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Students at Pa. school must ask for toilet paper
An eastern Pennsylvania high school says vandalism forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys' bathrooms.
10 Things to Know for Monday
1. ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS MENACE NORTHERN MALI AGAIN Armed with automatic rifles, they launch surprise attack on Gao two weeks after French and Malian ...
Brazil blaze recalls pain for RI fire survivors
Argentina, a year later. Thailand in 2008. Russia in 2009. For survivors of a 2003 Rhode Island nightclub fire that was one of the deadliest in U.S.
A look at notable deadly nightclub fires
A fire that swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday and killed more than 230 people appears to be the deadliest in more a ...
A new market, black as ink, in NYC: printer toner
Manhattan hospital clerk Marque Gumbs was doing so well moonlighting as a peddler of stolen property that he drove a BMW, shopped at designer stores ...
Dozens of stranded Arizona hikers rescued
Authorities say dozens of hikers have been rescued after being stranded by high water from heavy rains in an Arizona canyon. The Pima County Sheriff's ...
Casey Anthony files for bankruptcy in Florida
Casey Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida on Friday, claiming about $1,100 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities. Court records show that Anthony, ...
1 officer killed, 2 wounded near La. casino
Police on Saturday arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer and critically wounding two sheriff's deputies after allegedly ...
Chicago woman loses 4th child to gun violence
At least five people were gunned down Saturday in Chicago, including a 34-year-old man whose mother had already lost her three other children to ...
Friar accused of abuse in 2 states kills self
A Franciscan friar accused of sexually abusing students at Catholic high schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania killed himself at a western Pennsylvania ...
Pa. man gets drive-thru send-off after funeral
Mourners at a Pennsylvania fast-food fan's funeral wanted him to have it his way, so they arranged for his hearse — and the rest of the procession — ...
Spotty Midwestern snow a mixed bag for businesses
Just a week ago, things looked dire for Sarah and Tim Long, owners of Timbers Resort in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Snow is their winter lifeblood, ...
Trying to unlock secrets of dead serial killer
The suspect, hands and feet shackled, fidgeted in his chair, chuckling at times as he confessed to a brutal killing. Israel Keyes showed no remorse ...
Feds: 'Monsignor Meth' dealt drug, bought sex shop
To onlookers, Monsignor Kevin Wallin's fall from grace at his Connecticut parish was like something out of "Breaking Bad," the television series about ...
Myanmar rejects US criticism over ethnic conflict
Myanmar has rejected the latest U.S. criticism of its conflict with ethnic Kachin rebels, and deplores that Washington still calls the country by its ...
More than 2,000 honor slain NM family
More than 2,000 people gathered at an Albuquerque church to remember five members of a New Mexico family gunned down in their home last weekend.
Armstrong meeting with USADA appears unlikely
Lance Armstrong's lawyers say the cyclist will talk more about drug use in the sport, just likely not to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that led the ...
Only Miss. abortion clinic gets license warning
Mississippi's only abortion clinic said it received notice Friday that the state Health Department intends to revoke its operating license.
Slain NM family remembered during crowded service
The waves of emotion brought tears, laughs and prayerful reflection Friday as more than 2,000 people gathered to remember five members of a New Mexico ...
Coal decline hits fuel's Western stronghold
Hundreds of millions of tons of coal, packed into seams up to 60 feet thick, are still to be had beneath the rock-strewn hillsides speckled with snow ...
American women have served and died from the first
American women have served and died on the nation's battlefields from the first. They were nurses and cooks, spies and couriers in the Revolutionary ...
India: 35-year term not enough for Mumbai plotter
India expressed disappointment Friday with the 35-year sentence given to an American who admitted his role in the 2008 Mumbai attack, saying he ...
Stephen King writes post-Newtown essay on guns
Horror writer Stephen King is seeking to provoke a discussion on gun control and gun rights following the school shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn.
Family of JFK aide sells presidential memorabilia
The family of a former special assistant to President John F. Kennedy is auctioning hundreds of photographs, documents, gifts and other memorabilia ...
Philly priest-abuse case in hands of jury
The credibility of a 24-year-old heroin addict whose sex-abuse complaint took down a Roman Catholic church official in Philadelphia — and helped bring ...