PHILADELPHIA – Beatrice Johnston recalled the three young siblings who lived nearby as the sort who gleefully ran around the neighborhood and splashed about in a small pool on the sidewalk in front of their home. On Sunday, she watched in horror as their house became engulfed in black smoke …

NEW YORK – Stocks ended narrowly mixed Tuesday amid a slew of profit warnings from companies like Nucor, Hot Topic and Biomet, while investors uneasily eyed oil prices that hovered at the $59 per barrel level. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) fell 9.44, or 0.09 percent, to 10,599.67. The …

AHOSKIE, N.C. – Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (search) have been charged with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said. Investigators staked out the bin after discovering that dead animals had been dumped there every Wednesday …

SIEM REAP, Cambodia – Seven Cambodian men were charged in court Sunday with involvement in the death of a 2-year-old Canadian boy during last week’s takeover at an international school. Four men accused of carrying out the attack on the school near northwestern Cambodia’s Angkor Wat (search) temple complex were …

Somehow, it didn’t make big news when Bush robbed the White House. Rosenberg, Texas, police say a man wearing a George H.W. Bush mask held up the White House supermarket (search) and two other stores last week, according to local television reports. The pistol-packing phony president made the White House …

Watch “The Big Story” weekdays at 5 p.m. ET The Supreme Court rules that federal authorities may prosecute sick people who smoke pot on doctors’ orders, concluding that state medical marijuana (search) laws don’t protect users from a federal ban on the drug. Will the ruling be overturned? We’ll get …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” September 6, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: “Personal Story” segment tonight, the New York Times (search) has traditionally …

HAILEY, Idaho – A rail link being built between Tibet (search) and several major Chinese cities could lead to “cultural genocide” by luring more Chinese workers to the region, the Dalai Lama (search) said. Tibet’s spiritual leader said following a speech in Idaho Sunday that more pressure will be placed …

LAS VEGAS – A boxer critically injured during his first title defense died Thursday at a hospital after family members decided to remove him from life support, his doctor said. Leavander Johnson (search) collapsed on his way to the dressing room after taking a beating in an IBF lightweight fight …

STRASBOURG, France – Counterfeit Viagra (search), antibiotics and other drugs are on the rise in Europe, leading international pharmaceutical and health care experts said, blaming insufficient cross-border cooperation. Meeting at a three-day conference organized by the Council of Europe, government officials, law enforcement officers, doctors and pharmaceutical experts from Europe …