MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities have charged a man with second-degree murder after he called a Milwaukee television news station and discussed details of a cold case involving a Milwaukee seventh-grade girl whose body was found more than 30 years ago. Prosecutors say Jose Ferreira is responsible for the death of… Read More

Easy there, cowboy! Two people were hit with bullets Sunday during a gunfight re-enactment in the Old West town of Tombstone that was supposed to involve blanks. The shooting occurred Sunday afternoon as two actors in the Tombstone Vigilante group engaged in a standoff as they re-enacted an episode from… Read More

Police say a woman accused of drunken driving and hitting six vehicles initially identified herself to an officer as “Hell on Wheels.” The Exponent Telegram reports 38-year-old Amanda Dolores Alleman of Clarksburg was arrested Friday on numerous charges. Among them are aggravated driving while under the influence, striking an unattended… Read More

A woman wasn’t expecting this type of burglar to break into her daughter’s home — The North Carolina woman says she entered her daughter’s apartment and found a bear, who had entered by opening an unlocked door, roaming through the place. Asheville Fire Department spokeswoman Kelley Klope told local news… Read More

Portland State University librarians in Oregon finally got their hands on two overdue books — a half century after they were checked out. The Oregonian reports that someone put two books checked out in 1963 into a book drop, accompanied by an anonymous, handwritten note. University librarian Joan Petit says… Read More

As part of a “Day of Rage,” dozens of Palestinians threw firebombs at a West Bank site revered by many Christians and Jews as the tomb of biblical patriarch Joseph. Palestinian security forces extinguished the blaze early Friday. Footage on local media shows flames leaping from the small stone structure… Read More

It is a heist that seems straight out of a movie, but police say it’s very real. In Philadelphia, cops say someone broke through the walls of two downtown businesses and escaped with about $250,000 in cash and merchandise from a jewelry store. Time & Gold owner Matena Kamara tells… Read More

Whoa, baby! A Los Angeles doctor returning from her honeymoon ended up delivering a baby on an overseas flight when a fellow passenger went into early labor. Dr. Angelica Zen, a resident physician at UCLA, says she didn’t have much obstetrics training but didn’t hesitate to help during the Air… Read More