ANNA, Ill. (AP) -- A southern Illinois family is finding their homemade maple syrup operation anything but sweet after investigators swarmed their property, mistaking their sap collection... READ MORE »

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning... READ MORE »

EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania graduate student Megan Thode wasn't happy about the C-plus she received for her internship, saying the mediocre grade kept her from getting her desired... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) -- Lovers of the unusual are getting another chance to impress their Valentines this year in New York City. The Department of Environmental Protection is again offering... READ MORE »

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A mother is accused of bursting into a high school classroom and helping her teen daughter beat up another student, even holding the other teen and instructing her child... READ MORE »

WEIMAR, Texas (AP) -- South Texas law officers have confiscated about $500,000 worth of cocaine hidden in a false compartment of a vehicle's radiator. The Fayette County Sheriff's Office... READ MORE »

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Guests at one New Jersey casino won't even have to get out of bed in order to place a bet. The Borgata Hotel Casino... READ MORE »

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI announced Monday that he would resign on Feb. 28 because he was simply too infirm to carry on -- the first pontiff to do so in nearly 600 years. The... READ MORE »

PENN YAN, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say an upstate New York woman passed drugs to her son while kissing him when she visited him in jail. Sheriff's deputies in Yates County tell local media... READ MORE »

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- An Augusta man jailed after police said an argument over stinky feet left his roommate with a minor wound has been acquitted. Authorities said an argument over stinky... READ MORE »