Authorities: 4 dead in Indiana fair stage collapse

By CLIFF BRUNT - Associated Press | AP 

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — At least four people were killed and 40 injured when a stage collapsed Saturday night during a storm at the Indiana State Fair, where the country group Sugarland was set to perform.

98-year-old woman becomes first woman ever to earn Judo's highest-degree black belt

By Jessica AshleyIs earning a black belt on your life list? Then this elderly woman in San Francisco just might be your ultimate hero.

Just two years before her 100th birthday, Sensei Keiko Fukuda has  become the first woman to achieve a tenth-degree black belt—the highest rank in the martial art and combat sport Judo. Fukuda is now one of only four living people who've earned the tenth-degree (or dan) black belt. To put the accomplishment into better perspective, throughout history, only sixteen people have ever achieved this honor.

Copter downing in Afghanistan kills 30 Americans

By KIMBERLY DOZIER - Associated Press,SOLOMON MOORE - Associated Press | APKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — 

Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, U

.S. officials said Saturday.