LAKESIDE, Calif. (AP) -- A friend of a missing Southern California girl says the suspected abductor told the girl he had a crush on her. Marissa Chavez said Wednesday that she witnessed 40... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Can a mobile app really teach a baby to find her nose? Or learn to recognize letters and numbers? Not according to an advocacy group that filed a complaint Wednesday with... READ MORE »

SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A day after a shooting that left three people dead in his rural Pennsylvania community's township building, a witness being hailed as a hero described a chaotic... READ MORE »

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Demand among same-sex couples for marriage licenses from an eastern Pennsylvania county official flouting state law shows no sign of slacking. A Montgomery County... READ MORE »

TORONTO (AP) -- A 100-pound (45-kilogram) python blamed in the strangling deaths of two Canadian boys apparently escaped from its enclosure, slithered through a ventilation system and fell... READ MORE »

CHICAGO (AP) -- Combat appears to have little or no influence on suicide rates among U.S. troops and veterans, according to a military study that challenges the conventional thinking about... READ MORE »

SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- A disabled junk dealer feuding with local officials over his debris-strewn property packed a rental car with guns and ammunition before opening fire at a town... READ MORE »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a Pennsylvania school district cannot ban "I (heart) Boobies!" bracelets, rejecting the district's claim that the slogan --... READ MORE »

LONDON (AP) -- The food of the future could do with a pinch of seasoning -- and maybe some cheese. Two volunteers who took the first public bites of hamburger grown in a laboratory gave it... READ MORE »

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A young woman who recently was crowned Miss Riverton after wowing the judges on the piano is accused of exercising a more sinister talent -- cooking up homemade bombs... READ MORE »