TUCKER, Ga. – Authorities say a police officer fatally shot a naked man on Monday afternoon outside a suburban Atlanta apartment complex who doesn’t appear to have been armed. Chief of Police Cedric Alexander in greater Atlanta’s DeKalb County says the officer responded to reports of a suspicious person knocking …

A South Florida high school teacher was suspended without pay for a week after being accused of calling a Muslim student a Taliban. The Broward School Board unanimously approved the suspension Tuesday against the Cypress Bay High School teacher Maria Valdes. Valdes is also required to attend diversity training. However, …

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Officials say some out-of-control birds are chasing people and tying up traffic at a central Florida park. Ducks, geese, ibis, seagulls and other birds that flock to the 30-acre Wells Park in Melbourne are losing their fear of people. This week, workers installed ‘Feeding Wildlife Prohibited’ signs. …

SAN FRANCISCO – Hands torn and bleeding, the second of two men attempting a grueling climb up a half-mile of sheer granite in California’s Yosemite National Park cleared one of the ascent’s most difficult stretches after days of failed attempts and waiting. Growing crowds of onlookers at the foot of …

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska State Troopers say an Oregon man died while climbing Mount Yukla. Troopers say Dasan Marshall of Portland, Oregon, was climbing with a friend on Sunday when he fell about 1,000 feet. Because of the terrain in the Chugach Mountains about 6 miles from the Eagle River …

RALEIGH, N.C. – Luke Martin Jr., whose father was an ex-slave and Civil War Union soldier, has died — 179 years after his father was born. Martin was 97 when he died Sunday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina, said his daughter, Fannie Martin-Williams. Her father, who suffered …

WASHINGTON – An Army veteran has been charged with threatening to shoot his wife and other people at the U.S. Capitol, where his wife works. Michael Bogoslavski, 33, was arrested Monday after he told his wife over the phone and via text message that he planned to shoot her and …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General says a lack of managerial oversight at Los Alamos National Laboratory led to improper disclosures of sensitive information. In a summary of a report released last week, the inspector general says the lab’s classification officer at times misclassified …

BOSTON – A judge has rejected a request from lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR’ tsahr-NEYE’-ehv) to bar demonstrations near courthouse entrances by people who believe the bombings were part of a government plot. Tsarnaev’s lawyers argued that the fairness of his trial could be harmed by …

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia environmental officials say Duke Energy has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement over a massive coal ash spill in the Dan River last year. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality announced the settlement Friday. The settlement would include $2.25 million in environmental projects that Duke would …