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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Authorities searched Monday for a gunman suspected of killing three people and wounding three others in a weekend shooting at a pool party near Auburn University that a witness said began with a fight over a woman.

Two of the slain victims were former players for ...

US prosecutors describe ex-college football coach Jerry Sandusky as a serial predator, on the first day of his Penn State sexual abuse trial.

Should we only use real names on social networks?

A homeowners' association in Stapleton, Colo. wants to ban sidewalk chalk, claiming it's "offensive and distracting."

David Frum says Germany and its chancellor, Angela Merkel, have the power to boost the economy and Obama's chances by settling the Euro crisis

BELLEFONTE, Pa. — The first witness in Jerry Sandusky's trial said the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused him as a young teenager on campus and in hotels and later sent him "creepy love letters."

The witness, dubbed Victim No. 4 by prosecutors, said what began as "soap ...

Ethan A. Huff | More and more, technophiles are relishing in the role of God, now taking abortion to a new level.

The teams responsible for the Flame malware and 2010's Stuxnet attack worked together, researchers say.

Airbus has confirmed its flagship A380 planes could be grounded for up to eight weeks if work to repair cracks in their wings is done in one go.

Spain's Rafael Nadal wins a record seventh French Open with a 6-4 6-3 2-6 7-5 victory over world number one Novak Djokovic.

Daily Mail | Software giants will use military-grade cameras to take powerful satellite image.

Steve Watson | Still no independent testing despite cancer warnings from experts.

Mail Online | Research shows that shroud was most likely given to French knight as a memento from a crusades.

Steve Chapman | We've come a long way in religious tolerance. Or maybe not.

Tom Daley says it would be a dream come true to win Olympic diving gold after his place at London 2012 is confirmed.

Washington Post/AP | After the satanic ritual that was the Queen's Jubilee, Prince Charles headed for Transylvania, his vampire homeland.

The mother of a man who died after collapsing at the RockNess festival says he was a "beloved" and "beautiful" son.

Defendant agreed to a knock-and-talk at his gate, and the officers’ insistence on coming inside violated the curtilage and the scope of consent. Ferrer v. State, 2012 Fla. App. LEXIS 9211 (Fla. 2d DCA June 8, 2012):

We reject the State's contention that once Ferrer opened the locked gate, general "knock-and-talk" principles authorized the deputies to proceed to the front door area. See, e.g., State v. Navarro, 19 So. 3d 370, 372-73 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009). The State argues that because the officers were free to proceed to the front door of the house to knock and talk, the evidence of marijuana was legally obtained under the "plain smell" doctrine. The flaw in this argument is that it does not recognize that the deputies' encounter with Ferrer at the gate was a knock and talk encounter. Rather than leaving his property open for any member of the public to enter, Ferrer had taken steps to keep out uninvited visitors by fencing it and erecting an electric gate across his driveway, thereby demonstrating an expectation of privacy. Cf. Nieminski v. State, 60 So. 3d 521, 525-27 (Fla. 2d DCA 2011) (finding no violation of privacy where officers entered fenced property through a closed, but unlocked, gate). Thus, while officers were free to approach the gate to conduct a knock and talk—which they did—the area inside the fence fell under the same constitutional protections as the residence itself, and the officers were not at liberty, absent consent, to approach the residence. Compare Fernandez v. State, 63 So. 3d 881, 883-84 (Fla. 3d DCA 2011) (holding that the defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the fenced yard adjacent to his residence and that the momentary opening of the gate to allow the defendant to leave was not an invitation for police to enter); with State v. Triana, 979 So. 2d 1039, 1045 (Fla. 3d DCA 2008) (finding no constitutional violation where the police had a consensual encounter with the defendant outside of the locked gate to the defendant's property and the defendant agreed to a search and opened the gate to allow the police to enter). [¶] It is undisputed that the only thing Ferrer consented to was to speak to the officers "on the other side of the gate." ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The Greek extreme-right party spokesman who caused an uproar last week by slapping one female politician on live TV and throwing a glass of water on another has sued the two women as well as the television channel that hosted the news show....

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson was cited for felony hit-and-run following two Los Angeles-area traffic crashes that left him injured and unconscious, police said Monday....