They’re a relentless force on the gridiron, with a stinging defense. But don’t expect anyone to cheer for the Rialto High School fire ants.

Police said an elderly woman fended off a man who broke into her Annapolis-area home using a reacher device used to grasp objects.

A Paraguayan farmers group says landless protesters have invaded a northern hacienda, setting up tents and destroying crops to press their demands for terrain.

A maroon-striped marauder with venomous spikes is rapidly multiplying in the Caribbean’s warm waters, swallowing native species, stinging divers and generally wreaking havoc on an ecologically delicate...

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A year ago, Dr. William Petit had a thriving medical practice. He lived in a comfortable colonial house adorned with flower gardens in an upscale Connecticut suburb with his wife and two daughters admired for their charitable works.Then two...

It’s just a $5,812,353 contract — chump change for the Pentagon — and not even one of those notorious “no-bid” contracts either. Ninety-eight bids were solicited by the Army Corps of Engineers and 12 were received...

Armando Acuna, public editor of the Sacramento Bee, turned a Sunday column into a public flogging for both his editors and the nation’s news media. They had allowed the third-longest war in American history to slip off the radar screen, and...

Police in a Dallas suburb say a man trying to rob a house accidentally shot himself after kicking down the door and died in the driveway.Grand Prairie police say the body of 19-year-old Cameron Sands was found outside the house early Tuesday.Police...

A sex offender was charged Monday with murder, aggravated sexual assault and other charges in the death of a woman kidnapped during a home invasion, police said.Leslie Williams, 31, was charged in connection with the shooting death of MaryEllen...