Colorado police are searching for a 23-year-old New Jersey man who vanished during a blizzard after downing at least 20 drinks at a bar in Breckenridge, a small ski resort town. Alphonse Michael Barbiere, a Wall Street commodities trader, stumbled out of the bar at 1:30 a.m. Friday with a …

LONDON – Heather Mills hurled a verbal blow at former husband Paul McCartney during their acrimonious divorce hearing Friday, according to the British media. But it wasn’t over yet. The already dayslong proceedings to determine how much money Mills should receive from McCartney was to stretch into next week, Sky …

TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a defiant tone Monday on the 29th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, vowing not to slow Iran’s nuclear program and announcing plans to launch more rockets into space as part of its drive to orbit a domestic satellite. Like Iran’s nuclear activities, the …

MIAMI BEACH – Lenny Kravitz was taken to the hospital Tuesday and will postpone his upcoming European tour due to a bout of bronchitis. Kravitz was set to begin the tour this week. It was to run through the end of March, accompanying the release of his new album, “It …

NEW YORK – Yes, Billy Mitchell is still the king of Kong. In the first “Gamer’s Edition” of Guinness World Records, due out March 11, Mitchell, of Hollywood, Fla., ranks as the top-scoring player of the arcade version of “Donkey Kong.” Mitchell’s score is 0.1 percent ahead of Steve Wiebe …

MIAMI – A malfunction at a single electrical substation caused a cascading blackout that shut down a nuclear plant Tuesday and briefly cut power to about 3 million people from Daytona Beach through the Florida Keys. Authorities said there were no safety concerns at the nuclear plant. The outages initially …

RENO, Nev. – A pair of women’s underwear found with the body of a college student who had been kidnapped and strangled may have been left behind to taunt authorities searching for a serial rapist, police said Tuesday. The underwear contained the DNA of two people — the same man …

Have you ever wondered why scratching an itch feels so good? Well, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina may have finally answered that burning question. “Our study shows for the first time how scratching may relieve itch,” said lead author Dr. Gil Yosipovitch in a …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A drifter serving life in prison for killing a hiker in Georgia was indicted Thursday in the slaying of another woman whose body was found decapitated in a Florida forest, officials said. Gary Michael Hilton was charged with one count of murder, one count of kidnapping and …

BEIJING – An explosion at an illegal iron mine killed 24 people in China’s northern Hebei province, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday. The blast, which also injured five people, took place midday Sunday at an iron mine that was disguised as a wild boar farm in Wu’an city, …