WHEATLAND, N.Y. (AP) - Police say four upstate New York teenagers who tried to hold their breath for the time it took their car to go a third of a mile were hurt when the driver fainted. Authorities say three 19-year-old men and a 16-year-old boy were traveling together late Monday night when they decided to try to hold their breath ...

COMMERCE, Calif. — Four buses — three carrying U.S. Army troops and one transporting Los Angeles County jail inmates — collided Thursday on a freeway, critically injuring a soldier and causing seven other minor injuries, authorities said. The accident shortly before noon shut down northbound Interstate 5 in Commerce, east of downtown Los Angeles. The crash involved a county bus carrying ...

BELLEAIR BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man who apparently passed out on a pool float at a Tampa area beach ended up drifting about a mile from Florida's shore in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued the man, identified as Jerry Whipple, on Wednesday afternoon. Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Mariana O'Leary says they suspect the man ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A woman in New Mexico has been reunited with a $30,000 diamond engagement ring that she lost while making dinner in 1997. Santa Fe police say the ring was returned to its owner Wednesday. It had been in a police evidence room for more than two years. The police department said a few weeks ago it ...

OHIO - The police officers couldn't believe their eyes - thousands and thousands of dollars blowing in the breeze in the middle of a busy highway. There was so much cash, one deputy told Ohio police Chief Russ Martin that it looked like 'the field was growing money'. Now the authorities are trying to figure out how the bills - over ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland arrested a man after finding his cell phone charging at the scene of a burglary. Now Montgomery County police say 25-year-old Cody Wilkins has been charged in other burglaries. It began when a homeowner's son arrived as a burglar was going through rooms in the home Friday. Startled, the burglar jumped out a ...

LORETTO, Pa. (AP) - An inmate of a federal prison in central Pennsylvania is suing, saying he was wrongly punished for "theft" when all he did was take about 30 sandwiches that a vendor threw in the garbage while restocking a dining hall machine. Thirty-five-year-old George Crute III, is suing officials at the Federal Correctional Institution-Loretto over the Feb. 5 incident. ...

SEATTLE - Police officers never know what they're going to get when they respond to a call. This week, North Precinct officers got a naked man, growling like a dog and claiming to be the devil. He was high on drugs. Police were sent to the 2000 block of Northeast 105th Street at 10:50 p.m. Tuesday. A homeowner had complained that ...

SYDNEY (AP) — When an elderly Australian woman apparently vanished from view eight years ago, no one bothered to call the police. Not her relatives, her neighbors, or government officials, who kept paying her welfare benefits into a bank account that sat untouched. New South Wales state police said Wednesday that they discovered the woman's skeletal remains on the floor of ...