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LIVINGSTON, N.J. (AP) -- He is the first baby of the year in Livingston's Saint Barnabas Medical Center -- and it would take a good stopwatch to prove that he wasn't the first to be born in the country.
BOSTON (AP) -- There were 124 passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 59 when it left Amsterdam. There were 125 when it landed in Boston.
NEW YORK (AP) -- John A. "Junior" Gotti is getting a little nostalgic for the federal judge who presided over his three trials, which ended in hung juries.
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -- Don't look for Cloris Leachman to do something wacky while she's riding in the Rose Parade as grand marshal.
CROOKSTON, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota snowplow operator who drove a $200,000 loader into a frozen river has been fired.
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (AP) -- The crew on board the International Space Station has already wished planet Earth a Happy New Year.
NEW YORK (AP) -- An industry trade association says overall Broadway grosses and attendance in 2008 were a bit higher than the box-office take and attendance of the previous year.
NEW YORK (AP) -- When the father of a victim of the Mumbai terror attacks wrote Eddie Izzard asking the comedian to send a note to his injured son, Izzard came up with a better idea.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- You couldn't miss the wedding band on Craig Ferguson's ring finger when he returned to "The Late Late Show" from his holiday break.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online music store to 69 cents and plans to begin selling all tracks without copy protection.
WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. (AP) -- Having missed his bus, a 6-year-old Virginia boy tried to drive to school in his family's sedan -- and crashed.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former District of Columbia judge who unsuccessfully sued his dry cleaners for $54 million over a lost pair of pants isn't giving up.
Cupertino, CA (NBC) -- Apple's recent announcement that Steve Jobs will not appear at this year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco has sent shockwaves through cyberspace and world markets in recent days.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- There are no free lunches in life, but one could always count on free beer at Anheuser-Busch theme parks. Until now.
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Though he wasn't picked in the finale of "The Bachelorette," Jason Mesnick isn't just giving love another shot -- he says he's found it.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government suspects a lot of us aren't ready for the DTV switch, even with just a little more than a month left before it happens.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first family leaving the White House this month will be without one of its longtime members: the Bush family's 18-year-old cat has died.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Barack Obama's two daughters are now at their new schools.
SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- A winner has come forward with a winning lottery jackpot ticket that was sold at a northern Maine store.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Two guys from Long Island, New York, are the last ones standing, or perhaps teetering, now that the World Series of Beer Pong IV is over.
'Marley & Me', starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston, is in the lead this weekend with $24 million dollars grossed so far.
Former employees and clients of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff are hoping to recoup some of their losses by selling Madoff memorabilia on eBay.
A man dressed in a vintage German military uniform who was fatally shot by Seattle police on New Year's Day was fascinated with history and enjoyed re-enacting war events, friends say.
ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) -- They're twins, all right, despite what their spanking new birth certificates say.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Officials say a woman believed to have been the world's oldest living person has died in northwest Portugal at the age of 115.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hollywood's six major studios say they broke overseas box office records in 2008, with an estimated $9.9 billion in tickets sold.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- "Scrubs" is kind of the anti-"ER." "ER" is so serious and "Scrubs" is so not.
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A scenic tour turned into an adventure for a woman and her two small daughters in downtown Vienna, Austria.
NEW YORK MILLS, Minn. (AP) -- The Great American Think-Off is asking would-be philosophers a tricky question of morality this year: "Is it ever wrong to do the right thing?"
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