GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- A Guatemalan court convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity on Friday, sentencing him to 80 years in prison, the... READ MORE »

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Think you've heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking isn't allowed. Lopez... READ MORE »

WALNUTPORT (AP) -- An Allentown-area man says when he looked out his kitchen window earlier this week, he saw what he first thought was a huge wild turkey. Robert Leseberg went outside to... READ MORE »

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- A Durango area couple is giving up their fight to keep a 13-foot escape route for their cats outside their Colorado apartment. Martha Spence and her husband built... READ MORE »

OTTAWA, Ohio (AP) -- Two teenage brothers who had been reported missing were found dead after a third teen pointed authorities to their bodies before he was taken into custody, officials... READ MORE »

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) -- For 17 days, the seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-90s F. She... READ MORE »

KUTZTOWN -- Kutztown University has dropped its blanket prohibition on guns and will now allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry them onto campus under certain conditions,... READ MORE »

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) -- A team of smokejumpers parachuting into a fire in the mountains of Southern Oregon landed in an illegal marijuana garden being prepared for growing season. The six... READ MORE »

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A section of Interstate 81 near Harrisburg was expected to remain closed in both directions for the next several days after a tanker truck fully loaded with diesel... READ MORE »

LYNN, Mass. (AP) -- Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones. Sonny Santiago, 23, was a rapper who died in a car crash in February. Commissioners... READ MORE »