LONDON (AP) — British police say five officers were hospitalized after they were mauled by a dog during a raid. The Metropolitan Police force says the officers were trying to arrest a man in east London when they were attacked by “ a pitbull- type dog.” Four suffered serious injuries and one was slightly injured […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pink and white cherry blossoms that color the nation’s capital and draw a million visitors each spring began with trees that have survived for a century. It was 100 years ago this month when first lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry […]

CLEVELAND ( AP) — Samuel L. Glazer, co-owner of the company that revolutionized American mornings with the Mr. Coffee drip coffeemaker, has died at age 89. The funeral home that handled the arrangements said Glazer died of complications from leukemia March 12 at the Cleveland Clinic. Services were held March 14 at Berkowitz- Kumin- Bookatz […]

LOS ANGELES ( AP) — Drugs took many things from Whitney Houston — her pristine voice, clean image and her career — and coroner’s officials revealed Thursday that cocaine also played a role in the Grammy winner’s death in the bathtub of a luxury hotel nearly six weeks ago. Houston drowned accidentally at the Beverly […]

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The investigation into last month’s shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in an Orlando suburb is out of the hands of the beleaguered police chief and the county prosecutor with the Justice Department looking at possible civil rights violations and a grand jury perhaps considering charges. Until admitted shooter George […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is expected to be told today he faces 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder, along with other charges, in connection with a shooting rampage in two southern Afghanistan villages that shocked Americans back home and further roiled U.S.- Afghan relations. The charges come […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland fire spokesman says an explosion involving a chemical reactor at a silicon factory has injured two people. Spokesman Paul Corah says two men were doing maintenance Thursday night near the chemical reactor at Wacker Siltronics. The reactor combines chemicals for manufacturing.

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has approved the prosecution’s request and frozen the assets of Catherine Greig, the girlfriend of reputed Boston mob boss James “ Whitey” Bulger, who has pleaded guilty to harboring him for the 16 years the couple was on the lam. The order issued Thursday freezes a bank account with […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America says it has begun a pilot program offering some of its mortgage customers who are facing foreclosure a chance to stay in their homes by becoming renters instead of owners. The “Mortgage to Lease” program, which was launched this week, will be available to fewer than 1,000 BofA […]