ATLANTA – Kid Rock has pleaded not guilty to a charge of battery from a fight at a Waffle House in Atlanta. Robert James Ritchie, better known as the musician Kid Rock, was not present for the plea. His attorney, Darryl Cohen, waived an arraignment hearing and entered the plea …

A Central Florida man was arrested and charged with 350 counts of sexual battery against his young daughter, Local6.com reported. Police said the man, who wasn’t named, also tortured his children by putting them on plastic before lowering a shotgun to their heads. He was arrested on 350 counts of …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from March 14, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, PASTOR, TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black …

HOUSTON – Houston police say they’ve taken a 13-year-old boy into custody after the boy led them and Montgomery and Harris county deputies on a two-county car chase. Montgomery County deputies say the car was reported stolen before dawn today from his girlfriend’s home in Willis. They say they spotted …

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A 52-year-old man jumped to his death from a Southern California courthouse balcony hours after being convicted of child molestation, authorities said. Carlos Edward Tello was facing more than 20 years in prison when he jumped from a ninth-floor balcony of the Central Justice Center in …

SEATTLE, Washington – Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village. He walked over and saw an envelope tucked inside. After slicing …

SACRAMENTO – After six statewide elections in four years, California is beginning to seem like it’s in a perpetual election cycle. And 2006 will give voters no break. Through a June primary and a November general election, voters will choose a governor, decide races for seven other statewide offices and …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – The weight of the world’s tallest skyscraper — specially built to withstand Taiwan’s frequent earthquakes — could be causing a rise in the number of tremors beneath it, a professor from the island wrote in a scientific journal. Lin Cheng-horng, an earthquake specialist at the National Taiwan …

NEW YORK – A judge Wednesday ordered leaders of New York’s striking transit union brought before him and threatened to jail them for criminal contempt as millions of commuters trudged through Day 2 of the bus and subway walkout. The strike by the 33,000-member Transport Workers Union is illegal under …

RICHMOND, Va. – Gov. Mark R. Warner on Thursday pardoned two men wrongly convicted of sexual assault and recently cleared after a review of DNA evidence saved years ago by a meticulous forensic scientist. Prosecutors had asked Warner to grant the pardons after he exonerated both men last week. Both …