HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Connecticut has become the first state in the nation to set standards for one of today's cooking staples — olive oil. Prompted by a complaint from a Norwalk importer, the state Department of Consumer Protection began working two years ago on regulations. The new rules prevent products from being sold as...

MIAMI, Fla. (AP) _ A South Florida teen died of a lethal drug overdose in front of a live online webcam audience 12 hours after he started blogging about his plan to commit suicide, an investigator said Friday. Abraham Biggs, 19, died Wednesday from a toxic combination of opiates and benzodiazepine, a drug used to treat insomnia and...

American farmers have long worried about the declining population of honeybees, a key crop pollinator. But honeybees originally came from Europe, so can't U.S. farms get by without them — with a little help from good old American bugs whose ancestors were here before Columbus? A reader's curiosity about native and non-native...

NEW YORK (AP) _ It was only a matter of time. A New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Barack Obama. The former Ludlum Elementary School, in Long Island's Hempstead Union Free School District, was renamed at a school board meeting Thursday — effective immediately. School officials say most of...

WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) _ Thirty-one Nobel Peace Prize recipients have joined with the non-profit group Save the Children in calling for help for millions of children trapped in war zones around the world. The letter, released Thursday, marks the 19th anniversary of the adoption of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child....

WASHINGTON (AP) _ US Attorney General Mukasey has checked out of a hospital and is headed back to work.

BOSTON (AP) _ An all-black Civil War infantry unit honored in the Oscar-winning movie "Glory" with Denzel Washington is making a real-life comeback. The 54th Massachusetts — praised for a doomed charge in South Carolina in 1863 — will become a ceremonial unit for the state's National Guard. A ceremony is scheduled for later...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) _ Nebraska lawmakers have approved adding a 30-day age limit to a safe-haven law that resulted in 35 children — including teenagers as old as 17 — being abandoned at state hospitals. Gov. Dave Heineman was expected to sign the bill later Friday, and the law would go into effect at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Nebraska...

BOSTON (AP) _ FBI agents arrested a Boston city council member Friday after he was allegedly videotaped taking a $1,000 bribe from an undercover agent in an expanding investigation into corruption at City Hall and the Massachusetts Statehouse. Chuck Turner was taken into custody about 7 a.m. at City Hall, less than a month after his...

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) _ Gov. Sarah Palin has granted the traditional Thanksgiving pardon to one lucky turkey, but the video that shocked some viewers captured what was happening in the background. As she answered questions Thursday at Triple D Farm & Hatchery outside Wasilla cameras from the Anchorage Daily News and others showed...