Posted: 8:22 AM Police in Maryland say a man has been charged with assault for using a slingshot to fire glass marbles at a speed camera van.

Posted: 8:20 AM Some people shouted curse words while others carried profane posters supporting free speech at Monday's rally in the rain on the Middleborough Town Hall lawn. People who support the bylaw also showed up.

Posted: 8:18 AM The Austria Press Agency says police stopped three overloaded and sagging vans about to cross into Hungary from Austria on Wednesday and found them packed to the roof with the pungent cargo.

Updated: 6:25 AM Concerns raised over "baby boxes" by a U.N. committee dedicated to protecting the rights of children have sparked a debate over whether or not abandoning children in a safe environment should still be tolerated.

Posted: 4:12 AM Police in Maryland say a man has been charged with assault for using a slingshot to fire glass marbles at a speed camera van.

Posted: 5:41 AM Archaeologists in Greece's second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was the city's main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ago.

Posted: 5:38 AM The depiction of Jerry Sandusky on a well-known mural across the street from the Penn State campus has been replaced by an image of a poet and activist draped with a blue ribbon.

Posted: 5:20 AM Several dozen people have held a profanity laced rally to protest a Massachusetts town's bylaw allowing police to hand out $20 tickets for public swearing.

Posted: 4:23 PM A list of 2,200 suggestions submitted to the Akron Zoo in a public naming contest was narrowed to three options Monday for the 20-pound, 4-foot-long octopus, and she chose Cora

Posted: 4:20 PM A Michigan wedding party joined the bride and groom in taking the plunge over the weekend when the boat dock they were lined up on for pictures gave way.

Posted: 6:55 AM A Utah mother says she felt intimated in court when a judge told her that he would reduce her 13-year-old daughter's sentence if she chopped off the girl's ponytail in court — an offer the mother says she now wishes she hadn't taken.

Posted: 6:53 AM Two great-grandmothers in their 80s have parachuted from a plane to raise money for a veterans' food pantry in northwest Ohio.

Posted: 10:35 AM Express service might be all you have time for at one New Hampshire post office.

Posted: 11:56 AM Chicago-area parents thought their pit bull was to blame when they heard their 18-month-old daughter crying and discovered one of her fingertips had been severed.

Posted: 11:14 AM Sniff your way to love? Singles who have attended so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out.

Posted: 5:37 AM A Utah police officer fired for dropping his pants and flaunting a green Speedo during a "Princess and the Frog" skit at a school is getting his job back.

Posted: 5:35 AM An Alaska man had to be rescued after he climbed a tree for exercise but got stuck upside down by one leg.

Posted: 5:10 AM Police say a car given away at last year's Dyer County Fair has been quarantined after a meth lab was found in it.

Posted: 12:08 PM Police in northern Ohio are trying to identify a candy thief who has stolen hundreds of dollars in peanut butter cups from a gas station store.

Posted: 11:17 AM An American woman who sent her Russian adopted son back to Moscow on a plane is asking a Tennessee judge to set aside an order for her to pay $150,000 in child support.

Posted: 6:05 AM Leave it to Italians to come up with just the thing to survive the dog days of summer: canine gelato.

Posted: 10:48 AM They didn't have to absolutely, positively get them there overnight, but when the U.S. Equestrian Federation sent some of its horses to London for the Olympics, it was a special delivery.

Posted: 1:09 PM State public health veterinarian Dr. Emilio De Bess says the man was infected when he was bitten by either the stray his family had befriended and named Charlie or the mouse.

Posted: 12:41 PM Her images of uninspiring school meals — one consisted of two croquettes, a plain cheeseburger, three slices of cucumber and a lollipop —drew international attention.

Posted: 5:13 PM A Knox Co. woman was taken to the hospital Thursday morning after her 7 year-old son struck her with a car door while backing out of the driveway, according to the Knox Co. Sheriff's Dept.