MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - A former Oregon military dog that did two tours of duty sniffing out bombs in Iraq is going to receive stem cell therapy to treat osteoarthritis in his hips. The Mail Tribune reports the 80-pound German shepherd named Basco was adopted in November by Debbie Richter in Medford after he was discharged by the military. Hip problems ...

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a Florida teen has told police that bite marks on her body came from "Twilight"-inspired vampire role playing _ not from someone who attacked her while she was out jogging. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that the Monroe County Sheriff's Office has charged the 15-year-old girl with making a false report. Authorities say the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker wants to make sure just about everyone who works for the government can't negotiate their working conditions — except for local police, firefighters and state troopers. Walker has introduced a bill that would strip public employees across the board — from teachers to snowplow drivers — of their right to collectively bargain ...

CHICAGO - A secret face-to-face meeting with gang leaders last summer won Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis harsh criticism from aldermen who said he was “negotiating with urban terrorists.” But the controversial sit-down and new police strategies — both imported from Cincinnati and Boston — cut murders in high-crime parts of the West Side by 40 percent, Weis said Sunday. The ...

Dressed in black and carrying assault rifles, members of a local multi-jurisdiction police unit burst into a dark home in Ogden, Utah, one night in September shouting, "Police! Search warrant!" A video of the incident made by the Weber-Morgan counties Narcotics Strike Force and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency shows a man suddenly appearing in a hallway holding a shiny object ...

SIMPSONVILLE - A South Carolina woman is scheduled to appear in court later today after authorities say she left her 17-month-old daughter in a disabled car on an interstate highway early Sunday while she went to get gas. Jessica Perry, of Simpsonville, will make her initial court appearance Monday afternoon in Gaston County. She has been charged with DWI -- her ...

WASHINGTON, DC - D.C. police opened fire late Sunday night on three people suspected of a home invasion in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast Washington, WRC-TV (Channel 4) reported. One person was fatally wounded and another was shot and injured. Police were sent to the 1000 block of Irving Street NE shortly before 11 p.m. to investigate a possible burglary. Channel ...

NEW YORK - The relationship that supposedly drove lovelorn Maksim Gelman's bloody rampage was a figment of his imagination, friends of the woman he obsessed over said Sunday. "That was all in his head," said Yelena Bulchenko's pal Andrey Andriak. "They were never a couple - barely friends. He wanted to take it to the next level and she didn't." Gelman's ...