LOS ANGELES – Record-company shipments of Latin music CDs to U.S. retailers rose 13 percent last year, an increase driven in part by growing demand for Reggaeton, the recording industry’s trade group said Thursday. In all, shipments of CDs, DVDs, cassettes and music videos of Latin music in 2005 increased …

BOSTON – Maine police found two registered sex offenders shot to death in towns 25 miles apart and quickly zeroed in on a suspect. After almost 12 hours and a manhunt that stretched through three states, police pulled over a bus carrying Stephen A. Marshall to Boston and the 20-year-old …

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Trucks, helicopters and mules carried in vote tally sheets from remote areas Saturday as the ballot count for Haiti’s legislative election runoff got under way, officials said. Officials were still calculating the turnout for Friday’s vote to choose a new parliament, however, estimates ranged widely from 10 percent …

WASHINGTON – An adviser to President Bush said Monday that Bush’s photographs in the company of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff amount to a coincidence and shouldn’t be interpreted any more seriously than that. “He doesn’t have a personal relationship with him,” White House counselor Dan Bartlett said of Bush and …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” January 30, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Personal story” segment tonight, a disturbing column in The …

OKLAHOMA CITY – Michael Fortier, the prosecution’s star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trials, will be freed this week after serving less than 11 years behind bars, a move that drew mixed reaction from victims. Victims’ family members and bombing survivors received a one-page form letter from the Bureau …

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – A Pakistani security official on Thursday said at least three top Al Qaeda operatives were believed killed in a U.S. missile strike last week, including an explosives expert on the U.S. most-wanted list and a close relative of the terror network’s No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri. The …

This is a partial transcript from “The O’Reilly Factor,” October 19, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The O’Reilly Factor” weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the “Radio Factor!” BILL O’REILLY, HOST: In the “Back of the Book” segment tonight, 76-year-old Dick Clark …

NEW YORK – Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN), the world’s top supplier of microchips for mobile phones, said Monday its quarterly profit rose nearly 34 percent but revenue was at the low end of its target range due to production constraints, and its shares fell 3 percent. The company’s fourth quarter …

TBILISI, Georgia – A court Wednesday convicted a man of trying to assassinate President Bush and the leader of Georgia by throwing a grenade at them during a rally last year, and it sentenced him to life in prison. Vladimir Arutyunian also was convicted of killing a policeman during a …