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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Nearly 6,000 people showed up this weekend to say goodbye to country music legend Buck Owens, who died a week ago at the age of 76. A public viewing was held Saturday at Owens’ Crystal Palace, the musician’s restaurant and museum. Friends and fans lined up to …

WASHINGTON – The FBI is conducting investigations similar to the one that resulted in last week’s firing of a senior CIA analyst who acknowledged leaking classified information, director Robert Mueller said Monday. “We do have investigations going,” Mueller said following a visit to the FBI’s Charlotte office, which oversees the …

NEW YORK – Somebody’s been dipping into your 401(k) plan without your knowledge. Hidden management commissions, obscure enough that few employees can even find them, are a growing problem inside the universe of company-sponsored retirement plans, according to a front-page story in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. It’s a given that …

JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip – Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that the suspension of Western aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority would neither bring down his Hamas-led government nor break his people. Thousands of Palestinians joined Hamas-organized rallies in Palestinian towns throughout the West Bank and the …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” April 20, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. (MUSIC) JOHN GIBSON, HOST: “Lestat” is ready to sink its teeth into Broadway. The Anne Rice-inspired musical is based on the blood-sucking hero from “Interview With the Vampire.” The …

HARTFORD, Conn. – Sen. Joe Lieberman, facing a challenge from within the Democratic Party, said Monday he has not ruled out running as an independent in his bid for a fourth term. “I have not foreclosed the option,” Lieberman said at a news conference at the Capitol. “If I wanted …

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. – A boy who was scolded by a 911 operator while trying to get help for his dying mother is not the only Detroit resident whose emergency call wasn’t taken seriously by a dispatcher, the boy’s lawyer said. In a series of calls in January 2005, a 911 …

N’DJAMENA, Chad – Chad threatened Saturday to cut off its flow of oil unless the World Bank releases $125 million frozen in a dispute over how the central African country should spend its oil revenues. The announcement followed a late-night meeting between President Idriss Deby and his Cabinet ministers to …

TOLEDO, Ohio – Tests on part of a letter opener that prosecutors say a priest used to kill a nun 26 years ago showed no DNA evidence, an expert with the state crime lab testified Thursday. A piece of the bloody altar cloth found in the hospital chapel where Sister …

BELEM, Brazil – A Brazilian farmer’s conviction for hiring the gunmen who killed an American nun and rain-forest defender is a sign of progress for an Amazon state’s notoriously corrupt judicial system, lawyers said. But they said the true test would be whether two ranchers accused of orchestrating Dorothy Stang‘s …