WASHINGTON – Former Attorney General Janet Reno and seven other former Justice Department officials filed court papers Monday arguing that the Bush administration is setting a dangerous precedent by trying a suspected terrorist outside the court system. It was the first time that Reno, attorney general in the Clinton administration, …

JUNEAU, Alaska – A man dubbed the “coffee shop bandit” in Juneau was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Duwaine Price received the sentence in connection with a robbery and related assault at Capital Brew in the Capital Service station in Juneau’s downtown last year. Assistant District Attorney Jack Schmidt …

The last haven for nicotine addicts in New York City is going … up in smoke. The United Nations General Assembly voted this week to ban smoking at U.N. headquarters in New York, which for five years has offered a snug harbor for smokers in a city where the practice …

LONDON – Hannah Jones, 13, is not afraid of dying — she is afraid of spending her remaining days in a hospital bed. In a case that raises a host of medical and ethical issues, the British teenager from a small town northwest of London has won a battle to …

JOPLIN, Mo. – A woman who briefly supervised teens at a southwest Missouri drug and alcohol treatment center is charged with statutory rape for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy at the center. Police say they’re investigating similar allegations concerning Jana Carter, 45, and three other teens who lived …

Guinea Franc $1 USD = 5,115.00 The African nation of Guinea — near Guinea-Bissau and nowhere near Papua New Guinea — has the ninth-worst currency in the world, with 5,115 of its francs getting you a single U.S. dollar. Its natural resources include the aluminum ore bauxite, diamonds and gold, …

DUBLIN, Ireland – An armed gang has robbed a Northern Ireland gun shop in a raid that police suspect was committed by Irish Republican Army dissidents. Police say a gun dealer in the border village of Garrison, County Fermanagh, was held up in his shop Saturday night by three masked …

WEDNESDAY 9:21 p.m. Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Two young men walk casually through Mumbai’s main railway station, a worn Victorian hulk bustling with late commuters heading home, scurrying past small food stands and juice bars and vendors selling newspapers. They enter near the taxi stand, where long lines of battered black …

MADRID, Spain – A judge has charged the suspected leader of the Basque separatist group ETA with plotting an attack on the America’s Cup sailing race last year in Valencia, Spain. Judge Baltasar Garzon says Mikel de Garikoitz Aspiazu sent another suspected ETA member to Valencia to gather information on …

WASHINGTON – Libya has paid $1.5 billion into a fund to compensate the families of American victims of Libyan-linked terror attacks in the 1980s, clearing a final hurdle to full normalization of ties between Washington and Tripoli. In exchange, under a deal worked out earlier this year, President Bush on …