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Mom seeks leniency for woman who glued kid's hands
A Dallas woman who admitted beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall is "not a monster" and deserves probation, the child's ...
Long-missing Colo. Marine buried with full honors
A Colorado family's years of waiting ended Tuesday when they finally buried a fallen Marine who had been missing since a helicopter crash during the ...
Jury being picked in teen Craigslist killings case
A teenager charged in a deadly scheme to lure victims with phony Craigslist job offers went on trial on murder charges Tuesday, waving to prospective ...
$1M pair of watches tops Neiman Marcus gift list
Neiman Marcus rolled out its annual Christmas catalog Tuesday, offering a set of "his and hers" watches paired with a trip to Paris and Geneva for ...
Man's roach-eating death raises question: Why?
As a Florida medical examiner tries to determine how 32-year-old Edward Archbold died after eating insects during a contest to win a snake, people ...
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 ...
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 ...