SPRINGFIELD, Vt. (AP) — A former nurse at a Vermont prison has admitted to having a sexual relationship with a 31-year-old inmate. Rebecca Parker pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of an... READ MORE »

SEATTLE (AP) — Criminal charges have been filed against the mother of a 4-year-old boy and a man accused of throwing the child from a railroad bridge into the Wynoochee River west of... READ MORE »

MIAMI (AP) — An accused al-Qaida bomb-maker who went to college in Arizona told military officials at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he believed an unnamed member of the Saudi... READ MORE »

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — As night fell over Happy Valley on Friday, hundreds of Joe Paterno's former players gathered outside the school's baseball stadium to celebrate their... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as Donald Trump sought to close the door on the false conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, he peddled another lie by... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump himself won't say it, but his campaign is now declaring that the Republican presidential candidate believes now that President Barack Obama was born in the... READ MORE »

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was shot by police on a crowded New York City street after he struck an off-duty detective with a meat cleaver was initially stopped because he was trying to... READ MORE »

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Avoiding a nasty real-life plot twist, a writer dashed past firefighters into a burning New Orleans house Thursday to rescue two completed novels stored on his laptop. "... READ MORE »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A 77-year-old man who shot three people, killing one, at the senior apartment complex where he lived had grown distant recently and had been angry about frequent poker... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will establish on Thursday the first national marine monument in the Atlantic, a move that's designed to permanently protect nearly 5,000 square... READ MORE »