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2 dead, 1 still missing in Fla. garage collapse
Rescuers pulled a badly injured man from the rubble of a collapsed parking garage and planned to continue searching Thursday for a missing ...
Indian police say 3 Muslims were planning attacks
Indian police have arrested three Muslim militants suspected of planning terror attacks in New Delhi during a major Hindu festival season that starts ...
Much of odd weapons cache on plane was permissible
In an age when air travelers grudgingly surrender bottled water at security checkpoints, the most striking aspect of the arrest of a passenger wearing ...
Police say they believe Colorado girl was abducted
The sudden disappearance of a 10-year-old Colorado girl took yet another turn Wednesday, with authorities saying they believe she was abducted.
Man pulled from rubble of collapsed Florida garage
A construction worker was pulled out alive from under a huge slab of concrete early Thursday, 13 hours after a parking garage collapsed at a Florida ...
Man with smoke grenade was searched in SKorea
South Korean security officials screened a man with a bulletproof vest before he got on a flight to Los Angeles, but a banned smoke grenade made it ...
Mom who glued toddler's hands: 'I'm not a monster'
A mother who admitted to beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing the child's hands made a plea for leniency Wednesday, saying she was no longer the ...
2 dead, 1 trapped in Fla. parking garage collapse
A section of a parking garage under construction at a community college collapsed Wednesday, killing two people and trapping two others in the rubble, ...
Report challenges beliefs on sexual attacks in war
A new report by Canadian researchers challenges the widespread belief that rape is increasingly being used as a "weapon of war." The report released ...
Ex-Peace Corps worker gets 15 years for sex abuse
A former Peace Corps volunteer apologized for sexually abusing young girls while serving in South Africa and acknowledged the widespread fallout from ...
Minn. man found passed out on Wis. Capitol roof
Police say a Minnesota man who broke into the Wisconsin Capitol through a first-floor window and was found unconscious on the roof is now facing ...
Netflix pledges to caption all content by 2014
Netflix will offer closed captions on all TV and movie content by September 2014 as part of a settlement with a deaf Massachusetts viewer who sued the ...
Lawsuit involving pedophile pediatrician settled
Attorneys for the state medical society and a southern Delaware hospital have settled a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of victims of former ...
Monet's 'Water Lilies' to star at NYC auction
An auctioneer predicts a work from Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" series could go for $30 million to $50 million when it's put up for sale next month ...
Teen arrested in sucker-punching of Pa. teacher
A teenager who sucker punched a schoolteacher in a downtown alley — an attack caught on surveillance video — apparently picked the victim at random, ...
Correction: Missing School Girl story
In a story Oct. 8 about a missing schoolgirl, The Associated Press misidentified the girl's great-grandmother. She is Donna Moss, not Dana Moss.
NYC homeless boom puts shelters in lap of wealthy
With a grand entryway of ornate white stonework, the elegant building seems to blend right into this Manhattan neighborhood of multimillion-dollar ...
Man arrested after smoke grenade found in luggage
A man dressed in a bulletproof vest and fire-resistant pants was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after a smoke grenade, gas mask, leg ...
Police release video of missing Colorado girl
Authorities scoured a suburban Denver neighborhood for clues Tuesday and urged people to watch out for a 10-year-old girl who disappeared four days ...
Police: Student took LSD before campus shooting
A nude University of South Alabama freshman had taken LSD and assaulted others before he chased the campus police officer who fatally shot him, ...
Prostitution arrests rock Maine tourist town
This upscale southern Maine town is known for its ocean beaches, old sea captains' mansions and the neighboring town of Kennebunkport, home to the ...
Minn. witness describes early al-Shabab recruiting
A Minnesota man who spent two months with a terrorist group in his native Somalia told a jury Tuesday that another man on trial for allegedly helping ...
Texas mother charged in deaths of 2 infant sons
A Texas woman pregnant with her fourth child has been charged in the deaths of her two infant sons in 2011 and earlier this year, police said Tuesday.
Police in Ga. unearth human remains in concrete
Georgia police have unearthed a body that was entombed in concrete, stuffed inside a plastic storage container, and buried in a back yard.
Sandusky gets at least 30 years, denies wrongdoing
In what sounded at times like a locker room pep talk, Jerry Sandusky rambled in his red prison suit about being the underdog in the fourth quarter, ...