BOLINGBROOK, Ill. - Authorities say former Illinois police sergeant Drew Peterson has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of his third wife.

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - A man who Connecticut police say sparked two fearful days at a university by killing a student and threatening a campus shooting spree surrendered Thursday night after seeing his photo in a newspaper.

Students Say Bristol Palin is 'Hypocrite,' a 'Celebrity' and 'Hasn't Been in Our Shoes. NYC students who heard Bristol Palin's warnings against teen pregnancy say they might consider abstinence, but they wouldn't take advice on it--

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) - A 46-year-old man who crashed into a police car while he was driving drunk gets six years in prison.

Thirsty, dirty and tired after spending two days and nights barely clothed in the wet, chilly woods of Mark Twain National Forest, 3-year-old Joshua Childers was ready to go home. The boy was lying on the ground of a hollow near a creek

CLIFTON PARK The sight of a severed snake's head under his broccoli made Jack Pendleton lose interest in dessert. Pendleton said he found the head, the size of the end of his thumb, while eating Sunday at the T.G.I. Friday's in Clifton Park.

Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno signaled Thursday that he might challenge Gov. David A. Paterson's directive to state agencies requiring them to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions.

"I don't know what's going to happen the next day," she said. "I don't know if they're going to come to the door and tell us that we have to move, and I don't have anywhere to go."...

A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord.

Legendary British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. He came to fame when his story was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, by director Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Once called "the first dweller in the