SCRANTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will visit the state for the first time in more than a year as he brings his plan for college affordability to Scranton, a city that's friendly to... READ MORE »

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Memphis police say no charges will be filed against a kindergartener after a gun discharged inside the child's backpack in a school cafeteria. Police spokeswoman... READ MORE »

BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops and opposition fighters clashed Friday during fierce battles in suburbs of the Syrian capital where the opposition claimed a chemical weapons attack this week... READ MORE »

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Three years after Bradley Manning rocked the Pentagon by leaking a mountain of secrets, the soldier created a whole new set of potential complications for the... READ MORE »

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Brazilians were outraged when they learned their country was a top target of the U.S. National Security Agency's overseas spying operation, with data from billions of... READ MORE »

A gun-control group has erected a billboard calling on the small northeastern Pennsylvania borough of Gilberton to fire its police chief, who's been suspended for allegedly using department... READ MORE »

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- A man will serve 14 to 28 years in state prison in the death of an eastern Pennsylvania man whose body was found tied to a tree. A jury convicted 49-year-old Keith... READ MORE »

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A judge has delayed ruling on a request to remove ex-Penn State recruit Zayd Issah from a program that could spare him a criminal record in a counterfeit cash case... READ MORE »

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania doctor has surrendered on charges he overprescribed anti-addiction and anti-anxiety drugs and traded them for sex with female patients before his... READ MORE »