SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Fire officials say a fire pit in a back yard exploded because it was built over a natural gas line. Heat melted the plastic pipe and the line exploded Saturday night... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government has failed to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for water contamination and other environmental damage,... READ MORE »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police say about a dozen students got stuck in a downtown Philadelphia elevator for more than an hour after their prom. WPVI-TV reports the students from Bryn Mawr's... READ MORE »

EUREKA SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) -- The state's top lawyer will ask the Arkansas Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision to overturn a 2004 constitutional amendment banning gay marriage... READ MORE »

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- Authorities in northern New Mexico say a 30-year-old man was fatally injured when a deer struck by another motorist was thrown into the car carrying the victim and... READ MORE »

BOSTON (AP) -- Perhaps the reason notoriously aggressive Boston drivers don't use their turn signals is that no one's ever put it in terms they understand. The Massachusetts Department of... READ MORE »

WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) -- A state Fish and Wildlife officer issued a written warning to a man who drove while his wife shot video of a moose running through a Wenatchee neighborhood.... READ MORE »

LEHIGHTON, Pa. (AP) -- A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is behind bars after police said she beat her child with a baseball bat because of a clogged toilet. Police say Christine Mertz... READ MORE »

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Police are investigating a reported rape at an off-campus party at Millersville University. Millersville Borough police Chief John Rochat said a student went to a... READ MORE »

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A man, his wife and their two teenage children were shot before the million-dollar home they were renting burned down in what investigators called arson, a fire perhaps... READ MORE »