WASHINGTON -- After 10 months in office, President Barack Obama granted his first pardon Wednesday to "Courage," a 45-pound turkey spared from the Thanksgiving table. [Full Story]
CHICAGO -- The Miles family is changing it up this year in the annual American race to make it to the table for Thanksgiving dinner. Instead of booking plane tickets, they opted to take the 1,100-mile trip by train.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Firefighters say they are making good progress against a wind-driven wildfire burning in Southern California.
IRMO, S.C. -- Don't burn the Thanksgiving dinner, or the kitchen.
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Gov. Mark Sanford's tearful confession that he quietly disappeared from the state for five days to rendezvous with his lover in Argentina has shattered his marriage and dimmed his once-bright political future.
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -- The state-to-state march to legalize gay marriage across the left-leaning Northeast lost some of its momentum this month.
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- When an eastern Kentucky census worker was found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest, suspicion fell on the hardscrabble Appalachian area where bad news seems like a way of life.
WASHINGTON -- Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, newly released studies say.
HONOLULU -- Mug shots of drunken driving suspects are landing on the Honolulu Police Department's Web site, creating a virtual wall of shame long before suspects get their day in court.
WASHINGTON -- Eight years after the U.S. Coast Guard and the NAACP signed a voluntary agreement to work together to boost the number of African-Americans at its 1,000-cadet service academy, the annual enrollment and graduation figures for blacks remain in single digits.
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