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STARKE, Fla. (AP) -- David Alan Gore was set to be executed Thursday nearly 29 years after murdering 17-year-old Lynn Elliott, whose attempted escape ended a string of rapes and murders that shook the quiet coastal town of Vero Beach....

A Spanish nun refuses to testify in the first court hearing for alleged theft of newborn babies in the Franco era.

Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says Mel Gibson shelved a movie about Jewish hero Judah Maccabee because he "hates Jews", but Gibson calls the accusation an "utter fabrication".

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman made his first court appearance Thursday on a second-degree murder charge in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

During the brief appearance, Zimmerman stood up straight, looked straight ahead and wore a gray prison jumpsuit. He spoke only to answer "Yes, ...

Violence has fallen in Syria as a fragile ceasefire takes hold, although both sides are reporting violations.

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — A JetBlue Airways pilot accused of disrupting a Las Vegas-bound flight when he left the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorists has been indicted.

Court documents posted Thursday show Clayton F. Osbon has been indicted on one count of interference of a flight crew. It's the ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Four Swedes accused of plotting a revenge attack on a newspaper that printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad will go on trial Friday in Denmark, forcing the normally placid Nordic country to revisit an event it would rather put to rest....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

LAURINBURG, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Larry Kissell has upset an incumbent Republican congressman in a largely rural, conservative North Carolina district, and withstood a GOP surge that erased a Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives....

Police say a novelty or inert grenade was responsible for the evacuation of a Manhattan skyscraper across the street from the former World Trade Center, the site of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama is defending mothers....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama is defending mothers....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama is defending mothers....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- First lady Michelle Obama is defending mothers....