RAGLEY, La. – Beauregard Parish sheriff’s deputies have arrested two women after a child was found to have traces of cocaine in its system. Deputies arrested 24-year-old Amanda Rae Aymond and 27-year-old Bonnie N. Young, both of Ragley, Wednesday evening following an investigation into a 911 call about a child …

MINNEAPOLIS – The parents of a Minnesota teenager who once fled the state to avoid chemotherapy are asking a judge to end the court’s role in the case. Thirteen-year-old Daniel Hauser is undergoing radiation for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He finished his chemotherapy treatments in early September. In an affidavit filed in …

This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Bret Baier” from October 20, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) HAMID KARZAI, AFGHAN PRESIDENT (via translator): I call upon our nation to change this to an opportunity to strengthen …

An earthquake survivor trapped in a collapsed hotel in western Indonesia sent a text message saying he and some others were alive, triggering a frantic rescue operation, but hopes faded Saturday as sniffer dogs failed to detect life. Padang’s police chief said voices and claps were heard from survivors buried …

GABORONE, Botswana – Botswana’s governing party that has been in power for more than four decades once again swept parliamentary elections, the country’s independent electoral commission announced Sunday. The move paves the way for legislators to select incumbent President Seretse Ian Khama to continue as leader of the world’s largest …

MUNCIE, Ind. – Police say a 21-year-old military veteran fatally shot himself inside a central Indiana movie theater shortly after he argued with employees over being asked to produce ID to see an R-rated film. Muncie police say no one else was hurt at the theater, including the man’s two …

This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” October 19, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. SEAN HANNITY, HOST: All right, the White House rounded up its troops this weekend and they went into battle. No, not against our foreign enemies, against the …

MADRID – A Spanish official says bodies from a Civil War-era grave believed to hold the remains of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca will be disinterred in two to three weeks. The exhumation from the unmarked common grave will be the most high-profile step yet in Spain’s drive to address …

A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat belt violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana …

The Sri Lankan country’s human rights minister claimed Tuesday his country’s army took over two months longer to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels because it avoided using heavy weapons and aerial bombardments. The army suffered heavy casualties in the final phase of Sri Lanka’s civil war because it was constrained …