CEDAR CITY, Utah – An Iron County inmate tried to escape from a correctional facility by fashioning a fake bomb, the sheriff’s office said. Iron County Sheriff’s Deputy Aaron Pallesen said 28-year-old Steven Crutcher, of Mississippi, threatened officers at the Iron County Correctional Facility with what he claimed was a …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Taiwanese authorities say a 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off the east coast of the island, rattling buildings in Taipei, but causing no casualties or damage. The Central Weather Bureau says the quake struck at 2:05 a.m. Tuesday. It was centered about 36 miles off the eastern city …

SEATTLE – An experimental treatment that takes an entirely new approach to fighting prostate cancer extended survival in a late-stage study, its maker announced Tuesday. Seattle-based Dendreon Corp. said that its Provenge cancer vaccine improved overall survival when compared to a dummy treatment in a study of 512 men with …

NEW YORK – Three milligrams of melatonin at bedtime can effectively treat sleep problems in children with autistic spectrum disorder, fragile X syndrome, or both, according to a study reported in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. “Melatonin can be considered a safe and effective pharmacologic …

NEWARK, N.J. – A northern New Jersey councilman has become the 45th person charged and the sixth to plead guilty in the state’s largest corruption sweep. Jersey City Councilman Philip Kenny pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit extortion for accepting $5,000 from a government informant posing as a developer …

Better diagnosis and treatment over the last 30 years have considerably reduced the risk of dying from a highly fatal type of aneurysm, Dutch scientists reported on Thursday. Techniques such as CT and MRI scans are now widely used in the developing world to detect aneurysms but it was not …

In soft sandstone on a New Zealand beach lie a series of very heavy footprints — the first evidence of dinosaur activity on the island. The prints were probably made by large, plant-eating sauropods between 6 and 18 feet long, creatures that would have weighed several tons. The discovery was …

The idea that one can be a conscientious objector, even in an all volunteer army, is something which should make Americans proud. The fact that the United States military doesn’t simply tell Pfc. Naser Abdo that he is stuck because he signed a contract demonstrates respect for precisely the kind …

We saw pictures this weekend of May Day protests, but has anyone asked: Who organized these rallies? Who put these marchers on the street so fast? We’ll give you that answer in a second, but first I want to show you a book I read this weekend. Last year we …

LONDON – The attorney representing the family of a man who died during the riots before Group of 20 summit says he suffered from an abdominal hemorrhage — not a heart attack. Jules Carey of the law firm Tuckers says a second autopsy was conducted on Ian Tomlinson after videotape …