A Wisconsin man faces arson and other charges after he allegedly told police he was just cleaning with gasoline … while smoking. The ensuing fire led to the evacuation of 11 of Ernest D. Krajniak’s neighbors, according to the Appleton, Wisc., Post-Crescent. Krajniak, 47, said he accidentally started the fire …

TERRYTOWN, La. – Gunmen in dark clothes kicked down an apartment door in a troubled New Orleans-area neighborhood and opened fire, killing two children and a woman, authorities said. A third child was hospitalized after the shooting around 4 a.m., and investigators were searching for suspects, said Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s …

The U.S. is ready to respond with physical military force to a cyberattack, a top general says. “The Law of Armed Conflict will apply to this domain,” Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, head of U.S. Strategic Command, told reporters at a breakfast roundtable Thursday, according to Stars and Stripes. …

BEVERLY, Mass. – A Beverly man charged with trying hire a hit man to kill his 9-year-old daughter, estranged wife and mother-in-law could face longer than the 12 years behind bars he had agreed to with prosecutors after declining to withdraw his guilty plea. John Orlowski pleaded guilty last year …

RANGOON, Burma – Burma’s junta alleged Friday that anti-government forces engineered an American’s illegal visit to the house of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to embarrass the government and aggravate its relations with the West. Authorities detained John W. Yettaw after he left Suu Kyi’s heavily guarded compound earlier …

SAN DIEGO – Six months ago, Jim Wiseman didn’t even have a spare nutrition bar in his kitchen cabinet. Now, the 54-year-old businessman and father of five has a backup generator, a water filter, a grain mill and a 4-foot-tall pile of emergency food tucked in his home in the …

A British millionaire is being hunted by cops after his girlfriend was found battered to death in a Paris hotel room. The 40-year-old man, who has not been named, is believed to be heading towards the French Riviera in his Porsche 911 sports car. French police said they wanted to …

GALLUP, N.M. – A Gallup Police Department spokesman says a single-engine airplane carrying a Corrales man and a 14-year-old girl crashed shortly before noon Saturday in an open field in Gallup. Lt. Rick White says pilot Curtis Smith was giving rides to children during an event at the Gallup Municipal …

Alec Baldwin is apologizing for making a joke about getting a Filipino mail-order bride that provoked a sharp response in the Philippines. The Emmy-winning actor quipped during a May 12 interview on “The Late Show with David Letterman” that he would love to have more children and that he was …

The director of a circus arena says an ice-skating bear turned on its trainers, killing one and seriously wounding another, the Associated Press reported. A Russian circus troupe was rehearsing for a performance in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when the incident happened. Workers had to drag the bear away during the attack, …