AP - Max Pons is already anticipating the anxiety he'll feel when the heavy steel gate shuts behind him, leaving his home isolated on a strip of land between America's border fence and the violence raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico.

This year’s Grammy Awards only have 78 categories, compared with the more than 100 categories of previous years. But don’t expect the telecast, which airs on CBS Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET/PT, to wrap up earlier than usual. “No, the show won’t be shorter,”...

Emergency responders in Delaware County used a crane to rescue a man trapped under a SEPTA trolley early Saturday.

A second "gun-toting convicted felon" was taken into custody early Saturday, accused of spraying bullets in a West Chester neighborhood last month that killed a 23-year-old Philadelphia man. Gregory C. Arrington, 21, of West Chester, was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, firearms violations, and related offenses in connection with the fatal shooting of Towayne Uqdah, said First Assistant District Attorney Michael G. Noone. Police said Uqdah was shot nine times. The shooting occurred in the borough in the ... more

In a story Feb. 10 about the court case of Jean-Claude Duvalier, The Associated Press erroneously reported the year of the death of Simone Ovide, Duvalier's mother. She died in 1997, not 1971. Ovide is also mentioned in the story as a co-defendant who died more than 40 years earlier. That number should be 15 years.