GAITHERSBURG, MD – Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved a mystery of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories. The 47-story trapezoid-shaped building sat north of the World Trade Center towers, across Vesey Street in lower Manhattan. …

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – A Gettysburg woman told police she couldn’t drive because of a suspended license — so she was a passenger as her 13-year-old drove. The boy was pulled over Tuesday night when police said he drove 64 mph in a 40 mph zone in Cumberland Township, Adams County. …

LOS ANGELES – Ed McMahon is being sued by another creditor. Westmoore Lending of Huntington Beach, Calif., sued McMahon for more than $275,000 it says the pitchman and former “Tonight Show” sidekick owes from a 2006 loan. A growing number of creditors say McMahon and his wife Pamela owe them …

GLENDALE, Calif. – In one of his final roles, Bernie Mac roars. In the upcoming “Madagascar” sequel, the comedian and actor voices the lion Zuba, father of Ben Stiller’s fey, city-loving lion Alex. “He brought so much heart and soul,” Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of DreamWorks Animation SKG, told The Associated …

SEOUL, South Korea – A North Korean defector tried to set himself on fire to halt the Olympic torch relay through Seoul, while thousands of police guarded the flame Sunday from protesters blasting China’s treatment of North Korean refugees. Hundreds of China supporters waving the Chinese flag greeted the torch, …

ORLANDO, Fla. – The FBI says a Jamaican man arrested at Orlando’s airport with pipe bomb components may have been plotting revenge for the murder of his mother. Court documents filed Monday by prosecutors say 32-year-old Kevin Christopher Brown possibly wanted to attack two people accused of killing his mother …

Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former U.S. naval intelligence analyst and convicted Israeli spy, was given a life sentence in 1986 in a case that has since become a sore spot in U.S.-Israeli relations. The sentence itself is one source of contention. Pollard currently is the only person ever to have …

DALLAS – School officials said Wednesday that an Athens eighth-grader lied when she claimed a mob of angry students assaulted her for making a poster that read, “If you love our nation, stop illegal immigration.” Surveillance cameras at Athens Middle School show Melanie Bowers, 13, purposefully making scratch marks on …

MANNINGTON, N.J. – A teenager in a stolen car led police Saturday on a high-speed chase and later shot at two troopers, who returned fire and killed him, authorities said. The two troopers were wounded, but their injuries were not considered life-threatening, said state police Sgt. Stephen Jones. The chase …

Our exclusive guest this week:• T. Boone Pickens, chairman of BP Capital, creator of “The Pickens Plan” What can be done to solve our nation’s energy crisis? One Texas oilman is prepared to spend $58 million of his own money to prove that this is one emergency “we can’t drill …