BATH — A Massachusetts man who tried to outrun officers on Commercial Street early Saturday morning ended up in the hospital — and then in jail — after they detained him with two Tasers. Just before 1:30 a.m. Saturday, Bath Police Officer Ted Raedel pulled over a car driven by Christopher A. Brazee, 39, of Pittsfield […]

These photos represent a small sampling of those taken around the country on Wednesday, March 14 — a snapshot of one day in America. The Daily Life feature is provided by The Associated Press and its member publications.

BALLWIN, Mo. ( AP) — Authorities have identified the four people found fatally shot at a eastern Missouri campground as a 37-year-old mother and her three daughters. The Crawford County sheriff ’s department said today that Christine Adewunmi, and her three children, 8- year-old Lauren, 6-year-old Samantha and 3- year- old Kate, died of gunshot […]

SALEM, Mass. ( AP) — A Massachusetts mother has been charged with attempted murder after firefighters responding to a blaze at her apartment found her two young children with their throats slashed. The Essex district attorney’s office said in a statement that 25-year-old Tanicia Goodwin is expected to be arraigned today in Salem District Court […]

NEW YORK ( AP) — The New York Mets owners and a trustee for Bernard Madoff ’s fraud victims have settled for $162 million. The Mets owners will not pay anything for three years. Jury selection had been set to begin in a civil trial to determine how much the team owners will owe other […]

SEATTLE — A Seattle defense attorney prepared to meet today with Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is facing formal charges in an attack on two slumbering Afghan villages that left 16 people dead, including nine children. John Henry Browne flew to Kansas Sunday ahead of his first face-to-face meeting with the 10- year Army veteran, […]

WRAY, Colo. (AP) — Evacuated residents of the small Colorado town of Eckley have been allowed to return home after firefighters contained most of a wildfire on the state’s northeastern plains. Three firefighters were injured battling Sunday’s blaze, and two of them remained hospitalized late at night, fire spokeswoman Deanna Herbert said. The town’s 300 […]

VERNON HILLS, Ill. — Mitt Romney’s increasingly confident campaign is intensifying calls — publicly and privately — for his Republican opponents to concede defeat in the presidential nomination battle, even before Illinois voters have their say Tuesday in the campaign’s next big contest. Romney extended his delegate lead Sunday in Puerto Rico, where he trounced rival […]

SKOWHEGAN ( AP) — Authorities are trying to figure out what caused a Skowhegan gas station’s firesuppression system to discharge, sending one woman to the hospital in an ambulance with respiratory problems. There was no fire reported at the Irving Circle K station, yet about 50 nozzles in the roof over the fuel-pumping area sent […]