EAST BANK, W.Va. – A Kanawha County police officer has been fired after he admitted using a Taser on a pregnant teenager and a firefighter. East Bank Mayor Chuck Blair says Sgt. Steve Smith was fired after the Town Council learned of the incidents in September. Smith had been on …

WECH BAGHTU, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai gave Barack Obama his first foreign policy test Wednesday, warning the president-elect that U.S. forces must stop killing civilians. Villagers in the south said U.S. troops bombed a wedding party and killed 40 people, mostly children, and wounded 28 others, The New York …

LONDON – Britain is considering a ban on “happy hour” discounts at bars and restaurants to curb drinking, a spokesman said Saturday, as health advocates warned that a rise in liver-related deaths among young people may signal a future epidemic. Health officials will decide on whether to ban the happy …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope off until next spring at the earliest, NASA on Thursday chose Nov. 14 for its next space shuttle launch, a flight by Endeavour to the international space station. The Hubble repair mission had been planned for this month, …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” October 28, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: The Dow today makes history, good history, finally. The stock market was a bargain basement today, great prices, …

LINCOLN, Neb. – A woman drove her 12-year-old son from Georgia to Nebraska to abandon him under the state’s unique safe-haven law, the 20th child left at a hospital since the law took effect in July. The boy, from the Atlanta suburb of Smyrna, Ga., was dropped off at BryanLGH …

PHOENIX – Surprise police have arrested a mother they say drove her daughter and her friends to a rival’s home so they could assault her. Surprise police spokesman Sgt. Mark Ortega says 41-year-old Glendale resident Kimberly Sutton was booked on conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and burglary and providing transportation …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A balloon basket caught on fire, separated from the rest of the balloon and crashed during the city’s annual hot-air balloon fiesta Friday, killing one person, a fiesta official said. Two people — a pilot and a passenger — were aboard the Wings of Wind balloon when …

The Barack Obama presidential campaign is EVERYWHERE. Drivers of high-performance racing cars were a bit surprised over the weekend to spot roadside billboards with the Illinois senator’s familiar face on them and the message “Early Voting Has Begun. VoteForChange.com.” Not unusual, you say? Well, these were virtual billboards, on imaginary …

BAGHDAD – Eleven Iraqis, including women and children, were killed Sunday after U.S. forces came under attack by gunfire and a homicide bomber during a raid in Mosul, the military said. No U.S. casualties were immediately reported. In another part of the northern city, gunmen opened fire on mourners in …