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SPOKANE, Wash. – The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall’s home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27. After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa. Her boyfriend, Chris Lund, was watching TV on …

MOBILE, Ala. – The Vietnamese mother of four young children tossed to their deaths from an Alabama coastal bridge testified Monday that her common-law husband laughed when he told her that the children — then reported missing — would never be found. “He kept laughing,” Kieu Phan, 23, told jurors …

NEW YORK – A van driver was arrested on manslaughter and other charges after plowing onto a Manhattan sidewalk at rush hour, killing a pregnant woman and seriously hurting another woman, police said Saturday. Keston Brown, 27, also was arrested on charges of felonious assault and driving while intoxicated in …

DES MOINES, Iowa – A gigantic storm dumped more than a foot of snow across much of the Midwest and New England as it marched eastward Wednesday, creating blizzard conditions, burying cars under huge drifts and providing ammunition for a massive campus snowball fight in Wisconsin. Even more snow fell …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” December 29, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SHANNON BREAM, FOX NEWS GUEST HOST: We hope you like tennis, because some of the $787 billion you forked over for the stimulus in the …

This is a RUSH transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” December 1, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET! BILL O’REILY, HOST: Now for the top story: the best analysis anywhere. We …

SELMA, Ind. – Police say a fifth-grader handed out about $300 to others on the bus ride to his eastern Indiana school. Problem is, they say, the cash was among some $10,000 he took from his grandparents’ safe. Delaware County Sheriff George Sheridan says the boy was riding the bus …

FORT WORTH, Texas – An Army psychiatrist who may face the death penalty after the mass shooting at Fort Hood was charged Wednesday with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder relating to the scores of soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the attack, military officials said. Maj. Nidal …

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A state lawmaker reimbursed the city of Baltimore $300 Thursday for a marriage proposal stunt that involved police, writing on his Web site he hopes officers won’t be blamed. On Aug. 7, police boarded a boat Delegate Jon Cardin and his fiancee were on with friends in …

SALT LAKE CITY – As children head back to school, safety officials are warning that many Utah schools could fail in an earthquake. The Utah Seismic Safety Commission says an informal 2006 survey suggests around half of Utah’s schools are vulnerable to collapse from a major quake. The commission and …