WALLIS, Texas (AP) — Authorities say three people, including a boy, are dead after their glider crashed into a field in Southeast Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the crash happened around 5 p.m. Sunday near Wallis, about 40 miles west of Houston. The department has yet to release the names of the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say one adult was seriously hurt when a school bus collided with a taxi and overturned in New York City. The Fire Department said it was not immediately clear whether the injured adult was in the bus or the taxi. The other patients’ injuries were all minor. Officials say there […]

LIMA, Peru (AP) — It’s not easy being Superman. It only earns about $160 a month for Avelino Chavez, who dresses up daily as the caped hero. But oh, the adventures! The 52-year-old Chavez can’t fly but does seem to be everywhere in Lima: at political rallies and speeches, at a wedding shoot for Peru’s […]

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The defense in Jerry Sandusky’s child sexual abuse trial could begin putting on its own witnesses early this week, and one of them could be the former Penn State assistant football coach himself. Sandusky’s lawyer suggested in opening statements that Sandusky, 68, may take the stand, although that is a risk […]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military says it has carried out an airstrike against suspected Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical officials in Gaza say two men were killed in the airstrike as they were riding a motorcycle. They say the attack took place near the town of Beit […]

SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin need one another, an uncomfortable truth for the superpower leader waging a tough re-election campaign and the newly elected Russian leader who is deeply suspicious of the United States. The two men will use their meeting today, the first since Putin returned […]

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nils “Mora-Nisse” Karlsson, the Swedish cross-country ski great who won the traditional Vasaloppet race nine times and a gold medal at the 1948 Olympics, died Saturday. He was 94. He died surrounded by family members, Vasaloppet organizers said. Karlsson is one of only three people to have won the Vasaloppet at least […]

LOS ANGELES On the afternoon of April 29, 1992, after a harrowing three-month trial of four police officers in the Rodney King beating case, jurors sent word that they had reached verdicts. I was apprehensive as I entered the courtroom with other reporters. The verdict was being televised and we knew the announcement would surely […]

LOS ANGELES Just a few months ago, Rodney King was once again the center of attention as the world checked back in on the man whose videotaped beating by police sparked one of the nation’s worst race riots. King had left Los Angeles behind, moving an hour east to a home where neighbors would often […]