NEW ORLEANS – Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city’s flood defenses. Outside engineering experts who have …

PHILADELPHIA – Hundreds of convicted criminals could be sprung from crowded city jails by fall and be placed in a “virtual lockdown” by being fitted with GPS tracking devices. A voice barking orders from their ankles would scold offenders who ventured someplace forbidden. That’s the vision of Deputy Mayor Everett …

NATCHITOCHES, La. – Two teenagers are accused of contaminating milk that two 3-year-olds drank while attending programs at Lakeview High School in Natchitoches Parish, according to authorities. Deputies said the young children were taken to a hospital after drinking the milk. They were taken to Natchitoches Regional Medical Center, where …

ATLANTA – The first grandchild of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is a girl. A family spokeswoman says Arndrea Waters King, wife of Martin Luther King III, gave birth to Yolanda Renee King on Sunday at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. Spokeswoman Sandra Tarver says the mother and …

WASHINGTON – The United States and Russia have expelled five diplomats and military attaches from each other’s countries in moves reminiscent of the tit-for-tat exchanges of the Cold War-era, U.S. officials said Thursday. The latest expulsions, ordered by Russia on April 28, were of two American military attaches at the …

CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France – A French court on Wednesday convicted Michel Fourniret of killing seven girls and young women and sentenced him to life in prison — and gave his wife a life term for helping him in some of the murders. Fourniret, 66, was given the maximum sentence by the …

Sorry, boys. Miley Cyrus says she’s “too much to handle right now.” “I can’t be quiet and cute for boys,” Cyrus says in the July issue of Top of the Pops magazine, according to various reports. “I have to be a bit crazy.” The 15-year-old Disney star adds: “I’m too …

In the minutes after a tornado touched down at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch in western Iowa, parents in three states began a frantic search to find their Boy Scout sons. Cathy White was watching television with her husband Joel in Blair, Neb., when they heard that tornadoes had touched …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” June 20, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: An American newlywed of 11 days dies while scuba diving on her Australian honeymoon. And tonight, her American …

GUANGZHOU, China – Soldiers scrambled to shore up soggy levies with sandbags Tuesday in southern China as forecasters warned that more heavy rain in the central region could trigger flooding on the country’s second-longest river. At least 63 people have died in the past month, a disaster official said. China’s …