GREENVILLE, Maine – The Maine Warden Service said it’s searching for a couple from Pennsylvania who haven’t been seen since going snowmobiling four days ago in the Moosehead Lake area. The warden service said it received a missing persons report Monday morning for 41-year-old Clifford Achenbach and his 42-year-old wife, …

DESTIN, Fla. – When Dannie Baker’s neighbors awoke to gunfire and sirens, many suspected instantly he was involved — his sometimes racist, often religious ramblings had taken a more ominous tone lately. Authorities say Baker grabbed a rifle, walked across a parking lot and began firing through the window into …

Virtually all cases of the most common strain of flu circulating in the United States now resist the main drug used to treat it, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Monday. CDC researchers said 98 percent of all flu samples from the H1N1 strain were resistant …

A jury heard the testimony of three women who claim they were sexually abused by an anesthetist during their abortions, the Manchester Evening News reported. Dr. Narenda Sharma, of Ashwood in Bowdon, England, was charged with three counts of “causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent” after …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from March 9, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: In recent years, when it comes to stem cell research, rather than furthering discovery, our government …

LOS ANGELES – Estimated damage to Los Angeles County infrastructure and other costs resulting from three summer wildfires now total $19.8 million. Most of the damage totals released Thursday relate to the Station Fire, which burned 250 square miles of the Angeles National Forest. Fires also burned to the east …

LEXINGTON PARK, Md. – The St. Mary’s Sheriff’s Office says a man who called 911 repeatedly and after he was warned to stop has been arrested. Fifty-year-old Ralph Tawney Jr. of Lexington Park has been charged with telephone misuse. Deputies say Tawney call the sheriff’s office and 911 nine times …

Elderly men and women who sip on several cups of green tea a day may be less likely to have the blues, hint findings of a study from Japan. Dr. Kaijun Niu, at Tohoku University Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering in Sendai, and colleagues found men and women aged 70 …

JERUSALEM – Israel admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families. The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel’s Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by …

BELVIDERE, Ill. – Flying debris from an explosion at a northern Illinois technology plant killed a man nearly a quarter of a mile away. Illinois Tollway spokeswoman Joelle McGinnis says the man died Monday after being hit by debris. The victim was a customer at a toll road oasis on …