NESCOPECK, Pa. – Pennsylvania State Police are crying fowl after crates of live chickens hurtled off a tractor-trailer on a Pennsylvania highway and the birds flew the coop. The feather-ruffling incident happened at around 6:30 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 80 in Nescopeck Township, near Berwick. State police say about 500 …

AKRON, Ohio – Police say a 60-year-old man has been crushed to death at a machine shop in Ohio. An Akron police spokesman said the accident occurred sometime between 10 p.m. Friday and around 4:45 a.m. Saturday, when co-workers found him. The spokesman says co-workers used a crane to lift …

WASHINGTON – Critics of Vermont’s former governor say Howard Dean (search) has fashioned himself a humble populist and darling of the Democratic left wing in part because no one has really questioned his record and leadership as governor. While political pundits are quick to compare him with another once little-known …

LAS VEGAS – Federal funding could be at stake as Common Core testing problems continued in Nevada, Montana and North Dakota, state and U.S. officials said. The three states contract with New Hampshire-based Measured Progress to administer the tests that are linked to hotly disputed, federally backed education standards. “We …

SAN DIEGO – A man accused of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State group is going to be sent from California to Minnesota to face charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen S. Crawford in San Diego signed a warrant for the removal of Mohamad Farah. The FBI …

SEATTLE – Oyster growers in southwest Washington are preparing to spray up to 2,000 acres of commercial shellfish beds after winning state approval to use a neurotoxic pesticide to control a native burrowing shrimp. They say it’s a safe way to check a threat to the area’s multi-million shellfish industry. …

I often wonder what the families of those who’ve died in battle make of the criticisms of this battle. Criticisms that after little more than a week, it’s a lot more than a disappointment. That while coalition forces control 90 percent of the airspace in that country, we are having …

WASHINGTON – A judge is considering whether to allow President Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to live full time outside a mental hospital. Lawyers for the government and John Hinckley Jr. on Tuesday concluded seven days of hearings that were meant to help Judge Paul L. Friedman decide whether Hinckley should …

SARASOTA, Fla. – Police in Sarasota, Florida, have arrested a man they say broke into a home, then fell asleep on the couch. The Bradenton Herald (http://bit.ly/1HrmCS1 ) reports 29-year-old Timothy Bontrager was arrested Saturday morning. Police say the resident woke up and found Bontrager sleeping on her living room …

Memos leaked. Wars raging. Rosie fighting in court. CEOs being dragged into court. As we obsess over it all the spacecraftVoyager 1 (search)is on the edge of the solar system, more than 8 billion miles from Earth — the tiny blue planet from which it blasted off more than 26 …