RICHMOND, Va. – A man accused of suffocating a family of three methodically wrapped his victims’ faces in duct tape, ransacked their home and then drove off while snacking on food he stole from their refrigerator, a prosecutor said Monday. “He killed them!” prosecutor Matthew Geary said in opening statements, …

WASHINGTON – An antibiotic proposed as a treatment for acute sinus infections should be studied further because of serious skin reactions associated with its use, federal health officials said in documents released Monday. When compared with other antibiotics used to treat minor infections, the incident of serious rashes has Food …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Dollie Walton’s children always found Thomas Fry, the man who had lived with her for nearly 30 years, to be a bit strange. He was secretive about his past before he met Walton in Chattanooga in 1978, and he didn’t have a driver’s license or a birth …

STRAFFAN, Ireland – Brett Wtterich and Vaughn Taylor can debate whether it was better to have played and lost than never to have played at all. J.J. Henry and Zach Johnson, meanwhile, both got their chance and learned what it’s like to squeeze out a victory at the Ryder Cup. …

ACAPULCO, Mexico – The bodies of three state police officers, one of whom had been decapitated, were found Saturday in a sport utility vehicle abandoned outside the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, police said. The two commanders and an agent with Guerrero’s Ministerial Investigative Police were kidnapped Friday in Chilpancingo, …

NEW DELHI – Police on Monday used water cannons to disperse thousands of striking shop owners protesting plans to seal and demolish illegally built structures in the Indian capital. Nearly all stores in New Delhi’s estimated 500 markets were closed on the first day of the three-day strike, and traffic …

I took a walk today from our Capitol Hill bureau over to a famous watering hole on the House of Representatives side that Mark Foley was rumored to have frequented. And not to my surprise, it appears that Foley was a regular. On my walk back to the office, I …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – A Finn who helped mediate peace in Indonesia is tipped to win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, while bookmakers favor a Turkish novelist for the literature award. But in the hyper-secretive world of the panels that have spent much of the year sifting through hundreds of nominations, …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A bomb attack killed one person and injured four others in northeastern Baghdad Friday, while a Kurdish lawmaker was kidnapped and later found dead. CountryWatch:Iraq Among those injured in the blast were two firefighters who had rushed to the scene of another bombing 10 minutes earlier, police …

KABUL, Afghanistan – A homicide bomber in Afghanistan killed a British soldier and two children Thursday, while another killed a policeman. President Hamid Karzai urged NATO forces to use caution a day after 20 civilians died. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said the homicide attack in southern Helmand province’s Lashkar …