The three packages contained papers, books and other materials headed for Chicago. But officials now believe the September shipments were a dry run for the Yemen-to-Chicago mail bomb plot uncovered last week.

Thousands of names were removed from the jury pool in Cowlitz County in what one county clerk is saying was a cost-saving measure. Now locals are asking: How fair were our trials?

The pile of phone books has been an annual rite of summer, despite their increasing obsolescence in the face of the Internet and other easy-to-access directories.

Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money" - followed by a second act as an activist and race car driver - has died. He was 83.

Paul Newman never much cared for what he once called the "rubbish" of Hollywood, choosing to live in a quiet community on the opposite corner of the U.S. map, staying with his wife of many years and - long after he became bored with acting -...