BEIJING (AP) — A farmer who pretended to be a princess descended from the Qing dynasty to swindle people out of more than 2 million yuan ($315,000) has been sentenced to 13 - 1/2 years in... READ MORE »

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The 157 passengers aboard British Airways Flight 2276 were settled into their seats for the 10-hour flight from Las Vegas to London when the aircraft's left side engine... READ MORE »

GRAYSON, Ky. (AP) — After a five-day stint in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will return to work this week to face another... READ MORE »

MOUNT GRETNA, Pa. (AP) — A man shot and killed a former girlfriend and then turned the weapon on himself outside a central Pennsylvania ice cream shop minutes before store owners were to... READ MORE »

TORONTO (AP) — A Toronto businessman who had been running for Parliament with Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party made the wrong kind of splash and has been dropped by his... READ MORE »

Firefighter Stephanie Preheim had only just arrived at the storage facility she was assigned to protect from a massive wildfire near the tourist town of Chelan, Washington, when the winds... READ MORE »

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — An Indiana University of Pennsylvania student has been charged in an alleged rape of a woman in a fraternity house bathroom last month. Police in Indiana, Pennsylvania,... READ MORE »

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In the end, the Tennessee Attorney General says the argument all comes down to the lack of a comma. Attorney General Herbert Slatery issued an Aug. 25 opinion that... READ MORE »

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are "fleeing death" from war or hunger, Pope Francis announced Sunday as he called on Catholic parishes, convents... READ MORE »

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — An annual freshman pillow fight at the U.S. Military Academy turned bloody this year when cadets swung pillowcases packed with hard objects, injuring 30 cadets,... READ MORE »