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PHOENIX – An ex-con was charged in two sexual assaults linked to a serial killing investigation, but police still are not saying he is the so-called Baseline Killer believed responsible for eight deaths during the past year. Mark Goudeau, a 42-year-old construction worker, was charged Monday with 17 felony counts …

LOS ANGELES – Paris Hilton’s arraignment on drunken-driving charges has been postponed to December at the request of her attorney, a spokesman for city prosecutors said Wednesday. Hilton was originally scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges that she was driving under the influence with a blood-alcohol level of at …

MOSCOW – Security forces raided a Moscow jail and freed the warden and 14 employees several hours after they were seized Monday by inmates wearing guards’ uniforms and armed with metal rods, Russian authorities said. None of the hostages was harmed, Yuri Kalinin, the head of the agency that runs …