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Dario Franchitti stamped his name in the record books, the latest three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500.

A Fort Campbell soldier has turned his lifelong passion for finding military artifacts into a mission to discover what happened to a young World War II pilot missing since 1945.

Just how many variations can you spin off the marvel of simplicity that is the bikini?

Crowds are forming along San Francisco's waterfront, while San Francisco Bay is crowded with pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels as the city celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.

It used to be that baseball fans would head for the concourse to grab a beer between innings, a cold one as much a part of America's pastime as hotdogs and Cracker Jack.

Tropical Storm Beryl is expected to make landfall Sunday night and the weather system is already wrecking some Memorial Day weekend plans.

The pilot of a crop duster aircraft walked away from his burning plane after it crashed Sunday morning near Wilton.

The Vatican's investigation into the source of leaked documents has yielded its first target with the arrest of the pope's butler, but the investigation is continuing into a scandal that has embarrassed the Holy See by revealing evidence of internal power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of the Catholic Church governance.

Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.

Melky Cabrera tied a career high with four hits, including a home run, and scored all three runs Sunday for the San Francisco Giants to help Matt Cain beat the Miami Marlins 3-2.

Gay students at America's military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events.

The botched offering of Facebook stock has raised several troubling questions, but at least we don't have to worry about the one that plagues many IPOs: How are a few select investors able to buy in early at lower prices and then pocket huge profits when the trading frenzy begins?

Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker - a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in "Cosmopolis."

Already uneasy about the idea of letting her 7-year-old son Jason start playing tackle football, Elizabeth Giancarli made up her mind when former NFL star Junior Seau committed suicide.

America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen.

America has a new generation of veterans. More than 1.6 million troops are back from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and they are unlike any other group of veterans the nation has ever seen.

Lady Gaga canceled her sold-out show in Indonesia after Islamist hard-liners threatened violence, claiming her sexy clothes and provocative dance moves would corrupt the youth.

Nicole Kidman's red carpet date travelled for 35 hours to join her in Cannes.

Dentist Frank Illuzzi was stunned when Vermont tax collectors began demanding a 6 percent sales tax on the value of toothbrushes and floss he hands out to patients. Senior care facility operator Jay Grimes was similarly surprised to get a $350,000 bill slapping a 9 percent restaurant tax on the meals served to residents in the dining room. Landscaper Richard "Buckwheat" Lowe got $18,000 in bills taxing him for the first time ever on the mulch he sells.

A former high school football star whose rape conviction was thrown out this week plans to file a claim against the state but will not sue the woman who recanted the sexual assault accusation she made a decade ago, his lawyer said.

California researchers have discovered that there may be a silver lining to an invasive and toxic seaweed that is killing some of Hawaii's coral reefs: It seems the seaweed contains compounds that could treat human diseases.

High rates of chronic absence, suspension and poor academic performance signal that more than half of African American male students in the Oakland Unified School District are at risk of dropping out, according to new research.

The pilot and passenger of a banner-towing plane made an emergency landing on San Diego Bay and were plucked out of the water before the aircraft sank, authorities said Saturday.

A famed battleship that saw action during World War II and the Korean War and carried President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a wartime summit traveled along the California coast Sunday on its final voyage.

Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra.

The 13th annual Reading of the Names takes place at the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Capitol Park, 15th and L streets. A ceremony will be held at noon and the reading will continue after the ceremony. Names read from the wall are California veterans who were killed in the Vietnam War.

The following agencies are closed Monday in honor of Memorial Day: