MAPLE GROVE, Minn. – Officers are chasing loose pigs that escaped from an overturned semi on an Interstate 94 ramp in Maple Grove. The crash happened after 3 a.m. Thursday. The truck was carrying about 100 hogs, and about 10 were loose. Police and state troopers are trying to corral …

This is a rush transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” December 18, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Barack Obama — President-elect Obama was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, but never-before-seen college-era photos that accompany the piece are …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An American bombing that killed up to 90 Afghan civilians last month was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill a single Taliban fighter, the president’s spokesman said Sunday. The claim contradicted a U.S. contention that the Aug. 22 raid on …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Ahoy Alarmists! The ship logs of Lord Nelson, Captain Cook, and other British sailors are casting more doubt on the theory that global warming is man-made. The Telegraph newspaper reports that a group of British academics and scientists has examined more than …

PARADISE, Calif. – One person was found dead inside a burned-out house Friday after a wind-fueled wildfire swept through a rural community in the Sierra Nevada foothills, a rare human casualty among the hundreds of blazes that have tormented the state for weeks. Investigators believe the person died in the …

BERLIN – Bettina Schardt knew that the combination of drugs she drank in the living room of her home in Wuerzburg last week would kill her, and she died alone. But this was no ordinary suicide. A German doctor told her just the right formula of antimalarial drugs and tranquilizers …

ST. CHARLES, Mo. – What the …? A St. Louis-area town is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music. City officials contend the bill is needed to keep rowdy crowds under control because the historic downtown area gets a little …

LOS ANGELES – Federal agents raided several Southern California museums on Thursday in search of Southeast Asian antiquities that are believed to have been illegally obtained, smuggled into the U.S. and sold at inflated prices so sellers could claim fraudulent tax deductions after donations to the institutions. Click here for …

MARJAH, Afghanistan – U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror. President Hamid Karzai urged NATO to do more to protect civilians during combat operations to secure Marjah, …

A simple test could soon identify whether women with breast cancer would benefit from certain types of treatment, The Sun reported Tuesday. Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast discovered that those with high levels of the gene FKBPL are more likely to respond to commonly-used drug tamoxifen. It is estimated …