BRACCIANO, Italy – Some marital advice Tom Cruise and his bride-to-be could receive Saturday: Never go to bed angry at each other. Or they may be told that newlywed “girls” expect “frills” and maybe a cat, and young men are prone to “forget” their promises. It’s part of the guidance …

SAVANNAH, Georgia – Country music star Lee Ann Womack has secured a temporary protective order to keep away a man she says was stalking her. In a petition filed last week in Chatham County Superior Court, Womack’s lawyers claim Georgia resident Mark Borer, 36, has been stalking her for the …

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiites poured into the streets of the capital to rejoice at the death sentence for Saddam Hussein, but the former dictator’s fellow Sunnis paraded through his hometown chanting, “We will avenge you Saddam.” Both Saddam and the Shiite prime minister who has …

Six tribal children died and more than 60 fell ill after drinking adulterated milk in a state school in eastern India, officials said Friday. The students in Jharkhand state, aged between 8 and 13 years, began vomiting and complaining of stomach aches after drinking milk and eating snacks Thursday evening, …

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Maj. James Richards Jr. thought his 22-year Army career was done when he retired in 1993. But when the military called, the 60-year-old volunteered for another hitch and deployed to Iraq. The Fayetteville Observer reported Monday that Richards, a married father of five with several grandchildren, …

NEW YORK – Val Bonner planned for a decade to attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on her 50th birthday, and this year she got her wish Thursday, joining throngs of holiday revelers in Manhattan cheering the giant balloons and thousands of marchers. “It’s just fabulous — I cried when …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A homicide bomber driving an oil tanker detonated his explosives outside an Afghan government office during a provincial council meeting Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 42, officials said. The attack in this former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan ripped through the council office, flattened …

WOBURN, Mass. – A man was convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday for killing his wife and 11-year-old stepson out of anger over the time she spent with members of her church. The jury found Jeremias Bins guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the 2006 slayings. Superior Court Judge …

This is a rush transcript from “America’s News HQ,” November 18, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. JON SCOTT, HOST: Outrage over the traffic death of an Arizona teenager. Police say 16-year-old Kelly Tracy was killed in a near head-on collision by …

NEW ORLEANS, La. – Hattie Dillon got a first-hand taste of the racial hatred that gripped this city in the 1960s when a metal bolt flung by someone in an angry crowd gashed her head as she marched for civil rights. On Wednesday, sitting on her front porch just off …