PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A city official says Philadelphia will pay $75,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a woman who accused a former police lieutenant of assaulting her during a party... READ MORE »

IRWIN, Pa. (AP) -- Nine students in a western Pennsylvania school district who were told they couldn't attend their prom because they hadn't been vaccinated for chickenpox were able to... READ MORE »

CLEVELAND (AP) -- As relatives of the Cleveland kidnapping and rape suspect recounted claims of his unnerving paranoia and violent outbursts, DNA testing confirmed the man accused of... READ MORE »

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- A Guatemalan court convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity on Friday, sentencing him to 80 years in prison, the... READ MORE »

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Think you've heard of every way possible to quit smoking? Etta Mae Lopez came up with a new one: slap a cop and go to jail, where smoking isn't allowed. Lopez... READ MORE »

WALNUTPORT (AP) -- An Allentown-area man says when he looked out his kitchen window earlier this week, he saw what he first thought was a huge wild turkey. Robert Leseberg went outside to... READ MORE »

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) -- A Durango area couple is giving up their fight to keep a 13-foot escape route for their cats outside their Colorado apartment. Martha Spence and her husband built... READ MORE »

OTTAWA, Ohio (AP) -- Two teenage brothers who had been reported missing were found dead after a third teen pointed authorities to their bodies before he was taken into custody, officials... READ MORE »

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) -- For 17 days, the seamstress lay trapped in a dark basement pocket beneath thousands of tons of wreckage as temperatures outside climbed into the mid-90s F. She... READ MORE »

KUTZTOWN -- Kutztown University has dropped its blanket prohibition on guns and will now allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry them onto campus under certain conditions,... READ MORE »