NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Defense attorneys said the juror, 31-year-old Todd Easter, intentionally withheld information that he was a rape victim during the jury selection. Easter testified at a hearing last week that he didn’t withhold information because he doesn’t consider himself a victim. A Sumner County man was convicted of …

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Police say a Pennsylvania robbery suspect has diversified his criminal portfolio by exposing himself to a shop owner before taking cash and a women’s outfit from a clothing store. Richland Township police Detective Kevin Gaudlip says Tuesday’s heist at the King and Queen Shoppe near Johnstown “was …

BETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania – A college party got a little wild when a black bear showed up. The black bear, weighing between 300 and 400 pounds, crashed the party early Saturday near the campus of Lehigh University. Emergency officials received a flood of emergency calls after the bear was spotted around …

BOSTON – The Confederate battle flag found attached to the Boston memorial honoring black Civil War soldiers last weekend wasn’t an act of defiance by a flag sympathizer, but rather a protest. Stephen Allsop tells The Boston Globe (http://bit.ly/1HrRWyM ) that he and some friends went to the memorial honoring …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico’s troubled power company has been forced to sell bonds once again to obtain capital and avoid defaulting on a $415 million debt payment with a worsening economic crisis in the U.S. territory. The Electric Power Authority said Wednesday it paid $153 million in …

Australian rules football coach Phil Walsh was stabbed to death in his South Australia home early Friday morning, local authorities said. Police responded to a report of a domestic dispute around 2 a.m. local time in Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, and found Walsh and his wife suffering from …

STAFFORD, Va. – More than 70 people rallied with Confederate battle flags outside the courthouse in Stafford County, attracting a smaller number of counter-protesters. Rally co-organizers Jason Sulser of Stafford and Manny Vega of Midlothian organized Friday’s rally. They said the event was intended to honor history and their Southern …

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A wealthy Emirati businessman says he is giving away a third of his assets, or more than a billion dollars, to educate Arab youth. Abdullah al-Ghurair’s donation aims to provide 4.2 billion dirhams ($1.14 billion) over 10 years to an eponymous foundation to educate underprivileged …

LA RONGE, Saskatchewan – Firefighters and soldiers worked to stamp out hundreds of wildfires raging across western Canada that are threatening thousands of people and triggering air quality warnings across the country and in the U.S. West and Midwest, authorities said. Steve Roberts, a Saskatchewan wildfire management official, said better …

DALLAS – American Airlines is scaling back its plans for more flying this year amid signs that average fares are declining, and the announcement set off a rally in airline stocks. Wall Street analysts have been urging the airlines to scale back growth plans to prevent fares from falling, but …