It’s time to change time again. Daylight saving time returns this weekend in the United States. The short-term pain: Lose an hour of sleep Saturday night. The long-term gain: Enjoy more evening light in the months ahead, when the weather warms and you want to be outdoors. Advance your clocks… Read More

Three iron crosses marking the graves of Confederate soldiers have been taken from the ruins of a 260-year-old South Carolina church destroyed during the Civil War. The caretaker of the site, Bill Sammons, said someone had to dig up each Southern Cross of Honor set in heavy concrete at the… Read More

Tennessee investigators have arrested a woman who they say ran over a Great Smoky Mountains National Park ranger’s foot and struck a deputy with her car before being shot last month. News outlets report 28-year-old Chelsey Dunbar of Greene County was arrested Wednesday on multiple charges, including aggravated assault. Authorities… Read More

Crews scrambled Thursday to restore power to more than 200,000 customers who lost electricity service when hurricane-force winds toppled trees and utility poles across much of western New York. Officials at three utilities said it will be days before customers in some stricken areas get their power back on, making… Read More

A Miami defense attorney is feeling the heat after his pants caught fire as he delivered closing arguments in an arson case. Witnesses told the Miami Herald 28-year-old Stephen Gutierrez was fiddling in his pocket Wednesday while addressing jurors when smoke started billowing from his pants. At the time, he was… Read More

A man hired women to work as dancers inside a million-dollar mansion and threatened to kill at least one of them if she tried to leave, according to a 911 call. Officers helped eight women leave the home after the 911 call was made Tuesday morning, police said Wednesday in… Read More

Mississippi universities that refuse to fly the Confederate-themed state flag could lose proposed tax breaks, the latest twist in a long battle over a symbol critics see as racist. All eight of Mississippi’s public universities have stopped flying the flag because it prominently features the Confederate battle emblem, angering supporters… Read More

For several hours, Lady Liberty didn’t shine so brightly. The famed The Statue of Liberty was temporarily in the dark Tuesday night after what a spokesman calls an “unplanned outage.” WCBS-TV says the statue was dark except for the crown and torch. The lights returned shortly before midnight. The outage… Read More

It was one of the more unusual calls the California Highway Patrol has received: Someone reported seeing a cow trying to climb out of a small car parked alongside an interstate. Officers responding Saturday along a mountain pass in Southern California’s Riverside County discovered a calf trying to escape from… Read More

North Carolina prosecutors will seek a mental evaluation of an 18-year-old man charged with decapitating his mother at a home east of Raleigh. Eighteen-year-old Oliver Funez was charged with first-degree murder Monday after a deputy responding to a 911 call saw the man walk out of a home in Zebulon… Read More