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LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) -- A Kentucky prisoner who duped authorities and his family into believing he intended to donate a kidney to his ailing son may have escaped to Mexico with his girlfriend, federal authorities said. "It is a solid lead," Deputy U.S. Marshal Dawn Izgarjan told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday. The possible breakthrough came after a couple saw a report on CNN about Byron Perkins and his fugitive girlfriend while at the Phoenix, Arizona, airport, recognized t ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Kid Rock blames Scott Stapp for losing a sex video showing them with several strippers, but appreciates Stapp for one thing. "What perfect timing," Rock told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday. "I got a record coming up ... Maybe I should thank him." The hard-partying rap-rocker, whose new live concert album "Live Trucker" hit stores Tuesday, defended his backstage antics, saying, "It's not any big revelation that this goes on in ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A 10-year European Union ban on British beef due to mad cow disease looks set to be removed next week, an EU official said on Friday. "The feeling we have is that the ban will be lifted at the vote (by EU veterinary experts) next week," the official said. Italy might try to block the deal, blaming coming elections there as a reason not to vote on the issue, the official added. However, the vote will be by qualified majority and the executive European Commission is confide ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Scarlett Johansson wasn't amused when fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi groped her on the red carpet at January's Golden Globe Awards, but she's willing to forgive him. "It was definitely in poor taste," Johansson said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. "I'd been prepping for two hours with hair and makeup and getting dressed. And the first interview I do, someone who I have never met before fondles me for his own satisfaction." Mizrahi, who ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A 10-year European Union ban on British beef due to mad cow disease looks set to be lifted next week, an EU official said on Friday. "The feeling we have is that the ban will be lifted at the vote (by EU veterinary experts) next week," the official said. Italy may try to block the deal, blaming upcoming elections there as a reason not to vote on the issue, the official added ...

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Praising India's expanding economy, President Bush warned Friday that fears about job outsourcing to other nations should not prompt the United States to limit global trade. "It's ... important to remember that when someone loses a job it's an incredibly difficult period for the worker and their families," Bush said in a speech in New Delhi. "It's true that some Americans have lost jobs when their companies move their operations overseas," he said ...

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- They cased homes containing drugs, money and weapons like suspects in any other robbery ring, prosecutors say. But instead of donning ski masks and stealing through windows in the dead of night, the robbers allegedly wore police uniforms and badges as they carried out raids that authorities say were intended to appear like official law enforcement searches. Five of the suspects were sworn officers at the time. Nineteen people have been charged in the ring, led ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Police hunting raiders who carried out the country's biggest cash heist from a security depot in Kent said on Friday they had recovered several million pounds after arresting a man in London. Detectives investigating the 53 million pound raid on a security depot said bags of cash had been found on industrial premises in the Welling area of the capital and a 43-year-old man held on suspicion of handling stolen goods. "Cash thought to amount to several million pounds has been  ...

AURORA, Colorado (AP) -- About 150 high school students walked out of class to protest a decision to put a teacher on leave while they investigate remarks he made about President Bush in class, including that some people compare Bush to Adolf Hitler. The protest came Thursday as administrators began investigating whether Overland High School teacher Jay Bennish violated a policy requiring balanc ...

PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) -- The "Mighty O" saw action in Korea and Vietnam and was home base of U.S. Sen. John McCain before he was taken captive by the North Vietnamese, but the aircraft carrier's greatest fame could come when it's on the ocean floor. If all goes according to plan, explosives will be placed throughout the largely hollowed-out shell of the USS Oriskany in May and it will plummet 210 feet to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The ship, featured in the films "The B ...