Manny Pacquiao's chief adviser insisted Monday that the Filipino superstar's preference is for his next bout – a fifth fight against Juan Manuel Marquez – to take place away from Las Vegas, with the off-shore Chinese gambling resort of Macau emerging as the "favorite."

Police ran over a young man who was caught stealing paving stones, putting him in a coma. The mother required police permission to visit her son for only 20 minutes. He died after six days. On the day of his funeral, police broke into her home to serve a search warrant for the wrong address. Then they demanded that she pay $710 to repair the squad car that was used to kill her son.

“I would like to be able to know that my home, no matter what happens to my income or my life, is not going to be taken away from me because I can’t pay a tax,” said Susan Beehler, one in a group of North Dakotans who have pressed for an amendment to the state’s Constitution to end the property tax. They argue that the tax is unpredictable, inconsistent, counter to the concept of property ownership and needless in a state that, thanks in part to wildly successful oil drilling, finds itself in the rare circumstance of carrying budget reserves.

Two brothers from Cuba have been arrested in the $80-million heist of pharmaceutical drugs from a Connecticut warehouse, solving what was one of the largest -- and most daring -- such robberies in U.S. history, officials said Thursday. An errant water bottle played a role in identifying the suspects, officials said.

A follow-up to a story about a couple who had their daughter taken away while they were both arrested for allegedly stealing two sandwiches