News: U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City, long a place where counterfeit watches and fake designer handbags are sold on street corners, is unveiling an ad campaign warning consumers of the human cost of indulging in knockoffs.

Two rail cars have jumped the track and overturned in southern Louisiana, leaking hydrochloric acid and forcing police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile of the accident.

The NAACP board of directors has chosen Ben Jealous, a 35-year-old former news executive and lifelong activist, as the organization's next president and the youngest in its 99-year history....

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. (AP) -- State investigators were trying to determine what caused a spinning carnival ride at a county fair to collapse and injure all 24 people aboard....

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. (AP) -- A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring all 24 people aboard....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said....

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said....

OCEAN CITY, Md (Reuters) - After four decades carrying millions of New Yorkers, 44 of the city's subway cars are now home to millions of fish.

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A lucky lottery player who stopped into a suburban Cincinnati liquor store has a Mega Millions ticket worth $196 million....

CLEVELAND (AP) -- A lucky lottery player who stopped into a suburban Cincinnati liquor store has a Mega Millions ticket worth $196 million....

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Olympian Tim Montgomery had everything he ever wanted. Once known as the "world's fastest man," Montgomery won a silver medal in the 400 relay at the 1996 Olympics and gold in the same event in 2000. In 2002, he set a record of 9.78 seconds in the 100-meter dash....

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Olympian Tim Montgomery had everything he ever wanted. Once known as the "world's fastest man," Montgomery won a silver medal in the 400 relay at the 1996 Olympics and gold in the same event in 2000. In 2002, he set a record of 9.78 seconds in the 100-meter dash....

DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) -- Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eyesore on the drive to her studio each day....

DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) -- Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eyesore on the drive to her studio each day....

DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) -- Jennifer Marsh was sick of paying high gas prices and bothered by the abandoned gas station that was an eyesore on the drive to her studio each day. So the aspiring artist and inspired activist came up with an idea - to cover the gas station with a colossal handmade blanket in a way that would bring greater attention to the world's dependency on oil....

DAISETTA, Texas (AP) -- The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator....

DAISETTA, Texas (AP) -- The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator....

DAISETTA, Texas (AP) -- The giant Texas sinkhole that formed last week is now a lake big enough to become the home of an alligator....

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) -- Olympian Tim Montgomery had everything he ever wanted....