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Veteran AP Georgia newsman Dick Pettys dies at 66
From Georgia's last segregationist governor to the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction, Dick Pettys covered Georgia politics for ...
Oil price soars on supply jitters
The price of oil rose more than 3 percent Tuesday on concerns about supplies from the Middle East and the North Sea. Benchmark crude gained $3.06, or ...
Egyptian-born terror suspect pleads not guilty
An Egyptian-born preacher pleaded not guilty Tuesday to conspiring with Seattle men to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, three days after ...
Police: Man tries to rob bank of $1 in prison bid
A man tried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hoped to be sent to a federal prison nearby, police said. Jeffrey McMullen, a 50-year-old ...
Man dies after live roach-eating contest in Fla.
The winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms, authorities said Monday.
APNewsBreak: Lawyers: Tennis ref passed polygraph
Lawyers for a nationally known professional tennis referee charged in her husband's death say she has passed a lie detector test in which she denied ...
Report: US Protestants lose majority status
For the first time in its history, the United States does not have a Protestant majority, according to a new study. One reason: The number of ...
Friends: Ala. student's behavior out of character
Gil Collar was a guy everybody wanted to be around in high school, friends said: The girls liked his good looks, even his opponents on the wrestling ...
If voters OK hemp, unclear farmers would grow it
Residents of Washington, Oregon and Colorado won't just be considering whether to let adults buy pot at state-sanctioned shops when they vote next ...
Mom who glued kid's hands to wall faces life term
A Dallas woman who super-glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the girl so badly that she suffered bleeding on her brain, a doctor ...
Obama: 'Today we celebrate Cesar Chavez'
President Barack Obama on Monday designated the home of Latino labor leader Cesar Chavez as a national monument, calling Chavez a hero who brought ...
Ill. man faces terrorism charge in Okla. bomb plot
An Illinois man with a long history of mental illness has been charged with plotting to attack dozens of churches after a hotel maintenance worker in ...
Ads preaching tolerance going up in NYC subway
Advertisements preaching religious tolerance and an end to bigotry are going up in Manhattan subway stations. A court decision forced the Metropolitan ...
Vote on Iowa justice seen as test for gay marriage
Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins isn't well known outside the legal community of his state, and even inside that group, isn't particularly ...
Oregon man wins Half Moon Bay pumpkin contest
A grower from Oregon is the winner of this year's Half Moon Bay giant pumpkin contest with a gourd weighing in at 1,775 pounds. Forty-five-year-old ...
Man dies amid brawl at wedding in downtown Philly
A man was charged in connection with a large brawl that broke out among people attending two different wedding receptions in downtown Philadelphia ...
Zimmerman asks for delay, information on Martin
Neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman will ask a Florida judge to delay his murder trial and request that Trayvon Martin's school records and ...
Union: Border agents opened fire on each other
The head of the U.S. Border Patrol agents' union says the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two ...
Advocates: Cities passing rules targeting homeless
Army veteran Don Matyja was getting by alright on the streets of this city tucked in Southern California suburbia until he got ticketed for smoking ...
Friends baffled by killing of Ala. college student
Classmates and friends are questioning why a police officer fatally shot a University of South Alabama freshman who was naked and had been banging on ...
World champs win Maine wife-carrying contest
A Finnish couple has added to their victories by taking first place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Maine's Sunday River ski ...
Train hits truck in LA County, 3 people injured
A commuter train carrying more than 200 passengers struck a semi that was stalled on the tracks in northern Los Angeles County, leaving three people ...
5 terror suspects from UK appear in US courts
An extremist Egyptian-born preacher entered a U.S. courtroom Saturday for the first time to face multiple terrorism charges, complaining that his ...
Bus from Canada overturns on NJ exit ramp; 23 hurt
A tour bus from Canada carrying about 60 people bound for New York City overturned on a highway exit ramp in northern New Jersey early Saturday, slid ...
Evidence questioned in Missouri child rape case
The crime was brutal: a 7-year-old girl choked, raped and forced to smoke drugs before she was left for dead in a fire set by her attacker.