The suspect in a gas station robbery and 100 mph chase kept pointing his handgun to his head, and police negotiator Andres Wells was doing all he could to keep the man from committing suicide. But he kept cutting Wells’ phone calls short. Then, about 10 minutes after the last hang up, Wells’ cellphone chimed. […]

KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Muslim-by-birth Sudanese woman who married a Christian man was sentenced to death Thursday after she refused to recant her Christian faith, her lawyer said. Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but her mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was convicted of “apostasy” on Sunday and given four days to repent […]

SOMA, Turkey — A Turkish mining company defended its safety record Friday, four days after at least 284 people died in an underground blaze at its coal mine in western Turkey. A maximum of 18 miners remain missing and the final death toll will be around 300, the country’s energy minister said. The mining company’s […]

SANFORD — A 15-day-old infant is being treated in the burn center at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Boston, Mass. after he sustained critical burns when a spark from a backyard fire pit apparently ignited his father’s coat, in what authorities are calling a “freak incident” Wednesday night. The infant, Callum Jeising, suffered second- and […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Scientists say fossils found in Argentina’s Patagonia region provide the first evidence that a family of long-necked, whip-tailed dinosaurs survived beyond the Jurassic period, when they were thought to have gone extinct. The find suggests Diplodocid Sauropods roamed South America during the early Cretaceous era. It also suggests they evolved […]