MORRISTOWN, N.J. – Jurors found a New Jersey teenager guilty of murder for helping his older brother kill a 16-year-old neighbor and trying to dump her dismembered body into a river. Thursday’s verdict against James Zarate came after jurors deliberated for eight hours over two days. The 18-year-old was 14 …

PHILADELPHIA – Police are searching for a man they say beat and raped a blind woman in her home. Authorities say the 50-year-old victim was walking toward the front door of her home in the city’s Mayfair section on Sunday afternoon when the attacker approached her from behind. The woman …

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Schools closed, residents of low-lying areas sought shelter and Florida’s governor declared a state of emergency Monday as a late-season tropical storm churned toward the Gulf Coast. After a quiet storm season, residents took the year’s first serious threat in stride. Maps, forecasts, radar and more at …

GENEVA – Police with water cannon fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest opposing a meeting of top world trade officials, but the hooded “black bloc” activists were able to cause damage before 14 were arrested, spokesmen said. The protesters set fire to …

WICHITA, Kan. – Lawyers for a man who has publicly admitted killing a Kansas abortion provider are seeking to move the trial out of Wichita. Scott Roeder is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 11 in Sedgwick County District Court. The 51-year-old Kansas City, Mo., man is charged with first-degree …

YUMA, Ariz. – A 22-year-old man accused of posing as a student at two Arizona high schools told authorities that he wanted to play basketball and hoped to get a college scholarship. Anthony M. Avalos was arrested Wednesday on charges of forgery and sexual conduct with a minor. He remained …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The U.S. attended a meeting of the International Criminal Court’s management board for the first time Wednesday in a sign it has stopped shunning the world’s only permanent war crimes tribunal. The U.S. has not ratified the court’s founding treaty, the Rome Statute, partly because of …

SOLO, Indonesia – Noordin Muhammed Top, a militant mastermind who eluded capture for seven years and terrorized Indonesia with a string of deadly Al Qaeda-funded bombings, was killed during a raid Thursday, the Indonesian police chief said. Police hunting for suspects in bombings of two luxury Jakarta hotels raided a …

For more than 100 years, Good Housekeeping magazine has been informing the American public about everything from the best appliances, to recipes and important health information. And now, the U.K. version of the magazine, which was established in 1922, is about to give the famous “Good Housekeeping Seal” to another …

Derek Eugene Pettis, a 24-year-old gang member, found himself handcuffed in the back seat of a squad car after a drunken bar fight in 1994, but the Los Angeles deputy who placed him there wasn’t going to bring him to jail. Deputy Terrence Wenger, 31, and volunteer chaplain Bruce Bryan, …