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.E.M. will hit the road in 2003, according to lead singer Michael Stipe and his bandmates.

Three people were killed in an overnight house fire in Savannah, a television station reported early Friday.

Four women police believed to be part of a multistate shoplifting ring focusing on Wal-Mart stores are in jail after fleeing from police with $4,700 in merchandise from the Wal-Mart in Columbia.

Gov. Mike Easley has apologized for North Carolina's role in sterilizing more than 7,600 people through a eugenics program that lasted from 1929 to 1974.

When David Kircus reported to Grand Valley State football camp as a freshman running back, Lakers coaches started thinking that he might make a decent wide receiver.

More than 50 paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet, that have never before been viewed in the United States will go on display in Houston Sunday as part of an historical exhibit exchange with a Moscow museum.

A state law that prohibits anyone but licensed funeral directors from selling caskets is constitutional, a federal judge said Thursday.

Police have arrested two suspects today for the shooting death of 23-yera-old Harris Odell the Third -- the son of a Chatham County commissioner.

Federal officials say efforts by cruise lines to sanitize cruise ships are working as fewer passengers are reporting stomach illnesses.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that people who adopt foreign children should be properly immunized to avoid diseases from other countries.