ROCKVILLE, Minn. (AP) -- A 2-foot-long alligator caused a scare -- and then a laugh -- in Stearns County this week.
A man called the sheriff's office Thursday at noon to report the exotic... READ MORE »
CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) -- The suspect in the deadly ambush at a state police barracks in a remote part of northeastern Pennsylvania remained at large for an eighth day Saturday as police... READ MORE »
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Secret Service chief has stepped-up security outside the White House after a man with a knife who jumped the fence made it into the presidential residence before... READ MORE »
BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities are hunkering down in the overnight darkness of the wooded northeast Pennsylvania neighborhood where a man suspected of the fatal ambush of a state... READ MORE »
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann made an off-the-cuff joke about the Jerry Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal at Penn State during a meeting with staff last... READ MORE »
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A man jumped over the fence of the White House on Friday and made it through the front door before officers managed to apprehend him, the Secret Service said. President... READ MORE »
HARRISON CITY, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania man has been charged with making three 911 calls to report bogus emergencies simply because he was lonely and wanted paramedics to show up.
The... READ MORE »
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) -- Police say a Pennsylvania man caused more than $14,000 damage to several other vehicles when he took a dare to do a "doughnut" with his pickup truck in a bar parking lot... READ MORE »
SUNBURY (AP) -- A newlywed couple who lured a stranger to his death through a Craigslist ad were sentenced to life without parole by a judge who said they must be permanently removed from... READ MORE »
OXFORD, Ohio (AP) -- A skunk with a beer can stuck on its head had to be rescued near a fraternity house in southwestern Ohio.
Oxford police said a resident called them about the skunk's... READ MORE »
