EFFORT, Pa. (AP) — An emergency medical technician who fell ill while performing CPR at a camp for the developmentally disabled has died days later, her mother says. The EMT, Samantha Agins... READ MORE »

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime alone for state troopers and corrections... READ MORE »

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A man dubbed the "literary litterbug" for tossing more than 600 books along a busy Colorado highway must complete 30 hours of community service and pay $1,725 in... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A SWAT team broke into the wrong duplex apartment and forced a couple and four young children into the snow in below-freezing temperatures, according to a federal lawsuit ... READ MORE »

BOSTON (AP) — A Harvard University student says he lost his internship at Facebook after he launched a browser application from his dorm room that exploited privacy flaws on the company's... READ MORE »

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Muppets, longtime residents of PBS, are getting a second home at HBO. The premium cable channel and Sesame Workshop, which produces "Sesame Street," on Thursday... READ MORE »

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $4.75 million settlement between a businessman at the center of a Pennsylvania juvenile justice scandal and youths sent to his... READ MORE »

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Public urination has gotten so bad in San Francisco that the city has painted nine walls with a repellant paint that makes pee spray back on the offender. It's the... READ MORE »

BAGHDAD (AP) — A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in the early morning hours on Thursday, killing at least 62 people,... READ MORE »

NEW STANTON (AP) — Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say a crash has closed the toll road in western Pennsylvania. Traffic is being detoured off the turnpike for 86 miles between New Stanton... READ MORE »