Nation News

Newly released police records show a suicidal Maryland father left loving goodbye notes to the wife and three children he killed in April. Read More

Idaho Lt. Gov. Brad Little said Friday military officials made a mistake by denying a flyover at the annual God and Country Family Festival earlier this month. Read More

Federal prosecutors say jailed evangelist Tony Alamo (uh-LAH'-moh) "married" underage girls he had allegedly had sex with, exchanging wedding vows and giving them rings. Read More

An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested by authorities there for the second time in two years, his family said Friday. Read More

The car carrying five young people never slows as it approaches a rail crossing near Detroit, and drives right past a car that had been stopped there for several seconds _ just before an Amtrak train rushes through the crossing. Read More

A New Jersey brewery is using the state's congested and often-derided turnpike to promote its beer, an idea that concerns the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and a group that opposes drinking and driving. Read More

Four former employees accused of digging up bodies and reselling plots at a historic black cemetery near Chicago made about $300,000 in a scheme believed to have stretched back at least four years, authorities said Friday. Read More

New England mobster Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi on Friday described watching a cohort strangle his girlfriend as a "very traumatic moment" _ but then admitted he pulled out her teeth afterward so her body would be difficult to identify. Read More

A lawyer for a fired airline worker says he is "mortified" at the lapse in judgment that led him to help a friend get an unloaded gun on a plane. Read More

Police believe that a cleaning woman who vanished from a Manhattan high-rise may be dead and that her body could turn up in a Pennsylvania landfill. Read More

A golfer has been sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison for bashing another player over the head with a 6-iron during a fight over slow play. Read More

A California nonprofit placed foreign exchange students in deplorable conditions in Pennsylvania, with some becoming malnourished or living in homes strewn with dog feces, and a prosecutor said the neglect merits criminal charges. Read More

State officials will investigate accusations of racial discrimination against a suburban Philadelphia swim club that allegedly reacted to a visiting group of minority children by asking them not to return. Read More

Obama: Wealthy nations have moral obligation, national security interest in fighting poverty. Read More

Police say two women bringing young children to an Ohio park found the body of man hanging from playground equipment. Read More

When South Carolina's Commerce Department planned a trade mission to South America last year, Gov. Mark Sanford rejected a historic tour, requested meetings with real estate agents, and tried to make sure he would have at least an evening free in Buenos Aires. Read More

The sister of an American journalist sentenced with a co-worker to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp said that they're seeking a pardon as their only hope for freedom. Read More

New York's Senate stalemate ended Thursday as it started 31 days ago, with a freshman Democrat convulsing the 62-seat house by switching sides and getting a powerful leadership post in the majority. Read More

Members and officials of a private swimming pool in a predominantly white Philadelphia suburb reacted to a visiting group of minority children by asking them not to return and pulling other kids out of the water, a day camp director said, and the state is investigating. Read More

Do you use a sock puppet to secretly keep track of your frenemies? Read More