BOSTON (AP) -- Charla Nash never served in the military. She was horribly disfigured, not in combat, but in a 2009 attack by a rampaging chimpanzee. The Pentagon, though, is watching her... READ MORE »

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- A racist chant by several members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity that was caught on video led to outrage from the school's president and the organization's... READ MORE »

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A carpenter has been fired for freeing a raccoon that had been trapped by exterminators at the San Francisco construction site where he worked. Todd Sutton tells the... READ MORE »

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) -- Two former school district officials in southeastern Pennsylvania have been ordered to stand trial on theft charges stemming from a text-messaging scandal. All... READ MORE »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- With its wings stretched wide to catch the sun's energy, a Swiss-made solar-powered aircraft took off from Abu Dhabi just after daybreak Monday in a... READ MORE »

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- With its wings stretched wide to catch the sun's energy, a Swiss-made solar-powered aircraft took off from Abu Dhabi just after daybreak Monday in a... READ MORE »

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Two Utah peace officers have been suspended without pay over a risque video shoot featuring bikini-clad women firing high-powered weapons. The Utah Department of... READ MORE »

MIAMI (AP) -- Developers are proposing to build the nation's biggest shopping mall in northwestern Miami-Dade County. The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/1Go8szP ) reported on Saturday that... READ MORE »

LANCASTER (AP) -- A farmer in Sadsbury Township recently was awarded a $597,000 state grant to make wholesale improvements to a barnyard that one consultant described as "pretty much a mud... READ MORE »

ELLENSBURG, Wash. (AP) -- Central Washington University junior Savannah Isbey was working out in the school's Recreation Center when she first saw it: Bubble ball soccer -- full-contact... READ MORE »