WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel demanded more information Wednesday after the Air Force removed 17 launch officers from duty at a nuclear missile base in North Dakota over... READ MORE »

TRINITY, Fla. (AP) -- A man walking by a Pasco County home saw a hand waving to him from the window of a car parked in the garage. As he walked up the driveway, he heard a muffled voice. "... READ MORE »

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Mourners turned out by the hundreds Wednesday for the funeral of Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph P. McFadden, a spiritual leader of 250,000 central Pennsylvanians, as... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hospitals within the same city sometimes charge tens of thousands of dollars more for the same procedures, according to figures the government released for the first time... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The family of a 7-year-old girl who was killed by a drunk driver after he left a Pittsburgh restaurant has reached a $15.6 million settlement in the case. The Pittsburgh... READ MORE »

MONACA, Pa. (AP) -- Police in western Pennsylvania say a pipe bomb-like device found by a 3-year-old girl could have exploded. Monaca Police Chief Bill Petures says that whoever created... READ MORE »

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say a South Dakota man tried mailing a package of dog feces to a county official. The Argus Leader reports that 49-year-old Tom J. Parsons, of... READ MORE »

BEAVER, Pa. (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania man has been placed on two years' probation in the shooting of a costumed child that police said he mistook for an animal. The Beaver County... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Any day now, billions of cicadas with bulging red eyes will crawl out of the earth after 17 years underground and overrun the East Coast. The insects will arrive in such... READ MORE »

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a runner who collapsed and died during the half-marathon competition of the Pittsburgh Marathon had an inherited abnormality of... READ MORE »