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An airman assigned to the 18th Munitions Squadron has died after falling from Aha Falls, officials from Kadena Air Base, Japan, said Saturday.

PITCHING FOR LONDON Sadiq Khan throws first ball at Mets baseball game during the London mayor’s whirlwind visit to New York

The FBI and NASA are investigating a University of Florida professor and his wife for allegedly defrauding NASA out of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for their own personal use.

A vehicle belonging to Tamaqua homicide victim Angela Serfass Steigerwalt was recovered in North Carolina on Sunday after police had a standoff with an Allentown man

A teenager will now face first-degree murder charges in connection with the rape and death of a 93-year-old South Omaha woman.

'Our lives have been made hell': Couple at centre of crying toddler baseball video say they are now 'viral-villains' and demand apology after Yankees commentator's attack

The fire appears to have been caused by hot fireplace ashes and embers, which had been discarded," said Barry Callahan, the chief fire marshal in Stamford, Connecticut. He said the fire that engulfed the large waterfront Victorian home was accidental, according to preliminary findings, but an investigating is ongoing.

(Los Angeles, CA) What's it like to be Muslim in America? On Sunday, November 13 at 10 PM ET/PT, TLC answers that question with ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIM, a powerful new eight-part series that goes inside the rarely seen world of American Muslims to uncover a unique community struggling to balance faith and nationality in a post 9/11 world.

<p>GILBOA, N.Y. (AP) - Residents of Schoharie County downstream of the Blenheim-Gilboa Dam are being advised to move to higher ground because of the potential for flooding along the Schoharie Creek.</p> <p>The New York City Department of Environmental Protection, which owns the dam as part of its upstate water supply, says warning sirens were triggered Sunday afternoon by rising water due to higher-than-predicted rainfall and the loss of electronic monitoring devices at the dam.</p>

Beaver Meadows police apprehended a man who has been living in the United States illegally for the past six years during a traffic stop. However, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not grant a detainer to Chief Michael Morresi and ordered that 30-year-old Oswaldo Tlalmis-Perez be released. Morresi said he stopped the vehicle after it was observed traveling 56 mph on state Route 93, which has a 35-mph limit within borough limits. According to the chief, Tlalmis-Perez produced a Mexican registration card as identification. Morresi contacted ICE, which confirmed he was an illegal immigrant in this country for six years...

A Drums native was hired to investigate crime and lapsed security at a national laboratory that provides the country's strongest defense against enemy nations. What Glenn Walp uncovered at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is shocking. Millions of dollars in thefts. Corruption. Cover-ups. Major breaches in security. But most alarming, he writes in his new non-fiction book, is knowing that some of the computers stolen from the facility in Los Alamos, N.M., may have contained U.S. nuclear weapons secrets. Walp, former Pennsylvania State Police commissioner, penned "Implosion at Los Alamos: How Crime, Corruption and Cover-Ups Jeopardize America's Nuclear Weapons Secrets."...

A Hazleton doctor is resigning from the medical staff of St. Luke's Miners' Memorial Hospital, Coaldale. Dr. Frank C. Polidora, a longtime Hazleton orthopedic surgeon, blames the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in March for his decision. He has been on the hospital's staff since 2003. "The Democrats' 'passage' of OBAMACARE on March 21, 2010, was the final straw," Polidora wrote in his resignation letter to William Crossin, chief executive officer of St. Luke's-Miners. The resignation is effective Saturday. Contacted Thursday, Polidora said his decision to leave had nothing to do with the hospital, a facility...

The Yankees' road trip will contain one additional stop, as President Barack Obama has invited the team to the White House to celebrate their 2009 World Series victory. The White House confirmed that the Yankees will be welcomed to Washington next Monday, April 26, a scheduled off-day before the club's visit to play the Orioles at Camden Yards. The Yankees defeated the Phillies in a six-game Fall Classic that ended Nov. 4, for the franchise's first World Series title since 2000. Just four Yankees -- Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera -- remain from that championship club,...

The late-afternoon news coming from the car radio was stunning. The report was that Thurman Munson had been killed in Ohio, something about an airplane accident. Details were sketchy, but the words were chilling: Thurman Munson was dead at age 32

Providing all of my research were the "family values" Republicans. Last week, second-term Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disappeared for six days, leaving the state without a chief executive who could make decisions in an emergency. His Republican lieutenant governor didn't know where he was, and had not been given any authority to make decisions in his absence. The state police said they had not been informed. His wife told the Associated Press she didn't know where he was, wasn't worried about him, and thought he was "writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids"...

The prospect of a gun rights group demonstrating their right to openly carry firearms in Hazle Township Community Park on the same day as the annual “Celebration of Life Walk” sponsored by the Hazleton Chapter of the American Red Cross is threatening cancellation of the 10th annual Red Cross fundraiser. Joyce Bradbury, executive director of the Hazleton Chapter of the American Red Cross said a significant number of walk participants called the Red Cross headquarters to cancel their participation in the event in light of the gun group’s plans. Most of the cancellations came from school student groups, Bradbury said....

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01252009/news/regionalnews/torre_rips_a_fraud__boss_brass_bozos_151965.htm In an explosive new book called "The Yankee Years," Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates after he developed a "Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.

BY ADAM LISBERG DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, November 2nd 2008, 1:23 AM DelMundo for News A makeshift memorial of stuffed toys grows outside Jennifer Hudson's slain mom's South Side, Chicago, home. Jennifer Hudson and her nephew Julian King Hudson's mother Darnell Donerson Hudson's brother Jason Hudson CHICAGO - For a few days last week, the weed-choked South Side block where Jennifer Hudson's family was killed became an oasis of safety in the nation's deadliest big city. "If she wasn't famous, all of the media wouldn't be here," said Michelle Strickland, 23, standing near the hundreds of teddy bears piled...

NEW YORK -- Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple's second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News.

TARRYTOWN - Authorities removed a live mortar shell from an office building yesterday - active ordnance that had apparently been making the rounds there for a couple of years. Security officials at Kraft Foods notified authorities about 11:20 a.m. that a maintenance worker had discovered the 81 mm shell standing on its nose in a corner of an audio and visual equipment storage room, Police Chief Scott Brown said. Police Sgt. Frank Giampiccolo, the first officer to arrive, notified the Westchester County bomb squad, which disabled the device and removed it shortly after noon. It contained some two pounds of...