Californians mock East Coast quake panic
Soon after the lunch plates stopped rattling, shaken easterners could hear another sound from Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake: snickering emanating from the opposite side of the continent. | Suspicious powder sent to Craig Ferguson
A suspicious-looking substance sent to "The Late Late Show's" Craig Ferguson proved not dangerous, but a threatening note that accompanied the powder is still being investigated. | Firefighters working to prevent rail car explosion
Firefighters in a Northern California suburb were trying to keep a burning rail car from exploding and leveling nearby houses, schools and businesses as authorities on Wednesday kept an evacuation order in place that affected thousands of homes. | Sex charges against Strauss-Kahn dropped
A last-ditch effort to keep alive the sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was rejected Tuesday, ending the sensational case against the former IMF leader. | Ex-policeman held in Russian reporter killing
Russian investigators on Tuesday arrested a retired police officer on suspicion of organizing the 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building. | Copyright 2011 msnbc.com RSS URL: http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032091/device/rss/rss.xml |