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After nearly nine months of wrangling, failed deals and waiting in vain for a higher price, the sale of Atlantic City's former Revel casino is expected to be finalized.More
The sale of Atlantic City's former Revel casino to Florida developer Glenn Straub was completed Tuesday after a complicated and torturous effort to find a new owner for the shuttered casino.More
A small plane with at least five people on board has crashed near the city of Bloomington in central Illinois.More
A small plane with at least five people on board crashed Tuesday near the city of Bloomington in central Illinois.More
A relative says a man found dead with his seven children in a Maryland home was trying to keep them warm with a generator after power was cut over an outstanding bill.More
A divorced father and the seven children he was raising on his kitchen worker's salary were found dead inside their home, where a gasoline-powered generator had been keeping them warm after the electricity was shut off...More
When Henry and Donna Lou Rayhons married seven years ago in their northern Iowa hometown, it was a second chance at love for the devoted couple, both previously widowed. But their domestic routine of church...More
A former state lawmaker accused of raping his wife in a nursing home is forcing an Iowa court to confront a little-discussed question of aging: When is a person suffering from dementia unable to consent to sex?More
Thousands of kids take over White House lawn for egg rollMore
Thousands of kids take over White House lawn for egg rollMore
AP PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Easter celebrations in the Holy Land and around the worldMore
AP PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Easter celebrations in the Holy Land and around the worldMore
2 NYC women arrested on charges they plotted to build bomb for Boston Marathon-type attackMore
2 NYC women arrested on charges they plotted to build bomb for Boston Marathon-type attackMore
Indiana lawmakers unveil changes to religious objections bill as Arkansas scrambles to do sameMore
Indiana lawmakers unveil changes to religious objections bill as Arkansas scrambles to do sameMore
LONDON (AP) - The slaughter of students at Kenya's Garissa University College by al-Shabab extremists last week horrified the world - and unleashed a wave of mourning and protest across a nation weary of violence from the Somali militants.
Pope Francis offered a prayer for the victims of the university attack in his Easter Sunday Urbi and Orbi speech from St. Peter's Square.
The faithful observed Holy Week across Europe, with a "Descent of the Angel" ceremony in Tudela, northern Spain and a Palm Sunday memorial for the departed in Herasti, southern Romania.
British Prime Minister David Cameron informed Queen Elizabeth II of the dissolution of Parliament ahead of May 7 general elections.
The chief executives of Germanwings and Lufthansa laid a wreath at a monument commemorating victims of the Germanwings jet crash.
Thousands in Turkey attended a funeral ceremony for slain Turkish prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz in Istanbul.
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