— Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that is spread by contact with an infected person, through coughing and sneezing. — The virus normally grows in the cells that line the back of the throat and the cells that line the lungs. — The incubation period for measles ranges …

WARREN, Mich. – When Coke-bottle glasses just won’t cut it for safe driving, a futuristic windshield might do the trick. General Motors Corp. researchers are working on a windshield that combines lasers, infrared sensors and a camera to take what’s happening on the road and enhance it, so aging drivers …

SEATTLE – A woman who leaped from a bridge into a chilly river wearing handcuffs as she worked as a police informant during an attempted drug bust was captured early Thursday, two days after vanishing. Sandra I. Duffy, 43, was caught shortly after 1 a.m. at a house in Peshastin, …

DERBY LINE, Vt. – Four people have been charged following an assault on a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Derby Line, near the Vermont-Quebec border, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Alexsandre Da Silva, 32, Jenete Maria Andrade-Valenca, 53, Evaldo Ferreira Pinto, 33, all citizens of Brazil, were discovered on a street …

BOSTON – State lawmakers have voted to let gay couples from other states get married in Massachusetts as soon as Gov. Deval Patrick signs the bill into law. The House voted Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law that had blocked gay marriages from out-of-state couples. On Wednesday, the bill won …

WASHINGTON – Michael Mukasey could face a contempt of Congress citation if House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman does’t get what he wants from the attorney general. Rep. Waxman, D-Calif., is upset with Mukasey because the nation’s top cop has not produced a report Waxman is demanding about the CIA …

FALMOUTH, Mass. – A man was ordered held without bail Monday for allegedly beating a New York man with a baseball bat because he thought the man was a Yankees fan. As it turned out, the New Yorker allegedly beaten in the land of the Red Sox isn’t even a …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – In an homage to the running of the bulls in Spain, visitors to an Alaska winter festival will get the chance to run shoulder-to-shoulder with reindeer. For the inaugural Running of the Reindeer, about a dozen of the animals will be set loose Feb. 24 in downtown …

RENO, Nev. – The FBI and two investigators from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children joined the search for a 19-year-old college student who mysteriously vanished from a Reno, Nev., home early Sunday morning. Brianna Denison, a student at Santa Barbara City College, was staying with friends near …

TAMPA, Fla. – A judge decided Thursday that Debra Lafave, a former middle school teacher and sex offender, violated her probation by having contact with an underage female co-worker at a restaurant where she worked, but it wasn’t sufficient enough to put her back into jail. Lafave — who has …