About one-third of attention deficit cases among U.S. children may be linked with tobacco smoke before birth or to lead exposure afterward, according to provocative new research. Even levels of lead the government considers acceptable appeared to increase a child’s risk of having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the study found. …
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A man charged in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer last spring has escaped from prison, possibly with help, authorities said Friday. Authorities were using tracking dogs and search teams to hunt for Dedrick Griham but said they did not know where he was headed. Griham, 35, …
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NEW YORK – Investors sent shares near their 2006 highs on Friday after benign inflation data and low oil prices boosted confidence that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged at its meeting next week. Stocks finished the week broadly higher in its strongest winning streak in more than …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – As Lebanon digs out from the rubble of war, America’s Arab Gulf allies are pledging billions to rebuild Lebanon in a race to blunt the Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s growing influence in the region. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia and others have pledged to fix much of the $3.6 …
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WASHINGTON – A watchdog group filed a complaint Tuesday with the IRS against a Minnesota church, claiming the pastor violated the church’s tax-exempt status by endorsing Republican congressional candidate Michele Bachmann. An official from the church, Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park, Minn., said Tuesday that the pastor misunderstood …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – A roadside bomb killed two NATO soldiers and wounded two others on patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said. The roadside bomb struck the soldiers’ vehicle in the province of Nuristan, NATO said. The two wounded soldiers were taken to a U.S. military facility in …
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SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT) forthcoming Windows Vista will take much harsher steps to curtail piracy than previous versions of its operating system, including crippling the usefulness of computers found to be running unlicensed copies of the new software. The world’s largest software maker said Wednesday that people running a …
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WASHINGTON – Sen. George Allen and Rep. Heather Wilson, two Republicans in tight re-election contests, plan to donate to charities the contributions they received from Mark Foley, the former congressman ensnared in an e-mail sex scandal. The National Republican Congressional Committee, which has received $550,000 from Foley since 1996, will …
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LOS ANGELES – Farrah Fawcett, recently found to have cancer, said Friday she is maintaining a positive attitude and expects to recover completely. “I am determined to bite the bullet and fight the fight while going through the next six weeks of cutting edge, state-of-the-art treatment,” the 59-year-old actress said …
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KEY BISCAYNE, Florida – One person was killed and seven others were seriously injured after two boats collided near the Miami-Key Biscayne bridge, authorities said. The crash happened near Rickenbacker Causeway shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday while one boat was towing a second boat with eight people aboard, U.S. Coast …
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