LOS ANGELES – An attorney questioning Robert Blake (search) in a wrongful-death lawsuit said the actor made statements that don’t jibe with police evidence and witness testimony about the night Blake’s wife was murdered. In a deposition in a lawsuit filed by the children of Bonny Lee Bakley (search), attorney …

LONDON – Britpop group Oasis (search)’ 1995 hit “Wonderwall (search)” topped a radio station’s poll of the best British songs of all time on Monday. Listeners to Britain’s Virgin Radio voted the anthem by brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher’s band their all time favorite British hit. Queen)’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” came …

CHICAGO – A study in which women with breast cancer were given two chemotherapy drugs simultaneously was cut short after the combination contributed to the deaths of two patients and caused life-threatening complications in an alarming number of others. The problems developed in women given the standard intravenous drug doxorubicin …

ALONG THE U.S.-CANADIAN BORDER – For most residents of the U.S. and Canada, crossing the border between the two countries has always been quick and easy: Show some identification, answer a question or two and enter another country. But that may soon be changing. New federal regulations going into effect …

LOS ANGELES – Authorities promised a full investigation Tuesday into why deputies riddled a sport utility vehicle and a Compton (search) neighborhood with 120 bullets after the driver led them on a chase, wounding an unarmed driver and possibly striking a deputy. “The question is: Did they have to fire …

WASHINGTON – The CIA (search) is conducting a secretive war game, dubbed “Silent Horizon,” this week to practice defending against an electronic assault on the same scale as the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks. The three-day exercise, ending Thursday, was meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond …

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. – Gordon Shaw (search), the physicist whose research on classical music’s effect on the brain produced an often-quoted study that showed listening to Mozart raises a person’s IQ, has died. He was 72. Shaw died of kidney cancer Tuesday at his home, according to his family. He …

For decades, Wichita, Kan., police received communications from the BTK killer (search), including letters and poems. Now the man charged with those murders has been spending long hours in his jail cell writing to people he knows. “His public defender is probably pouring his heart and soul into this case,” …

WICHITA, Kan. – Prosecutors vowed there will be no plea bargain in the case against a former church leader and city employee charged with 10 counts of murder in the BTK serial killings that terrorized Wichita since the 1970s. “I look forward to a trial of this case because it …

CHICAGO – Restaurateur Arnold “Arnie” Morton (search), who founded the chain of steakhouses that bear his name and helped launch the first Playboy Club and the annual Taste of Chicago food festival, has died at the age of 83. Morton, who suffered from Alzheimer’s (search) disease and cancer, died Saturday …