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Posted on: Friday, March 22, 2013 - 3:48am
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A man charged with beating a monkey to death with a tree branch at Boise's zoo last fall has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty. Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, reached... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 3:02pm
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Philadelphia police are trying to find a man who fired into an Asian food store and wounded three people by releasing surveillance video of the crime on YouTube. The... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 2:39pm
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- One of the Vatican's main Twitter accounts and the website of its communications office were running stories about Batman on Thursday with the headline "Holy Switcheroo... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 4:32am
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rusted pieces of two Apollo-era rocket engines that helped boost astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the murky depths of the Atlantic, Amazon.com CEO Jeff... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 4:26am
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Some of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies have made peace with environmentalists, agreeing to a voluntary set of tough new standards for fracking in the... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 4:26am
ASTON, Pa. (AP) -- A suburban Philadelphia school board has expelled a teen actor who got into an altercation with his director while playing Daddy Warbucks in the musical "Annie." WTXF-TV... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 4:14am
PATTON, Pa. (AP) -- A western Pennsylvania county coroner says a man blew himself up inside a truck outside a home, injuring two other people, one critically. WTAJ-TV says the Cambria... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 4:12am
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- Former NBA star Adrian Dantley spent years guarding opponents on the court. Now he's guarding schoolchildren as they cross the street. Radio station WTOP reports... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 2:15am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An assault weapons ban won't be in the gun-control legislation that Democrats bring to the Senate floor next month, a decision that means the ban's chances of survival... READ MORE »

Posted on: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 3:10pm
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Authorities say a man shot and killed his elderly wife in the hospice unit at an eastern Pennsylvania hospital, then turned the gun on himself. District Attorney Jim... READ MORE »

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