A suburban Pittsburgh woman accused of cutting open another woman's womb and stealing her baby has been charged with homicide, unlawful restraint and kidnapping.
By KATE BRUMBACK
- Associated Press Writer
Updated: 07/20/08 3:48 PM
Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen, marker or crayon, Frank Calloway spends his days turning visions from his youth into lively murals - and at 112 years old, the images of his childhood are a window to another time.
Firefighters are looking to scattered showers forecast for California's northern mountains to help rein in the last wildfires still keeping people from their homes.
Police say a bronze horse statue stolen from a now-defunct New Jersey racetrack has been broken up and sold to a salvage yard for a fraction of its value.
Not a cloud in the sky and the temperature is flirting with 90 degrees. Usually, it doesn't get any better than this for the Tommy Bartlett water ski show.
By ALLEN G. BREED and KEVIN MAURER
- Associated Press Writers
Updated: 07/20/08 1:33 PM
Officers had been to the white ranch house at 560 W. Longleaf many times before over the past year to respond to a "barricade situation." Each had ended uneventfully, with Joseph Dwyer coming out or telling police in a calm voice through the window that he was OK.
By ESTES THOMPSON
- Associated Press Writer
Updated: 07/20/08 1:13 PM
Tropical Storm Cristobal skirted the North Carolina coast Sunday, dumping heavy rain and churning up rough surf, but so far sparing the seaboard of any severe weather.
Police in Missouri say a man has killed his wife and her sister, and has brutally beaten his brother in law, before taking his own life in a community outside St. Louis.
By Dan Nephin
- ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: 07/20/08 7:02 AM
PITTSBURGH — An autopsy on a body discovered in an apartment linked to a mystery newborn baby has found that the woman was partially eviscerated and her uterus was cut open, authorities said Saturday.
By Bruce Smith
- ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: 07/20/08 7:02 AM
CHARLESTON, S. C. — Tropical Storm Cristobal, the first tropical storm to menace the Southeast seaboard this hurricane season, sent outer bands of intermittent rain lashing the eastern Carolinas late Saturday as forecasters predicted it could dump several inches in some areas of drought-stricken North Carolina.
