VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — For 13 years after a 5-year-old boy was taken from his mother's Alabama home, authorities chased leads in hopes of finding him. But in the end, the youth himself... READ MORE »

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Marie picked up the phone and dialed the number the detective gave her 10 days before, on the night she was raped at knifepoint outside a friend's house in New Orleans.... READ MORE »

COCONUT ISLAND, Hawaii (AP) — Scientists at a research center on Hawaii's Coconut Island have embarked on an experiment to grow "super coral" that they hope can withstand the hotter and... READ MORE »

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle elementary school is thanking a garbageman for finding nearly $12,000 in checks in the trash. KOMO-TV in Seattle reports (http://bit.ly/1PmNYdW ) that Waste... READ MORE »

FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Public works employees were pulling down the blue ribbons residents had tied to trees and poles as a tribute to their slain hero. Signs around the small town that had... READ MORE »

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen shares are falling after the company said it had understated carbon dioxide emissions for 800,000 cars, widening its scandal over cheating on U.S.... READ MORE »

DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators fined Japan's Takata Corp. $70 million Tuesday for concealing evidence for years that its air bags are prone to explode with grisly consequences... READ MORE »

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities will announce that a northern Illinois police officer whose shooting death led to a massive manhunt in September killed himself, an official briefed on the... READ MORE »

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Cabinet minister has drawn outrage and mockery after suggesting transferring the thousands of stray cats that walk the streets of Israel to another country. The Yediot... READ MORE »

BOSTON (AP) — It's 15,000 feet beneath the waves — deeper than the final resting place of the Titanic. What's involved in efforts to recover the data recorder of the cargo ship El Faro?... READ MORE »