WYTHEVILLE, Va. - A disabled man in a wheelchair who authorities say held three people for more than eight hours inside a small-town Virginia post office surrendered to police after freeing the hostages unharmed. ...more

December 24, 2009

State police say a daylong standoff at a small-town Virginia post office has ended with three hostages being released and a man in custody. ...more

December 24, 2009

A U.S. service member was killed by a bomb planted in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday. ...more

December 6, 2009

ORLANDO (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers will be returning to an Orlando middle school to search for World War II explosives that might be buried there. ...more

November 16, 2009

A shootout at a mosque in the southern Gaza city of Rafah between Hamas security men and a more extreme Islamist group called the Warriors of God ended early Saturday with 22 dead, including the group's leader and a senior Hamas security officer. ...more

August 16, 2009

A raid at Haines City tavern this week netted nine on gambling charges and eight illegal slot machines. ...more

July 31, 2009

A 13-year project to create an artificial reef off the Florida Keys for sport divers and anglers has culminated with the scuttling of a 523-foot-long former U.S. Air Force missile tracking ship. It took just a minute and 54 seconds Wednesday to sink the Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg after demolition experts triggered a series of explosives that lined both sides of the ship's bilge area below the waterline. The ship settled on the bottom of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in an upright position. ...more

May 28, 2009

Jurors were unable to reach a verdict in their second day of deliberations in the federal explosives trial of Youssef Megahed. ...more

April 2, 2009

Jurors were unable to reach a verdict in their second day of deliberations in the federal explosives trial of Youssef Megahed. ...more

April 1, 2009

Nearly three hours of deliberations today failed to produce a verdict in the federal explosives trial of Youssef Megahed. ...more

March 31, 2009