BENSALEM, Pa. – Police had no trouble tracking down a suspect in the robbery of three women at a Bucks County convenience store, because the women had taken the man’s picture a short time earlier at a bar. The suspect, Andre Smith, struck up a conversation with a group women …

DALLAS – A Southwest Airlines passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him Monday. Southwest officials had summoned police, who met the jet when it arrived at Love Field from Austin. Southwest spokeswoman Brandy King said flight attendants had repeatedly …

FRESNO, Calif. – A central California biochemist convicted of killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Larissa Schuster of Clovis was convicted in December of murdering Timothy Schuster with …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Police say they have discovered 300 dead cats stuffed into freezers at a man’s Sacramento home. Animal control officers also removed 30 live cats from 47-year-old Michael Louis Vondueren’s home over the weekend. Vondueren was arrested on suspicion of possessing an automatic weapon and obstructing police officers. …

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Nearly 25 years after leaving Syracuse University, Vanessa Williams will get her bachelor of fine arts degree this weekend. The 45-year-old actress-singer, who stars in ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” will also deliver the convocation address Saturday to graduates of Syracuse’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Williams attended …

TACOMA, Wash. – Searchers have found the bodies of three snowboarders missing since early December in the Cascades near Crystal Mountain, a skiing area northeast of Mount Rainier in Washington state’s Cascade Range. Pierce County sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer tells The New Tribune of Tacoma that friends of the three …

ALBEMARLE, N.C. – For two decades, Al Gentry begged investigators to take another look at the mystery of who killed his brother, Harold, and left his gunshot-ridden body sprawled on the floor of the home he shared with his wife. He visited the sheriff’s office dozens of times and made …

WASHINGTON – A federal judge ruled Monday that a White House office that has records about millions of possibly missing e-mails does not have to make them public. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly says the Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, enabling the White …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – It’s going to be a long, bumpy ride from South Florida to Massachusetts for two brothers. Joe and Bill Casey plan to make the 1,600-mile journey on a pair of personal watercraft. The purpose of the trip is to raise money for the YMCA in Ipswich, …

GUTHRIE, Okla. – A 3-year-old girl used the simple song lyrics “911 green” to call 911 and get help after her pregnant mother fainted. Jessica Eaves taught her daughter, Madelyn, the song a week before she fainted due to a medical condition called vasovagal syncope (vayzo-vay-gal SIN’-kuh-pea). When the 24-year-old …