SYDNEY (AP) -- A flurry of loud bangs erupted early Tuesday as a swarm of heavily armed police stormed a downtown Sydney cafe where a gunman had been holding an unknown number of people... READ MORE »

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bill Cosby broke his silence amid a flood of rape accusations in a very brief interview with The New York Post's Page Six. "Let me say this. I only expect the black... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) -- Congregants in African-American churches across the country wore black to Sunday services and prayed over the men in attendance in a symbolic stand against fatal police... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- At the start of every month, the same image of a pistol points from the same place on the front page of the New Pittsburgh Courier, above the same caption: Under Attack... READ MORE »

VIENNA, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say a suspect was caught by a whisker when DNA from his beard hair led to his arrest. Sheriff's deputies in upstate New York say an intruder armed with a knife... READ MORE »

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Three cardboard cutouts of black people were found hanging by nooses Saturday on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. School spokeswoman Amy... READ MORE »

MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) -- A 19-year-old woman is safe after being rescued by central Pennsylvania firefighters as she hung from a second-story window of her home near Manheim. LNP reported the... READ MORE »

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- A western New York brewery has constructed a Christmas tree out of hundreds of beer kegs. All that's missing is the beer. The Genesee Brewing Co. built the 23-foot... READ MORE »

If you're a runner who also likes drinking beer, there's a new competitive sport for you. Well, maybe not if you like enjoying your beer -- or running without dyspepsia. Races that... READ MORE »

GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Indian tribes can grow and sell marijuana on their lands as long as they follow the same federal conditions laid out for states that have legalized the drug, the U... READ MORE »