WASHINGTON (AP) -- Social Security benefits for nearly 58 million people will increase by 1.5 percent next year, the government announced Wednesday.
The increase is among the smallest... READ MORE »
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The maker of Sriracha hot sauce is under fire for allegedly fouling the air around its Southern California factory.
The city of Irwindale filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles... READ MORE »
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) -- Hundreds of demonstrators marched Tuesday to protest the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy by a Northern California sheriff's deputy in an encounter that... READ MORE »
TIFTON, Ga. (AP) -- A south Georgia businessman is being called "the rattlesnake wrangler" after using his tractor to kill a 5-foot diamondback rattlesnake.
Lee Fletcher, part owner of... READ MORE »
MONESSEN, Pa. (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges that she locked her 75-year-old mother and 15-year-old son in the basement after returning home drunk from a... READ MORE »
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- Police in western Colorado say a man stole a Missouri woman's pet monkey that she was trying to sell.
Grand Junction police say the man pepper-sprayed the... READ MORE »
SAINT JO, Texas (AP) -- An off-road racing enthusiast has survived being struck by lightning twice during the same storm in North Texas.
Casey Wagner said Sunday that doctors told him a... READ MORE »
VIENNA (AP) -- Austrian police are seeking witnesses to an unusual theft -- of huge amounts of grass, mowed secretly from a farmer's field.
A police statement says the theft occurred... READ MORE »
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.... READ MORE »
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- Organic kibble? All-natural chow? Fido and Fluffy don't know it, but their owners want them to eat better -- and they are forking over big bucks to make it happen.... READ MORE »
