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Family and friends gathered at a Little Rock church on Saturday to mourn the loss of the 15-year-old Arkansas teen fatally shot over a prank.

Michael Sam, who is poised to become the first openly gay pro football player, said Saturday he is eager to move past the attention he garnered when he came out in an ESPN interview earlier this month.

An American college student who was reported missing while studying abroad in Italy has been found dead, his family confirmed Saturday.John Durkin, a 21-year-old junior at Bates College in Maine, was studying in Rome as part of a semester abroad program offered by Trinity College.

Michael Sam, who is poised to become the first openly gay pro football player, said Saturday he is eager to move past the attention he garnered when he came out in an ESPN interview earlier this month.

The last dry town in Connecticut is considering whether to give up on Prohibition.

A national fraternity indefinitely suspended its chapter at the University of Mississippi after three members were suspected of hanging a noose around a statue of the school's first black student.

Bodies were found burned beyond recognition in a Philadelphia car fire, officials said.

An 84-year-old California man learns how to read after working with a tutor at a local library.

Michael Sam addresses the media at the NFL combine in Indianapolis.

A Bridgeport, Conn. schools administrator said Friday that a video showing a principal dragging two young students down a hallway should have led to the principal's firing.