HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — Police say a man wearing a clown costume swung an ax at a woman, but she wasn't hit. Authorities say the man came to the woman's house about 4:30 a.m. Friday wearing a... READ MORE »

TOKYO (AP) — A power plant operator in southern Japan restarted a nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the first to begin operating under new safety requirements following the Fukushima disaster.... READ MORE »

BOSTON (AP) — The furor on Capitol Hill over Planned Parenthood has stoked a debate about the use of tissue from aborted fetuses in medical research, but U.S. scientists have been using... READ MORE »

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A mule deer buck that was a frequent visitor in various parts of Lewiston has died, but the mystery surrounding his strange antlers has been solved. The Lewiston... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City tried to fire an employee for missing about 18 months of work — though he was dead during some of that time. The New York Post (http://bit.ly/1IPiJkQ )... READ MORE »

CINCINNATI (AP) — A southwest Ohio judge has set bonds totaling $600,000 for a man accused of causing a multi-vehicle crash and then running naked on a southwest Ohio interstate. The... READ MORE »

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Hatfield and McCoy descendants came armed — with digging tools. Side by side, they worked together to help archaeologists unearth artifacts from one of the... READ MORE »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When Pope Francis speaks outside Independence Hall in September, he will stand at the same lectern that President Abraham Lincoln used to deliver the Gettysburg Address... READ MORE »

DENVER (AP) — An eerie yellow sludge that poured out of a shuttered gold mine and into a southwestern Colorado river was inching its way downstream toward New Mexico and Utah. Federal... READ MORE »

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania's attorney general was charged Thursday with leaking secret grand jury information to strike back at her critics, then lying about it under oath, in a... READ MORE »