WASHINGTON – Having daddy around when they are growing up is good for little girls — even if they are little baboon girls. While that’s well known for people, it’s a bit of a surprise for non-human primates. But a report in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National …

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik required lifesaving surgery after severing his carotid artery, his agent told The Associated Press on Monday. Zednik had surgery Sunday night and was in stable condition at a Buffalo hospital after losing a significant amount of blood during the game at Buffalo …

WASHINGTON – Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee brought their vastly different stories to Capitol Hill on Thursday, when the star pitcher was meeting one-on-one informally with congressmen and his former personal trainer arrived for a sworn deposition with House lawyers. McNamee did not speak to reporters on his way into …

TRENTON, N.J. – Four adults have been arrested after a school principal found 70 grams of crack cocaine on a seven-year-old, police say. The boy’s parents and two uncles were arrested Monday after he brought the drugs to Trenton’s Parker Elementary School. Police say they responded to the school after …

NEW YORK – The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch thick where they lie on the ocean floor. The foundation for a connected world seems quite fragile, an impression reinforced this week when a break in two …

WASHINGTON – Empty homes and for-sale signs clutter neighborhoods. You’ve lost your job or know someone who has. Your paycheck and nest egg are taking a hit. Could the country be in recession? Sixty-one percent of the public believes the economy is now suffering through its first recession since 2001, …

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge on Friday ordered Barry Bonds’ grand jury testimony unsealed, and what the slugger said under oath about his use of performance-enhancing drugs will soon be made public. Bonds is charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction for allegedly lying 19 …

BAGHDAD – An Iraqi interpreter for CBS News kidnapped in Basra was freed on Wednesday, but a British journalist remained in captivity, police said. Police Brig. Gen. Shamkhi Jassim said the interpreter had been handed over to authorities at the same hotel where he was seized in Basra, 340 miles …

MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. – High winds are blamed for the death of a man who died when a mattress he was sitting on was blown off the back of a pickup truck. Police said Doyle Smith, 42, a public works employee, was helping move the mattress Monday. The wind flipped …

TEHRAN – Iranian students are offering rewards totaling a million dollars for the execution of three top Israeli military officers over the deadly strikes on Gaza, and they are encouraging fellow Iranians to donate their kidneys to raise the funds, the student news agency ISNA reported on Monday. Israeli Defense …