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A metrolink train hits a freight train in Rialto. Watch as the news developed throughout the 12 o'clock hour Thursday.

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In a breaking story over the night, former UFC Welterweight #1 contender, Jon Fitch, was released from the UFC due to a disagreement between Fitch's management and the UFC.

WAWMEESH G. HAMILTON/Alberni Valley News Candidates, family members, city officials and the curious gather at city council chambers Saturday night, waiting to hear how different city council will be for the next three years. As it turned out, there is only one new councillor, John Douglas.

WASHINGTON - Aides to a bipartisan group of auto-state senators said Thursday they have reached a compromise to speed emergency loans to Detroit's Big Three car makers. Republicans and Democrats plan to present the proposal at a mid-afternoon news conference Thursday. But it was not immediately clear whether the compromise plan could draw enough support to get through a reluctant Senate.

We have breaking news out of Aiken where former North Augusta school official, Stephen Eubanks, was denied bond on new charges he molested more students.

It's been a busy couple of weeks here at StLJN, with a lot of breaking news and relatively high traffic (as well as some nagging computer issues that still aren't totally resolved).

Some city of Petoskey residents were unaware of a recent city-wide water boil advisory issued by city staff after a Nov. 7 water main break.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey was conscious and alert early Friday - and took a get-well call from President Bush - just hours after he collapsed during a speech to a black-tie dinner....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street found some relief Friday from a report that a pounded-down Citigroup Inc. might put itself up for sale. That prospect, along with the possibility that low prices will draw in bargain-hunters after two days of steep selling, sent stock futures sharply higher....

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Followers of a Shiite cleric on Friday stomped on and burned an effigy of President George W. Bush in the same central Baghdad square where Iraqis beat a toppled statue of Saddam Hussein with their sandals five years earlier....

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million in ransoms over the past year, Kenya's foreign affairs minister said Friday, calling on ship owners not pay when their vessels are hijacked....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state after Thanksgiving, a new milestone for the former first lady and a convergence of two political forces who fought hard for the presidency....

SEATTLE (AP) -- As more Americans turn to charity amid worsening economic gloom, operators of food banks and other aid groups are relying on the surprisingly resilient generosity of their neighbors and finding that even when times are tough, people still give....

LONDON (AP) -- The show-business marriage that began in a Scottish castle came to an end in a drab London courtroom Friday as Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce....

ROXBURY, Vt. (AP) -- When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go - somewhere else, that is....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers know exactly how to beat the Cincinnati Bengals - with or without Chad Ocho Cinco....

With the stock market plunging and the credit market freezing, cries are being heard for quick government intervention.

Asian stock markets followed New York’s plunge but then rebounded when Japan’s finance minister said that governments should be ready to act.

Hezbollah is educating a younger generation in Lebanon to continue its struggle against Israel.

President-elect Barack Obama is planning to choose Janet Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security, transition officials said.

In a typically ineffective postelection session, lawmakers approved only a modest extension of jobless benefits.

In exchange for pictures of Angelina Jolie’s new twins, People magazine had to agree to positive coverage of her.

Total DVD sales are down by about 4 percent for the year, contributing to a creeping dread in Hollywood.

A federal judge ordered the release of five Algerian men held at Guantánamo Bay for nearly seven years.

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey collapsed during a speech and was taken to the hospital, where a spokesman said he was“conscious, conversant and alert.�

More than 10,000 supporters of Moktada al-Sadr gathered to protest the Iraqi plan to sign a security agreement to maintain U.S. troops for up to three years.

Russia’s lower parliamentary house gave final approval to a bill extending the presidential term to six years.

Detroit's Big Three car companies went to Washington this week seeking $25 billion to shore up their parlous balance sheets while the European Automobile Manufacturers Association has called for a bailout that could be even larger– 40 billion euros. Now environmentalists also are stepping into the debate and proposing some criteria of their own.

Will Citigroup, after losing more than one-quarter of its market value on growing worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses, raise the for-sale-sign? Conflicting reports surfaced Thursday over whether the banking giant was mulling options, including a sale of parts of the company or a merger with another [...].

Lenders have become even less willing to part with their money, further crimping budgets and family spending.

The presidential race has turned into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.

At issue is whether plaintiffs have the right to sue when the products that hurt them had met federal standards.

California legislative leaders and the governor have come to an agreement on the state budget, which is now roughly three months late.

After investigators said an engineer in last week’s collision had been texting on the job, regulators temporarily banned the use of all cellular devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.

Democrats believe that a long list of Republican lawmakers with legal troubles makes it impossible for Republicans to gain much ground on the issues of ethics and good government.

The recommendations included a simpler application, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families.

The blueprint would change the city’s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations.

Treasury and Fed officials were discussing with leaders in Congress a plan for the government to buy up distressed mortgages.

A backlash against short sellers has begun, with regulators in the U.S. and Britain tightening rules and authorities in New York intensifying investigations.

The president spoke briefly on Thursday after remaining largely out of sight as Wall Street has become engulfed by a financial crisis.

Senator John McCain’s once easygoing if irreverent campaign presence— endearing to crowds, though often resulting in gaffes— has been put out to pasture.

As Gov. Sarah Palin has moved to the national stage, Senator Ted Stevens, who goes on trial next week, has risen in some opinion polls in Alaska.

Todd Palin was one of 13 people subpoenaed in the inquiry into whether Gov. Sarah Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator.

A Spanish-language Obama ad misrepresents John McCain’s record on the immigration issue and his relationship with Rush Limbaugh.

A privacy group filed a class-action lawsuit on Thursday seeking to halt what it describes as illegal surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet traffic.

Remnants of Hurricane Ike swept through the region on Sunday, bringing torrential downpours and strong winds.

As the veterans’ health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation’s veterans.

O. J. Simpson’s legal team began Thursday to mount a defense that will sound familiar to anyone who followed his 1995 murder trial.

Flashing headlights and honking horns penetrated the early-morning sky as police officers and first responders led drivers in a slow procession across the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.

Gov. Haley Barbour agreed to move a special election for Trent Lott’s former Senate seat to near the top of the November ballot, ending a dispute that had threatened to delay the start of absentee voting.

Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell of Alaska conceded to Representative Don Young in the Republican primary for Alaska’s only House seat.

Agriprocessors Inc., an embattled kosher meatpacker with a plant in Postville, Iowa, named a corporate lawyer from New York to be its chief executive, responding to an ultimatum from the leading kosher certifying organization.

An Episcopal bishop, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church, was ousted from ministry.

A man charged in the killings of four people who died during a June killing spree in Illinois and Missouri has been charged with murder in four more bludgeoning deaths.

Every year, an estimated 500,000 people trek to a lake to see a veritable carpet of carp, and the state has temporarily called off a plan to force people to stop feeding bread to the fish.

The road to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue went through a lot of neighborhoods. Don’t think they’ll forget.

With wild fish harder to catch, what is served up at your local market is often little better than swimming tofu.

Programs to cushion and counter economic downturns have been sharply curtailed since the 1981-82 recession.

At the Al Noor Institute for the Blind, in a troubled neighborhood in Baghdad, children come to know their world“feelingly.�

Extra! Extra! Newspapers and auto makers take heart. History shows that flexibility (and luck) can hold off the angel of death.

A study finds raging male hormones pumping up the bull-bear cycle.

On Friday, Charles, the Prince of Wales, turned 60. He’s now been the heir apparent to the British throne for 56 years, waiting to be King of England since 1952.