JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois man convicted of killing his wife and three children is asking for a new trial, but not solely because of anything that happened in his courtroom - he's blaming the high-profile trial next door.

Christopher Vaughn was convicted of fatally shooting his family so he

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Yasser Arafat's political heirs on Tuesday opened his grave and foreign experts took samples of the iconic Palestinian leader's remains as part of a long-shot attempt - eight years after his mysterious death - to determine whether he was poisoned.

Arafat died in

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to make a public case this week for his strategy for dealing with the looming fiscal cliff, traveling to the Philadelphia suburbs Friday as he pressures Republicans to allow tax increases on the wealthy while extending tax cuts for families earning

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - A neighbor has been arrested as a suspect in the killing of a 6-year-old Arkansas girl whose high-profile child abuse case last year sent her father and stepmother to prison, police said.

Jersey Bridgeman was reported missing the morning of Nov. 20. Minutes after a search for her began, Jersey's body was discovered in an