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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have revoked the licenses of the two Northwest Airlines pilots who flew past their Minneapolis destination ...

The latest story from those Northwest Airlines pilots who missed their Minneapolis-St. Paul destination by a mere 150 miles last week: As ...

Two Northwest Airlines pilots have told federal investigators that they were going over schedules using their laptop computers in violation of company...

WASHINGTON — Not sleeping, the pilots say. They were engrossed in a complicated new crew-scheduling program on their laptop computers as their p...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Federal investigators interviewed the crew of the Northwest Airlines flight that overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles on ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says he and the captain were not sle...

Charles Lindbergh famously fell asleep while crossing the Atlantic, and despite strict federal rules against it, experienced airline pilots say...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The first officer of the Northwest Airlines jet that missed its destination by 150 miles says there was no fight in the cockp...

One of the pilots of the Northwest Airlines jetliner that overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles says no one in the cockpit was sl...

By radio, data message and cell phone, air traffic controllers and pilots tried for more than an hour to contact the crew of a Northwest Airlin...

Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minneapolis destination by...

The two Northwest Airlines pilots should have had numerous warnings that their flight was nearing its destination in Minneapolis. Controllers w...

MINNEAPOLIS — Two Northwest Airlines pilots failed to make radio contact with ground controllers for more than an hour and overflew their Minnea...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The family of a Minnesota woman who died more than a week after being overcome in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony said Sunday...

MINNEAPOLIS — A packaged ice company has agreed to pay a $9 million criminal fine for allegedly conspiring with a competitor to divide up the ice market in the Detroit area and southeastern Michigan.

The Justice Department says St. Paul, Minn.-based Arctic Glacier International Inc. is the second company to plead guilty to criminal charges stemming from an ongoing investigation into the packaged ice industry. Home City Ice Co. of Cincinnati pleased guilty in June 2008.

The Justice Department says three of Arctic Glacier's former executives also reached plea deals.

The charges against Arctic Glacier and the three former executives were filed under seal Sept. l0 and unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Cincinnati.

With the Bronx Bombers set to open their series against the Miracle Minnesots Twins in about half an hour (read BxNN Yankee columnist Graham Kates' fi...

NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. says its embattled CEO Ken Lewis will retire from the bank by the end of the year.

The bank has issued a statement Wednesday saying Lewis would also leave the board of the bank.

Lewis and Bank of America have been the targets of intense criticism since the bank agreed to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. at the height of the financial crisis last year. Since the deal closed Jan. 1, it was learned that Merrill, with the knowledge of Bank of America executives, gave billions of dollars in bonuses to employees even as it asked for more bailout money from the government.

NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. says its embattled CEO Ken Lewis will retire from the bank by the end of the year.

The bank has issued a statement Wednesday saying Lewis would also leave the board of the bank.

Lewis and Bank of America have been the targets of intense criticism since the bank agreed to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. at the height of the financial crisis last year. Since the deal closed Jan. 1, it was learned that Merrill, with the knowledge of Bank of America executives, gave billions of dollars in bonuses to employees even as it asked for more bailout money from the government.

ALBANY, Ind. — A single-engine plane crashed into an Indiana field on Wednesday after the pilot, who was seen slumped over, lost consciousness and the aircraft started flying out of control, officials said.

Military officials do not believe the crash was terrorism-related but said the pilot may have had a health problem or have been suffering from a lack of oxygen. After air traffic controllers lost contact with the pilot, F-16s from Indiana National Guard intercepted the plane and followed it for about an hour until it crashed.

Indiana State Police Sgt. Rod Russell said the pilot, who was the only person aboard the plane, died in the crash. No one on the ground was injured in the crash, and no other details were immediately available about the pilot.

David Lykins, 54, of Muncie said he and his nephew were doing construction work when they saw the plane fly in three circles overhead, then tilt on its side with the wings pointed down and crash into trees on the edge of the field.

"I didn't know what to think. I knew whoever was in it didn't have control of it," he said.

BERKELEY, Calif. — Supporters of three American hikers detained in Iran are planning vigils around the country to draw attention to their plight.

The vigils Wednesday are being held two months after Joshua Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were detained for illegal entry after straying over the border during a hike in northern Iraq. All three are graduates of the University of California, Berkeley.

Vigils are planned Wednesday evening in multiple locations including Philadelphia, Minnesota, Oregon and Berkeley.

Since the three were arrested, their families have had no contact with them.

On Tuesday, Iran told Swiss diplomats they could meet with the three Americans, something viewed as a conciliatory gesture.

For Melissa Peterman, life after "Reba" is something to sing about. Hopefully, it'll be somebody else doing the singing.

"You know, a lot of people tell me that I have the kind of voice that the first time you hear it, you're going to go, 'Arghhh!' and if I continue to sing at you, it starts to get under your skin," Peterman said. "It's like eczema. You know, it's just going to stay for a while until you get some sort of cream."

Given that, it's somewhat of a surprise that life, of late, is a song for the comic character actress, 38, who for six seasons on the "Reba" sitcom stole scenes as the pea-brained but huge-hearted Barbra Jean, the Reba McEntire character's ex-husband's new wife.

Early this summer, Peterman debuted as host of CMT's remember-the-lyrics game show, "The Singing Bee," which emerged as such a hit for the country cable network that it now airs about a dozen times weekly, and was just renewed for a second season.

"Everything I've done has led up to this point: the nights I've went out and done karaoke poorly, the nights I've pretended to know lyrics to songs," explained the Minneapolis-born Peterman, who made her screen debut as "Hooker No. 2" in the Coen brothers' 1996 Oscar-nominated "Fargo."

General Mills Inc., the maker of Cheerios and Yoplait yogurt, said Wednesday that its fiscal first-quarter profit surged 51 percent on lower ingredient costs and strong demand for its products.

The results, which well exceeded expectations, prompted the food maker to lift its full-year earnings outlook. And shares of the Minneapolis-based company rose $2.83, or 4.6 percent, to close at $63.80.

The company earned $420.6 million, or $1.25 per share for the quarter, up from $278.5 million, or 79 cents per share, a year ago.

Excluding an expense related to commodity positions, profit was $1.28 per share and easily topped the $1.03-per-share estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Analysts' estimates normally exclude one-time items.

Like many food makers, General Mills benefited from lower costs for fuel and ingredients, which hit record highs last year. Many companies raised their prices to cope, although General Mills said it kept its pricing increases modest during that time. But as those commodity prices eased, the company's profitability has improved.