BALTIMORE – A man was arrested on child porn charges after pawning a laptop computer that contained photos of him engaged in sexual conduct with a 5-year-old girl, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The owner of the pawn shop contacted police after the images were discovered. Brian Dotson, 45, of Bel …

KIMBERLEY, British Columbia – Four people died Wednesday in an accident at a Teck Cominco‘s decommissioned mine in southeastern British Columbia. Details were not clear, but David Parker, director of communications and sustainability for the mining giant, confirmed the dead included a Teck employee, an outside consultant contracted to work …

LITTLETON, Colo. – Officials at a suburban Denver hospital were alerting brain surgery patients after another patient died of a rare degenerative brain ailment called classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the hospital said Thursday. Six people who had neurosurgery at Littleton Adventist Hospital after an operation on the Creutzfeldt-Jakob patient and were …

LUZERNE, Mich. – A wildfire had charred about 6,000 acres of northern Michigan forest Tuesday, damaging more than a dozen buildings and forcing residents to flee rural homes. The blaze, mostly in the Huron-Manistee National Forest, was more than 90 percent contained Tuesday morning, said Catherine Salm, spokeswoman for the …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – South Africa proposed new laws Tuesday that would end the “canned hunting” of wildlife bred in captivity to be shot in closed reserves by wealthy tourists. Breeding threatened or endangered large predators such as cheetahs, lions or leopards for any type of hunting would be …

NEW YORK – Volatility is in store for stocks this week as investors try to gauge the outlook for inflation and interest rates amid a large slate of U.S. economic releases, including May payrolls. Stocks ended on a positive note Friday after see-sawing during the week, as a report showing …

KATMANDU, Nepal – An Australian climber who was left for dead on the slopes of Mount Everest but later survived has been rescued from the mountain and is in “amazing shape,” his spokesman said Tuesday. Lincoln Hall, 50, was driven to the Nepalese capital of Katmandu on Tuesday from the …

LINCOLN, Neb. – A petition drive is calling for the resignation of the judge who sentenced a sex offender to probation instead of prison in part because of his short stature. The campaign is aimed at Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava, who last week sentenced Richard W. Thompson to …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday’s session are Lowe’s Cos., Campbell Soup Co., Tech Data Corp. and Wet Seal Inc. • Click here to visit FOXBusiness.com’s Investing page. Applied Signal (APSG) is expected to report first second-quarter net earnings of …

WASHINGTON – In a radical experiment, doctors are snaking wires inside the lungs of asthma patients to essentially burn off some of the tissue that blocks their ability to breathe. Called bronchial thermoplasty, the procedure is the first attempt at a non-drug treatment for asthma. It’s not without risk. Irritating …