ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A 9-month-old baby crawled out of her St. Augustine home Sunday and was fatally struck by a neighbor’s van. The girl crawled out the front door and made her way across the street to a neighbor’s driveway, police said. The driver told officers he stopped after …

CALCUTTA, India – Forest guards tranquilized and then rescued a pregnant tiger from a date palm tree after it strayed into a village near the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve in eastern India, an official said Tuesday. The tiger climbed the tree to escape a group of villagers chasing her and it …

A Florida woman arrested on drunk-driving charges on Super Bowl Sunday, allegedly buckled up her case of beer in the front seat, but left a 1-year-old girl in the backseat without one, police told FirstCoastNews.com. Tina Williams was stopped in St. Augustine, Fla., after she allegedly ran a red light …

WASHINGTON – Roger Clemens and his accuser, Brian McNamee, will be the main witnesses at a House hearing on the Mitchell Report after New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte and two others were dropped Monday night. Former Clemens teammate Chuck Knoblauch and convicted steroids distributor Kirk Radomski also were taken …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit Thursday with Europe’s gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail. Atlantis and its seven-man crew safely roared away from their seaside launch pad …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Joe Manchin and others took offense Tuesday to a planned scene from an upcoming film starring Julianne Moore that they say stereotypes West Virginians as inbreeds and carnival sideshows. The horror thriller “Shelter” is recruiting extras with unusual physical features for a scene in a “West …

An Ohio mayor had a stern order for a company of Marine Corps Reservists: Get out. The Toledo Blade reports that Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner ordered the Marines out Friday as their buses were arriving for a three-day training mission in the city, where they have periodically trained since 2004. …

BAGHDAD – Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appealed to millions of Shiite Muslims Thursday to reconcile their differences and boost the country’s fragile political process in a speech marking a major religious holiday. The Iraqi leader, who is Shiite, painted a somewhat rosy picture of the situation in Iraq, saying …

WASHINGTON – The House has approved $18 billion in new taxes on the largest oil companies. The money collected over 10 years is intended to provide tax breaks for wind, solar and other alternative energy sources and for energy conservation. The measure passed by the House by a 236-182 vote …

JUNEAU, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband are expecting their fifth child in May, she announced Wednesday. Palin, 44, who just three months ago was modeling for the fashion magazine Vogue, doesn’t look seven months pregnant. “I will be delivering an addition to the first family,” Palin told …