HIGHTSTOWN, N.J. - Officials in New Jersey are banning a high school senior from campus after he was charged with setting fire to a fellow student's turban.

BRIGHTON, Mich. - A Michigan doctor is getting a laugh out of a 51-cent property tax bill.

An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday.

David L. Bingham says someone who shares his name has taken over his would-be final resting place.

Girlfriend claims beau had recently cheated on her with his ex-wife, which strained their relationship.

MARION, Ill. - A coroner says an elderly Illinois woman found three weeks ago pinned under her dead husband's body has died as a result of her injuries.

A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state.

Ed Rozek, a professor emeritus of political science, said establishing an endowed chair in conservative views sounded like tokenism.

A family accidentally left a 23-month boy in the Vancouver airport and learned he was missing only when contacted during the next leg of the trip.

They're itty-bitty things about the size of fleas, and they're just running everywhere,'' said Patsy Morphew of Pearland, Texas.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is upset with Mike Norman, owner of a Marietta, Ga., bar, for selling the shirts.

The group responsible for bombing a mosque in Shiraz also planned to blow up the Russian consulate in Rasht, Iranian officials said Wednesday.

U.S. President George Bush, speaking Wednesday in Jerusalem, pledged to support Israel against extremists and terrorists, including Hamas and Iran.

The judge in the trial of Italian officials and CIA agents charged with a 2003 kidnapping has ruled that two prime ministers can be called as witnesses.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's strategy to take on Shiite militias in Basra and Sadr City was a political and military success, an editorial claims.

U.S. President George Bush arrived Wednesday in Israel to kick-start a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians as part of a five-day Middle East tour.

The bounty on al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri is down from $5 million to $100,000 because he is no longer an effective leader, U.S. officials said.