LOS ANGELES (AP) -- After a nearly eight-year journey, a NASA spacecraft on Friday flawlessly slipped into orbit around Ceres in the first visit to a dwarf planet. The robotic Dawn craft... READ MORE »

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say a Pennsylvania man called an insurance company from a crash scene to buy auto coverage and later claimed his wreck happened after he got the policy.... READ MORE »

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Harrison Ford crash-landed his World War II-era airplane on Thursday after losing engine power, suffering serious but not life-threatening injuries as he used his years... READ MORE »

ALGONAC, Mich. (AP) -- A man's plan to walk from Detroit to Toronto ended Thursday in the middle of frozen Lake St. Clair, when an icebreaker spotted him, the U.S. Coast Guard said. A... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) -- There was a time you could count on phones getting larger each year. Samsung's runaway success with the big-screen smartphone even spurred Apple to release a supersized... READ MORE »

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A former substitute teacher convicted of showing a movie including graphic sex and violence to a high school class was sentenced on Wednesday to 90 days in jail.... READ MORE »

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A federal investigation into the police killing of an unarmed, black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, lays bare what officials contend are racist, profit-driven law... READ MORE »

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a drunken, recently jailed central Pennsylvania man broke his ex-girlfriend's glass door and viciously kicked her pregnant pit bull. Robert Schandelmeier... READ MORE »

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- A Maryland couple who were investigated by state officials after letting their children walk home from a park without an adult say they will appeal a finding of "... READ MORE »

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- Women who come to the U.S. from China to give birth to automatic American citizens may not be breaking the law by doing so, but it's illegal to lie about why they're... READ MORE »