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WEARE, N.H. – Following a Supreme Court ruling last week that gave local governments power to seize private property, someone has suggested taking over Justice David Souter’s (search) New Hampshire farmhouse and turning it into a hotel. “The justification for such an eminent domain action is that our hotel will …

PHOENIX – Police used patrol cars as battering rams to stop a pickup truck that led officers on a chase Thursday that ended at Sky Harbor International Airport (search). TV footage showed the truck driving along the airport grounds and then tearing through a fence, which remained wrapped around the …

NEW YORK – Rupert Everett (search), the British actor whose co-stars have included Madonna and Julia Roberts, is writing his memoirs. Not yet titled, the book is scheduled for publication by Warner Books in the fall of 2006. “I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe …

Dementia cost the world $156 billion in 2003, say Swedish researchers. The sum could grow larger as more people live longer, say Bengt Winblad, MD, and colleagues. Their estimate covers dementia’s direct costs, based on nearly 28 million people with dementia worldwide. Most of the spending (92 percent) occurred in …

Oil prices eased off their record highs Tuesday, but stayed close to the $60 threshold on persistent global supply fears as the market once more brushed aside another OPEC (search) pledge to add barrels. Traders were also watching the Department of Energy (search) petroleum data snapshot to be released Wednesday …

LOS ANGELES – Police released footage from a security videotape that shows a woman apparently being kidnapped from an apartment complex, and officers asked for help identifying either person. The video shows a man grabbing a woman as she leaves the Chateau Apartments (search) in Hollywood on May 26. He …

WASHINGTON – Senators traveled to exotic foreign capitals and fabulous resort towns with beaches and golf courses in 2004 — all in the name of business of course and rarely on their own dime. One such trip was taken by Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who went to Cape …

SEATTLE – King County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a concertgoer’s claim that he was severely beaten onstage during a performance by Snoop Dogg (search) at the White River Amphitheatre. Richard Monroe, 24, said performers had encouraged him to climb on the stage at Saturday’s concert at the amphitheater near Auburn, …

Paid for Nuttin’ Meet the New Yorker with the world’s easiest and best-paying job. Christopher Nelson is getting $100,000 a year to sit in his downtown Manhattan apartment and watch reruns of “The Dukes of Hazzard (search),” the New York Post reported Thursday. The Country Music Channel, which airs the …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Imagine this: A man from Hope with a weight problem serves more than 10 years as Arkansas (search) governor, makes cross-country connections through his leadership of the National Governors Association and weighs a run for the White House. Bill Clinton? Not this time. Mike Huckabee (search), …