HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- A stuffed armadillo that serves as an on-stage mascot for country music legend Willie Nelson has been returned after being kidnapped from a Las Vegas-area show.... READ MORE »

DENVER (AP) -- The Denver coroner says an exchange student from Wyoming fell to his death after eating a marijuana cookie, the first reported death linked to marijuana since the drug became... READ MORE »

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Authorities say a burglary suspect from Pennsylvania brawled with officers at a southern New Jersey police department. One officer suffered a minor knee... READ MORE »

CASTLE ROCK, Wash. (AP) -- The mayor of Castle Rock is required to take anger management classes for violating the courtesy code at a City Council meeting when he raised his voice against... READ MORE »

MCCANDLESS, Pa. (AP) -- The Allegheny County medical examiner's office says one of two young children reportedly found unresponsive in a bathtub in the Pittsburgh suburbs has died. County... READ MORE »

CORAOPOLIS, Pa. (AP) -- A youth hockey player from New York has been charged with assaulting a referee during a tournament near Pittsburgh. The Beaver County Times reports Moon Township... READ MORE »

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- Fire officials in southeastern Pennsylvania say smoking in bed is to blame for a fire that has left 20 people homeless. Chester County Fire Marshal Harrison Holt... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Idaho man who pleaded guilty to firing an assault rifle at the White House in 2011, striking the executive mansion more than half a dozen times, was sentenced Monday... READ MORE »

SHAMOKIN, Pa. (AP) -- A deputy sheriff in northeastern Pennsylvania was hospitalized after his sheriff's department sport-utility vehicle slid on snow, crashed into a stone embankment and... READ MORE »

MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) -- A firefighter put his reptile-handling experience to good use when he rescued a 6-foot-long python from a burning home in western Michigan. Muskegon firefighter... READ MORE »