BALTIMORE – A long-standing feud over house rules at a seniors’ high rise led one resident to shoot and kill another, police said. The shooting on Monday apparently occurred after an 66-year-old desk clerk at the building refused to allow an 80-year-old resident’s granddaughter to board an elevator without a …

AUSTIN, Texas – Customers craving fresh crustaceans will have to look beyond Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFMI)after the natural-foods grocery chain decided Thursday to stop selling live lobsters and crabs on the grounds that it’s inhumane. The Austin-based grocer spent seven months studying the sale of live lobsters from ship …

SEATTLE – A seriously ill 9-month-old boy whose mother took him from a Seattle hospital early Thursday was the subject of an Amber Alert as police tried to find him. Riley Rogers had been scheduled for surgery at Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center Thursday to treat what police described …

PHOENIX – Sony Corp. may have put its Aibo robotic dogs to sleep, but the inventor of the popular Furby toy said on Tuesday the market for toy animatrons is anything but extinct. Caleb Chung unveiled a lifelike toy dinosaur named Pleo that senses its surroundings, reacts to touch, walks …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Adventurer Steve Fossett reached the western coast of North America in a lightweight experimental airplane Friday as he entered Day 3 of his quest to break aviation’s distance record. Mexico’s Baja Peninsula was his first sighting of land since starting his overnight trek across the Pacific. …

Watch “The Big Story Weekend” Saturday and Sunday at 5 p.m. ET! Saturday, February 4 A political cartoon in The Washington Post is under fire by the Pentagon. Should the cartoon have been censored? We’ll get a fair and balanced debate from retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tim Eads, a …

HANOI, Vietnam – Karaoke bars in Vietnam will no longer be allowed to sell or have alcohol on their premises as part of the country’s continued campaign against so-called ‘social evils,’ a government official said Friday. Under a decree that took effect Thursday, karaoke bars, along with discotheques, will also …

NEW YORK – ABC will announce Wednesday that Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer, two of its best-known journalists, will fill in on “World News Tonight” for anchorman Bob Woodruff as he recovers from injuries suffered in a roadside bombing. ABC News President David Westin will tell his news division of …

The hunter shot by Dick Cheney said Friday that “accidents do and will happen” and said he is sorry for all the hullabaloo and scrutiny the incident has brought upon the vice president and his family. “This past weekend encompassed all of us in a cloud of misfortune and a …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Greenland’s government on Wednesday introduced the ice-capped island’s first hunting quota for polar bears, which scientists believe are threatened by the effects of global warming. The figure for 2006 was set at 150 animals, Greenland’s fishing and hunting directory said. Only Greenlanders with valid hunting permits can …