TOLEDO, Ohio – Flood warnings for several western and northern Ohio counties were posted early Wednesday as rain-swollen rivers and creeks reached their breaking point. In the northwest city of Findlay, residents were preparing for another flood just months after the city was swamped by historic levels of water that …

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia released grisly surveillance pictures of the slain carcasses of two whales being hauled aboard a ship, stepping up its campaign Thursday against Japanese whaling in Antarctic waters. Environment Minister Peter Garrett said the “distressing” pictures would help build global opposition to whaling. “It is explicitly clear …

VIENNA, Austria – Iran says the U.S. and its allies provided false information saying Tehran’s missile and explosives experiments were part of a nuclear weapons program, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Friday. As expected, an IAEA report also confirmed that Iran continued to enrich uranium despite two sets of …

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. – More than two dozen cars and trucks piled up in a chain-reaction wreck Wednesday on a slippery section of Interstate 94 in northern Indiana, closing a 6-mile stretch of the highway’s westbound lanes, police said. • Click here to view photos. No serious injuries were reported, …

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas – When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival. But the turtle persevered, thanks to injections of antibiotics and a forced diet …

SPAULDING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – One steer’s unique hide may save it from someone’s dinner table. The animal is named Michigan, and for a good reason — the brown spot on its side resembles the state’s mitten shape. The pattern on its other side is shaped like a “U.” It’s one …

OLATHE, Kan. – A Kansas teen was charged with involuntary manslaughter Wednesday in the death of a 16-year-old schoolmate who collapsed after a fight that was captured on a bystander’s cell phone. Dustin Howard, 16, of Gardner, Kan., is accused of unintentionally killing Dakota DeRemus while committing battery. Four classmates …

WASHINGTON – President Bush was scheduled to deliver remarks Wednesday morning from the Oval Office in an effort to convince Congress to pass a law that is aimed at strengthening the United States’ ability to monitor terrorists, as well as grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have aided the …

BEIJING – Pollution has turned part of a major river system in central China red and bubbly, forcing authorities to cut water supplies to 200,000 people and close schools, a government news agency reported Wednesday. Some communities along tributaries of the Hanjiang River — a branch of the Yangtze — …

OCALA, Fla. – A Florida bus driver on Friday was arrested for allegedly sending high school students text messages with explicit sexual content, MyFOXOrlando.com reports. The 45-year-old driver, Joyce Sheldon, was arrested and charged with two felony counts of transmitting harmful materials to minors. MyFOXOrlando.com reports that a police report …