Ken Stanford

Schools in western Pennsylvania are closing in the face of an unusual late-April snow storm that's chugging through the Northeast, threatening to bring high winds and up to a foot of snow in some places.

An aging population and an economy that has been slow to rebound are straining the long-term finances of Social Security and Medicare, the government's two largest benefit programs.

In a low-key event, George Zimmerman was released from a Florida jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.

Mexico's federal government should investigate allegations of a vast bribery campaign by top executives of Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary to build stores across the country, the head of a watchdog group said Sunday.

A loud explosion heard across much of Nevada and California on Sunday morning rattled homes and prompted a flood of calls to law enforcement agencies on both sides of the Sierra Nevada, some reporting fireball sightings.

Dairy farmers in the state's Appalachian and Southeast regions may be eligible to share in a $145 million settlement reached in a class-action settlement.

The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work.

Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year, including information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed. Iran also said it was building a copy of the drone.

New figures from the state Labor Department show Gainesville again leading the state in job gains and with one of the lowest numbers of new claims for unemployment insurance.

President Barack Obama's chief re-election adviser says he was surprised by the Secret Service prostitution scandal.