NEW CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man recovering from surgery has won $7 million off a lottery ticket tucked into his get-well card. Joseph Amorese, of Easton, got the ticket from his... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A 12-year Allegheny County councilman has withdrawn his nominating petitions -- and thus ended his last re-election bid -- in grand style. Seventy-three-year-old William... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Distractions -- especially talking with passengers and using cellphones -- play a far greater role in car crashes involving teen drivers than has been previously... READ MORE »

SOMERSET (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man who skipped out on jury duty 11 times in the last two years has been arrested inside a courthouse while attending a child custody hearing. Somerset... READ MORE »

BENJINA, Indonesia (AP) -- The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home. Just a... READ MORE »

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A cow in Northeast Texas has apparently defied great odds and given birth to four calves that have been named Eeny, Meeny, Miny and Moo. Jimmy Barling said Monday... READ MORE »

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law Monday approving the method for use when no lethal injection... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) -- The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names... READ MORE »

BERLIN (AP) -- It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece's Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler's genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) -- An ultra-Orthodox Jewish community shattered by the deaths of seven siblings in a house fire carried out their funerals Sunday, a day after a hot plate left on for the... READ MORE »