Obama and Romney meet for final debate as race tightens
BOCA RATON, Florida - President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney face off in front of the cameras for a final time on Monday as opinion polls show their battle for the White House has tightened to a dead heat. | Video
"Sickened" UCI strips Armstrong of Tour wins
GENEVA - Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life on Monday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) sanctions against the American. | Video
Florida college band member gets probation in hazing death
ORLANDO, Florida - A former Florida A&M; University band member was sentenced on Monday to six months of house arrest and two years of probation in the hazing death of college drum major Robert Champion, who was fatally beaten during a marching band ritual last fall.
Estranged wife of suspected Wisconsin spa gunman among dead
MILWAUKEE - The estranged wife of the suspected gunman in a shooting rampage at a Milwaukee-area spa was among the three women killed, officials said on Monday. | Video
Number of meningitis cases from tainted injections nears 300
- The number of cases of meningitis from tainted injections of a steroid medication reached 294, up 12 from a day earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday.
Judge questions WTC blame of United in September 11 case
NEW YORK - A U.S. judge on Thursday questioned whether United Airlines could be held responsible for suspected airport security lapses that allowed hijackers onto the American Airlines plane that slammed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
NYPD informant who tracked militants quits, denounces police
WASHINGTON - An informant recruited by the New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic militants has quit and denounced his police handlers, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case.
U.S. to expand probe of New York City veterans' pensions
NEW YORK - U.S. prosecutors are widening their probe into whether New York City unlawfully reduced pension benefits to retired employees who served in the military since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Accused mobster Bulger's lawyer wants murder trial delayed again
BOSTON - Attorneys for accused crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger pleaded for more time on Monday to prepare a defense against charges that he committed or ordered 19 murders in the 1970s and 1980s as the leader of Boston's Winter Hill gang.
Man severely burned in Molotov cocktail attack in Los Angeles suburb
LOS ANGELES - Police in Long Beach, California, searched on Monday for an unknown assailant who set a man ablaze by tossing a Molotov cocktail at the victim outside a grocery store in a fiery attack caught on videotape.
Foreign policy issues rank low among voter priorities
Hype for the third and final presidential debate tonight has been considerably less than for the two previous face-offs -- perhaps for good reason. The debate is focused on foreign policy, and Americans don’t seem to care that much about it.
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