Developer: Kan. caverns could preserve human race
ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) -- After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine....
4 shot, 3 dead in Ky. condominium complex shooting
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A domestic situation apparently prompted the midweek shooting at a condominium complex in an upscale Louisville neighborhood that claimed three lives and left a fourth person badly wounded, police said....
Attorneys meet to discuss Jodi Arias case
PHOENIX (AP) -- Jodi Arias returns to court Thursday for the first time since the penalty phase of her case ended in mistrial last month as lawyers discuss plans for a new trial to decide the punishment for the convicted murderer....
Birth control shots could alter life in poor areas
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A decade ago, the Rosebud Sioux Indians in South Dakota were paying people to catch and shoot wild dogs. Dogs that weren't caught were covered in mange and parasites. Some froze. Some starved. In packs, they survived be eating each other. And dog bites were 20 times worse than the national average....
Bulger trial: The hit man of Country Club Lane
MILFORD, Mass. (AP) -- He parks his silver Mercedes-Benz sedan behind his condo, below a deck decorated with white and pink flowers, where a couple of small dogs bark at the few passers-by....
Homes evacuated as wildfire flares near Denver
EVERGREEN, Colo. (AP) -- Dozens of homes were evacuated near Denver as a wind-driven wildfire flared, one of many in the western states where hot and windy conditions were making it easy for the wild land blazes to start and spread....
Zimmerman jurors reveal personal details
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- One potential juror at George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial belongs to the National Rifle Association. Another says she was the victim of a violent crime that is constantly on her mind. A third is a competitive arm-wrestler....
Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can't afford to bid on them...
Youth leagues try to rein in 'bad news parents'
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. (AP) -- No parent here has rushed onto a playing field to jump a referee who made an unpopular call. No adult has gotten angry and slugged or pushed a coach or a young player, as has happened elsewhere. Nor have there been any of those embarrassing sideline brawls you sometimes see posted on online video sites....
Quotations of the day
"We're on the verge of doing something dramatic on the border. What we're trying to do is put in place measures that to any reasonable person would be an overwhelming effort to secure our border. This is a key moment in the effort to pass the bill." - Sen. Lindsay Graham, after key senators expressed optimism were closing in on a bipartisan agreement to toughen the border security requirements in the immigration legislation....
Victims' relatives to testify in Bulger trial
BOSTON (AP) -- After hearing three days of testimony from a hit man who admitted killing 20 people, jurors in the trial of James "Whitey" Bulger will soon get to hear from the families of some of those victims....
Police: Disabled Pa. man who died suffered neglect
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- A 32-year-old Pennsylvania man with Down syndrome was so severely neglected by his family that his body was covered in scabies and he weighed just 69 pounds when he died, police said in charging his mother and two sisters with murder....
OH man to be sentenced in dying blink murder case
CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio man found guilty in a murder trial that hinged on a paralyzed victim blinking his eyes to identify his shooter is scheduled to be sentenced....
NYC heir, 89, to hear whether he'll go to prison
NEW YORK (AP) -- An 89-year-old heir could end up in prison after a court date on his 11th-hour bid for a new trial in a case that shook New York society....
