ROSWELL, Ga. – Authorities say a Roswell woman is dead after a dispute with the father of her children who apparently rammed his car into the front of her home, struck her with a rock and held police off for hours before surrendering. Roswell police spokesman Lt. James McGee says …

A British vacationer is being hailed a hero after he thwarted gun-toting pirates attacking a cruise ship — by throwing a deck chair at them. Wyn Rowlands was celebrating his 62nd birthday with a dream cruise onboard the MSC Melody near the Seychelle Islands when he spotted armed pirates in …

BOSTON – For Ethan St. Pierre, allowing someone who is biologically female — but self-identifies as male — to use the men’s bathroom is a no-brainer. “Look at me,” said St. Pierre, who was born a woman but is now a transgender man with a beard and short hair. “I …

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A judge sentenced a onetime child actor to death for murdering an Arizona couple by tying them to an anchor and throwing them overboard from their yacht off Southern California. Orange County Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel on Friday imposed the sentence recommended by the …

A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept, killing more than 92 people and trapping many more, officials said. Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, arriving in L’Aquila hours after the quake, said the death toll was likely to rise as rescue …

CULVER CITY, California – Japan’s Takeru Kobayashi outlasted Joey Chestnut when the eating titans faced off to see who could devour the most pizzas. Kobayashi, a six-time world hot dog eating champion from Japan, consumed 5 3/4 P’zones — a kind mixture between a pizza and a calzone — in …

MORRISTOWN, N.J. – A New Jersey man in court to be sentenced for assaulting and harassing teenage girls has been beaten in a corridor by the mother of one of his victims. The mother attacked 39-year-old Pascual Gonzalez in the Morris County Courthouse in Morristown on Monday, tearing the buttons …

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Abts, Richard. Adamski, Walter. Ahlman, Enoch. The names are whisked away by the hot, gusting wind as soon as they are spoken, forgotten in the stream of the next name and the next name and the next name. Fuller, Addison. Fuller, Mary. Furlong, John. The story of …

CLEVELAND – The woman who had the nation’s first face transplant says it was the smell of soap that made her realize her new face was working. Connie Culp also says she still thinks about how she looked before her husband shot her in a failed murder-suicide in 2004. In …

RICHMOND, Va. – A legally blind hiking magazine editor who went missing along the Appalachian Trail in Virginia was found Saturday in good condition, authorities said. Kenneth Knight, 41, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was found around 5 p.m. Saturday near Snowdon, said Randy Sutton, a spokesman for the Blue Ridge …