Aaron’s and the AFF first initiated a text-to-give campaign that allows participants to text AFF to 50555 to donate $10 to the Armed Forces Foundation which serves the military and their families. Ninety-four percent of all donations goes directly to military members and their families and helps with items such …

GENEVA – The World Health Organization declared the swine flu pandemic officially over Tuesday, months after many national authorities started canceling vaccine orders and shutting down hot lines as the disease ebbed from the headlines. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said the organization’s emergency committee of top flu experts advised her …

Allergan Inc., the maker of wrinkle-smoothing Botox, has agreed to pay $600 million to settle a yearslong federal investigation into its marketing of the top-selling, botulin-based drug. The Justice Department and the company said Wednesday in a statement it will plead guilty to one misdemeanor charge of “misbranding,” in which …

PHILADELPHIA – Try as he might, Bruce Graham (search) couldn’t squeeze all the dashed hopes of Philadelphia sports fans into his new 75-minute play. The perennially down-on-its-luck city boasts four professional sports teams, but together they’ve won just six championships in a half-century. “The Philly Fan” recounts the frequent travails …

PAHRUMP, Nev. – Former “Hollywood Madam” Heidi Fleiss said she is abandoning plans to open a brothel catering to women in rural southern Nevada. “I don’t want to work so hard. … and deal with all the nonsense in the sex business,” Fleiss told the Las Vegas Review-Journal for a …

NEW YORK – A computer virus that may leave Microsoft Windows users vulnerable to digital hijacking is spreading through companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia, already infecting close to 9 million machines, according to a private online security firm. Fortunately, however, it may be a dud. Though computer bugs …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record ,” March 16, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Who wouldn’t want to go backstage at a Motley Crue concert? That’s where you’re going right now. Moments …

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – An attorney for a man accused of gunning down an Illinois pastor and wounding two churchgoers with a knife entered a not guilty plea for his client in court. Ronald Slemer entered the plea Tuesday on behalf of Terry Sedlacek. Slemer also asked for a jury trial. …

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The United States will play England, Slovenia and Algeria in the first round of next year’s World Cup in what appears to be a relatively easy group. The U.S. opens against England in Rustenburg on June 12, their first World Cup matchup since the Americans’ …

ADELAIDE, Australia – Sam the koala, who gained worldwide fame and sympathy when she was rescued during Australia’s devastating wildfires this year, died Thursday during an operation meant to save her from a life-threatening disease. The 4-year-old koala had developed cysts associated with urogenital chlamydiosis, which affects up to 50 …