VIENNA, Austria – Walter Egger never had much luck with lotteries. That all changed Tuesday, when he won the raffle of a luxury villa worth more than $1 million in Austria’s southern province of Carinthia. The 51-year-old father of three, who runs a home for the mentally ill in the …
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Two gunmen shot a Muslim cleric to death inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday, while a NATO serviceman was killed elsewhere in the south. The two men drove up to the mosque in Kandahar city on a motorcycle Monday night, shot the cleric, …
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – The parents of a 7-year-old boy who died on an amusement park ride have tentatively settled their lawsuit against a New York county for $1.25 million. Westchester County has also agreed to set up a scholarship in Jon-Kely Cassara’s name. The settlement was announced Monday in …
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A top U.N. official accused the United States of committing inhuman “atrocities” in Iraq and Afghanistan during a speech Wednesday to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. “The aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan and their occupations constitute atrocities that must be condemned and repudiated by all who believe in …
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BAGHDAD – The U.S. military says the number of detainees it is holding in Iraq has dropped to 13,832 from a peak of 26,000 two years ago. The prisoners are being released or transferred to Iraqi custody to meet the requirements of a security agreement that took effect on Jan. …
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GENESEO, N.Y. – Three members of a banned fraternity were charged with criminally negligent homicide Tuesday for organizing a wild night of drinking that left a college sophomore dead of alcohol poisoning. Arman Partamian, 19, a biology major from Queens, was found lying face-down on a mattress March 1 at …
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NEW YORK – Bernard Madoff appeared in court Tuesday in an attempt to clear his lawyer of any potential conflicts of interest. The government is detailing their case for Madoff’s lawyer’s personal conflicts in a letter from the prosecutors, which was made public just before Tuesday’s hearing. Prosecutors noted in …
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DALLAS – Dr. Malcolm Oliver Perry II, who attended to President John F. Kennedy at Parkland Memorial Hospital after he was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, has died. He was 80. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center says Perry died Saturday after a battle with lung cancer. …
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MONROE, La. – LSU Health Sciences Center police in Monroe have arrested a man who is suspected of trying to expose people to the AIDS virus. The News-Star reports 41-year-old Ronald Sumler of Monroe was booked late Sunday night on four counts of intentional exposure to the AIDS virus. According …
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This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” December 17, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Disturbing news tonight out of Pakistan. According to The New York Times, American officials in Pakistan say they’re being …
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