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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Four of five defendants who admitted to their roles in the kidnapping and torture of two University of Rochester football players have been sentenced for the crime. State Supreme Court Justice Alex Renzi said the victims are "...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A grade-school student in the violent Mexican border city of Matamoros has won a runner-up prize in a state science fair with an unusual proposal: a bulletproof backpack to hide behind during shootouts. Such shootouts often o...

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — A program that teamed up three universities and three agricultural commissions in 1984 has recently experienced its fourth great success with a newly bred potato that seems to be superior in numerous ways to the old gold s...

BOSTON (AP) — The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 — one of Boston's most peculiar disasters — killed 21 people, injured 150 others and flattened buildings when a giant storage tank ruptured. Now Harvard University researchers think they know why the w...

SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — For years, the conflicting goals of protecting the environment and some of the New Jersey shore's priciest real estate from storms have bedeviled a body of water known as Wreck Pond. Storms sometimes open a channel between t...

YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — As many Americans hit the road on Thanksgiving, one baby couldn't wait to join them. Firefighters were called to help a woman in labor in a car on a suburban New York highway on Thursday afternoon. But the baby was born before t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Talk about a memorable trip to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The New York Police Department says an officer who was shot on duty last year proposed to his girlfriend at Thursday's parade. And the NYPD says in a tweet, "She s...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Attorney Andres Gil Dominguez may have had bigger cases, but he's never had bigger clients. A city prosecutor's office has authorized Gil Dominguez to represent three elephants in captivity at a former zoo in A...

LONDON (AP) — It's Iceland vs. Iceland. The island nation of Iceland said Thursday it is taking legal action against British frozen-food chain Iceland over the right to use their shared name. Iceland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it has challeng...

BAINBRIDGE, Pa. (AP) — A community in central Pennsylvania has painted a blue stripe between the double-yellow lines on some streets to express support for police, firefighters and ambulance workers. But the state Department of Transportation is c...

MANCHESTER, Conn. (AP) — When it comes to marriage, these two Connecticut runners are hot to trot. High school and college sweethearts Scott Bernier and Torie Taylor got engaged in the middle of a Thanksgiving road race before a large crowd of f...

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A bystander dressed only in underpants helped police arrest an unlicensed driver who allegedly crashed a car into an Australian takeout restaurant on Thursday then fled. Daniel McConnell said he was lying in bed at home in...

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Police in Massachusetts say a woman tried to use a slice of pizza as a form of identification to get into a college town bar and slapped the bouncer when he refused her entry. Monkey Bar co-owner Rasif Rafiq tells The Boston G...

LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) — Police say a man wanted in connection with a northern New Mexico candy store heist has been arrested. The Las Vegas Optic reports (https://goo.gl/zj2uc5) 54-year-old Ramon Lucero recently was taking into custody for b...

ST. LOUIS, MO. – The East Central University men's basketball team got on the right side of the scoreboard for the first time in the 2016-17 season, claiming a 72-46 victory over Missouri-St. Louis in the opening day of the Marriott St. Louis Airport...

CANYON, Texas — Southern Nazarene went on a late 9-0 run to tie the game up at 70-70, but a 3-point shot hit by Eastern New Mexico with four seconds left game the Greyhounds a 76-73 victory Saturday afternoon. LB Willis and Brady Mulkey both s...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — With his Oklahoma Sooners looking listless and trailing upstart Abilene Christian at halftime on Friday, coach Lon Kruger switched two of his starters for the second half, looking for some sort of spark. Rashard Odomes, one of th...

JAY, Okla. (AP) — Belts have been a little tighter in recent years in Oklahoma's Delaware County, a largely blue-collar home to machinists, poultry farmers and truckers. In 2012, residents approved a higher sales tax to foot a $13.5 million s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Nearly half of the citations that have been written under Oklahoma City's new panhandling ordinance were issued at the same intersection, officials said. According to The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2fZvC8J ), police wrote 73 t...

MEDFORD, Okla. (AP) — No injuries or damage were reported after a 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck northern Oklahoma on Friday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake's epicenter was near Medford, or about 95 miles north of Oklahoma C...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A noted professor with autism whose life's work understanding livestock was the subject of an HBO movie is speaking next week at Kansas State University. Temple Grandin's appearance Tuesday is part of the Landon Lecture s...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A giant blue cat hangs on the wall above Burr Edde's sofa. It's the fourth catfish over 100 pounds that he has caught over his lifetime. Unlike the others, he didn't throw this one back. Edde and his family affectionately r...

Lissie Maurus — Lissie, as she is known to her fans — was well on her way to making it a decade ago, when she was in her early 20s. She had a record deal with Columbia Records UK and a first album that went gold in the United Kingdom and Norway. Ten...

VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Battalion Chief David Dangerfield's nickname was "Super Dave," a moniker the veteran firefighter had earned over the years for his cheerful, get-things-done personality. The leader of a fire department dive team in a quiet F...

STUART, Fla. (AP) — The Florida college student accused of randomly killing a couple and chewing on the dead man's face wrote in court documents about being bullied, dealing with anxiety and accepting his death. The Palm Beach Post reports (...