BELLEVILLE, Ill. – A state trooper has been indicted on reckless homicide charges that accuse him of using excessive speed — more than 120 mph — when he swerved into an oncoming car, killing two teenage sisters. State police, who investigated the Nov. 23 wreck, recommended that prosecutors charge Trooper …

DETROIT – A nearly unified City Council voiced its displeasure with Kwame Kilpatrick on Tuesday, calling on the scandal-tainted mayor to resign. A resolution, which passed on a 7-1 vote in the early afternoon, was more of a “no-confidence” vote. The council doesn’t have the power to force Kilpatrick to …

More than 30 children have been absent for at least two months from school rosters in an English city and officials fear they may have been forced into arranged marriages, The Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. The 33 students have been absent without explanation from schools in Bradford, northern England, …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – High water pouring down the White River could cause historic flooding in cities along its path in eastern Arkansas, forecasters warned Sunday. The river, one of many out of its banks across wide areas of the Midwest, could top levels recorded in a devastating flood 25 …

SAN DIEGO – Everybody loves to hate drug stocks, especially Merck (MRK), Pfizer (PFE) and Schering-Plough (SGP). But not Raymond James analyst Mike Krensavage, who gets high marks in this column for guts and a willingness to zig while others on Wall Street zag. He was, after all, the guy …

JERUSALEM – Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in remarks published Monday that he would support a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu’s comments, made in the heat of a campaign for leadership of the hardline Likud Party, drew criticism from rivals, who accused him of playing politics with …

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – Evangelist Billy Graham’s daughter must complete a year of probation and counseling before her domestic abuse charge can be dropped, according to court documents filed Monday. Virginia Graham Foreman, 59, spent a night in jail after a July 1 confrontation with her husband outside a …

NEW YORK – Seat owners of the New York Stock Exchange voted Tuesday to acquire Archipelago Holdings Inc. in a $9 billion deal that will turn the 213-year-old Big Board into a for-profit enterprise with high-tech computerized trading capabilities. As expected, more than 95 percent of the seat owners who …

NEW YORK – Standard & Poor’s Monday cut its ratings on General Motors Corp. (GM) deeper into junk territory and warned that the world’s largest automaker may have to restructure its debt if recent trends persist. The downgrade puts GM’s ratings deep into the speculative class, a sign of growing …

VIENNA, Austria – California’s execution of Stanley Tookie Williams on Tuesday outraged many in Europe who regard the practice as barbaric, and politicians in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s native Austria called for his name to be removed from a sports stadium in his hometown. At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI‘s top …