ALBA, Texas – Investigators say a bloody attack on a rural East Texas family’s home may have resulted from family opposition to a daughter’s boyfriend. Rains County Sheriff department confirmed Sunday a 16-year-old girl is one of four suspects being held for the violent murders of her mother and two …

RANITAL, India – Hundreds of Tibetan exiles pressed ahead Tuesday with a march from northern India to their Himalayan homeland, defying a police ban on the demonstration against Beijing’s hosting of the 2008 Olympics. The march, which started Monday, was expected to take six months, reaching Tibet during the Aug. …

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Police investigating the slaying of the University of North Carolina’s student body president may have a break in the case, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Investigators are talking to a person of interest in the death of 22-year-old Eve Carson, Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall told …

HAVANA – New President Raul Castro’s government has lifted a ban on Cubans staying at hotels previously reserved for foreigners, ending another restriction that had been especially irksome to ordinary citizens. “They have informed us that with a national ID card, anyone can stay here,” an employee at the Ambos …

LODI, N.J. – Hold the poles! Is a Sopranos movie in the works? The real-life manager of the strip club that fronted for the Bada Bing on HBO’s “The Sopranos” thinks there might be. Satin Dolls manager Nick D’Urso says he’s holding off on renovations to the strip club in …

A Brazilian immigrant has been arrested in Massachusetts on a variety of sex charges after police said he offered alcohol, cigarettes and cash to young girls in exchange for sex. Geraldo Reis Miranda, 22, of Marshfield, Mass., was arraigned Thursday in Plymouth District Court on more than 21 counts of …

STROUDSBURG, Pa. – Police say a man has been charged with killing a woman whose dismembered remains were found dumped along Pennsylvania highways in January. Police say 33-year-old Charles Ray Hicks was arrested in the death of 36-year-old Deanna Null. He told reporters at his arraignment Saturday that authorities had …

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A Palm Beach County man has pleaded guilty to the fatal shootings of four men over a three-day span and has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Derek Dixon pleaded guilty to four counts of second-degree murder Wednesday and gave a short apology to …

COCHRAN, Ga. – Authorities took into custody a man suspected of carrying a gun onto Middle Georgia College’s main campus Monday, the Bleckley County Sheriff’s Office said. The man, who was not identified, was not a student at the school in Cochran, located about 120 miles south of Atlanta, college …

SOUTHPORT, Ind. – A truck driver was fatally impaled by a fence post early Tuesday when his tractor trailer veered off Interstate 65 south of Indianapolis. Elvin Stanley, 47, of Chicago was pronounced dead at the scene, Indiana State Police said. His blue 2006 International tractor trailer was heading south …