PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Hundreds of parents, some impoverished and overwhelmed, have been jailed in Pennsylvania for failing to pay court fines that arise from truancy hearings after their... READ MORE »

TIOGA, N.D. (AP) -- Drilling crews are eager to plunge their equipment into the ground. Road builders are ready to start highway projects, and construction workers need to dig. But across... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) -- A crew of New York City strippers scammed wealthy men by spiking their drinks with illegal synthetic drugs, then driving them to strip clubs that ran up tens of thousands... READ MORE »

SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Police at the Jersey shore have accused a Philadelphia couple of having sex in the surf. Sea Isle City police spotted 27-year-old Matthew McPeak and 23-year-old... READ MORE »

BEND, Ore. (AP) -- A wildfire that disrupted an Oregon couple's wedding also gave them the photograph of a lifetime. A fire truck rolled up at Rock Spring Ranch near Bend with sirens... READ MORE »

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in his Republican primary election Tuesday to a little-known economics professor, a stunning upset for the GOP's No. 2 in the... READ MORE »

DUQUESNE, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a Pittsburgh-area man hit his 79-year-old mother with a vodka bottle before using kitchen knives to fatally stab her. Fifty-six-year-old Rodney Davis, of... READ MORE »

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Police in Montana say a woman kicked and struck her boyfriend with a shotgun because he said bad things about her in his sleep. Police tell the Bozeman Daily... READ MORE »

TROUTDALE, Ore. (AP) -- A lone gunman armed with a rifle shot and killed a student Tuesday and injured a teacher shortly after classes started at a high school in a quiet Columbia River... READ MORE »

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio woman who lives at a retirement home and turned 100 on Monday had just one wish for her birthday: She wanted to do some yard work and smell fresh-cut... READ MORE »