New York City prosecutors say a drifter accused in the alleged rape a 73-year-old birdwatcher in Central Park also groped two more women.

Prosecutors have wrapped up their case in the sentencing trial of a Dallas woman who admitted beating her 2-year-old daughter and gluing her hands to a wall.

Authorities say all three women found dead inside an overturned car that went off a Newport Harbor pier in Rhode Island drowned.

Police say a Southeast Texas woman who is pregnant with her fourth child has been charged in the deaths of her two infant sons.

Jerry Sandusky has been sentenced to at least 30 years in prison in the child sexual abuse scandal that brought shame to Penn State and led to coach Joe Paterno's downfall.

Police say a man tried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hoped to be sent to a federal prison nearby.

Alaska Airlines says its computer connections have been restored, and operations are returning to normal at its airport gates.

Jerry Sandusky could be in particular danger of sexual assault when he is sent off to prison this week.

Authorities say a Chicago Bears fan who came to Jacksonville for the Bears-Jaguars football game had his throat slashed inside a bar.

A doctor has testified that a Texas mother who glued her 2-year-old daughter's hands to a wall also beat the toddler so badly that she suffered significant brain trauma and bleeding inside her skull.

Company officials say a computer problem is causing significant delays for all Alaska Airlines flights.

A commercial supply ship is on its way to the International Space Station.

The House Intelligence Committee is warning that China's two leading technology firms pose a major security threat to the United States.

The head of the Border Patrol agents union says the agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire.

The pharmacy that distributed a steroid linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis has issued a voluntary recall of all of its products.

Pres. Obama is coming off of his strongest fundraising month of the year, but republicans are looking to downplay the fundraising success.

Romney and Obama are both airing new ads saying their positions have been distorted by their opponent.

A private company is on the verge of launching another cargo ship to the International Space Station.

A police officer at the University of South Alabama has fatally shot a naked student whom authorities said repeatedly charged the officer.

A partially-blind extremist cleric from Egypt and four other terrorism suspects have appeared in court in New York City and Connecticut, hours after they were brought to the United States from England to face trial.

Health officials say the death toll in a rare fungal meningitis outbreak across several states has risen to seven.

Mormon church president Thomas S. Monson announced Saturday that the faith will lower its minimum age requirement for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women.

Authorities in Douglas County, Ore., say they arrested a man who escaped from a California prison.

The FBI says a preliminary investigation has found friendly fire is likely to blame in the shootings of two border agents along the Arizona-Mexico border.

Authorities say at least seven crashes involving 46 vehicles on Interstate 75 are expected to block southbound traffic for several hours heading toward southwest Florida.