A 15-year-old bicyclist struck and killed by a TriMet bus in Beaverton, Oregon Monday afternoon has been identified as Austin Miller, a student of the Arts and Communication High School. The Traffic Division of the Beaverton Police Department is continuing the investigation into the fatal crash involving a TriMet bus that occurred about 4:40 p.m., February 11, at the intersection of SW Murray Boulevard and SW Farmington Road. Police and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue ... [full story]

GENEVA, Switzerland - A space disarmament plan offered by Russia and China would include all armaments, not just nuclear weapons, a Russian official said Tuesday.The proposal was presented at the United Nations-sponsored disarmament conference in Geneva, reported Novosti, the Russian news agency. Explaining why the proposal was weapons-comprehensive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, "Current international law does not prohibit non-mass destruction weapons from being deployed in space."The document, which bans the use of force and ... [full story]

TOKYO - Japan Tuesday sent an official protest to the United States deploring the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine in Okinawa, a report said.Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said the protest called on Washington to take strong measures to prevent similar incidents in the future, the Kyodo news agency said.Police arrested a 38-year-old U.S. Marine staff sergeant based at Camp Courtney in the rape which allegedly occurred Sunday. No ... [full story]

A 41-year old Albany woman was killed and her husband injured Monday evening when he lost control of his motorcycle on Highway 20 in Benton County and crashed, police reported.   An Albany woman, the passenger of her husband's Harley Davidson motorcycle, died in a crash on Highway 20 Monday evening. Her husband received non-life threatening injuries. OSP photo.Oregon State Police (OSP) troopers and Benton County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene near milepost 5 about 6:45 p.m. and ... [full story]

LA PORTE, Ind. - The reputed remains of the notorious Indiana serial killer Belle Gunness have been sent to a lab for DNA testing to make sure she didn't fake her own death.Gunness was thought to have died in a house fire in La Porte, Ind., in 1908;. However there was suspicion that she had staged her death and fled the area after the bodies of 11 people were found buried on her farm. Gunness, known ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is the most well-known Democrat who hasn't, and probably won't, endorse either presidential hopeful, it was reported.Gore is friendly with Sen.. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and has spoken to them both, CNN reported Tuesday. Gore served eight years as vice president with Bill Clinton before seeking the presidency in 2000. Since Clinton and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, aligned themselves ... [full story]

MIDDLEBURY, Conn. - An overturned truck loaded with compressed hydrogen gas kept part of Route 88 in Middlebury, Conn., closed for much of Tuesday while the cargo was offloaded. Firefighters told WFSB-TV in Hartford that the vehicle would be left where it was until the highly flammable cargo could be transfered to another tanker truck.WFSB said traffic on the highway, a major route between Massachusetts and New York, was a mess at midday and motorists were ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - Two U.S. congressmen from Illinois have introduced a bill calling for new Social Security cards with security features to help combat fraud and identity theft.U.S. Reps. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., and Peter Roskam, R-Ill., introduced a bill Tuesday that calls for issuing Social Security cards with photographs, fingerprints, bar codes and other security features, the Chicago Tribune said. Kirk said the proposed cards would be modeled after Common Access Cards distributed to active-duty military reserve ... [full story]

Washington County Sheriff’s deputies are asking the public’s help in locating a 12-year-old Tigard, Oregon boy who went missing Monday afternoon when he didn’t return home from school.  Deputies have yet to determine whether the child, who has no history of trouble at home and has never run away, rode the school bus back to his neighborhood.   "TJ" Nomani - Anyone who has information on this 12-year-old Tigard, Oregon boy who went missing Monday is asked ... [full story]

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say they are worried the next attack on U.S. soil could be by Americans trained in terrorist tactics at al-Qaida safe havens in Pakistan.Counter-terrorism officials say recent arrests in Spain fuel their concern, CBS News reported Tuesday. More than a dozen trained suicide bombers -- including European citizens recently returning from Pakistan -- were arrested as they allegedly prepared to attack transit systems in Spain and four other countries. "They've realized that ... [full story]