ORLANDO, Fla. – A Florida boy is regaining his sight thanks to an experimental stem cell treatment he had two months ago in China. When he was a baby, 2-year-old Tre Burgos was diagnosed with optic nerve hypoplasia, a medical condition that results in underdevelopment of the optic nerves and …

SAN DIEGO – The restaurant where Tom Cruise crooned to Kelly McGillis in the movie “Top Gun” has been gutted by a fire in San Diego. A cook at Kansas City Barbecue says the blaze started Thursday in an open cooking pit and spread quickly to the rest of the …

Babies who die of sudden infant death syndrome are found with their heads covered about 25 percent of the time, according to two new studies. Based on the findings of the studies, researchers believe head coverings may contribute to SIDS. The conclusion of the studies supports recommendations to avoid head …

SAQQARA, Egypt – Egypt unveiled on Thursday a newly uncovered 4,000-year-old “missing pyramid” and a ceremonial procession road where high priests, their faces obscured by masks, once carried mummified sacred bulls worshipped in the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. The pyramid was actually a “rediscovery,” said Egypt’s antiquities chief, Zahi …

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – The Pentagon understated the vulnerability faced by the nation’s air and space defense command before it relocated to Colorado’s Peterson Air Force Base, a newspaper reported Monday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command moved from its longtime cave-complex home inside Cheyenne Mountain to Peterson in May. …

NEW YORK – Students at a Staten Island, New York, elementary school for autistic children sure like the way Jennifer Lopez moves. Teacher Kathy Amati and a paraprofessional showed the video for Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud” to the students at P.S. 37. The children liked it so much, they wanted …

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Florida woman put on a feeding tube after she had a stroke is at the center of a court case that is similar to the lengthy legal dispute over the fate of Terri Schiavo. Karen Weber, 57, has been periodically in a nursing home …

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan – First lady Laura Bush, on a mission to highlight signs of rebirth in war-weary Afghanistan, ventured outside of Kabul on Sunday to an area that symbolizes both the destruction of war and Afghanistan’s attempt at rebirth. Mrs. Bush, on her third unannounced visit to the country, flew …

CANTON, Ohio – A former Canton police officer convicted of killing his pregnant lover and their unborn child took the stand Monday to appeal for his life before a jury that must decide whether to recommend the death sentence. Bobby Cutts Jr., 30, cried on the stand, as he did …

NEW YORK – A man who gained notoriety after wounding six police officers in a 1986 gunfight that led to a nationwide manhunt was killed in prison, corrections officials said Thursday. Larry Davis, serving 25 years to life on a murder conviction in an unrelated case, was stabbed to death …