GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir. ...more

November 3, 2009

Two co-workers who learned this summer that they are long-lost brothers and who reunited this week with their two half sisters - one of whom is from Sarasota - have a new surprise. A half brother has surfaced. ...more

September 26, 2009

Mike Seeger, who helped revive traditional American folk music, has died at age 75. ...more

August 10, 2009

Dane Cook's sister-in-law has been charged with aiding her husband in the theft of millions of dollars from the comedian. ...more

June 25, 2009

University of Florida student Tiffany Sessions put on a sweatshirt, took her Walkman and told her roommate she was going for a walk. ...more

February 9, 2009

A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Sunday among a crowd of pilgrims worshipping at a revered Shiite shrine in northern Baghdad, killing at least 38 people and wounding about 72, the Iraqi army and police said. ...more

January 4, 2009

Places that presidents call home often become major tourist attractions, from estates at Mount Vernon and Monticello, to Hodgenville, Ky., where Abe Lincoln's log cabin once stood, to Bill Clinton's boyhood home in Hope, Ark. ...more

November 23, 2008

The half-brother of an 18-year-old Ridgewood High School student whose body was found in a Dumpster outside a church last month has been arrested in the slaying. ...more

October 17, 2008

The half-brother of 18-year-old Ridgewood High student whose body was found in a Dumpster outside a church last month has been arrested in the slaying. ...more

October 16, 2008

MANATEE – A Bradenton man suffered two broken arms after he was struck four times with a baseball bat during an argument with his half-brother over a cell charger, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

October 10, 2008