An American Eagle flight from Detroit has landed safely at New York's LaGuardia Airport after being struck by lightning.

Kerry Lester, an award-winning political reporter in Illinois, has been named Supervisory Correspondent for The Associated Press in Springfield, Ill.

A Tucson climber was found dead, hanging from a southern Arizona cliff in his climbing gear and covered with bee stings.

A federal investigation is reportedly underway in the town of Anthony, which straddles New Mexico and Texas.

The dispute over where to bury suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev escalated Wednesday as a Massachusetts police chief urged someone to step forward with a cemetery plot, saying: "We are not barbarians. We bury the dead."

From the privacy of their bedrooms to the public bustle of busy hospital wards, families and friends are struggling with the heartbreak of losing five loved ones, all nurses, killed Saturday in a burning limousine.

In a story of political redemption, Mark Sanford is headed back to Congress after his career was derailed by scandal four years ago.

In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor.

A man walking by a Pasco County home saw a hand waving to him from the window of a car parked in the garage. As he walked up the driveway, he heard a muffled voice.

The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control _ and, if necessary, launch _ nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings, including a remarkably dim review of their unit's launch skills. The group's deputy commander said it is suffering "rot" within its ranks.

The government is shedding light on the mystery of just how high a hospital bill might go _ and whether it's cheaper to get that care across town.

Around 100 neighbors and a pack of journalists were outside Amanda Berry's home waiting for her to speak after a decade in captivity.

The chief of the police in Worcester (WUS'-tur), Mass., says the department has been reluctantly dragged into the efforts to find a burial plot for dead Boston Marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), and a deal for the state prisons department to take the body has fallen through.

In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor.

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Investigators in Arizona have arrested a man suspected of killing a woman in Tucson more than 35 years ago.

In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor.

The Air Force stripped an unprecedented 17 officers of their authority to control _ and, if necessary, launch _ nuclear missiles after a string of unpublicized failings, including a remarkably dim review of their unit's launch skills. The group's deputy commander said it is suffering "rot" within its ranks.

Mikki Snyder-Hall married her partner, Claire, in California in 2008, and moved two years ago to Rehoboth, a gay-friendly Delaware beach town.

A Worcester (WUS'-tur), Mass., police spokesman says the department has been reluctantly dragged into the efforts to find a burial plot for dead Boston Marathon suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv), and a deal for the state prisons department to take the body has fallen through.