LANCASTER, Calif. -- Seven people were shot at a late-night party in Lancaster, including a 14-year-old girl who later died, and homicide detectives are looking for suspects.

BAGHDAD -- Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday.

KINSHASA, Congo -- Two boat capsizes in one weekend on Congo's vast rivers have left 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead in unrelated incidents that were both characterized by heavily loaded boats operated with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.

NEW YORK -- A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job last week and wasn't fired, his lawyer said Sunday.

BAY POINT -- For a third day, Hercules police investigators and volunteers are sifting through the contents of an East Contra Costa County landfill in hopes of finding information on the whereabouts of a Hercules man missing for over a week.

VALLEJO _ The California Highway Patrol has issued a travel advisory for motorists on Interstate Highway 80 in Vallejo due to heavy holiday traffic and an earlier crash.

The airlines are flying fewer and fuller planes, and passengers are paying the price. Domestic fares for leisure travelers rose more than 20 percent in the spring, compared with the previous year.

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