BEIRUT – Syrian government helicopters dropped a barrel bomb Tuesday in a neighborhood in the northern city of Aleppo, hitting a busy bus depot and killing at least 15 people, activists said. The attack on the Jisr al-Haj neighborhood killed at least 15 people, said the Local Coordination Committees, a …

WASHINGTON – Red light photo enforcement cameras are being abused by municipalities to shake down drivers for needed revenue, a spokesman for theAutomobile Association of America (search)told state officials recently, announcing the organization’s shift in attitude. “The evidence that many of these systems are about money, not safety, abounds,”Lon Anderson …

JUBA, South Sudan – The U.N. children’s agency saysdozens of children have been killed, at least 12 raped and others abducted and recruited in a series of attacks in South Sudan’s Unity state over a two-week period. UNICEF said in a statement Monday that witnesses believe the attacks were carried …

And now the most compelling two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: American Majority Says War in Iraq, “Right Thing To Do’ A new FOX News Opinion Dynamics poll out today shows that, after weeks of bad news and Democratic criticism on Iraq, most Americans still say…by …

WILSON, N.C. – The crew of a truck carrying a load of gold bars had just pulled off the interstate in North Carolina when, the two men told police, a seemingly ordinary episode of carsickness turned into a multimillion-dollar heist. On Wednesday, authorities said they were suspicious that the roadside …

SEATTLE – A Washington state man who police say drove his girlfriend’s body to a psychiatric hospital and told staff he killed her has a court hearing Wednesday. Police say 29-year-old Attila Richards told employees at Western State Hospital on Sunday that he had killed his girlfriend and needed help. …

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. – The search for a missing 3-year-old boy ended Friday where it began a day earlier, inside a Florida home where the child’s body was discovered in what police called an “obscured” location. Hollywood Police Chief Frank Fernandez offered few details during a Friday morning news conference that …

WORLAND, Wyo. – A pilot flying with his young grandson encountered engine trouble but safely landed his small plane on a rural Wyoming highway without hurting anybody. The only damage occurred when the wings of the single-engine plane clipped some road marker posts as the pilot maneuvered away from traffic. …

SAN FRANCISCO – Two climbers trying to become the first in the world to use only their hands and feet to scale a sheer granite face in Yosemite National Park in California are almost to the top, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. Kevin Jorgeson, 30, of Santa Rosa, California, and Tommy …

Disney’s Pirates Disney’s Pirates Fences $13 Million The heat is on forDisney (search). Their first PG-13 movie under the Disney banner, Pirates of the Caribbean, made a good debut yesterday. TheJohnny Depp (search )action comedy based on the famous Disney theme park ride took in $13.5 million. It’s not a …