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MILWAUKEE, - A Milwaukee man known by locals for openly displaying his handgun on a hip holster says he is giving up open carry after he was robbed at gunpoint. The 34-year-old man, who asked not to be named, said he believes openly displaying his handgun as allowed by law made him a target for the robbery and he sees it as evidence of the need for a concealed carry law, WTMJ-AM, Milwaukee, reported Thursday. Neighbors said the man was always carrying the weapon when they spotted him and he was known locally as "the guy with the gun." "It...

PORT LAVACA, Texas (AP) -- A giant pair of shears descends from a 70-foot crane above the Gulf of Mexico, grasping a chunk of metal and ruthlessly crunching it in clippers with a dinosaur-like six-foot bite. This massive 300,000-pound machine is part of Texas' attempt to clear its waters of unwanted ships, boats and rigs that have been scuttled there.

ST-HYACINTHE, Que. — The mother of the three-week-old baby killed on Monday after being mauled by one or more dogs has been charged with manslaughter. She was released Monday afternoon but isn't allowed to be in charge of children under the age of 12 while awaiting trial. The baby's 17-year-old mother and 37-year-old grandmother, had been smoking on a balcony close to their kitchen Monday, where the baby was seated in a portable car seat when the dogs attacked the child, Andre Williams, the 17-year-old's lawyer, said on Tuesday. "The mother is devastated by what happened, " Williams said. Police...

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's Empire State Building said "yes" to Mariah Carey, dog shows, cancer charities - and even the 60th anniversary of communist China. But the landmark skyscraper's owners have declined to illuminate it in honor of the late Mother Teresa.....

NEW YORK, - U.S. sitcom "Seinfeld" has earned $2.7 billion since it ended its 9-season run in 1998, said Time Warner, the show's owner. The New York Post called the series -- starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a group of neurotic friends living in Manhattan -- the most profitable 30-minute program in TV history. The show's earnings since it ended have come from syndication rights and DVD sales, with the sitcom's co-creators Seinfeld and Larry David alone having made hundreds of millions of dollars from the airing of "Seinfeld" reruns, the newspaper noted.