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Television pitchman Billy Mays, whose high-energy hawking turned products like OxiClean from infomercial curiosities into mainstream successes, was remembered as a pop culture icon at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh. “He sold more OxiClean than Andy Warhol sold Campbell’s Soup,” said Mays’ cousin Dean Panizzi, comparing Mays to the Pittsburgh-born …

NEW YORK – Women who were treated for cancer during childhood are about 20 percent less likely to become pregnant than their untreated sisters, according to data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS). Risk factors for infertility identified in this study may be useful for pretreatment counseling, the researchers …

A quick trip around Hannity’s America… Kowtowing to Castro The president’s international apology tour may have won accolades from many around the globe, but one Republican congressman took a different view. Representative Lincoln Diaz Balart of Florida took to the House floor Tuesday to explain why President Obama’s love session …

MADRID – A Spanish official says bodies from a Civil War-era grave believed to hold the remains of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca will be disinterred in two to three weeks. The exhumation from the unmarked common grave will be the most high-profile step yet in Spain’s drive to address …

A casket minus a cadaver yielded nearly 100 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop in Dallas. William Dale Crock of Cave City, Ark., was in jail Friday on a marijuana possession charge, plus traffic and seat belt violations. Dallas police say Crock was arrested Wednesday when bundles of marijuana …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia says nine of its soldiers fighting Yemeni rebels on the border are missing and the kingdom’s monarch is vowing to defend the country. A defense ministry statement said the fate of the soldiers remains unknown. The statement was a reaction to reports that the …

MEXICO CITY – A shootout between Mexican troops and a convoy of gunmen left 15 assailants and one soldier dead hours before President Barack Obama arrived in the country to show his support for the fight against drug cartels. The shootout happened in a remote, mountainous region in Guerrero state, …

Ricki Lake is opening up about her childbirth experience, saying that the process helped her heal the wounds of sexual abuse. Opening up to People magazine, the former actress and talk show host says she was “sexually abused [around] age six or seven.” Lake added that she felt the abuse …

NTON BEACH, Fla – Authorities are looking for four people who robbed a Boynton Beach man at gunpoint — all for $5. The man, whom police have not identified, had set the money aside to play the lottery. Authorities say the robbers drove up to him in a white sport …

TOKYO – Japan renewed and strengthened sanctions against North Korea as Tokyo struggles to punish the communist country for its recent rocket launch, officials said Friday. North Korea says Sunday’s launch was to send a satellite into orbit, but Japan and allies call it a cover for a missile test. …