Like a complete unknown. That’s how rock legend Bob Dylan was treated by police in one New Jersey shore community last month when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood. Dylan was in Long Branch, N.J., on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was […]

KENAI, Alaska (AP) – Salmon aren’t alone in being snagged during this busy summer fishing season in Alaska. Anglers get the hook, too. Monica Musgrove, a nurse at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, said emergency room staff have removed 62 hooks from patients since May – including a few through the eyelids and one from […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A federal judge has thrown out a former Tennessee student’s free-speech lawsuit against a school dress code that banned Confederate flag clothing. Nearly a year after a jury failed to reach a verdict in Tommy Defoe’s case, U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan has ruled against a retrial. The judge said there […]

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) – A northeastern Pennsylvania man who has acknowledged killing a man with a meat cleaver in 2004 has been ordered to stand trial on criminal homicide and other charges. Robert Giardini told police a stranger showed up at his Pocono Township, Monroe County, home and asked to use the phone. He said […]

CLERMONT, Fla. (AP) – Leaflets depicting President Obama in ghoulish makeup similar to that of the Joker from the Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” have popped up in a Florida county northwest of Orlando. Some of the fliers were glued to a mail box at a U.S. Post Office in downtown Clermont in Lake County, […]

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) – The family of a teenager who says he was sexually assaulted by a former dean of a Connecticut prep school has filed a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Superior Court against The Gunnery school, 44-year-old former dean Robert Reinhardt, Head of School Susan Graham and Dana Jackson, a […]

BOSTON (AP) – Boston officials are hoping to reach a final decision with a Canadian company to create what would be the largest, urban bike-sharing system in the U.S. Officials are in talks with the Public Bike System Company in Montreal to install a network of 2,500 bikes and 290 stations across the city by […]

CHICAGO (AP) – The case of a puppy that used to have five legs and was saved from a Coney Island animal show is going before a court TV judge in Chicago. Plaintiff John Strong operates a New York animal show that features disfigured animals. He’s suing the dog’s original owner, Calvin Owensby, for $4,000. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is halting its search for World War I-era chemical weapons in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood after workers found an open glass flask containing traces of the chemical agent mustard. The discovery was made last week at a vacant home behind American University, where chemical weapons were […]

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) – A public wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been scheduled for a Cape Cod church. A family spokesman says the wake will be held Thursday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in the Centerville section of Barnstable, not far from the family’s Hyannis […]