A teenager confessed to beating and stabbing a 17-year-old model to death last year in north London, the Daily Mail reports. Marc King-Bromley, 17, told police he murdered Danielle Johnson behind garages just 100 yards from a busy road where thousands of residents were passing through over a long weekend. …

CHESTER, Pa. – Police were awaiting autopsy results from the Delaware County Medical Examiner’s Office Sunday to determine what caused the deaths of four people found in a home in Chester. Authorities said there was no sign of forced entry at the home, and that they had ruled out carbon …

PROVO, Utah – Aerosol sprays may be the best way to deter bear attacks. That’s the latest from Tom S. Smith, a Brigham Young University wildlife professor. Smith studied a decade’s worth of bear attack data in researching for a report. He says the spray is a better option than …

IPSWICH, Mass. – A driving instructor accused of being drunk while teaching a lesson in Ipswich pleads not guilty. Daniel Winsky of Salem was arraigned on a drunken driving charge today in district court. Court documents say the 52-year-old had a blood alcohol level of .233 after he was stopped …

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – South America moved away from talk of war as the presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador agreed to end a bitter dispute triggered by a Colombian cross-border raid with testy handshakes and an apology. After intense regional diplomacy and emotional debate, Latin American leaders Friday …

SALEM, N.H. – Two former employees of an Apple Computer store in Salem (New Hampshire) have been charged with stealing more than 300 trendy iPhones. Police say the two stole 332 phones, valued at more than $130,000, from the store at the Mall at Rockingham Park. Twenty-two-year-old Christopher Nashed of …

A rare bacterial disease known as Q fever is turning up in a rural northern Nevada county that also is home to a childhood leukemia cluster, according to a published report. The Reno Gazette-Journal reported Saturday that Nevada had eight reported cases of Q fever in 2007, six of them …

A Japanese pin-up model has had a legal verdict overturned after successfully arguing her breasts were too big to allow her to squeeze through a hole a man alleged she used to gain entry into his room. Serena Kozakura was convicted last year of property destruction after a man accused …

HOUSTON – Astronauts flexed the giant arms of the international space station’s new robot for the first time, testing the brakes and maneuvering the appendages into position for a Monday night spacewalk. All the brakes on the Canadian-built robot passed the test except for one in the wrist joint of …

LUCKNOW, India – Five people have been arrested for keeping 15 poor people in captivity and selling their blood to private clinics in northern India to make money, police said Tuesday. The victims, who were freed in a raid Sunday, were lured with promises of good jobs and forcibly kept …