SPRINGDALE, Pa. – Police say a police officer lost control of his cruiser on a slippery road before crashing through the wall of a veterinary clinic in Pennsylvania. Springdale borough police Chief Julio Medeiros says the officer from neighboring Springdale Township was responding to a call when he crashed at …

BOSTON – As a judge questioned prospective jurors Friday in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one woman described her struggle to try to push aside a haunting image she saw in the days after the deadly attack. “The image of him putting the backpack behind that …

HONOLULU – The federal government will be paying a retired soldier $50,000 to settle his lawsuit over swallowing needles in a sandwich purchased at a Burger King on a Hawaii Army base. Clark Bartholomew, of Loudoun County, Virginia, filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming one needle pierced his tongue when …

She may not be a natural-born blonde, but “Blonde Ambition” babe Jessica Simpson swears her bountiful bust isn’t bogus. “Maybe after having kids, if my boobs dropped down to my bellybutton, I would get them lifted,” Simpson told her fashion designer friend Michael Kors for the August edition of Harper’s …

Here are some of your responses to Mike’s last column… Ryan C. in Austin, Texas, writes: A Grrr column without a single Grrr? Instead, we get ANOTHER story about an idiot (Paris Hilton) whom no one really cares about. I kept reading, waiting for the real column to begin, but …

Steve Jobs said something unusual Thursday: Sorry. After an Internet tidal wave of criticism from iPhone owners followed Wednesday’s surprise price cut of this summer’s must-have gadget, the Apple CEO posted a letter on the company Web site announcing a $100 credit for every customer who felt cheated. “We want …

The “Talking Points Memo” this evening is about another piece of history, the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. By a vote of 58-42, the Senate confirmed Judge Alito this morning, but there was deep-seated anger in the secular progressive precincts. That’s because with Alito and Judge Roberts …

Michael Jackson Jacko Kicked Out, Cut Off by Arab Prince Today will be the seventh week in a row that employees at Michael Jackson‘s Neverland Ranch have not received paychecks. And now I have really bad news for them: Jackson has been cut off and kicked out by Prince Abdullah, …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Harsh Words The powerful Lebanese militia leader Walid Jumblatt (search) once accused the United States of “wreaking corruption in the Arab land of Iraq and in Palestine,” and has likened U.S. military officials to viruses that should be destroyed. But Jumblatt now …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean (search) doesn’t think much of Republicans, but says they have accomplished one thing: putting Democrats on the defensive, insisting, “What the propagandists on the right have done is make people afraid to say they are Democrats.” …