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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country singer Mindy McCready (search) was hospitalized after overdosing on antidepressants early Friday following a quarrel with the father of her unborn child. She was in fair condition Friday afternoon, officials said. According to a police report, McCready and William McKnight (search) were arguing on the phone …

WASHINGTON – America West Holdings Corp. (AWA) and a group of investors intend to buy bankrupt US Airways Group Inc. (search) in a bid to compete with low-cost rivals under a merger plan announced on Thursday. Using approximately $1.5 billion in new capital, the deal would save No. 7 US …

Reese Witherspoon (search) is dead — but that hasn’t stopped her from making another cute romantic comedy. In “Just Like Heaven,” (search) which opens this weekend to mixed reviews, co-star Mark Ruffalo (search) finds his dream apartment, only to discover it’s haunted by the previous tenant. “It’s a movie about …

PHILADELPHIA – Shares of U.S. vaccine maker Chiron Corp. (CHIR) rose nearly 2 percent on Tuesday as investors bet that Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG would raise its offer to pay $40 per share in cash for the 58 percent of Chiron it does not already own. Chiron’s independent directors on …

NEW YORK – Blue chips fell Thursday as carmaker General Motors Corp. declined after reporting lower sales, while energy stocks rallied in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Dow Jones industrial average (search) was down 21.97 points, or 0.21 percent, at 10,459.63. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index (search) was …

Even if your employer offers health-care coverage to retired employees, you still need Medicare. Think you can ignore Medicare reform just because you spent the last 30 years toiling away for a Fortune 500 company that promises generous retiree health benefits? Think again. Once you hit 65, you too will …

WASHINGTON – A top U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday he has “absolutely no reason” to believe the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, died in a weekend raid in Mosul. Lt. Gen. John Vines, chief of the Multi-National Corps Iraq, also confirmed that U.S. officials have …

GODE, Ethiopia – U.S. troops found two cheetah cubs — one of them blinded — being forced to fight each other for the amusement of jeering children in this dusty, forgotten village. The soldiers of the U.S. counterterrorism task force for the Horn of Africa were in the region carrying …

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” November 10, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: A new study shows that the number of sex scenes on TV has almost doubled in the past seven years. So what about that crack down …

KINGSPORT, Tenn. – An inmate escaped from a prison work crew Wednesday and is suspected of sexually assaulting a woman at knifepoint and stealing her car a short time later, authorities said. A manhunt was under way for James Daniel Bird II, 25, who was serving a 15-year sentence on …