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MIDLAND, Texas – An embarrassed Sheriff Gary Painter fired one Midland County deputy and suspended three others without pay after a scantily dressed waitress holding a rifle posed for photographs on the hood of a patrol vehicle. Round Rock officers were dispatched to the restaurant after someone reported the waitress …

HILLSBORO, Ore. – A scary situation turned into a strange one when a bomb squad determined that a suspicious package left outside the Washington County Sheriff’s Office contained a prosthetic leg. Sheriff’s Sgt. Vance Stimler said deputies called the Portland bomb squad out to Hillsboro Sunday afternoon after noticing a …

A Boston University medical student was arrested Monday in the shooting death in a hotel of a masseuse and the robbery of another woman who both advertised their services on Craigslist. Phil Markoff, 22, was arrested during a traffic stop Monday afternoon on Interstate 95 in Walpole, south of Boston, …

NEW YORK – One of Kofi Annan’s (search) closest friends and colleagues is now in the crosshairs of Oil-for-Food investigators. Members of Paul Volcker’s Independent Inquiry Committee on Tuesday revealed that Iqbal Riza (search), the former chief of staff, shredded thousands of documents that might have shed light on Annan’s …

NEW YORK – Nielsen Media Research (search) outlined several steps Wednesday to better reflect the television viewing habits of blacks and Hispanics, including paying families more to measure what they watch. Nielsen also said it agreed with a task force’s recommendation that it purposely oversample minorities in the company’s research. …

A negative test for human papillomavirus (search) may mean fewer Pap smears (search) for some women with HIV infection. HPV — especially some common strains of the sexually transmitted virus — is linked to cervical cancer (search). Women who test negative for HPV, and whose last Pap test was normal, …

Here’s what is on tap for Monday: “FOX & Friends First” Starts at 6 a.m. ET Police say Atlanta shooting spree suspectBrian Nichols (search) was “calm and compliant” during his arrest. So what caused him to go on a killing rampage? We’ll get insight from Ralph Difonzo, retired FBI agent …

INDIANAPOLIS – A federal grand jury has indicted an Indiana man on charges he tried to sell names of U.S. intelligence operatives in Iraq to Saddam Hussein‘s (search) government before the U.S. invasion. Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban (search), 52, was charged with agreeing to act as a foreign agent …

WASHINGTON – How do you quench someone’s thirst when there is plenty of water, but not a drop of it is drinkable? It’s a question NASA (search) researchers have pondered for nearly two decades, but villagers in Iraq and tsunami victims in Asia will get a taste of their answer …

What makes a person physically or verbally hostile may be at least partially rooted in their genes, according to a new study. Previous studies have established that levels of the chemical serotonin (search) in the brain relate to aggressive behavior and lack of impulse control (search). Aggression is one of …