NEW CASTLE, Pa. – Police in Pennsylvania say officers found a couple asleep in a garage with the light on after a homeowner reported a burglary. New Castle police tell the New Castle News (http://bit.ly/1MKLvZB) that they found the couple early Saturday, shortly after the homeowner called them. Police say …

GREENWOOD, S.C. – Authorities say the body of a baby has been found in a trash bin at a South Carolina apartment complex. Investigators told media outlets the body was found Wednesday in the Wisewood Apartments in Greenwood, about 80 miles west of Columbia. Details about how the baby was …

“Panic” is a five-letter word, but Monday morning many investors were looking for profane four-letter variants. Worse, they’d hit the sell button and run for the hills. I can’t think of a bigger mistake. Market volatility comes and goes. Over time, it rarely amounts to anything more than a speed …

NORFOLK, Va. – Federal authorities say a wood-boring beetle in a cargo container at the Port of Norfolk is the first of its kind to be found in the United States. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says agriculture specialists discovered the beetle among untreated wooden pallets from Poland. The …

RAMALLAH, West Bank – Two officials say Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told confidants he won’t seek re-election to the top posts in the Palestine Liberation Organization or his Fatah movement in upcoming elections. Abbas would retain his most important post, as president of the Palestinian self-rule government. Rumors had …

DHAKA, Bangladesh – A court in Bangladesh’s capital has indicted two owners of a garment factory and 11 others for homicide over a 2012 fire that killed 112 workers. Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter, the owners of the Tazreen Fashions Ltd., pleaded not guilty to the charges, which …

SYDNEY – A 65-year-old man was mauled by a shark off Australia’s most populous state on Friday, but managed to get back on his surf ski and get help for a serious leg injury, police said. David Quinlivan was paddling a surf ski near the New South Wales state town …

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s foreign minister has criticized demands for the resignation of Syrian President Bashar Assad, saying such calls will prolong the Arab country’s civil war. Mohammad Javad Zarif says those demanding Assad’s ouster “are responsible for the bloodshed in Syria.” Zarif didn’t name any specific country but was …

MOUNTAIN BROOK, Ala. – A woman has been arrested after slashing an Alabama policeman with an 18-inch bayonet. Mountain Brook Police Chief Ted Cook said an officer found an elderly woman walking early Tuesday morning and learned she may have been the victim of domestic abuse. Police officers went to …

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbia’s war crimes prosecutors have brought charges against eight suspects in the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica — Europe’s worst carnage since World War II, when some 8,000 Muslims were killed by Bosnian Serb troops. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement Wednesday that the men were charged …