Posted: 7:37 AM Rangers in the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Kentucky are using video surveillance to catch images of people defacing a Civil War cannon.

Posted: 7:30 AM Drivers may have gotten a chuckle out of an electronic message board in Maine warning of zombies, but city officials were not amused.

Posted: 7:26 AM A battle between a Fortune 500 company and a nonprofit home for struggling women has reached a boiling point in Cincinnati.

Posted: 9:37 PM NASA says a small bright object detected on Mars is likely a piece of plastic from the Curiosity rover.

Posted: 4:21 PM The town approved a proposal this summer that would allow police to enforce the 1968 ban by imposing a $20 fine on people who engage in loud swearing in public.

Posted: 9:45 AM A Colorado man has won the Nobel Prize in physics. The announcement came down early Tuesday morning.

Posted: 10:46 AM It's a boy for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. She and her husband welcomed their first child Sunday night.

Posted: 9:19 AM Police officers rescue a puppy buried alive near a pit in north Florida.

Posted: 11:00 AM A Massachusetts woman says her cat went to the veterinarian for a flea bath and was mistakenly euthanized instead.

Posted: 12:16 PM A woman discovers years later that she married the father she never knew.

Posted: 7:56 AM A cat took extreme measures to make sure his owner didn't go to Disney World without him.

Posted: 7:49 AM Seattle ends its second-longest dry stretch on record.

Posted: 12:57 AM China has the world's deadliest coal mine industry. Safety improvements have reduced deaths in recent years, but safety rules are often ignored and accidents are still common

Posted: 6:40 AM The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake early Monday in the greater Los Angeles area.

Posted: 8:51 AM Two Boulder men accused of spraying a woman and a group of fraternity members with bear repellent before crashing their scooter because the caustic fumes blew back at them have pleaded guilty.

Posted: 10:30 PM A Denver man accused of lying on an application to get access to secure areas at Denver International Airport is facing serious charges.

Posted: 2:33 PM The Denver City Council is rejecting a $42,500 settlement with a swingers club over alleged use of excessive police force.

Posted: 1:46 PM One of Belgium's most despised criminals, the accomplice and former wife of a pedophile and child killer who let two of his victims starve to death, left prison for a convent after serving barely half her 30-year sentence.

Posted: 1:34 PM President Barack Obama is telling college students they have the most at stake in November's presidential election and says their generation will determine the nation's path.

Posted: 12:14 PM A Grand Junction woman has admitted plotting to kill her husband by poisoning his whiskey.

Posted: 2:13 PM One flew an A-10 Warthog over Iraq and Afghanistan. Another was part of the 29th Infantry Brigade's medical operations near Baghdad. A third lost both legs and partial use of an arm in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq.

Posted: 2:42 PM The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday announced that it has approved a controversial expansion of the Breckenridge ski area.

Posted: 10:57 AM The U.S. government and the University of Michigan are hoping that a real-world test of cars that can talk to each other will eventually make roads safer.

Updated: 9:54 AM A watchdog group says broadcast television is implying a lot more nudity in prime time than it used to.

Posted: 9:34 AM President Barack Obama says actor George Clooney is a good friend and a good person who is sensitive about protecting that friendship.