DETROIT (AP) – A lawyer for a Detroit city employee who filed a lawsuit claiming she couldn’t work because of a co-worker’s strong perfume has settled her case with the city. Attorney Ann Curry Thompson said Friday the settlement reached Thursday between the city and her client, Susan McBride, includes money but she declined to […]

BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) – A long-haul trucker from southeastern Idaho has created a new trucking-themed board game inspired by his hours on the road. “My Truckin’ Luck” was created with input from truckers, state troopers and mechanics nationwide, Randy Cox told the Idaho State Journal for a story published Friday. The game is named after […]

MINNEAPOLIS – It seemed like a joke at first: Cheerios is a drug. Yet when the Food and Drug Administration warned General Mills recently that health claims on Cheerios packaging went too far, claims that essentially turned the nation’s No. 1 breakfast cereal into a medicine, it was a turnaround from what’s long been regarded […]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) – A frantic fawn led New Hampshire Fish and Game officials and police on an hour-long chase after it was spotted sprinting around the area of the Route 1 Bypass near the busy traffic circle. A crew was able to trap and rescue the animal after they cornered it in some bushes […]

GREENVILLE, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania toddler did such a remarkable job of hiding during a game of hide-and-seek that the family had to call police and firefighters to help find her. Two-year-old Natalie Jasmer was playing the game with her siblings Tuesday in their Pymatuning Township home. When the family couldn’t find her, parents […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Jury deliberations have turned nasty at the New York City trial of a lawyer charged in a giant fraud at commodities brokerage giant Refco Inc.. One juror said in a note read in court Thursday that another juror has threatened to cut off his finger or send her husband after him. […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – Authorities say four inmates face charges of malicious destruction of property after they broke the sprinkler system and flooded a county jail in Cambridge. Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola said Thursday the inmates may also face assault charges for scuffling with corrections officers. The Boston Globe reports DiPaola put the damage […]

ABINGTON, Mass. (AP) – One man is in the hospital with severe brain stem injuries and another man is facing an assault charge following a confrontation over a barking dog in Abington. Police say 48-year-old Brian Cherry fell and struck his head on the pavement after being punched in the head by Michael McGunigle at […]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – A judge’s illness has forced the postponement of the sentencing of a man who pleaded guilty to abusing residents at a Texas facility for the developmentally disabled. D’Angelo Riley, 23, waived his right to a jury and pleaded guilty earlier this week to three counts of injury to a disabled […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Animal humane groups say more than 400 dogs including some that were about to deliver puppies have been rescued in the largest coordinated raids on dogfighting in U.S. history. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducted the raids Wednesday and Thursday and made arrests in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Texas and […]