KAMAS, Utah – The parents of an 11-year-old boy who was found alive in the Utah wilderness said he told them he avoided searchers for fear of being abducted. Toby and Jody Hawkins thanked reporters for keeping audience attention on the story and said they were still in awe that …

NEW YORK – A corporate helicopter plunged into the East River (search) just blocks south of the United Nations on Friday, the second helicopter crash in four days in the waters off Manhattan. Rescuers pulled all eight on board out of the choppy water. One of the pilots took salt …

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said Monday it had made several concessions to ensure that its dominant Windows operating system complies with the European Union’s (search) landmark antitrust ruling against the U.S. software giant. The EU head office said Microsoft’s rivals will get a chance to assess the proposals, …

SALT LAKE CITY – In graphic detail, a Utah man told a court he shot his pregnant wife in the head and dumped her body in a trash bin. What Mark Hacking (search) couldn’t explain is why he did it. Mark and Lori Hacking’s families, however, said the 27-year-old woman …

YUMA, Ariz. – Six people, including four children, were killed at a central Yuma home, police said Saturday. Officers responding to a call about shots fired in a residential neighborhood late Friday found in the back yard a man with a gunshot wound, said Officer Clint Norred, a spokesman for …

WASHINGTON – President Bush (search) on Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of the Sept. 11 (search) terrorist attacks by observing a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the exact minute in 2001 when terrorists smashed the first jetliner into the World Trade Center. The president stood with his wife, Laura …

LONDON – A suspect in the July bombing attempts on London’s transit system was extradited Thursday from Rome to Britain, where he faces arrest, police said. Hussain Osman (search), known in Italy as Hamdi Issac, returned to Britain at Northolt air base on a flight from Rome’s Ciampino airport. Metropolitan …

HOUSTON – The triage line inside the Astrodome (search) hasn’t changed much since the buses began arriving from New Orleans two nights ago. It’s long with tired, ailing refugees, some in wheelchairs, some on crutches, some critical, some not, but every one of them waiting on a doctor. This is …

TOKYO – When a nearly 20-foot long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big. Then it began sucking on his hands. But what came next excited him most — hundreds of photos of a purplish-red sea monster doing battle 3,000 feet deep. It …

LOS ANGELES – A woman is suing ABC’s reality show “Extreme Makeover” (search) for unspecified damages, alleging its decision to cancel her appearance contributed to her sister’s suicide. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 9 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Deleese Williams (search), 30, of Conroe, Texas, claimed the producers subjected …