New Jersey lawmakers are set to vote on an agreement between Democratic leaders and Republican Gov. Chris Christie to raise the state’s gas tax by 23 cents a gallon to pay for road, bridge and transit work. The Assembly and Senate have scheduled votes for Wednesday on the deal that… Read More

NBA star Derrick Rose will begin trial in a $21 million rape lawsuit Tuesday, the same day the New York Knicks’ preseason begins. It’s unclear whether Rose will be in court or with his new team. Rose and two friends are accused of gang raping an incapacitated woman he once… Read More

Police in Virginia are investigating the death of a 16-year-old special needs student who apparently became sick at school and died at a hospital five days later. Prince George County police Capt. Brian Kei tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch that authorities received a 911 call about the boy on Sept. 21 from… Read More

When President Theodore Roosevelt designated the country’s first national monument 110 years ago, the proclamation inadvertently left out a punctuation mark, and what was supposed to be Devil’s Tower became Devils Tower instead. Some say that’s not all it got wrong. According to local American Indians and others, the landmark’s… Read More

Don’t try to fence in Alaska moose battling for female attention. They’ll bust right through it. Bryan M. Anderson said he and his daughter went looking for moose early Sunday, stumbling upon an unusual sighting in Anchorage’s largest park. Two bull moose on either side of a chain-link fence near… Read More

Tarunkumar and Sachin Patel wanted to find a way so that more of their friends and business associates from India could get permanent legal status to remain in the United States. But they admitted Monday their plans were federal crimes. Now they and up to 17 others face prison time…. Read More

Hurricane Matthew roared into the southwestern coast of Haiti on Tuesday, threatening a largely rural corner of the impoverished country with devastating storm conditions as it headed north toward Cuba and the eastern coast of Florida. The dangerous Category 4 storm made landfall around dawn on Haiti’s southern peninsula, where… Read More

Police say a 59-year-old man who wore a bikini fashioned out of see-through plastic wrap on a New Jersey beach is facing a criminal charge. They say Stephen Wojciehowski spent two days on a Long Beach Island beach wearing a homemade bikini in which his genitals were clearly exposed and… Read More

An airplane flying from Portugal to Angola was forced to make an emergency landing in Lisbon after a cargo worker was reported missing — and the man was found inside the cargo hold, alive but suffering from hypothermia. Lisbon airport spokesman Rui Oliveira told The Associated Press that the TAAG… Read More

Southern California residents should remain on heightened alert until Tuesday for the increased possibility of a major earthquake, officials said. The warning by the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services follows a series of small temblors deep under the Salton Sea, which is located on the 800-mile-long San Andreas fault, the… Read More