DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- An African nation has banned tobacco advertising and smoking in public places. Senegal now imposes fines of up to $100 for smoking in public and more than $400,000... READ MORE »

MECHANICSBURG (AP) -- An 11th grade teacher committed a sex act with a male student in her classroom, police said. Emily Nesbit, 31, "made a series of bad decisions at a low point in her... READ MORE »

SELMA, Ore. (AP) -- The number of law officers in southern Oregon has been cut so much due to a dearth of funding, people are calling the fire department for help -- even if their problem... READ MORE »

BOZRAH, Conn. (AP) -- A nonprofit is offering disposable undergarments to adults who suffer from incontinence. Deliveries are mailed to customers in a plain brown paper wrapping, so there'... READ MORE »

BERLIN (AP) -- The new leader of Germany's Roman Catholic bishops suggested allowing some divorced but remarried Catholics to receive Communion after a "penitential period." Church... READ MORE »

FOREST GROVE, Ore. (AP) -- Police pulled over a car in Forest Grove that was driven by a 7-year-old girl sitting on her mother's lap. Witnesses had reported the woman appeared intoxicated... READ MORE »

GIBSONIA, Pa. (AP) -- An empty school bus has driven onto a car in the Pittsburgh suburbs after a collision with a pickup truck, killing the man whose car wound up beneath the bus.... READ MORE »

ROARING SPRING, Pa. (AP) -- Someone is killing ducks with blow-gun darts and target arrows at a popular southwestern Pennsylvania pond, the Pennsylvania Game Commission said. The... READ MORE »

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- A teen father in Northern California is under arrest after police say he bit the nose off his 1-month-old son because he was frustrated with the infant's crying.... READ MORE »

LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) -- A 78-year-old Mississippi man has died two weeks after he woke up in a body bag at a funeral home after being mistakenly pronounced deceased, a coroner said.... READ MORE »