BEIJING – Police in southern China have arrested 16 people allegedly involved in kidnapping and selling baby girls as young as newborns to foreigners, state news reports said. Thirty-one babies ranging in age from a few days to several months were kidnapped from the southern province of Guangdong and sold …

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A 1940s-era seaplane that lost a wing during takeoff and crashed within sight of the beach, killing all 20 people aboard, had undetected cracks in its airframe that apparently caused the aircraft to break up, federal investigators said Wednesday. After the discovery was disclosed, Chalk’s Ocean …

CINCINNATI – The FBI offered a $15,000 reward Thursday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the bombing of a Cincinnati mosque. No one was injured in the explosions Tuesday evening, and they caused only minor damage, but they could have been deadly if anyone …

HONG KONG – Tamiflu is the hot drug now as people prepare in case a deadly super-flu outbreak should sweep around the world. But herbalist Wong Chi-sun is putting his trust in what looks like a plastic zip-lock bag full of some really bad weed. He sells a blend of …

NEW YORK – A man wanted for questioning in the Halloween night sexual attack on a woman in her Manhattan apartment by a man posing as a city firefighter was captured Friday on a college campus in Tennessee, police said. Police said fashion writer Peter Braunstein, 42, was spotted on …

SAN FRANCISCO – Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are ADC Telecommunications Inc., Winnebago Industries Inc. and Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. Apogee Enterprises Inc. (APOG) is expected to post third-quarter earnings of 26 cents a share, according to two analysts polled by Thomson …

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. – A lesbian couple who entered into the nation’s first same-sex civil union are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior. Carolyn Conrad, 35, asked a court in October to end her relationship with Kathleen Peterson, 46. Conrad also obtained a restraining order Wednesday against her partner, saying …

BEIRUT, Lebanon – A Syrian was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of Gibran Tueni, the anti-Syrian general manager and columnist of Lebanon’s leading newspaper. Abdel-Qadar Abdel Qader was among three Syrian nationals detained earlier for questioning in the Dec. 12 killing of Tueni, who was also …

DETROIT – A man killed his mother and a co-worker Wednesday and seriously wounded a teenage niece in an early morning shooting spree that ended when he committed suicide, police said. Jamal Samuels, 22, shot his mother, 56-year-old Annie Samuels, and his 14-year-old niece multiple times at their home on …

CHICAGO – Higher prices and new products helped Del Monte Foods Co. (DLM) post higher sales and profit for its latest quarter, though the maker of canned fruit and vegetables said energy costs will hurt its full-year bottom line. The San Francisco-based maker of Contadina sauces, Starkist tuna and Meaty …