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UNIONTOWN — A county detective says a man serving six months in a southwestern Pennsylvania county jail illegally hid a cellphone and charger in his prosthetic leg.

Christopher Greer, 27, faces a preliminary hearing May 22 on a contraband charge filed last week by a Fayette County detective.

Greer was ...

Carrie Bradshaw might not be a role model at the elementary school, but the Obama administration hopes Sarah Jessica Parker can be.

As part of its Turnaround Arts initiative announced Monday, the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities will dispatch Miss Parker and such other stars as Forest ...

CHICAGO — Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson broke down in tears Monday while testifying at the trial of the man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a jealous rage four years ago.

Miss Hudson was the first witness called after prosecutors and attorneys for William Balfour finished their ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Social Security is rushing even faster toward insolvency, driven by retiring baby boomers, a weak economy and politicians' reluctance to take painful action to fix the huge retirement and disability program....

CHICAGO (AP) -- What do hospitals charge to remove an appendix? The startling answer is that it could be the same as the price of a refrigerator - or a house....

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- A former aide to John Edwards has taken the witness stand in his criminal trial to testify about the ex-senator's role in allegedly violating campaign finance laws to cover up an extramarital affair....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker Ted Nugent is scheduled for a court hearing in Alaska on Tuesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker Ted Nugent is scheduled for a court hearing in Alaska on Tuesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Rocker Ted Nugent is scheduled for a court hearing in Alaska on Tuesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The ensemble comedy "Think Like a Man" opened as the weekend's top box-office draw with $33.6 million....

SEATTLE (AP) -- Two women whose bodies were found in a fire at a home in Washington state had been shot to death, the medical examiner's office said Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Andy Pettitte, the reluctant witness who was supposed to bolster the government's case against Roger Clemens, appears to have instead substantially aided his former teammate and friend when he readily conceded he might have misunderstood their conversation about human growth hormone....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure to stop the Syrian government's deadly crackdown, President Barack Obama on Monday levied new sanctions on people and entities in Syria and Iran that use technology to target their citizens and perpetrate human rights abuses....

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — With the horrors of a deadly shooting rampage still a fresh memory, some students at a California Christian college returned to class Monday in a building where seven people were killed earlier this month.

Oakland's Oikos University — still draped with a memorial banner, wreaths and ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Jennifer Hudson says her family didn't want her sister to marry the man now accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The parties in the Roger Clemens perjury trial Monday settled on 12 jurors and four alternates who are mostly female and not baseball fans....

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities on Monday finished excavating a Manhattan basement in connection to the disappearance of a 6-year-old boy three decades ago without finding any obvious human remains, law enforcement officials said Monday.

FBI and police had been searching the former workspace of a handyman since Thursday, after ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- John Edwards' campaign finance fraud case ended in a mistrial Thursday when jurors acquitted him on one of six charges but were unable to decide whether he misused money from two wealthy donors to hide his pregnant mistress while he ran for president....

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The husband of a Missouri woman who has been missing for nearly a year was charged with first-degree murder Monday even though his wife's body has not been found....