NEW YORK – Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class — and many teachers can’t even hear the ring. Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults. With it, high schoolers can receive …

LOS ANGELES – B.B. King‘s dog, Lucille, has disappeared, and the legendary bluesman is offering an autographed copy of one of his signature “Lucille” guitars in an effort to get her back. The 2-year-old white female Maltese, named after King’s signature guitar, went missing about 10 days ago in West …

This is a partial transcript from “On the Record,” February 13, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: New questions about what really happened the night George Smith disappeared from his honeymoon cruise. George was partying with four young men that night and their versions of …

LOS ANGELES – A former music executive charged in a wiretapping case involving Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano was ordered held without bail after the judge deemed him a flight risk. Prosecutors presented e-mails allegedly written by Robert Pfeifer, a former president of Hollywood Records, in which Pfeifer told a …

MAPUTO, Mozambique – A powerful earthquake rocked Mozambique and Zimbabwe early Thursday morning, killing at least two people and sending thousands of frightened people fleeing into the streets from swaying buildings. The magnitude-7.5 quake shook every corner of Mozambique and was felt strongly in Maputo, the capital in the far …

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania – A boat packed with West Africans trying to reach Europe collided with a fishing vessel, leaving 32 of the migrants missing and believed drowned, Mauritanian officials said Sunday. Mauritania, located in the northwest of Africa about 600 miles from Spain’s Canary Islands, has increasingly become a jumping-off …

NEW ORLEANS – The third-place finisher in the New Orleans mayoral primary decided Monday to endorse Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu over incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin in the runoff election. Ron Forman, the head of the Audubon Nature Institute, planned to make the formal announcement Monday afternoon. His campaign and Landrieu’s …

AKRON, Ohio – A young woman testified Wednesday that she repeatedly tried to kill herself because of haunting flashbacks of her stepfather impregnating her with a syringe eight years ago. Shenna Grimm, 23, told the court at John Goff’s rape retrial that he brandished a handgun and said, “If you …

DUBLIN, Ireland – The Irish Republican Army on Thursday admitted it killed a Catholic civilian during a botched 1974 attempt to ambush British troops, and it apologized to the man’s family. In a statement accompanying the group’s traditional Easter policy statement, the outlawed IRA said its members were responsible for …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A former judge who sentenced 148 Shiites to death under Saddam Hussein‘s rule in the 1980s told prosecutors in Saddam’s trial Thursday that the suspects had confessed and received a fair trial that lasted 16 days. But Awad al-Bandar acknowledged the defendants had only one defense lawyer, …