By SOPHIA TAREEN   (CHICAGO, AP) — Illinois became the 20th state in the nation to allow the medical use of marijuana Thursday, with Gov. Pat Quinn signing some of… Read more »

By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK (FORT MEADE, Md., AP) — In a split decision, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted Tuesday of aiding the enemy — the most… Read more »

By NICOLE WINFIELD (ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRCRAFT, AP) — Pope Francis reached out to gays on Monday, saying he wouldn’t judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open… Read more »

(PIERMONT, N.Y., AP) — Brian Bond was disoriented from head trauma and in darkness when he awoke from unconsciousness soon after the speedboat he was in with his fiancee and… Read more »

(CLEVELAND, AP) — One of three women held captive in a Cleveland home for a decade appeared at a public event for the first time since her rescue, a day… Read more »

By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK (FORT MEADE, Md., AP) — A military judge is deliberating the fate of an Army private accused of aiding the enemy by engineering a… Read more »

(PIERMONT, N.Y., AP) — A bride-to-be and her fiance’s best man were missing Saturday after a speedboat carrying six friends crashed into a construction barge near New York’s Tappan Zee… Read more »