Chris Brown has withdrawn his name from Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards ballot. As FOXNews.com first reported, an online petition had been circulated to take his name off the ballot, but Nickelodeon was resisting the move. On Wednesday, Brown, 19, decided to take matters into his own hands. In a statement, …

PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia teenager who authorities say used a stolen cell phone to snap a photo of himself that automatically got sent to the victim has turned himself in. Eighteen-year-old Kadeem Cook turned himself in around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. Cook is the main suspect in an armed robbery on …

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – Authorities allege the son of a slain Illinois community college professor beat his father with a baseball bat and stabbed him dozens of times before calling 911. Twenty-year-old Liam McCauley was charged Saturday with three counts of murder in the death of his father, Joseph McCauley III. …

NEW YORK – A few weeks ago, Pasquale Castaldo was waiting at the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport for a delayed flight, when a man sitting across from him pulled out an Amazon Kindle book-reading device. “Gee, maybe I should think about e-books myself,” Castaldo thought. He didn’t have a Kindle, but …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Airlines is resuming flights to and from Anchorage after the latest eruption from Mount Redoubt. The airline says flights will resume Wednesday morning. • Click to view photos of the volcano | Map of Mount Redoubt Eighteen flights were canceled after the volcano about 100 miles …

ROME – An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia when its Israeli private security forces exchanged fire with the bandits and drove them away, the commander said Sunday. Cmdr. Ciro Pinto told Italian state radio that six …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA (search) said Tuesday it will institute strict crowd control for space shuttle launches and landings, and rely more on a seldom-used touchdown site in New Mexico, to better protect the public once flights resume in a few months. Columbia’s breakup during re-entry forced a re-evaluation …

WASHINGTON – Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean (search) came back from his tour of conservative states like Kansas, Mississippi and Tennessee with new strategies to win over their voters but the same basic message from his presidential campaign. “We have to speak to our hearts and convictions,” Dean told a …

TAMPA, Fla. – Terri Schiavo’s (search) parents filed an appeal with a federal court Tuesday afternoon to order their severely brain-damaged daughter’s feeding tube reconnected. “Where, as here, death is imminent, it is hard to imagine more critical and exigent circumstances,” David Gibbs III, attorney for Schiavo’s parents, Bob and …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s (search) president said Monday that Tehran has given a set of proposals to three key European states involved in talks on Iran’s nuclear program, which he stressed must be expanded to provide his country with more energy. Mohammad Khatami’s (search) remarks came a day after Iranian …