Man to be sentenced in plane stowaway case
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to a stowaway charge for boarding a cross-country flight by using an expired boarding pass with someone else's name is scheduled to be sentenced in a Los...
View ArticleMan accused of child porn on plane in Mass. court
BOSTON (AP) — A Utah man who police allege viewed child pornography on his laptop during a flight from Salt Lake City to Boston is facing arraignment.
View ArticleTuskegee Airmen exhibit gets new home at GA museum
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) — The Tuskegee Airmen exhibit has a new and upgraded home in a museum at a central Georgia Air Force base.
View ArticleCops: Baby injured when mom tries to run over man
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say an 18-month-old Tampa girl was injured when her mother rammed their car in into a house while trying to run over a man.
View ArticlePassenger in flight attendant scuffle due in court
NEW YORK (AP) — A passenger accused of punching a JetBlue flight attendant who tried to stop him from drinking will be facing a judge in New York City.
View ArticleMissing: NYC parrot; 'loves to sing opera'
NEW YORK (AP) — A heartbroken New York City man is desperately searching for his opera-singing parrot.
View ArticleDNC ad targets Romney over flip-flops
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are using humor to try to undermine Republican Mitt Romney, pushing a movie trailer-style ad that portrays his candidacy as a "the story of two men trapped in one body."
View ArticleSyracuse fires assistant basketball coach
SYRACUSE, New York (AP) — Syracuse University has fired an assistant basketball coach thirty-six years after he was hired amid an investigation into child molestation allegations against him.
View ArticleFutures rise after big holiday shopping weekend
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures rose Monday after a strong start to the U.S. holiday shopping season.
View Article3 arrests as police clear Occupy LA protesters
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wall Street protesters in Los Angeles defied the mayor's early Monday deadline to vacate their encampment near City Hall until police moved in about five hours later, cleared them...
View ArticleAnother governor disgraced, a trust violated
All people may be equal before the law, but when a judge sentenced Rod Blagojevich to prison this week, he made clear the punishment did more than fit the crime. It fit the criminal and his august...
View ArticleSmall plane crash in Oklahoma kills 2
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A small plane owned by an Oklahoma construction company crashed near Chickasha and killed two people.
View ArticleOnce-prominent Colorado sheriff now faces charges
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — For years, Patrick Sullivan was the anti-drug crusader, the hero and the law enforcer who knew how to get what he wanted.
View ArticleCollege gunman called quiet; went to small school
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (AP) — The man who authorities say killed a Virginia Tech campus police officer was described as a typical college student in many ways, making it difficult to understand why he...
View ArticleNY suburb deals with latest notorious murder case
OAK BEACH, N.Y. (AP) — It's the largest murder investigation ever on New York's Long Island — 10 people slain and strewn along a remote beach highway over 15 years, possibly all the victims of the same...
View ArticleNorCal oyster farm dispute spreads to Capitol Hill
POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. (AP) — A creaky wooden scow piled high with gnarled oysters slides over the water toward wooden racks hung with rows of the shellfish on Drakes Estero, a stunning...
View ArticleMan who threatened House leader agrees to plea
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who left profanity-laden voicemails at the office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has agreed to plead guilty in return for a 13-month sentence.
View ArticleGa. farmers out to bring back homegrown olive oil
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Jason Shaw says his first fall harvest yielded fruit for no more than 500 bottles, just enough to sell at select tastings and to share with restaurant chefs in hopes of priming...
View ArticleSky-watchers get rare treat: total lunar eclipse
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Moon watchers in the western U.S., Hawaii and elsewhere across the globe were treated Saturday to a rare celestial phenomenon: a total lunar eclipse.
View ArticlePostal Service plant closures will be 'a mess'
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service's plan to close 252 mail processing facilities and cut 28,000 jobs by the end of next year may help the agency curb its mounting financial problems, but...
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