A 70-year-old Iranian man was arrested and sentenced to four months in jail and 30 lashes for walking his dog, Adnkronos.com reported Tuesday. Police caught the man on the street with his dog in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran. Owners of domestic animals are forbidden from taking them on …

CLEVELAND – Jennifer Gilbride spent most of last year battling cancer: first surgery, then chemotherapy and finally energy-sapping radiation. The last thing she wanted to do was clean her bathroom. So when four girls showed up on her doorstep ready to give her home the white-glove treatment, the Wickliffe wife …

Obesity is on its way to being deadlier than smoking as a cause of cancer, a leading researcher said. Being obese is currently associated with about 14 percent of cancer deaths in men and 20 percent in women, compared with about 30 percent each for smoking, Dr. Walter C. Willett …

BELGRADE, Serbia – An explosion shook a shopping mall in Serbia on Friday and another mall was evacuated as tensions soared before an expected declaration of independence by the Serbian province of Kosovo. The explosions took place a day after right-wing protesters, chanting the names of Bosnian Serb war crimes …

DALLAS – A suburban mom accused of dropping her infant daughter twice from the indoor, second-story balcony in her home has been indicted on a charge of attempted capital murder. Padmaja Sivaray Enjeti, 38, of Plano, was indicted by a Collin County grand jury last week. Police say in November, …

Two attractive 18-year-olds claim they were escorted off a Southwest Airlines flight for being too pretty, TampaBays10.com reported. University of South Florida student Nisreen Swedberg and friend Sarah Williams said the flight crew was rude to them from the start of their flight from Tampa Bay to Los Angeles on …

WEST POINT, N.Y. – Will Smith wasn’t nominated for an Oscar this year, but his role in “I Am Legend” has earned a different “academy” award — from the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. Smith was named the first winner of the Cadet Choice Movie Award, which was designed …

CANTON, Ohio – A defense attorney told a jury on Monday that a former police officer knew where the body of a missing pregnant woman was but had nothing to do with her death. Prosecutors say Bobby Cutts Jr. strangled Jessie Marie Davis, dumped her body, then lied to investigators …

“Dirty Dancing” star Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — one of the most fatal forms of the disease — and is undergoing treatment, a representative for the actor said Wednesday in a written statement. The statement followed a report earlier in the day by the National Enquirer …

WAUSAU, Wis. – A kindergartner hospitalized in critical condition after being exposed to a high level of chlorine at a swimming pool was upgraded to fair condition Saturday, a hospital official said. A group of more than 40 kindergartners from Lincoln Elementary had difficulty breathing Friday while they were in …