COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Long-simmering protests at the University of Missouri over matters of race and discrimination got a boost over the weekend when at least 30 black football players... READ MORE »

CONWAY SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas teacher will return to work Monday after being on leave since mid-October for showing a controversial anti-bullying film to his students. Conway Springs... READ MORE »

MEMPHIS, Mich. (AP) — A police-issued shotgun, two handguns, at least three police radios and a long list of evidence are unaccounted for at a small Michigan police department, according to... READ MORE »

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — If all goes as planned, a Georgia woman will deliver conjoined twin boys at an Augusta hospital. Their mother, Brittany Crafton, says that is God's plan for them and... READ MORE »

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Andre Monterio has a fishing story about one that got away and eventually was caught. But what he pulled from Lake Michigan near Grand Haven in September had no... READ MORE »

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane said Friday that a bipartisan Senate committee looking into the possibility of removing her lacks authority to obtain... READ MORE »

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana investigators are combing through evidence in the shooting death earlier this week of a 6-year-old autistic boy after authorities charged two law enforcement... READ MORE »

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Durango police are investigating an assault that involved a priest, a pope and a Good Samaritan. Sgt. Deck Shaline tells The Durango Herald (http://goo.gl/TmzyKa ) the... READ MORE »

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. (AP) — For 13 years after a 5-year-old boy was taken from his mother's Alabama home, authorities chased leads in hopes of finding him. But in the end, the youth himself... READ MORE »

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Marie picked up the phone and dialed the number the detective gave her 10 days before, on the night she was raped at knifepoint outside a friend's house in New Orleans.... READ MORE »