LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district so he could make dough for his home pizza oven....

BEIJING (AP) -- A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country's founding in 1949....

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio building constructed around the first Wright brothers' bicycle shop has been declared a public nuisance and may eventually be demolished, despite a resident's effort to preserve the site....

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- Dutch troops joined a race against time Wednesday to prepare ice for a legendary 125-mile (200 kilometer) race across frozen waterways in the northern Netherlands that could be staged for the first time in 15 years....

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic violence charges....

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- One Pennsylvania college student's attempt to boost his failing grades didn't get him an A for effort. It got him probation....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A piece of one of Martha Washington's dresses is for sale....

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Authorities in Alaska say a man threatened to teach "crackheads" how to make "electromagnetic distortion devices" unless the state paid him $85,000....