Vatican seeks to clarify review of US sisters amid criticism of secrecy, true aims

Vatican seeks to clarify review of US sisters

Fidel Castro’s sister says she collaborated with CIA following Cuban revolution

Castro’s sister says she collaborated with CIA

Spokeswoman: Jaycee Dugard is comfortable with mom, sister; they ’seem like any other family’

NEW YORK — A family spokeswoman says Jaycee Dugard, her two daughters, mother and sister are close, comfortable and happy and says they “seem like any other family.”

Replica of early Brazilian plane spreads wings in Wright brothers country

URBANA, Ohio — It was as if the ghosts of the first men to fly were hovering above, keeping a watchful eye.

Co-worker brothers discover 4th sibling in Maine after reuniting with half sisters this week

BIDDEFORD, Maine — Two co-workers who discovered this summer that they are long-lost brothers and who reunited this week with their two half sisters have a new surprise — a half brother has surfaced.

Miami-based Juanita Castro to release book about her brothers Fidel and Raul

MIAMI — Juanita Castro, the exiled sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, is set to release a first-person memoir in which she talks at length about her brothers.

Maine men, woman who reunite after discovering they were separated as youngsters find sister

AUGUSTA, Maine — Two men and a woman who reunited after discovering they were separated as youngsters and later found another long-lost sibling hope to celebrate Thanksgiving together this year, one of the brothers said Thursday.

Maine furniture worker discovers new colleague is lost brother given for adoption 35 years ago

WALDOBORO, Maine — Seven years into his tenure as a furniture mover for a local bedding retailer, Gary Nisbet was joined by a new colleague, Randy Joubert, who looked so much like him that customers asked whether they were brothers.

VP Biden calls Kennedy ‘historic, heroic figure’

BOSTON — Vice President Joe Biden says Sen. Edward Kennedy was a historic and heroic figure, and that the Kennedy era lives on through the generations that have followed him.

Police: Gunman in western Wis. shoots and kills 3 brothers, then tries to kill himself

MENOMONIE, Wis. — A gunman opened fire on a group of people outside a trailer home in western Wisconsin, killing three brothers before critically wounding himself, police said Sunday.

Latest houseguest on CBS’ ‘Big Brother’ dropped from competition in pre-taped episode

LOS ANGELES — The bodybuilder has no more weight in the “Big Brother” house.

US troops who have died while serving in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa

US troops killed in Afghanistan and Africa

Catholic sisters asked about fidelity to church teaching, doctrine in sweeping Vatican inquiry

A Vatican-ordered investigation into Roman Catholic sisters in the U.S., shrouded in mystery when it was announced seven months ago, is shaping up to be a tough examination of whether women’s religious communities have strayed too far from church teaching.

Double hand transplant donor’s sibling says brother would be proud, amused at ’stir he caused’

PITTSBURGH — Jeff Keen wanted to help people, perhaps by becoming a nurse or a counselor. He died at 23 and never realized those career ambitions, but, in death, he is helping people through organ donation.

He became a Big Brother at 65, and the relationship is 30 years old and still treasured

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — It was an unlikely pairing, the old man and the boy.

AP Interview: 2 King children say brother botched $800K licensing deal with memorial group

ATLANTA — Two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s children say they were not aware of the details of an $800,000 licensing deal with a memorial foundation brokered two years ago by their brother, whom they accused of tarnishing their parents’ legacy with his business decisions.