A Voice of America reporter detained while trying to cover a protest by Muslims has been freed, an Ethiopian government minister said Saturday.

President Barack Obama and Rep. Lynn Jenkins marked the Memorial Day weekend by paying tribute to U.S. service members during their weekly addresses Saturday.

Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier has filed a civil lawsuit to force the school to release emails related to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

A gunman looking for someone he believed owed him money took and released hostages in Valparaiso, Indiana, before fatally shooting himself, authorities said Friday.

Pedro Hernandez was arraigned early Friday evening on a second-degree murder charge tied to the case of Etan Patz, the New York boy whose disappearance 33 years to the day spurred nationwide attention about missing children.

The two-story tan house on East Linwood Avenue is unremarkable for suburban Maple Shade, just outside Camden, New Jersey. The man who lived there with his wife and teenage daughter blended in, too.

Sandy Dahl, who became one of the tragic faces of 9/11 after her husband was killed while piloting United Flight 93, died Friday, a family friend said.

China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissidents.

The Manhattan district attorney's office filed a second-degree murder charge against Pedro Hernandez in the case of Etan Patz on Friday, 33 years to the day after the New York boy disappeared spurring nationwide attention about missing children.

Police said Friday that they tracked down the mother of three children -- all apparently 3 years old or younger -- who were found alone the previous morning in a vacant building in Portland, Oregon.

A brush fire near Disney World prompted authorities to bar traffic in both directions along a major central Florida highway for several hours at the beginning of the busy Memorial Day weekend, a police spokeswoman said.

CNN- Brad Keselowski is once again a contender in this year's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, but off the track he is championing a cause dear to his heart.

A 24-year-old Canadian man will probably face federal charges after allegedly rushing to the front of an American Airlines aircraft after it landed in Miami on Friday, the FBI said.

Brian Banks was on "cloud 10" Friday, the first full day of the rest of his life, after he was exonerated for a rape he did not commit.

China criticized a "woeful" human rights record in the United States on Friday, a day after a U.S. report said Beijing's own record is getting worse, with harsh crackdowns on dissidents.

A U.S. sailor who died last week of medical complications was the 3,000th death among coalition forces in the Afghanistan war, according to CNN's count based on information provided by the U.S. Defense Department and the International Security Assistance Force.

Folk singer Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, a Grammy winning North Carolina native known for his flatpicking and fingerstyle technique on the guitar, remains in critical condition, according to hospital officials.

California horse-racing authorities handed the trainer of Triple Crown hopeful I'll Have Another a 45-day suspension Thursday stemming from a 2010 race with another horse, but cleared him of giving that horse an energy-boosting cocktail.

A top trainer in the fabled Tennessee walking horse industry has pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelty to animals and has been banned for life from the most important horse show for the breed.

A charity founded by Jerry Sandusky is seeking approval to close and transfer its assets to a Texas-based ministry, as the former Penn State football coach fights allegations of sexual assault.

Despite some early storms this year, forecasters Thursday predicted a near-normal Atlantic hurricane season with nine to 15 named storms, including four to eight hurricanes and one to three major hurricanes.

Soldiers placed small American flags at the graves of more than 260,000 service members in Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.

Brad Keselowski is once again a contender in this year's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, but off the track he is championing a cause dear to his heart.

A brush fire in Orlando near Disney World prompted authorities to bar traffic in both directions along a major highway running through the central Florida city, a police spokeswoman said.

Thirty-three years to the day after Etan Patz disappeared, bringing nationwide attention to missing children, the suspect, Pedro Hernandez, is expected to be arraigned from his bedside at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan where he is being held for evaluation on potential suicide watch, according to a law enforcement source.