By RUSS BYNUM (BRUNSWICK, Ga., AP) – In five years, Sherry West has lost two sons to unspeakable violence. The Georgia mother was grieving from Thursday’s shooting death of her… Read more »

By AMANDA LEE MYERS and MARK SCOLFORO (CINCINNATI, AP) – Famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil might want to go back into hibernation. Authorities in still-frigid Ohio have issued an “indictment” of… Read more »

By RUSS BYNUM (BRUNSWICK, Ga., AP) – Police were combing school records and canvassing a coastal Georgia neighborhood Friday for a pair of suspects between 10 and 15 years old… Read more »

(UPPER DARBY, Pa., AP) – Police say a Philadelphia-area woman returned to a dollar store where she’d been banned and pepper-sprayed employees who tried to escort her out before giving… Read more »

(FORT WAYNE, Ind., AP) – A man pulled a woman off a city bus in northern Indiana on Wednesday, fatally shot her and then took a 3-year-old boy hostage before… Read more »

By SCOTT SONNER and TED BRIDIS (HAWTHORNE, Nev., AP) – A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during a training exercise in Nevada’s high desert,… Read more »

By KYLE HIGHTOWER (ORLANDO, Fla., AP) – A college student killed himself in a dorm at the University of Central Florida and authorities found explosives and guns in the room… Read more »

(MARYSVILLE, Calif., AP) – A teenage race car driver taking warm-up laps at a California raceway careened off the track and into pit row, killing a 14-year-old boy and 68-year-old… Read more »

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI (FORT COLLINS, Colo., AP) – The wildfire season that Coloradans have been nervously awaiting arrived in a wind-whipped frenzy in the foothills near Fort Collins. The year’s… Read more »

By GARANCE BURKE and PAUL ELIAS (SAN FRANCISCO, AP) – A deputy social media editor for Reuters vowed that Friday would be “business as usual” despite charges of conspiring with… Read more »