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‘Up’ balloon cluster attempt falls short

A balloonist who was trying to cross the Atlantic Ocean using hundreds of helium-filled balloons landed short of his goal in Newfoundland.

Taliban attack on US Consulate kills 4 Afghans

The Taliban attacked a U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan with car bombs and guns on Friday, killing at least four Afghans but failing to enter the compound or hurt any Americans.

 
Colorado death toll rises to 4 after body found

Colorado officials have raised the death toll from this week’s flooding to four after a woman’s body was found in Boulder.

 
Slave who died in 1798 finally buried ‘not as slave, but child of God’

A slave who died more than 200 years ago in Connecticut but was never buried was given an extraordinary funeral Thursday that included lying in state at the Capitol and calls for learning from his painful life.

 
Washington teens plead not guilty in vet beating death

Two 16-year-old boys pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and other charges in the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran in Spokane nearly seven decades after he was shot in Okinawa and survived.

 
Water, then fire: Two New Jersey shore towns suffer again

Two Jersey shore communities that share an iconic boardwalk find themselves having to rebuild it and help scores of businesses pick up the pieces for the second time in less than a year after a massive fire roared along the wooden walkway Thursday.

 
37 dead in fire at Russian psychiatric hospital

A pre-dawn fire swept through a Russian psychiatric hospital Friday, killing 37 people, officials said. Authorities had long warned that the mostly wooden building dating to the 19th century was unsafe.

 
4 men sentenced to death in India gang rape

An Indian court Friday sentenced to death four men for the gang rape and murder of a young New Delhi woman, ordering them to the gallows for a brutal attack that riveted India.