PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Investigators say there may never be an explanation about what happened on a Rhode Island beach when a mysterious boom was heard and a woman was thrown into a rock jetty. State police Col. Steven G. O’Donnell said Monday that investigators have found no physical evidence of …

BERLIN – A court in Austria has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to 2 ½ years in prison for joining the Islamic State group. The Vienna regional court found Oliver N. guilty Wednesday of participating in a terror organization and incitement to terrorism. The boy, whose full name wasn’t released in …

LYNNWOOD, Wash. – Snohomish County authorities say two thieves suspected of stealing an ATM machine from a business made it as far as the parking lot, but the machine fell out of the getaway van. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said Monday that deputies have recovered the ATM machine. They believe …

It all started, and ended, on this day four decades ago. It was a hot July afternoon, nearly 92 degrees, when Teamsters president and labor icon Jimmy Hoffa is said to have opened the rear door of a 1975 maroon Mercury in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run television says Turkish warplanes have struck Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria. TRT television says four jets took off from Diyarbakir air base in southeast Turkey and used missiles to hit the IS targets in the Syrian village of Havar. Havar is …

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – A suicide bomber attacked a popular night spot in northern Cameroon on Saturday evening, killing at least 10 people only days after Islamic militants were blamed for another attack on the town that left at least 20 dead, the governor said. Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of the far …

MEXICO CITY – Customs and law enforcement personnel in Mexico say they found an undetermined amount of cocaine dissolved in fruit pulp imported from Colombia. The drug was detected among 24 metric tons of red berries packed into 120 fifty-five-gallon drums of frozen fruit pulp. The berries were thawed, and …

VINITA, Okla. – A day care center in northeast Oklahoma shut its doors Tuesday after a mother reported her two young sons were severely sunburned during an outing to a local water park Happiness is a Learning Center day care in Vinita agreed to cease operations while the Oklahoma Department …

KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says two separate drone strikes in an eastern province bordering Pakistan have killed 20 militants affiliated with the Islamic State group. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, says the strikes took place late on Wednesday night. He says both took …

MOSCOW – Russian investigators are searching for a man suspected of killing and dismembering his six young children. His wife also was missing and reported dead, and police said that a woman believed to be his mother was found dead. The federal Investigative Committee said in a statement that the …