CLEVELAND (AP) -- Two men were killed and two others wounded in separate shootings Saturday in Cleveland.......

CANNES, France (AP) -- Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women.......

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- A former longtime detective has been sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison for robbing an eastern Ohio bank and triggering the evacuation of several downtown Cambridge blocks by telling police he had an explosive device.......

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio says there were 71 train-vehicle crashes last year, down from 112 in 2003.......

CINCINNATI (AP) -- A Cincinnati man has been sentenced to the maximum 55 years in prison in the September kidnapping and robbery of a cab driver left clinging to life.......

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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation's power grid.......

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Dan Brown's description of Manila as "the gates of hell" in the American novelist's latest book has not gone down well with officials in the Philippine capital.......

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) -- Three members of a Michigan city council have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future votes.......

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A man who wears thong underwear and a cape while riding his scooter through Wisconsin's capital city may be a strange sight. But police say he isn't breaking any laws.......