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The Alabama biology professor accused of killing three colleagues in a campus shooting was working on a novel that contained eerie similarities to her own life. Amy Bishop, charged with opening fire Friday at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, had an unpublished manuscript for a book titled “Amazon Fever,” …

Hosted by Oliver North “Knowledge is power,” wrote the English philosopher Sir Francis Bacon. And that’s the essence of what spying is all about, attaining information, and therefore, power over an adversary. During World War II, the Abwehr, Germany’s intelligence service, made numerous attempts to infiltrate the United States with …

Several of the nearly 100 young U.S. athletes who die suddenly and unexpectedly during sports every year could be saved through more effective screening for heart problems, US researchers suggested in a new study published Monday. The measures, according to another study, will cost less than $100 per athlete. Most …

This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” May 12, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Tonight your America is turning into a nanny state thanks to the Obama administration’s efforts to rein in the junk food industry. But the …

As doctors have substantially brought down the rate of lung cancer in men over the past three decades, they face a stubborn riddle: Why does it continue to grow among women? A new study offers an intriguing possibility that the answer may involve estrogen, the Wall Street Journal reported in …

Older adults who get plenty of vitamin E in their diets may have a somewhat lower risk of developing dementia than those who consume less of the nutrient, a study published Monday suggests. Researchers found that among 5,400 Dutch adults age 55 and older, the one-third who reported the highest …

WASHINGTON – A year before the Iraq invasion, the then-Army secretary warned his Pentagon bosses that there was inadequate control of private military contractors (search), which are now at the heart of controversies over misspending and prisoner abuse. The author of that memo, retired Army chief Thomas White (search), said …

Haleigh Cummings’ little brother told police a man dressed all in black snuck into her room and snatched the 5-year-old Florida girl from her bed, a TV news Web site reported. Crystal Sheffield, the children’s mother, said Haleigh’s father Ronald Cummings, Jr. and her son recounted the same story to …

HOUSTON – A Texas jury has sentenced a convicted murderer to death for a third time for the 1983 killing of a tavern owner. Raymond DeLeon Martinez is again on death row after two previous death sentences were overturned. A Harris County jury deliberated less than four hours Thursday before …

BENTON, Ill. – A man who twice killed someone while driving drunk has been ordered to spend 14 years in prison in the latest death. William Sprind, 37, of West Frankfort, Ill., was sentenced Monday in Franklin County Circuit Court in Benton. A judge found him guilty last month of …