BLAKELY, Pa. (AP) -- Police in a tiny northeastern Pennsylvania borough say a reported robbery near an automatic teller machine may have been a prank, though they're not sure whether the... READ MORE »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- District Attorney Seth Williams is criticizing Attorney General Kathleen Kane's decision to scuttle a sting operation in which eight people -- including four Democratic... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities say a volunteer firefighter who was helping to search for a missing woman in Allegheny County has been struck and killed by a train. The Pittsburgh Post-... READ MORE »

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Planes and a ship scrambled Sunday to find a pallet and other debris in a remote patch of the southern Indian Ocean to determine whether the objects were from the... READ MORE »

The billion dollar dream is over. A second day of upsets ended any chance of someone having a perfect NCAA tournament bracket in Warren Buffet's $1 billion challenge. It was a favorite... READ MORE »

LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) -- Police in North Carolina have arrested a man accused of sucking on a woman's toes at a Wal-Mart after convincing her that he was a podiatry student. Authorities... READ MORE »

DETROIT (AP) -- Michigan's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, a federal judge said Friday, striking down a law that was widely embraced by voters a decade ago in the latest in a... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Google has enhanced the encryption technology for its flagship email service in ways that will make it harder for the National Security Agency to intercept messages... READ MORE »

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) -- New Mexico environmental regulators are blocking two companies from digging up an Alamogordo landfill in search of a rumored cache of what some consider the worst... READ MORE »

LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) -- Police say a man in North Carolina sucked a woman's toes at a Wal-Mart after he convinced her he was a podiatry student and persuaded her to take off her shoes.... READ MORE »