VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A Mansfield man has been sentenced to serve four years in prison for stealing funds from two veterans’ organizations and using some of the money to pay for internet pornography. The Journal Inquirer reports that 72-year-old Frederick Brown cut a deal with prosecutors and agreed to plead guilty to larceny charges. […]

WASHINGTON The latest clamor over Hillary Clinton’s emails has put Barack Obama in a spot where no president wants to be: caught between his attorney general, his FBI director and his preferred White House successor. With accusations of political interference flying, Obama is trying to keep his distance as an internal government spat bursts into […]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Donald Trump has launched into the last week before Election Day with a harsh new attack against Democrat Hillary Clinton. “Her election would mire our government and our country in a constitutional crisis that we cannot afford,” Trump declared Monday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, pointing to the FBI’s renewed examination of Clinton’s […]

HELENA, Ala. For the second time in two months, a pipeline that supplies gasoline to millions of people was shut down, raising the specter of another round of gas shortages and price increases. The disruption occurred when a track hoe — a machine used to remove dirt — struck the pipeline, ignited gasoline and caused […]

WASHINGTON An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department. The arrests of more than […]

ORLANDO, Fla. Police negotiators talking to the Orlando nightclub gunman at first weren’t sure if the person they had on the phone was actually in the Pulse nightclub, according to audio recordings. The recordings between police negotiators and shooter Omar Mateen don’t stray from transcripts of conversations released previously by the city of Orlando. But […]

PHILADELPHIA Bill Cosby’s lawyers will argue today that prosecutors are reaching back to the “casting couch” era to round up women accusers and build a “stale” sexual assault case against the entertainer. And they will take a Pennsylvania judge through a time warp to prove their point, challenging sexual misconduct claims that spanned the freewheeling […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank In a divorce court where a man’s testimony is worth twice a woman’s, victory for lawyer Reema Shamasneh is rare and often bittersweet. On this morning, a young nurse is desperate to end her marriage to a truck driver who she says beat her, doused her with scalding tea and kept her […]

BALTIYSK, Russia Russia held civil defense drills involving 40 million people this month, the largest since the collapse of the Soviet Union. State media broadcast instantly recognizable Soviet imagery, showing school children trying on gas masks, and urge viewers to find the nearest bomb shelter “before it’s too late.” But while these reports fuel Western […]

BEIJING Hundreds of rescuers were struggling today to find 15 coal miners still trapped a day after a gas explosion killed 18 of their colleagues in western China. Whether the 15 are alive was not known more than 24 hours after the blast ripped through the privately owned Jinshangou mine in the sprawling Chongqing region. […]