LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- The Pennsylvania Game Commission says a Russian wild boar was shot by a homeowner.
Wildlife conservation officer Dennis Warfel told The Intelligencer/Lancaster New... READ MORE »
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- Just how cold is it in Kentucky? Apparently cold enough for an escaped prisoner to decide to turn himself in.
Authorities said the inmate escaped from a minimum... READ MORE »
CHICAGO (AP) -- It was even too cold for Chicago's resident polar bear.
The city's Lincoln Park Zoo says its polar bear, Anana, was kept inside Monday because of the record-low... READ MORE »
LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) -- A central Pennsylvania man was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter and other offenses for the shooting death of his 2-month-old daughter on Christmas Eve,... READ MORE »
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Police from two states plan to publicly discuss their investigation into the shooting death of a Maine man in an apparent case of road-rage.
State police from... READ MORE »
Here are five things to know about the deep freeze that's swept across most of the U.S. over the past few days:
1. COLD OUTSIDE? YOU'RE NOT ALONE
Nearly 187 million people, more than half... READ MORE »
ATLANTA (AP) -- A man slapped a crying toddler during a flight will serve eight months in federal prison.
Joe Rickey Hundley was accused of using a racial slur to refer to the 19-month-old... READ MORE »
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A holiday traveler killed in an apparent road-rage shooting in Pennsylvania had reported some sort of road dispute with the pickup chasing him, state police said Sunday... READ MORE »
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has made another one of his cold calls to wish a group of nuns in a Spanish convent Happy New Year. Only he got their answering machine, instead.
"What... READ MORE »
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- In at least four states that have nurtured the nation's energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and... READ MORE »