NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets Studio is blaming "unacceptable business conduct" for its dismissal of Steve Whitmire as the longtime performer of Kermit the Frog. This explanation, issued... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) — George Romero, whose classic "Night of the Living Dead" and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh-devouring undead spawn... READ MORE »

KITTANNING (AP) — State police say the girlfriend of a man charged with killing his father in Pennsylvania has now also been charged in the case. Police in Armstrong County said 28-year-old... READ MORE »

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans lined up across the country and in expatriate communities around the world Sunday to vote in a symbolic rejection of President... READ MORE »

HAMER, S.C. (AP) — For hours, whimsical billboards count down the miles to exit 1A on South Carolina's stretch of Interstate 95 where a giant sombrero hovers in the sky like a neon UFO.... READ MORE »

PHOENIX (AP) — Sen. John McCain's absence from the Senate as he recovers from surgery for a blood clot has led the GOP leadership to postpone consideration of health care legislation... READ MORE »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The cousins started small — break-ins, jewelry heists and traffic violations — but on Friday they were charged in a grisly crime spree that ended with police unearthing... READ MORE »

GADSDEN, Ala. (AP) — It must have made for an unusual 911 call.Annika Snead of Southside was heading home from work on U.S. 431 Wednesday evening when she had to slam on her brakes to avoid... READ MORE »

JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A southern Indiana prosecutor is showing all middle school and high school students in his county a documentary video in an attempt to discourage heroin use... READ MORE »

DOYLESTOWN (AP) — A marijuana dealer gave police a grisly account of killing four men on his family's farm, saying he crushed one of them with a backhoe after shooting him and tried to set... READ MORE »