IRVING, Texas (AP) — Encouragement poured in from across the nation for a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose homemade electronic clock led to his detention and suspension from school, with... READ MORE »

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An appeals court has upheld the 3½- to seven-year sentences imposed on a Philadelphia couple in the death of a second child who never saw a doctor despite being stricken... READ MORE »

Facebook may finally be getting a button that lets you quickly express something beyond a "like." Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday that people have been asking for a "dislike"... READ MORE »

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Police say a woman was hit with a hot flying brisket when a contestant's temper flared during a beef over a shared cooker at a central Kentucky barbecue festival.... READ MORE »

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has reached a $2.5 million settlement with an energy company over a massive fish kill six years ago. The agency had filed a... READ MORE »

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A wall of water swept away two vehicles carrying women and children in a Utah-Arizona border town Monday, killing at least seven people and leaving six others missing... READ MORE »

GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A college instructor suspected in the fatal shootings of a woman he lived with on Mississippi's Gulf Coast and a professor at Delta State University 300 miles away... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Pope Francis arrives on his first-ever visit to the United States, he will be welcomed in a way that few world leaders have: with President BarackObama waiting at the... READ MORE »

BANGKOK (AP) — The good news for the Chinese visitor to Bangkok was that a doctor had successfully removed a foreign object from her large intestine that could have damaged her digestive... READ MORE »

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Miss Georgia Betty Cantrell is the new Miss America, but her crowning moment was nearly overshadowed by a three-decade old pageant scandal, and a still-raw debate... READ MORE »