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ROSEMOUNT, Minn. – A 16-year-old Minnesota boy has given away thousands of dollars to fellow students and a school aide. The bag full of money he found was apparently tossed by a drug dealer. When asked how he got the $100 bills, the student first said it was his allowance. …

ST. POELTEN, Austria – An Austrian who fathered seven children with a daughter he held captive in a squalid cellar for 24 years refused to even speak to her for years, coming only to rape her, often in front of the youngsters, a prosecutor said Monday. Wearing a mismatched gray …

NEW YORK – A 29-year-old pregnant woman was killed and a second woman was seriously injured Friday when a commercial van jumped the curb of a midtown Manhattan sidewalk at rush hour and crashed into a building wall. An hour earlier on the Upper West Side, seven people were injured …

WASHINGTON – The U.S. peanut industry could lose $1 billion because of an outbreak of salmonella that has caused the biggest food recall in U.S. history, Georgia’s peanut commissioner said on Wednesday. Losses will mount until the ongoing outbreak ends, said Don Koehler, executive director of the Georgia Peanut Commission. …

CHANTILLY, Virginia – Customs inspectors at Dulles International Airport say a man from Guatemala was detained after he tried to carry a cooked chicken stuffed with more than $4,000 worth of cocaine. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Steve Sapp says agents decided the fully cooked chicken that 32-year-old Wagner Mauricio …

HONOLULU – Honolulu police say a man accused of trying to fatally shoot his terminally ill wife in her hospital bed has apparently committed suicide by hanging himself. Officials say 71-year-old Robert Yagi was found dead Sunday in his Kailua home. Yagi was free on bail after being charged last …

The founder of Twitter has launched a payment system that could replace credit card scanners with mobile phones. Jack Dorsey’s idea is that anyone with a mobile and the right software should be able to accept a card payment. His new project, Square, is a dongle that plugs into a …

KERRVILLE, Texas – Prosecutors in Kerrville will review the case of a woman accused of calling 911 to complain that her husband refused to eat his dinner. A police report says the 53-year-old woman at the scene was also yelling “about things that happened two weeks ago.” A pair of …

NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. – A 72-year-old Wal-Mart greeter is in the hospital after being punched in the face by a Pittsburgh-area man. Surveillance video shows Thomas Jenkins standing at the entrance to the Wal-Mart in a town about 13 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. A man comes around the corner, punches …

HENDERSON, Nev. – A 19-year-old Las Vegas-area woman has been arrested on allegations that she hid her pregnancy and then killed her newborn son because she was afraid her mother would be mad at her for giving birth out of wedlock. Henderson police spokesman Keith Paul says Carmela Camero was …