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CALEXICO, Calif. – An earthquake swarm rattling for nearly two weeks under the California-Mexico border region unleashed another nerve-jangling jolt and numerous aftershocks Tuesday. The day’s big quake struck at 2:41 p.m., centered in Mexico about 20 miles southeast of Calexico, a U.S. border city of more than 37,000 residents. …

GENEVA – In “The Spy Who Loved Me,” James Bond takes his sports car underwater, swaps his wheels for fins and fires a missile that knocks a pursuing helicopter out of the sky. Roger Moore’s feats as the iconic British spy may be difficult to match, but a Swiss company …

NEW YORK – No more writers on picket lines. No more network TV bosses scrambling for replacement shows. But enough about them. What about us? Two simple questions prey on every viewer’s mind: When will my favorite scripted programs be back with new episodes? And, WILL my favorite shows be …

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – Bentonville police have added another charge against Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson. Johnson was arrested and jailed over the weekend on a marijuana charge while awaiting sentencing on a federal weapons conviction. On Tuesday, police added a theft charge stemming from reported use of a debit card …

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Palatka man has earned a dubious distinction: Alger Scott has been arrested 101 times. The most recent time came Wednesday when the 54-year-old was charged with selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school. His rap sheet includes charges of petty theft, drug possession, trespassing, aggravated …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The polar bear can be found in just one place in United States — Alaska — and is perhaps as much a symbol of the state as alligators are of Florida. So you might think Alaska’s politicians would be pounding on doors in Washington to protect it. …

AUSTIN, Texas – A 7-year-old boy is in critical condition after being found hanging by his shirt collar from a clothing hook in a charter school’s dressing room, and police tried to determine Thursday whether it was an attack or an accident. The shirt collar cut off the boy’s oxygen, …

WEBSTER GROVES, Mo. – A suburban St. Louis teenager is being treated at a hospital after having his leg cut off by a freight train. Police tell STLtoday.com, the Web site for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, that the 19-year-old somehow managed to crawl 50 yards for help, flagging down a …

SAN FRANCISCO – Renovations to the big cat exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo are complete following a fatal attack by an escaped tiger. The zoo’s lions and tigers are getting their first look Monday at the renovated pen. Once the animals acclimate to their surroundings, officials will decide when …

ORANJESTAD, Aruba – Aruban investigators in the Netherlands again questioned a Dutch college student Friday in the Natalee Holloway disappearance as they sought a court order to detain him as a suspect based on a hidden-camera interview. Police questioned Joran Van der Sloot for about two hours, and he again …