Arkansas State University says three students, including two from Japan, are missing in a cave in northern Arkansas. A university statement says the wife of 25-year-old student Casey Sherwood reported him missing Wednesday night, along with Japanese exchange students, 19-year-old Daiki Itoh and 18-year-old Daisuke Takagi. Independence County Office of… Read More

Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer says the former Penn State assistant football coach will testify during an upcoming appeals hearing about whether he was improperly convicted four years ago. Sandusky attorney Al Lindsay said Thursday he expects Sandusky to testify at length in the three-day Post-Conviction Relief Act hearing that gets underway… Read More

In a stunning mid-August shake-up, Patrick Roy has stepped down as coach and vice president of hockey operations for the Colorado Avalanche, citing disagreements with the organization. Roy made the announcement Thursday through a public relations agency, two months before the start of the NHL regular season. An Avalanche spokesman… Read More

A suburban New York police department has named a new K-9 in honor of the five law enforcers killed in Texas last month. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini (SEE’-nee) says the 15-month-old German shepherd is named Dallas V (five). Sini says Dallas V “is a visual reminder of the… Read More

A Mississippi woman who once sought to disguise a planned journey to join the Islamic State group as her honeymoon was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 12 years in prison on a terrorism charge. Vicksburg native Jaelyn Young broke down in heavy sobs during her sentencing by U.S…. Read More

After he escaped unharmed from the burning wreckage of an Emirates airplane that had crash-landed in Dubai, Mohamed Basheer already considered himself lucky. Then came the call telling him he had won $1 million. “I said, ‘Don’t joke!’” the 62-year-old Indian recounted, laughing inside the auto-body repair shop where he… Read More

It wasn’t a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut. Petersburg radio station KFSK reports that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a lifetime Sunday with a 396-pound halibut in southeast Alaska. The fish was nearly 8 feet long. They used a winch… Read More

A man who wanted an “audience” with Donald Trump spent three hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st floor before police officers grabbed him and hauled him to safety through an open window. The climber, identified by… Read More

ESPN sportscaster John Saunders, who has hosted “The Sports Reporters” for the last 15 years, has died, the network announced Wednesday. He was 61. Saunders joined ESPN in 1986. He did play-by-play on various sports, hosted NHL Stanley Cup Final coverage and World Series coverage and hosted studio shows for… Read More