CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who is holding a roadside peace vigil near President Bush’s ranch shares the same grief as relatives mourning the deaths of Ohio Marines, yet their views about the war differ. “I’m angry. I want the troops home,” Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., who…

NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Jennings was the face of ABC News. The suave, Canadian-born broadcaster delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades. He was there for every big story, be it war or weather. Jennings, who announced in April that he had lung cancer, died Sunday at his New York…

NEW YORK (AP) — The former chief of the Iraq oil-for-food program resigned just a day before investigators release a report that is expected to accuse him of taking kickbacks under the $64 billion humanitarian operation. Benon Sevan announced his decision Sunday in a scathing letter that lambasted U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the U.N. Security…

CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) — President Bush is doing something he has wanted to do for four years: sign legislation that marks a major overhaul of the nation’s energy policies. Bush is to sign the 1,724-page bill Monday in New Mexico, home of Republican Sen. Pete Domenici, a driving force in getting the measure passed with…

(AP) The odds of surviving breast cancer have improved in recent years not only because treatments are so much better but also because the average tumor is smaller, a huge new study shows. Examining 25 years of cancer records nationwide, researchers concluded that smaller tumor size accounted for 61 percent of the improvement in survival…

WASHINGTON (AP) — While sleek crime-scene TV shows have turned students on to forensic science, an investigation of today’s high school laboratories shows that reality isn’t so flattering. Most of the labs are of such poor quality that they don’t follow basic principles of effective science teaching, said a report released Monday by the private…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For your best shot at a job, consider working in Los Angeles. But if you want a higher wage, try New York City. A new U.S. Census Bureau report released Monday shows populous Los Angeles County leads the nation with the highest number of businesses while Manhattan tops the chart with…

SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) — After orbiting the Earth for nearly two weeks, astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery were told to circle the planet for another day as bad weather in Florida forced NASA to delay Monday’s scheduled landing. The astronauts had powered up their spacecraft and were awaiting word from Mission Control to fire…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Twenty-nine states would have been better off passing a $4 excise tax on a carton of cigarettes rather than signing multibillion-dollar tobacco settlements, a study concludes. By far the largest of the pacts is the Master Settlement Agreement. As part of the landmark 1998 accord, major tobacco companies agreed to make…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — A Campbell County barbecue restaurant has voluntarily shut down following a string of food poisonings that sent at least two dozen people to the hospital, according to health officials. Pop’s Texas Barbecue restaurant in Caryville closed last week when a health inspector went to the restaurant, which officials say prepared contaminated pork…