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First-person shooters are usually an all-you-can-eat buffet of firepower and adrenaline. Fittingly, the latest game in Ubisoft’s “Rainbow Six” series continues to bet on Sin City as the urban playground of choice for hunting and taking down superbad terrorists. The awkwardly titled “Tom Clancy’s Rainbox Six: Vegas 2” ($59.99 for …

HIGHGATE, Vt. – A tour bus carrying about 25 passengers overturned on Interstate 89 Monday, sending about 17 people to the hospital with mostly minor injuries. Television station WPTZ is reporting that the Dream Tours bus from Maryland was carrying Korean passengers when it overturned on a snowy road near …

A political bombshell for New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. The Democrat and former New York Attorney General has been linked to a prostitution ring. On Monday afternoon he apologized to his family and the public at a brief news conference. With his wife Silda at his side, Spitzer told reporters …

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is canceling a statewide Amber Alert for 6-month-old Elijah Pierce. Elijah was taken on Friday when his mother stopped in front of his grandmother’s house, leaving the child and the keys in the car. The car was stolen with Elijah inside, but the vehicle was …

WICHITA, Kan. – A woman who may have spent nearly two years in a bathroom, sitting on the toilet so long that the seat adhered to sores on her body, remains hospitalized and in pain from medical procedures, family members said Wednesday. Pam Babcock, 35, was found stuck to the …

COLD SPRING, Minn. – Nearly 40 students were injured Wednesday by a chlorine gas leak in the pool area of a high school where a shooting more than four years ago killed two boys, officials said. Thirty-six students and one adult were taken to hospitals from Rocori High School, Mayor …

NEW YORK – After rising to culinary stardom preparing impossible meals on his Food Network series, Robert Irvine has met an obstacle his kitchen prowess couldn’t overcome — an embellished resume. The star of “Dinner: Impossible” has acknowledged fabricating some of the more fantastic parts of his resume, including having …

LONDON – Four British Broadcasting Corp. journalists were among seven men arrested in Ireland in connection with an investigation into paramilitary activity, the BBC said Sunday. The news organization said the journalists were working on a current affairs program when they were arrested by Irish police Saturday. Ireland’s police confirmed …

The great-granddaughter of a Civil War-era storekeeper in Tampa, Fla. is suing the city for a 147-year-old unpaid promissory note. With interest, the note is now worth over $22 million. The financially-strapped city of Tampa, in need of ammunition during the Civil War, issued the note to Thomas Pugh Kennedy …

TOKYO – A reputed right-wing extremist fatally shot himself in the head in front of Japan’s parliament Wednesday, demanding a tougher foreign policy and more support for a disputed war shrine. The man, who was not immediately identified by police and appeared to be in his 60s, died at a …