TOKYO (AP) — North Korea says it's ready to deploy and start mass-producing a new medium-range missile capable of reaching Japan and major U.S. military bases there following a test launch... READ MORE »

RANKIN (AP) — The lawyer for a Pennsylvania school worker charged with assault says his client did not choke a 13-year-old student, but lifted him off the ground by his chin. The attorney... READ MORE »

LONDON (AP) — Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, traveled to Guinea earlier this month to join the country's president in celebrating the world's first... READ MORE »

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — Felicia Nevins called police after worrying the thermos she was using to store sperm and dry ice in for her artificial insemination could have exploded.Nevins... READ MORE »

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A community response team made up of trained civilians in Madison was sent to its first crime scene this week.The team responded Tuesday to help a man who had been... READ MORE »

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A Dothan police officer wanted to teach an alleged shoplifter a lesson, so she used her own money to buy food for the woman.The Dothan Eagle (http://bit.ly/2rz5zYu)... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told Russian diplomats last week his firing of "nut job" James Comey had eased the pressure on him, even as the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation had... READ MORE »

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — They were among the city's oldest landmarks, as cemented to the landscape of New Orleans as the Superdome and St. Louis Cathedral: a stone obelisk heralding white... READ MORE »

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Charges against a father-son partnership for allegedly smuggling more than $17 million worth of sea cucumbers to the United States and exporting them to Asia sheds light on... READ MORE »

POTTSVILLE — A man locked his 22-month-old son in a makeshift wooden cage and left the boy alone in a hot house with his two younger siblings, including a sister born hours earlier, police... READ MORE »