Arthur Winston, a longtime transit employee who received a citation from President Clinton for his decades of service, died in his sleep less than a month after retiring on his 100th birthday, his family said Friday. Winston recently had been admitted to a hospital for exhaustion and dehydration, but returned …

On Friday, the CIA busted one of its own and charged him — or her — with leaking classified information. While this guy or gal goes to jail, over at The Washington Post, reporter Dana Priest is still admiring the brand new Pulitzer Prize sitting on her mantle, for writing …

KABUL, Afghanistan – The U.S. military said Monday that increased militant violence in Afghanistan was proving “very hard to combat” as separate attacks killed two police officers and a truck driver delivering food to coalition forces in a former Taliban stronghold in the south. Gunmen also killed five medical workers …

GARY, Ind. – A car speeding down a city street collided with a vehicle making a turn and smashed into a crowd of bystanders, killing a 6-year-old boy and three men and seriously injuring three others. The boy and men were killed Monday evening when two cars sped down the …

N’DJAMENA, Chad – Government troops using tanks and attack helicopters repelled a rebel assault on Chad‘s capital Thursday. The president assured residents he remained in control, and he blamed Sudan, whose Darfur crisis has spilled over into his country. The pre-dawn attack on N’Djamena demonstrated how little control President Idriss …

CINCINNATI – A black activist shot on a sidewalk outside City Hall after speaking to the City Council has died, his family said. Michael Bailey died Saturday at University Hospital, three days after he was shot in the leg, arm and chest, relatives said in a news conference. “Not only …

SAN FRANCISCO – Fidelity Capital Appreciation Fund is one of the country’s top mutual funds for the past five years, as manager Harry Lange outclassed 97 percent of his big-company growth-stock rivals. Except that Lange doesn’t run Capital Appreciation (FDCAX) anymore. In October he left the $7.9 billion fund he’d …

SAN FRANCISCO – In years past, on a certain mid-April day at midnight, a mad rush of stressed-out taxpayers would descend on the local the post office. Those days appear to be waning. Of those still brave enough to do their own taxes, 17% more opted to file their return …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Sunday that the United States looks forward to working with Iraq’s prime minister-designate, calling him an “Iraqi patriot.” Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said in a televised interview that Jawad al-Maliki has a “reputation for being a strong leader, a patriotic leader, without being …

LONDON – Troubled rocker Pete Doherty was arrested Saturday as part of a police investigation into tabloid newspaper photos allegedly showing him injecting himself and a woman with drugs, police said. Doherty, 27, was detained about 8 a.m. on suspicion of administering a noxious substance recklessly, a police official said, …