Interception: Police in Ohio arrest 89-year-old woman accused of holding kids' football.

Fla. police say man tried to steal frozen shrimp from supermarket by hiding it down his pants.

Great Dane in Fruitville, Colorado gives birth to 16 surviving puppies.

Table tennis champion, 85, says it's very hard to find worthy competition.

Four years after one of the closest gubernatorial races in American history, the same two candidates are locked in another frenzied fight for Washington state's governor's mansion.

An intruder beat and stabbed a popular TV anchorwoman in her home during a possible robbery, and left her with life-threatening injuries, police said Monday.

The burglar was undone by his taste for strawberry soda. RazJohn Smyer, a suspect in a string of Denver-area break-ins, often checked his victims' refrigerators and helped himself to a drink. The soda cans he left behind gave police enough DNA evidence to link him to five burglaries. He's now serving a 20-year sentence.

Five men accused of planning an attack on an Army training base in New Jersey were inspired by al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, a prosecutor said Monday during opening statements in their terrorism trial.

A former environmental activist who committed arson at Michigan State University in 1999 and later became a government informant was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison.

Stung by the abandonment of children as old as 17 at Nebraska hospitals, the governor and lawmakers struck a deal Monday to rewrite the state's safe haven law so it applies only to infants up to three days old.

Investigators interviewed a 6-year-old boy about his nearly four days in captivity in hopes of gaining clues to the identity of gunmen who abducted him last week, police said Monday. The boy, Cole Puffinburger, was dropped off unharmed Saturday night. Authorities think his kidnappers are still in southern Nevada, said Sgt. John Loretto, a Las Vegas police spokesman.

A dour Sen. Ted Stevens returned to the witness stand Monday and sparred curtly with prosecutors in the final day of testimony at his corruption trial.

A Pakistani court has ordered an American detained for two more weeks after he was accused of trying to enter a militant stronghold near the Afghan border, police said Monday.

Taliban gunmen killed a Christian aid worker in Kabul as she was walking to work on Monday, and the militant group said it targeted the woman because she was spreading her religion.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Monday a fresh round of government stimulus is a good idea because there's a risk the country's economic weakness could last for some time.

A financially strapped South Korean man went on an arson and stabbing rampage in Seoul on Monday, leaving six people dead and seven others wounded.

Wall Street surged in early trading Monday as the credit markets showed signs of easing and investors awaited testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a reading on the economy and battered financial system.

Some 1,500 dogs bred for their raccoon-like fur have died after eating feed tainted with the same chemical that contaminated dairy products and sickened tens of thousands of babies nationwide, a veterinarian said Monday.

Hand, foot and mouth disease has killed three children and sickened about 110 others in eastern China, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency said late Sunday that all the cases were reported in Jian'ou city of Fujian province from October 1 to 17.

The grandfather of a kidnapped 6-year-old Nevada boy was arrested in Southern California after police named him a "person of interest" in the abduction.

If autism advocates get their way, more states will follow Indiana's lead by requiring health insurers to cover intensive and costly behavior therapy for autism.

The share of people who believe the country is moving in the right direction has plunged in just a few weeks, from 28 percent in September to 15 percent in October.

Authorities are investigation the death of a man who was struck from behind by a train in the Kansas City suburb of Merriam, Kan.

Beaten down by housing, credit and financial crises, the bruised economy is likely to drag into next year, leaving more people out of work and more businesses wary of making big investments.

The longtime Republican icon gets a last chance Monday to convince jurors in Washington - and constituents in Alaska about to vote on his re-election - that he didn't intentionally take freebies from Bill Allen,