- TNA claims WWE tried to poach its wrestlers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two giants in the wrestling world are getting ready to rumble — in a courtroom.
Police: Patz suspect mentioned suicide wish
NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of killing a New York City boy in one of the nation's most notorious missing child cases was hospitalized on the day of his planned arraignment after he made statements about wanting to kill himself.
French president: All combat troops out in 2012
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — French President Francois Hollande for the first time provided details of his plan to pull France's combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Friday he would leave around 1,400 soldiers behind to help with training and logistics.
Smoke from massive fire spreads across NM, Ariz.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As smoke from a massive blaze in the southwestern New Mexico wilderness spread across the state Friday, health officials as far away as Albuquerque and Santa Fe warned residents to limit outdoor activity over Memorial Day weekend due to growing air-quality concerns.
- TNA claims WWE tried to poach its wrestlers
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two giants in the wrestling world are getting ready to rumble — in a courtroom.
- NJ mayor accused of hacking opponents' websites
WEST NEW YORK, N.J. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey mayor and his adult son hacked into websites of political foes who were seeking his recall.
50 years on, fire still burns underneath Pa. town
CENTRALIA, Pa. (AP) — It's an anniversary the few remaining souls who live here won't be celebrating.
- Oregon police seek parents of 3 abandoned kids
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police have received many tips but are still trying to find the parents of three children abandoned in a shed.
- Fla. man gets 8 years for $8 million Ponzi scheme
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Florida man was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of victims out of $8 million.
- NJ judge: Texter not liable for driver's car crash
MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A woman who texted her boyfriend while he was driving cannot be held liable for a car crash he caused while responding, seriously injuring a motorcycling couple, a judge ruled Friday in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the country.
- Fla. man gets 8 years for $8 million Ponzi scheme
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that swindled hundreds of victims out of $8 million.
Mexico pres front-runner promises to cut violence
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Shortly after sunrise last month in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found 14 butchered bodies in a van outside city hall, a salvo in a seesawing battle of horrors between Mexico's two most powerful drug cartels.
UN agency finds higher enrichment at Iranian site
VIENNA (AP) — Inspectors have located radioactive traces at an Iranian underground bunker, the U.N. atomic agency said Friday in a finding that could mean Iran has moved closer to reaching the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles.
Kodiak in dark on double homicide investigation
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — From the vantage point of the Comfort Inn parking lot near the entrance to Kodiak's airport, traffic moves north toward downtown or south to the Coast Guard air station, the home to cutters, helicopters and rescue swimmers that aid mariners in the Bering Sea or the Pacific Ocean.
- Mont. Regents OK new policy for sexual assaults
HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — Leaders of the Montana college system unanimously approved Friday a new policy for handling sexual assaults, the latest response to a rape controversy that has subjected the University of Montana, its football team and even the city of Missoula to a federal gender equality investigation.
