HARTLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A 36-star American flag has been unfurled at a Livingston County museum in Hartland Township. The Hartland Area Historical Society recently found the flag, which would have been flown shortly after Nevada became a state in 1864. Collections chairwoman Nadine Cloutier told The Detroit News on …

HONOLULU – Federal authorities have arrested a Pearl Harbor-based sailor for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl on a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu to Phoenix. The teenager was sitting in a window seat next to 40-year-old Shawn Michael Cole when she felt Cole sexually grope her inside and outside her …

LEWISTON, N.Y. – Border agents pulled four live birds from the pockets of a pigeon collector and a traveling companion trying to enter the United States from Canada. The pair were stopped Sunday at the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge border crossing, where they told inspectors they were on their way to visit …

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BOSTON – A New York-bound plane has returned safely to Boston’s Logan International Airport after a pilot noticed smoke in the cockpit minutes after takeoff. Airport spokesman Matthew Brelis says the smoke had dissipated by the time the Delta Airlines plane landed Saturday. He says the plane returned to the …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – International war crimes judges dismissed the case against a Sudanese rebel leader Monday, ruling that prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence to put him on trial for the deaths of international peacekeepers. Bahar Idriss Abu Garda had been accused of planning and participating in an attack …

LONDON – Britain’s government on Wednesday disclosed a once-secret description of “cruel, inhuman and degrading” U.S. treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, losing a long court battle to keep the material classified. Judges rejected the government’s claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation. The information disclosed …

NEW YORK – A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse in the U.S., especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway. An estimated 553,000 children suffered physical, sexual or emotional …

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Florida Highway Patrol was flooded with e-mails criticizing their handling of the investigation of the crash involving golfer Tiger Woods that led to him admitting to extramarital affairs. A review by the Orlando Sentinel found that the highway patrol and its umbrella agency, the Florida Department …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from March 8, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. ERIC MASSA, D-N.Y.: The entire nation has said let’s rewrite the health care bill. Let’s find what we …