PYONGYANG, North Korea – The New York Philharmonic arrived in North Korea on Monday on a historic trip as the most prominent American cultural institution to visit the nuclear-armed country, run by a regime that keeps its impoverished people among the world’s most isolated. North Korea made unprecedented accommodations for …

An alleged Illinois deadbeat dad whose ex-wife says he owes more than $82,000 in unpaid child support is running as a candidate for Ward 47 Republican Committeeman in Chicago, MyFOXChicago reports. Marie Karlin said she has been trying to locate her ex-husband, Gary Karlin, after he disappeared 14 years ago. …

NEW YORK – A tractor trailer carrying live chickens overturned on a Brooklyn expressway, spilling crates and releasing the squawking birds onto the road. The tractor trailer overturned at Flushing Avenue on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway about 2:30 a.m. Thursday, spilling its feathered cargo, police said. The roadway was closed for …

LAREDO, Texas – Two Texas National Guardsmen must serve at least three years in federal prison for helping smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico through a checkpoint. Clarence Hodge Jr. and Jerry Zuniga pleaded guilty last August to charges of conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants during 2007. A federal judge in …

CINCINNATI – A man accused of impregnating a 10-year-old girl should spend the rest of his life in prison, prosecutors say, even though rape charges don’t allow for such a long sentence. They plan to argue that pregnancy and childbirth for such a young girl is physical harm, the standard …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Money Talks The Democratic presidential nomination could be decided by the so-called “superdelegates.” Now one study is revealing that elected officials who serve in that capacity have received at least $890,000 in campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the …

MINNEAPOLIS – It lived up to its name: The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday, just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the “Icebox of the Nation.” It was so cold that resident Nick McDougall couldn’t get …

NEW YORK – America has a new Snoop doggie. Barking and baying up a storm, Uno lived up to his name Tuesday night by becoming the first beagle to win best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club. The nation’s new top dog was clearly the crowd favorite, and drew …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Authorities arrested two more suspects Thursday in the suicide attack that assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, an official said. Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said the two men were arrested in Rawalpindi where Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack on Dec. 27. The arrests …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” February 21, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: This is a “FOX News Alert.” Well, it was homicide. The death of Sergeant Drew Peterson’s wife number three, Kathleen …