Authorities in New Britain say two people have been shot at a rehabilitation hospital and one person is in custody.

A Los Angeles substitute teacher charged with sexual misconduct is believed to be at large in Mexico, authorities told the Los Angeles Times Wednesday.

Authorities say a teenager on a flight from Portland to Houston swung his fist at a flight attendant and was "speaking or singing about Usama bin Laden and his hatred of women" as the flight turned around.

Authorities are using a court order to determine if a serial cabin burglar in the southern Utah wilderness is using a cell phone to call his family.

A Georgia man filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Boy Scouts of America, contending he was sexually abused as a teenager by a nationally prominent Iowa scoutmaster in the 1970s.

An 8-year-old girl was shot in the abdomen at an elementary school in Washington state Wednesday afternoon.

A Texas man who tortured his former neighbor while holding her captive nearly two weeks was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison.

Officials in Philadelphia say the death of a Ukrainian hockey coach awaiting trial on federal child molestation charges was a suicide by hanging.

Authorities say they've charged a grandmother and stepmother in the death of a 9-year-old Alabama girl who died after being forced to run as punishment.

A Michigan man accused of buying and hiding more than 4,000 pounds of explosives with enough potential firepower to equal the Oklahoma City bombing has pleaded guilty to one count, though his attorney insisted Wednesday that his client had no violent intentions.

The bulk of a man's childhood comic book collection that included many of the most prized issues ever published has sold for about $3.5 million.

An Ohio church is offering a drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners who might be pressed for time.

A veteran New Jersey police officer has been sentenced to three years in state prison for stealing cocaine from an evidence room under his control.

Police are looking into the possibility that a love triangle might have motivated a 73-year-old man to fatally shoot a 62-year-old man outside the headquarters of the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District.

Crimes and homicides in public schools nationwide have declined, part of a downward trend seen over the past several years.

A fire department spokeswoman says two people have been shot at a Wal-Mart distribution in central Virginia.

A convicted rapist accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday, several days after authorities found the girl's body in a blue, plastic barrel in western Arkansas.

Human remains uncovered in Northern California with the help of a convicted serial killer have been confirmed as two of his victims.

Attorney Jose Baez says he no longer represents Casey Anthony, the Florida mother whose 2011 murder trial made him one of the best known criminal defense lawyers in the country.

Two young children who police say were kidnapped from the side of an Atlanta-area interstate early Wednesday are safe but authorities are looking for the man who grabbed them and later dropped them off with friends, authorities say.