WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials worry that outrage over a video purporting to depict Marines urinating on Taliban corpses will tarnish the reputation of the entire military. Some also fear it could undermine prospects for exploratory Afghan peace talks. After roundly condemning the Marines’ alleged behavior, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and top military leaders on […]

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A Texas woman who suffocated her 6-year-old son in a New Hampshire motel room and left his body along a dirt road in Maine has been sentenced to 45 years in prison. Forty-two-year-old Julianne McCrery of Irving, Texas, spoke tearfully at her sentencing today, calling her son beautiful and brilliant. She […]

BEIJING ( AP) — Angry customers and gangs of scalpers threw eggs at Apple Inc.’s Beijing store today after the iPhone 4S launch there was canceled due to concerns over the crowd’s size. Apple reacted to the outburst by postponing iPhone 4S sales in its mainland China stores to protect customers and employees. The phone […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Russian tanker hauling much-needed fuel across the ice-choked Bering Sea to the Alaska city of Nome was just six miles from its destination this morning. The vessel reached the area late Thursday night but was waiting until daylight before advancing farther, U.S. Coast Guard official Adam De Rocher said. Daylight […]

KNOX, Ind. (AP) — A man accused of stealing a police cruiser while handcuffed in northwest Indiana, then using the police radio to ask where to find the car’s cigarette lighter, has turned himself in after two days on the run, authorities said today. William Francis Blankenship, 22, was taken into custody late Thursday night […]

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the Arab League warned today that Syria may be sliding toward civil war, as security forces fired on thousands of people who poured into the streets in support of army defectors who switched sides to try to topple President Bashar Assad. Over the course of the 10- month-old uprising, […]