PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A southeastern Pennsylvania man stole more than $350,000 worth of human skin over several years. charges say. Gary Dudek, 54, Wallingford, worked until September as a... READ MORE »

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan was freed Saturday by the Taliban in exchange for five Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Obama administration... READ MORE »

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado's Civil Rights Commission on Friday ordered a baker to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples, finding his religious objections to the practice did not trump the... READ MORE »

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A cook at a New Mexico facility that trains state corrections employees faces battery charges after authorities say she secretly licked sandwiches then served them... READ MORE »

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (AP) -- An Ohio wholesaler won't be cited after agreeing to destroy a ton of spoiled food found in a delivery truck bound for six Asian restaurants in western Pennsylvania... READ MORE »

CABOT, Pa. (AP) -- Emergency crews say one person is dead after a vehicle crashed through the exterior wall of a western Pennsylvania hair salon, striking a waiting customer. The incident... READ MORE »

READING, Pa. (AP) -- A golfer has been hospitalized after being run over by a golf cart in the middle of her backswing on an eastern Pennsylvania course. The accident was reported around... READ MORE »

NORRIDGE, Ill. (AP) -- Administrators at a suburban Chicago high school have had a change of heart after withholding diplomas from an entire class because some students defied instructions... READ MORE »

CHICAGO (AP) -- Alejandro Garibay says he knows now he wasn't in danger when the ledge he was sitting on high above downtown Chicago started to crack -- but when he first heard what sounded... READ MORE »

LOCKPORT, N.Y. (AP) -- A sheriff's deputy investigating reports of vandalized flags at an upstate New York cemetery has caught the culprit in the act. It was a groundhog. Niagara County... READ MORE »