Apr 12 - By Associated Press
Buyer beware: A pair of Canada geese guarding their nest outside an Illinois furniture store are attacking unwary shoppers, even drawing blood from a few people.
Mar 23 - By Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer
Manslaughter, rape, assault. A recent spate of allegations against police officers on the outskirts of New York City has raised fears that a big-city problem has invaded the suburbs.
Mar 10 - By Associated Press
A federal judge on Monday ruled against a Santeria priest who challenged an animal slaughter ban on the grounds it interfered with his right to perform religious sacrifices in his home.
Dec 12 - By Associated Press
A man who holds sex parties in his home sued the suburban Dallas city where he lives Wednesday, claiming that a recently approved ban on sex clubs unconstitutionally targets his lifestyle.
Dec 7 - By Paul J. Weber, Associated Press Writer
The most popular address on Cedar Ridge Drive is Jim Trulock's split-level home, which has a group sex room and attracts as many as 100 people to swinger parties featuring "Naked Twister" nights.
Apr 23 - By Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press Writer
Many blacks and Muslims in the troubled neighborhoods ringing French cities voted for the first time, saying they were motivated by one desire: to stop law-and-order, tough-on-immigrants Nicolas Sarkozy from becoming president.
Dec 6 - By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press Writer
As Americans flee the cities for the suburbs, many are failing to leave poverty behind.
Oct 29 - By Michel Allione, AP Writer
France's interior minister sent riot police to patrol the southern port city of Marseille on Sunday after a group of marauding teenagers torched a bus, gravely burning a young woman.
Oct 27 - By The Associated Press
A timeline of the violence in French housing projects populated largely by Arab and African immigrants and their French-born children, and the government's response:
Oct 27 - By Jean-Marie Godard, Associated Press Writer
Police deployed 4,000 reinforcements as marauding youths torched at least two public buses Friday, the anniversary of the deaths of two teenagers that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France.
Oct 26 - By Cecile Brisson, AP Writer
French officials pledged to deploy hundreds of extra police on buses and streets in restive Parisian suburbs on Friday, the first anniversary of rioting that raged through heavily immigrant housing projects on the outskirts of cities nationwide.
Oct 2 - By Associated Press
Police northwest of Paris used tear gas, rubber pellets and fired a warning shot to disperse a crowd that surrounded their vehicle after they tried to stop a driver for not wearing a seat belt, a police union official said Monday.
Sep 26 - By Don Thompson, Associated Press Writer
Leon Nunn stepped out his front door one recent afternoon only to be waved back by a squadron of drug agents using a battering ram on a neighbor's home. The half-million-dollar home in the quiet subdivision was found to be stuffed with high-grade marijuana plants, growing in soil-free trays under bright lights.
May 15 - By Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press Writer
A laborer who raped and murdered a suburban homemaker in her bedroom after being hired to clean a backyard deck was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the chance of parole.