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Desecrated cemetery: 'Babyland' missing tots

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:44:42 EDT

The investigation into an Illinois cemetery where hundreds of graves were dug up and allegedly resold has been broadened to include "Babyland," a section of the cemetery intended for children. "A lot of women came up to me and asked for help with Babyland," the Cook County sheriff said Friday. "To a person, every one I talked to could not find any of their children in Babyland."

Couple who adopted 12 children found slain

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:23:06 EDT

Eight children were found in the Florida home of their slain parents, who apparently were the victims of a home invasion, police confirmed to CNN today. The couple, Byrd and Melanie Billings, had 12 adopted children, some with special needs, the Pensacola News Journal has reported.

Jackson took 10 Xanax a night, document says

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:33:44 EDT

Singer Michael Jackson took more than 10 Xanax pills a night, asking employees to get the prescription medicine under their names and also traveling to doctors' offices in other states to obtain them, said a confidential document from 2004 obtained by CNN.

Intervening against adult's will no easy task

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:34:30 EDT

Mike Loverde was 29 when his family intervened in his addiction to prescription painkillers. He remembers his parents driving him from Chicago, Illinois, to a rehab center in rural Indiana. He was crying because he wanted to get high.

'New' GM on the road

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:59:30 EDT

After a six-week trip through bankruptcy, the "new" General Motors was born Friday -- owned by the government, free of tens of billions in debt, and shed of unaffordable brands, dealerships and plants. CNNMoney.com reports the sale of the valuable assets of the old company to the new GM was completed Friday morning.

Domestic wiretaps began soon after 9/11

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:16:07 EDT

The highly controversial no-warrant surveillance program initiated by President George W. Bush began within weeks of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to a new report to Congress compiled by the inspectors general of the nation's top intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and the Justice Department.

As nation gains, size 14 is new 10

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:40:06 EDT

The size tag on a pair of pants can mean a lot to a shopper, and retailers know it. That's why in recent years, as Americans have become generally larger, brands have scaled down the size labels on their clothing. Research shows that, when it comes to self-perception, the concept of "overweight" may be relative.

No answers as cookie dough inquiry nears end

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:29:08 EDT

The investigation of the E. coli outbreak linked to Nestle Toll House cookie dough is nearly over, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The cause of the contamination has not been identified.

Fido gets window seat; airlines let pets fly

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:02:29 EDT

A few weeks ago, Tony Hoard, a 57-year-old manufacturing worker in Indiana, boarded a flight on Midwest Airlines to Las Vegas, Nevada, with his Australian Shepherd. The flight attendant smiled at the two and said, "Welcome aboard."

Family roots lure blacks back to South

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:32:29 EDT

Between 1940 and 1970, more than 5 million African-Americans left the South, moving north in "the Great Migration." Civil rights laws made the South more tolerant, and around 1970 blacks began moving back. "I think a big part ... is the kind of historic roots that blacks have had there," according to demographer William Frey with the Brookings Institution.