NEW YORK (AP) — Burger King wants people to feel less guilty about gobbling up its french fries. The world’s No. 2 hamburger chain is launching a new crinkle-cut french fry today that it says has about 20 percent fewer calories than its regular french fries. The chain says a small order of the new […]

SOMERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Fayette County Sheriff ’s Department says a skydiver who was missing after a jump in southwestern Tennessee has been found dead. WMC-TV in Memphis reports that the 56-year-old California man was found in Fayette County after nearly a six-hour search. The man, who hasn’t been identified, jumped midday Monday with […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s flagship airline plans to fly planes to Antarctica where pilots would land on an ice runway. But tourists wanting to travel to the frozen continent will need to keep their hopes in check. The chartered Air New Zealand flights would be for scientists and their support crews, and […]

MURMANSK, Russia (AP) — Russia has filed piracy charges against Greenpeace activists who tried to board an offshore drilling platform in the Arctic owned by statecontrolled natural gas company Gazprom. The 30 activists are on a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, being towed toward the port city of Murmansk by the Russian Coast Guard. The […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Former President George W. Bush says President Barack Obama should not be criticized for the amount of golf he plays. In an excerpt from “In Play with Jimmy Roberts,” airing tonight on the Golf Channel, Bush says he understands the pressures of the White House and that playing golf is a […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — They face parole hearings soon, but ex-Tyco executives Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz have already left a minimum-security prison in Harlem for steady clerical jobs and overnights in apartments following their headline-grabbing $134 million corporate fraud convictions. Former CEO Kozlowski and ex-chief financial officer Swartz are among 304 inmates in the […]

HONOLULU (AP) — More than 20 goats were stolen from a Hawaii farm, and the owner says the thieves used duct tape to keep the animals from making noise. KHON-TV reports the 23 purebred goats were taken from a farm in Kahuku, on Oahu’s North Shore, sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning. Keal Pontin […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — US Airways and American Airlines are extending their merger deadline by a month to give themselves time for an antitrust trial. That trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 25. Their original agreement allowed either side to call off the merger on Dec. 17, but the trial might not be done […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new commercial spaceship will wait all week before aiming again for the International Space Station. Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Cygnus capsule was supposed to arrive Sunday, four days after its launch. But the rendezvous was aborted because of a discrepancy in navigation data between the two vessels. The Virginia company […]

CORSICANA, Texas (AP) — A couple and their three children were found shot dead in their North Texas home in what authorities believe was a murder-suicide, a sheriff said Monday. Authorities have yet to determine who fired the shots, though the children’s father was arrested less than two weeks ago on a family violence charge. […]