PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (AP) — A relative says a man found dead with his seven children in a Maryland home was trying to keep them warm with a generator after power was cut over an outstanding bill. Lloyd Edwards told The Associated Press that his stepson, 36-year-old Rodney Todd, had bought the generator to keep […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California communities are preparing to crack down on water guzzlers and wasters in response to the worsening drought. Gov. Jerry Brown has called for a mandatory 25 percent cut in urban water use compared with 2013. The State Water Resources Control Board will start discussing how to enforce that at a […]

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The next Ferguson City Council will face the daunting task of remaking much of the beleaguered town’s leadership, a process that will begin soon after today’s municipal election. Three of the six council seats are up for grabs in the St. Louis County town where 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black, […]

COMMERCE, Ga. (AP) — Authorities have identified three people who were killed when a van carrying members of two heavy metal bands veered from an interstate and down an embankment in northeast Georgia. The Georgia Department of Public Safety said in an emailed statement that 25- year-old Nicholas Crisostomo of Round Hill, Virginia, 30-year-old Ian […]

LYNDON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to four years and two months in prison for beheading another man with a guitar string after a plea deal that prosecutors said they accepted because of problems with the case. James Paul Harris originally was charged with firstdegree murder in the 2011 death of […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police have presented in court 5 suspects arrested in connection with the Islamic extremist attack that killed 148 people. The court granted police 30 more days to investigate the suspects before charging them in court. The five suspects who appeared in court are: Mohammed Adan Surow, Osman Abdi Dakane, Mohammed […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Several hundred people have gathered just outside the Kremlin walls to commemorate 40 days since the killing of a Russian opposition politician that shook the country. Boris Nemtsov was shot Feb. 27 as he was crossing the bridge just outside the Kremlin. Five suspects have been detained but Nemtsov’s allies say the […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli security official says the Israeli military was responsible for the death of a Spanish U.N. peacekeeper during an outbreak of violence between Israel and Hezbollah militants on the tense Israel-Lebanon border in January. The official said today that Cpl. Francisco Javier Soria Toledo was accidentally killed by Israeli artillery following […]

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency says at least 74 children have been killed since the Yemen conflict intensified almost two weeks ago and that more than 100,000 people have left homes in search of safety. UNICEF says hospitals are struggling to treat large numbers of wounded with insufficient supplies. The agency says […]

HYDERABAD (AP) — Authorities in southern India say they killed five prisoners, including one accused of terrorism, when they tried to escape from a police van. Police were transferring the five men to from Warangal city to a court in Hyderabad. The head of Telangana state police, Anurag Sharma, said the five attacked the accompanying […]