KUWAIT CITY – Five of the six Kuwaitis arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb an American military camp in Kuwait are cousins who were involved in a 2002 attack on U.S. Marines in this oil-rich state, their lawyer said Thursday. Kuwait announced this week it had foiled a plot by …

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – A teenage boy who was riding on the roof of a friend’s car has died from injuries sustained when he fell from the vehicle. The Orange County coroner says 17-year-old Christopher Hernandez II, of Huntington Beach, was pronounced dead Saturday, the day after the accident. Authorities …

DAVENPORT, Calif. – Margaret Kliegel was at the fire command center dropping off bread and cookies for the fire crew when she learned she could return to her home in a Santa Cruz mountain town. “We’ve lived here for close to 40 years so you got all your mementos and …

DAYTON, Ohio – Police in Dayton, Ohio say a 2-year-old girl and 8-month-old boy have been found crying inside a large trash bin, about 13 hours after their mother reported them missing. She told police her boyfriend fled with them after a fight. Dayton police Chief Richard Biehl says the …

CAIRO – The Taliban’s Web site claims it has captured a missing U.S. soldier American authorities had earlier said may have been kidnapped. The Web site said Monday that the Taliban had “arrested a drunken American soldier” five days ago. They said the soldier was still in their custody but …

TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, already at the center of a post-election crisis, came under criticism from his own hard-line supporters Sunday for appointing a first vice president who once caused an outcry by saying Iranians were friends of Israelis. Ahmadinejad has been under siege by opposition supporters who …

A 10-year-old girl who has broken her legs 30 times can finally play on the trampoline and walk after doctors inserted metal rods, London’s Daily Mail reported. Without the titanium rods, Caitlin Gault’s legs would snap – she was born with a rare genetic disease in which her bones don’t …

You don’t have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes. Only about 18 percent of such patients live long enough to …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Middle Tennessee child has celebrated her first birthday, establishing her as the tiniest baby at birth to survive in Tennessee. The Tennessean reported that Becca Hill of Bethpage in Sumner County was born 12 weeks early at Vanderbilt University children’s hospital and weighted just 13 ounces. …

SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. announced Monday it would be giving away more than 30,000 vouchers over the next 90 days to help unemployed people in Washington state get new computer skills. The vouchers will entitle them to take computer classes for free — either in person or online — and …