FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffa's remains
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Beneath a swimming pool, under a horse farm and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed shovels and combed through dirt and mud in the search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains or clues to the disappearance of the former Teamsters boss....
Cops: Disabled Pa. man died of gruesome neglect
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania woman and her two daughters have been charged in the neglect-related death of their 32-year-old son and brother with Down syndrome....
3 Navy football players accused of sexual assault
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three Navy football players with sexually assaulting a female midshipman more than a year ago....
Gehry refines design for Eisenhower Memorial in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal commission charged with building a national memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower voted unanimously Wednesday to approve architect Frank Gehry's design for a park near the National Mall, allowing the project to move forward over the objections of Eisenhower's family....
Feds make find at former home of NY mobster
NEW YORK (AP) -- An FBI excavation has turned up possible human remains at a home once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro's character in the movie "Goodfellas," authorities said Wednesday....
Bulger's ex-enforcer grilled about varying stories
BOSTON (AP) -- A former hit man who admitted killing 20 people insisted Wednesday that he told authorities the truth when he implicated James "Whitey" Bulger in 11 slayings, but he acknowledged lying in the past, including to a close friend just before he shot him in the head....
Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash
HOUSTON (AP) -- The owner of a bus that crashed and killed 17 people on their way to a religious retreat in Texas in 2008 has been indicted on federal charges that include making false statements on official documents....
Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -- A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern Kansas....
Defense: US man never joined Syrian al-Qaida group
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A U.S. Army veteran was confused and mistaken when he told authorities he fought with an al-Qaida group seeking to topple the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, his defense lawyer said Wednesday in court papers....
Ohio woman, allegedly enslaved, spent time in jail
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A mentally disabled mother authorities said was enslaved for two years along with her daughter spent time in jail this year after pleading guilty to beating the girl, but her attorney told a judge that her captors forced her to do it....
As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place....
OfficeMax, Office Depot pit Ill. v. Fla. for HQ
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- OfficeMax Inc. and Office Depot Inc. want Illinois and Florida to compete to be the home of their combined headquarters if their proposed merger is approved by offering the best package of tax breaks that they can....
Feds: 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Federal authorities accused two upstate New York men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel....
Zimmerman jurors asked about neighborhood watch
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Attorneys quizzed a whittled-down group of prospective jurors Wednesday in the Trayvon Martin case about whether they had fired guns, made judgments based on how people dressed or had been neighborhood watch volunteers like the teen's shooter....
Official: Philly not liable for private demo work
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The city issues demolition permits, but it isn't responsible for the work done by contractors on private property, Philadelphia officials said Wednesday at the first public hearing on this month's fatal building collapse....
