Friday, October 25, 2013
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
Contractors say the problems trace back to insufficient testing and late changes government officials made.
Passengers are hospitalized after an apparent malfunction on the "Vortex," which spins, twirls and flips passengers upside down, at the North Carolina State Fair.
"We need trust among allies and partners," the German leader says. "Such trust now has to be built anew."
Prosecutors say new evidence has emerged more than six years after the British girl vanished.
They hope recent reforms made by the monarchy have readied the deeply conservative nation for change.
In a big shift, the agency says hydrocodone-containing drugs should be subject to the same restrictions as other narcotics like oxycodone and morphine.
Groom-to-be Darren Black Bear is a member of the Cheyenne Arapaho, among the few Native American tribes that allow same-sex marriages.
Animal activists who have long argued against the tradition have the backing of both leading candidates for mayor.
Dave Herman, who was a pioneering rock disc jockey in New York, is accused of trying to transport a 7-year-old girl to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Michael Wacha and Carlos Beltran are making the most of their first World Series, propelling St. Louis to a 4-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox.