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  • Ghana president takes office after tense election

    ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Ghana's new president took office Wednesday vowing to "heal wounds and unite our dear nation" following a peaceful but tense election that secured the country's status as one of the continent's few stable democracies.

     
  • Charges: Stolen church cash paid for vasectomy

    MARION, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana prosecutor says a former church official is charged with stealing more than $276,000 from church accounts and using some of the money to pay for a vasectomy.

     
  • Pa. man opens neighbor's door with chain saw

    SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — An eastern Pennsylvania man may face up to 37 years in prison for tearing open a neighbor's door with a chain saw. Police say 34-year-old Robert Kane began sawing through the front door of Jamie Zaleski's apartment in Scranton while Zaleski and several friends ran out the back.