PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A 12-year Allegheny County councilman has withdrawn his nominating petitions -- and thus ended his last re-election bid -- in grand style.
Seventy-three-year-old William... READ MORE »
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Distractions -- especially talking with passengers and using cellphones -- play a far greater role in car crashes involving teen drivers than has been previously... READ MORE »
SOMERSET (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man who skipped out on jury duty 11 times in the last two years has been arrested inside a courthouse while attending a child custody hearing.
Somerset... READ MORE »
BENJINA, Indonesia (AP) -- The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.
Just a... READ MORE »
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) -- A cow in Northeast Texas has apparently defied great odds and given birth to four calves that have been named Eeny, Meeny, Miny and Moo.
Jimmy Barling said Monday... READ MORE »
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah became the only state to allow firing squads for executions when Gov. Gary Herbert signed a law Monday approving the method for use when no lethal injection... READ MORE »
NEW YORK (AP) -- The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names... READ MORE »
BERLIN (AP) -- It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece's Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler's genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train... READ MORE »
NEW YORK (AP) -- An ultra-Orthodox Jewish community shattered by the deaths of seven siblings in a house fire carried out their funerals Sunday, a day after a hot plate left on for the... READ MORE »
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) -- An 89-year-old Utah man says he feels lucky to be alive after being stung nearly 400 times during a bee attack at a baseball game.
Jay Francis of Bountiful said he... READ MORE »
