Some people will do anything to get out of paying a speeding ticket. Christine Downs of Dover, 24, interrogated police and filed motions as she represented herself at trial last year to contest the $100 ticket. She also prepared a list of 96 questions.

Portsmouth defeated Tottenham 2-0 Sunday, with Jermain Defoe and Peter Crouch scoring against their former club. In another Premier League game, Manchester City was upset 2-1 at Wigan.

Republican John McCain prides himself on being a straight talker. But he resisted being dragged into a discussion Wednesday about insurance companies that cover Viagra but not birth control products.”I certainly do not want to discuss that issue,” the...

The system for funding Social Security is “a disgrace” because it forces young Americans to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate John McCain said this week, wading into politically...

Police say a Dover, New Hampshire, teen suspected of using a stolen credit card at a store left a pretty good clue to his identity by filling out a job application at the same store.Fandi Pradipta, 18, pleaded guilty Tuesday to using a stolen card at a...

A house fire that killed a 22-year-old woman and her three young children was arson, the state fire marshal’s office said Friday.The March 7 fire started at the rear of the two-story house in the Ohio River city of Portsmouth. Officials declined to give...

Authorities say a woman and three children have died in a house fire in Portsmouth, Ohio.The State Fire Marshal’s Office says the fire was reported early Friday morning.Authorities believe seven people were in the house at the time. Three have been...

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s eyes welled up and her voice broke repeatedly Monday as she talked with voters in a restaurant about her campaign for the presidency.The former first lady was making a last-minute pitch for support as she spoke on the eve of the...

An accelerated primary calendar gives Mike Huckabee little time to savor his Iowa win and Mitt Romney a fleeting chance to stage a comeback in New Hampshire, all while John McCain angles to seize the conversation with a reprise of his 2000 primary...

Joe Biden is complaining that his foes keep saying he’d be a great secretary of state.Nothing wrong with that job, he says, but he’s running for president. And if he’d be better at foreign policy than his rivals, well, why in the world shouldn’t he...