ZEPHYRHILLS, Fla. (AP) - A man died while skydiving in Florida after authorities say he had problems with his parachute.

Zephyrhills police say 68-year-old Paul C. Luter III appears to have died instantly upon impact Friday afternoon.

Skydive City general manager David T.K. Hayes says it appears Luter's main shoot didn't op...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - The latest member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for sexual assault of a child.

Thirty-five-year-old Merril Leroy Jessop was sentenced Friday. Jurors earlier this week also found he violated Texas laws prohibiting bi...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.J. (AP) - A car has collided head-on with a school bus in central New Jersey, killing the car's driver and wounding three people, including two high school students.

The crash happened at about 2:45 p.m. Friday in Hillsborough, about 10 miles north of Princeton.

Police say a 1993 Toyota Camry driven by 73-yea...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A 31-year-old man who allegedly held his girlfriend against her will in a Utah apartment for three weeks has been charged.

Anthony G. Whyms faces one count of aggravated kidnapping and three counts of aggravated sexual assault. All are first-degree felonies. He also faces a count of second-degree fe...

(AP) - The Rapid City, S.D., police chief said in a report released Friday that he regrets his department's outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant led to her military discharge, but that his officers followed department protocol.

Chief Steve Allender said the Rapid City Police Department will review polici...

LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to stabbing a moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer during a screening of the film "Shutter Island."

Landry Boullard entered the plea Friday in Lancaster Superior Court to one count of attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weap...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The family of a Texas man who died while imprisoned for a rape he didn't commit cried and hugged at his graveside Friday with a framed copy of the state's first posthumous pardon _ a document that finally proves his innocence.

Gov. Rick Perry granted Timothy Cole's pardon nearly three weeks ago. He ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A state Senate report released Friday said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregivers in assisted living facilities because of a computer tracking loophole.

A Senate subcommittee plans to hold a hearing next we...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - It was a day like any other day _ except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten.

"Honestly, with everything that's going on in my personal life, it slipped my mind," said Chris Skidmore, 39, as he sipped a drink on the artificial ...

CHICAGO (AP) - A suburban police department left behind a roomful of evidence when it closed two years ago _ including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to the 2006 rape of a 13-year-old girl, nearly 200 guns and hundreds of bags of narcotics, officials said Friday.

In all, seven rape k...