAUL – A man on his way to anger management class became angry and struck a woman, authorities said. Justin John Boudin, 27, pleaded guilty Friday to fifth-degree assault in Ramsey County District Court and can expect to face a sentence for time served in jail, at least 120 …

TOKYO – Nearly two-thirds of Japanese support the country’s much-criticized whaling program, a poll showed Friday, reflecting growing sentiment in the country that the international anti-whaling campaign is fueled by Western cultural bias. The Asahi newspaper said 65 percent of respondents to a telephone survey favored the hunts, while 21 …