Cheryl Geidner figured council members in Volant, a tiny borough north of Pittsburgh, would adopt a preliminary year-end budget despite no discussions at public meetings on the proposed financials. She never figured they’d raise property taxes by 57%. “There had never been a mention of that,” said Geidner, a property …

Sudan’s deadly conflict between a powerful paramilitary force and the army has reached a strategic city that had been a haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and key humanitarian groups say they have been forced to suspend work there or flee. On Tuesday, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, leader …

I’m proud to be an American because we have done something no other great nation in the history of the world has done – we have used our great power not to enslave others, but to enable them. I am proud because America is exceptional for many reasons: for our …

LONDON – Prosecutors say a British teenager planned a gun and bomb attack on a college that had kicked him out for bad behavior. Liam Lyburd is on trial for allegedly amassing an arsenal to target Newcastle College in northern England. He was expelled in 2012 for being disruptive in …

NEW DELHI – Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the southern Indian town of Rameswaram for the burial of former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, known as the father of the country’s military missile program. On Thursday his body, carried in a glass topped hearse, was driven from his …

Farrah Fawcett’s son, Redmond O’Neal, in jail for drug-related charges, has been granted permission to attend his mother’s funeral Tuesday. O’Neal, 24, has been given three hours freedom from Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Calif., but only to attend the service, Entertainment Tonight reported. He is also permitted to wear …

A 3-month medication monitoring study showed that 44 percent of glaucoma patients used their eye drops less than three quarters of the time, according to a study published in the journal Ophthalmology. Glaucoma is a group of eye disorders that lead to damage of the optic nerve, which carries visual …

This is a rush transcript from “On the Record,” June 17, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Earlier, we went to the United States Senate to talk to Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) VAN …

MIAMI – A South Florida teenager was arrested early Sunday and accused of killing and mutilating the cats of his neighbors — a disturbing string of deaths that has horrified residents and shaken animal lovers in two Miami-area communities. Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, was taken into custody at a party, …

WASHINGTON – The military says Capt. Michael “Scott” Speicher died when his fighter jet was shot down over Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War and was never captured or tortured. But Speicher’s family is unconvinced. The Navy pilot’s remains were identified earlier this year under about 18 inches of sand …