A textbook monitoring group said that Maryland middle and high school students will be required to read about Islamic teachings that have been dumbed down and are products of political correctness. According to the New York Examiner, a new report issued by the American Textbook Council said that administrators who …

NEWPORT, Tenn. – Three inmates who overpowered a guard and escaped from a Tennessee jail are back behind bars. Officials say 23-year-old Mark Allen Capanyola, 34-year-old James L. Reed and 29-year-old Joshua Lynn Parker escaped from the Cocke County Jail Sunday night. Authorities say the inmates called the guard to …

Laura Todd is tired of being dead. Because of an eight-year-old error that attached her Social Security number to a dead woman in Florida, the Nashville resident has had to prove over and over again that she is, in fact, alive, WSMV-TV reports. Todd said that being dead off and …

The mother of a 17-year-old girl who was killed in a murder-suicide committed by her ex-boyfriend said police told her daughter to stop calling them for help or she would be arrested, local6.com reported. “The police officer said if you call us one more time on him, I’m going to …

JERUSALEM – Mariam Amash filled in the routine form with anything but routine information. Amash, who recently applied for a new Israeli identity card, said she was born 120 years ago — a claim, if confirmed, that would make her the oldest person in the world. The Guinness Book of …

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A judge on Friday ordered a New Orleans businessman accused of giving classified military information to the Chinese government to remain in jail pending trial. U.S. Magistrate John F. Anderson ruled that Tai Kuo, 58, would be a flight risk if released. Kuo, a citizen of Taiwan …

PHOENIX – A dried and decomposing body was found in a bathtub filled with dirt in a Phoenix apartment that was stacked to the ceiling with garbage and human waste. Phoenix police Sgt. Joel Tranter said Monday that the apartment owners thought it had been abandoned in August. But the …

LOS ANGELES – Gary Coleman is a not-so-newlywed. The former “Diff’rent Strokes” star married 22-year-old Shannon Price in August on a mountaintop in Nevada, but they have been keeping their vows under wraps, the pair told “Inside Edition.” “Nobody was around but the minister, preacher, the videographers, the photographer, the …

KEYSTONE, Colo. – Retired ABC News correspondent John McWethy died Wednesday after crashing into a tree while skiing at the Keystone resort, the Summit County coroner said. Witnesses said McWethy, 61, was skiing fast on an intermediate trail when he missed a turn and slid chest-first into the tree shortly …

BAGHDAD – Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Friday that he has extended a cease-fire order to his Shiite Mahdi Army by another six months, giving Iraq a chance to continue its fragile recovery from brutal sectarian violence. His message was delivered by Shiite clerics during prayer services in mosques dominated …