HARLAN, Ky. – A mine technician said Thursday he had no training when he helped build a wall to seal poisonous gas in an abandoned shaft at a southeastern Kentucky mine three months before five workers were killed in an explosion. Unlike conventional seals made of concrete, the walls built …

DES MOINES, Iowa – A judge has ruled that a Bible-based prison program violates the First Amendment’s freedom of religion clause by using state funds to promote Christianity to inmates. Prison Fellowship Ministries, which was sued in 2003 by an advocacy group, was ordered Friday to cease its program at …

LONDON – EMI Group said on Monday it would make its music catalog available to the first advertising supported peer-to-peer service as the entertainment industry embraces the same technology that once nearly crippled it. The new service, called Qtrax, developed by New York-based LTDnetwork and slated for launch later this …

BRAMPTON, Ontario – One of the members of an alleged terror cell in Canada plotted to behead the prime minister, according to charges released Tuesday. Steven Vikash Chand allegedly plotted to attack Canada’s parliament, including taking political hostages and beheading Prime Minister Stephen Harper, according to the details released Tuesday. …

MANCHESTER, N.H. – Tom Daschle, once the most important Democrat in the Senate, tested a possible appeal to New Hampshire voters Thursday to make him the most important Democrat in 2008. The former three-term senator, who is considering a White House bid, excoriated President Bush in a speech to local …

DENVER – Tom Green is getting another late-night talk show — this time online. Nearly three years after MTV axed his show, ManiaTV.com will begin hosting a weekly call-in show with the comedian on June 15, live from his living room in the Hollywood Hills. “It seemed like the ultimate …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A female lawyer allegedly abducted at gunpoint Wednesday has been found alive at a motel and a male suspect has been taken into custody, according to local police. After a large-scale search, Sandra Eubank Gregory, 34, was discovered at a Comfort Inn in Homewood, Ala., and was …

TEHRAN, Iran – An international rights group has called on Iran to rescind the death sentences imposed on nine Arab Iranians convicted of a series of bomb attacks that killed 23 people. New York-based Human Rights Watch said the defendants had limited access to lawyers and did not get a …

Scientists have developed a simple formula that can help find colon cancer patients with certain inherited bad genes — information that can help determine the best course of treatment and identify family members at risk of developing the disease, too. The formula combines such factors as a patient’s age and …

FRANKFURT – DaimlerChrysler is leaning toward launching its Smart minicar in the United States, DaimlerChrysler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. “At the moment, the tendency is clearly positive,” Zetsche said in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Autos …