This would be strange if it turns out to be true: Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: Birds, specifically pigeons. Inspectors began documenting the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near…

The drug smugglers are going hi-tech: A submarine-like vessel filled with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cocaine was seized off the Guatemalan coast, U.S. officials said. Four suspected smugglers were operating the self-propelled, semi- submersible vessel when it was located and seized on Sunday evening by officials from the U.S. Customs and Border…

I guess this will impact the sale of their book on marriage: Police said Juanita Bynum, a televangelist who has won a national following with sermons about women’s empowerment, was assaulted by her preacher husband in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel early Wednesday. Bynum and her estranged husband, Thomas W. Weeks III, the…

It looks like al-Qaeda is targeting the Sunni tribesmen who were helping us: Suspected al-Qaida fighters attacked a Sunni village east of Baqouba on Thursday and killed a village leader who had led the community in an uprising against the terrorist organization, witnesses and police said. At the same time Timim, a nearby Shiite village,…

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