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NEAR WACO - 15-years-ago Saturday, a huge fire ended a 51-day stand-off near Waco. It all took place at the Branch Davidian Compound. The standoff started with a government investigation into illegal possession of firearms and explosives. The Feds tried to enter the compound and were met with gunfire. By the end of the day, the compound was burned to the ground. 80 people were killed, including 22 children and four ATF agents.

Hendrick Motorsports today announced that long-term contractual commitments to existing sponsors will preclude Budweiser from continuing as primary sponsor of the car driven by Dale Earnhardt Jr. when he joins the organization next season.

DUNFERMLINE Building Society has appointed Peter Weanie to its board as corporate and social housing director...

Arizona's Hualapai Tribe hopes to draw more visitors with a controversial structure that will jut over the crevasse. GRAND CANYON WEST, ARIZ. — Perched over the Grand Canyon close to a mile above the Colorado River, a massive, multimillion-dollar glass walkway will soon open for business as the centerpiece of a struggling Indian tribe's plan to lure tourists to its remote reservation.

The media image of fathers--long portrayed as bumbling, inept and irresponsible--is changing. This has been a good year for dads in the media. One example is Sony Pictures’ new movie The Pursuit of Happyness. Happyness stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner, a homeless, hard-luck single father with a five year-old son. Through sheer force of will, Gardner raises his boy and pulls them out of poverty, eventually becoming a multi-millionaire. The movie is based on a true story and co-stars Smith’s eight year-old son as Gardner’s son Christopher. As Gardner, Will Smith strives to create a ''normal'' environment for Christopher,...

Nextel Cup champion Jimmie Johnson broke his left wrist when he fell out of a golf cart during a celebrity tournament, his team said Sunday. The injury occurred Friday at a tournament in Lecanto, Fla., and will prevent him from driving for at least four weeks. The injury was to his non-shifting hand, and he should be able to participate in preseason testing at Daytona International Speedway next month. "I was in a golf cart and the driver took a sharp turn," Johnson said in a statement. "I wasn't holding on tight enough, landed awkwardly on the ground and heard...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Reform Party gubernatorial candidate Max Linn was hospitalized after engine failure forced him to land his plane on Interstate 4 near downtown Orlando Friday. Witnesses said they noticed black smoke coming from Linn's Cessna 172 before it landed on I-4 near Orange Blossom Trail before 1:45 p.m. Friday, according to a Local 6 News report. Linn was taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center were he would likely be kept overnight. "I think it is safe to say he is a very lucky man," Local 6's Louis Bolden said. "(He is) also an excellent pilot." Linn's running mate...

MADRID (Reuters) - The discovery of radioactive snails at a site in southeastern Spain where three U.S. hydrogen bombs fell by accident 40 years ago may trigger a new joint U.S.-Spanish clean-up operation, officials said on Wednesday. The hydrogen bombs fell near the fishing village of Palomares in 1966 after a mid-air collision between a bomber and a refuelling craft, in which seven of 11 crewmen died. Hundreds of tons of soil were removed from the Palomares area and shipped to the United States after high explosive igniters on two bombs detonated on impact, spreading plutonium dust-bearing clouds across nearby...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Atlantis on Friday after clearing a technical problem with a power generator that forced a two-day delay, officials said on Thursday.The U.S. space agency had planned to launch Atlantis on Wednesday on the first construction mission to the International Space Station since the 2003 Columbia disaster, but a problem in a motor inside one of the shuttle's onboard fuel cells prompted managers to delay the launch.The flight was previously postponed by a lightning strike and a storm."The team came to the conclusion today that the cloud we...

Talk about going back to your roots... The average British woman spends an astonishing £36,903.75 on her hair in a lifetime, according to new research. She will spend the equivalent of just under two YEARS of her life washing, styling, cutting, colouring, crimping and straightening her locks in salons or at home. A whopping 650 days will be dedicated solely to creating a 'salon look' in her own bathroom. The average woman splashes out a monthly average of £10.08 on shampoos and conditioners, £14.03 on home styling products and £301.14 a year on haircuts and colouring. She spends the equivalent...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The name of the new vehicle that NASA hopes returns astronauts to the moon was supposed to be kept hush until an announcement scheduled for next week at the earliest. But apparently U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams, floating 220 miles above Earth at the International Space Station, did not get the memo.

Only a few blogs (and almost no mainstream media) have realized the truth about Iranian madman Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush. It was not an offer to negotiate, and it was not simply a lunatic’s rant. It was a calculated invitation to convert to Islam, a da’wa—an Islamic requirement (commanded by Mohammed) before waging war against unbelievers.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - Search teams combed the forests of northern Georgia Thursday for a missing airplane registered to legendary test pilot Scott Crossfield, the first man to fly at twice the speed of sound. Officials did not immediately know who was flying the single-engine plane or whether Crossfield was aboard when it left Alabama for Virginia on Wednesday morning.

(April 19, 2006)--An informal memorial service may be held Wednesday at the site of the Branch Davidian compound to mark the 13th anniversary of the fire that killed almost 80 Davidians and ended the 51-day standoff with federal agents, but survivors don’t plan to attend this year, according to the Mt. Carmel Survivors Newsletter.

NAPLES, Fla. -- A man crashed his car after a pet snake he had wrapped around his neck began attacking him, authorities said. Witnesses reported that Courtland Page Johnson, 30, of East Naples, was driving erratically and crashed his PT Cruiser into several barricades about 9 p.m. Tuesday. He got out of his car, wrestled with the snake and then drove off, reports said. When authorities caught up with Johnson at his home, he told them he crashed into another car that had stopped short in front of him. After questioning, Johnson admitted he panicked when his snake bit him....

GENEVA (Reuters) - Environmental researchers are preparing to capture what they call a new, mysterious species of carnivore on Borneo, the first such discovery on the wildlife-rich Indonesian island in over a century. Swiss-based environmental group WWF said on Monday its researchers photographed the strange animal, which looks like a cross between a cat and a fox, in the dense, central mountainous rainforests of Borneo.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Overnight, this city of 400,000 has grown faster than any other in America. Exactly how many have come to the metropolitan area isn't known, but the tens of thousands of residents and business owners from across the hurricane-ravaged parishes of southern Louisiana seeking to rebuild businesses and lives illustrate a far larger picture of the mass migration that promises to reshape life in Gulf Coast and deep South communities such as Houston; Jackson, Miss.; Mobile, Ala.; and Memphis, Tenn.

The space shuttle Discovery returned to its home spaceport Sunday, landing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) after a weekend flight across the country. A modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet ferried Discovery to KSC’s Shuttle Landing Facility at the orbiter’s Cape Canaveral, Florida home, touching down at about 9:58 a.m. EDT (1358 GMT) after a 2.5-hour flight from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.

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11th Anniversary Of Fiery End To Davidian Siege WACO, Texas -- It was 11 years ago Monday that David Koresh and dozens of his Branch Davidian followers died in a fire outside Waco. The fire broke out when federal officials tried to end a 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound. That standoff began after a shootout in which four federal agents and three members of the religious sect were killed. The agents were looking for stockpiled automatic weapons and hand grenades.