SEATTLE — A man in Port Angeles, Wash., went on a rampage with a bulldozer Friday afternoon after quarreling with a neighbor and plowed through four structures, a pickup truck and a power line, cutting electricity to homes as far as 20 miles away.

One of the homes was swept from its foundation and smashed into another house, Clallam County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Borte told the Los Angeles Times.

There were no apparent injuries, though a woman was at home in one of the less-damaged structures and managed to escape, he said.

Authorities said Barry Swegle, 51, who lives next door to the most damaged property, has been arrested on a charge of malicious mischief.

Borte said Swegle had apparently been involved in a dispute with a neighbor.

“As I understand it, there was an argument that had taken place,” he said. “This was the outcome of the dispute.”

Authorities said Swegle took an International Harvester TD-25 and aimed it squarely at the first house,...

HOUSTON -- A paramedic who responded to the massive explosion in West, Texas, last month was arrested Friday after federal investigators discovered he had the makings of a pipe bomb, authorities said.

It was not clear whether the arrest was connected to the ongoing investigation of the April 17 explosion, which killed 14 people and wounded more than 160.

West Paramedic Bryce Reed appeared Friday in federal court in the county seat of Waco, Texas, on federal charges of unlawfully possessing an unregistered destructive device, according to a statement released to the Los Angeles Times by U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman and ATF Special Agent in Charge Robert Champion.

Reed was appointed an attorney and did not enter a plea, court staff told The Times. That attorney, Waco-based lawyer Jonathan Sibley, did not return calls Friday.

Also, the judge initially sealed the complaint pending Reed's first appearance, then unsealed it Friday. Reed appeared via videoconference, according to court...

New York City can once again claim to be home to the tallest building in the country, and the Western Hemisphere for that matter.

On Friday, workers topped off the new One World Trade Center building with a spire making the structure 1,776 feet tall, symbolizing the year the United States was born.

The finishing touch, performed by New York construction company Tishman, involved workers securing the final two portions of the spire with 60 bolts at 1,701 feet, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site.

Loud applause and shouts erupted from construction workers assembled below as the huge, silver spire was gently lowered and secured into place. The building stands at the site where the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks destroyed both the 110-story twin towers.

“It's a pretty awesome feeling,” Juan Estevez told The Associated Press from a temporary platform on the roof of the tower where he and other workers watched the milestone.

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A 11-year-old boy shot a 12-year-old boy in the face early Friday morning in New Jersey, authorities said.

The incident occurred about 8 a.m. in an apartment complex in Camden, N.J., and involved a handgun, officials said. Police found the 12-year-old bleeding profusely after being shot in the area around his nose, local media reported.

The boy is expected to recover without brain damage, said Jason Laughlin, a spokesman for the Camden County prosecutor’s office.  

The shooting appears to be accidental, though an investigation is still underway, Laughlin said. No charges were immediately filed in connection with the incident. 

Investigators were looking into how the 11-year-old got hold of the handgun. Under New Jersey law, a gun owner can face criminal charges for allowing a minor to get hold of a loaded firearm.

"We have the 11-year-old and the 11-year-old's parents with us. They are fully cooperative. We're trying to get to the bottom of what happened," Camden County Police...

SEATTLE—Colton Harris-Moore, the serial burglar who led authorities on a chase through several states and three countries as the “Barefoot Bandit,” pleaded guilty to the last of the charges against him this week, but he would like the public to know he is not discouraged by the seven-year prison term he’s serving.

“I am working with amazing people, and I will have a beautiful life,” Harris-Moore said in a handwritten note released by his lawyers.

“If there is any truth I’ve learned, it is that absolutely anything is possible,” he wrote. “When this is over and I regain my freedom, I will bring everything I am working towards into reality.”

Harris-Moore, 22, was supposed to be out of the limelight when he was sentenced more than a year agofor his multi-state crime spree, in which he admitted stealing planes, boats, cars and food as he fled one step ahead of the law across the Pacific Northwest, and eventually further...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in a Muslim cemetery in Virginia, Boston officials said on Friday as they released the official death certificate for a suspect in the bombing of the Boston Marathon.

Officials said earlier this week that Tsarnaev’s remains had been entombed, but gave no indication where. The remains were interred at Al-Barzakh Muslim Cemetery in Doswell, Va., outside Richmond.

At least four local cemeteries as well as the cities of Boston and Cambridge, had refused to take the body of the 26-year-old man. The body had been kept at a funeral home in Worcester, Mass., during the dispute over how to deal with Tsarnaev’s remains.

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Officials have said that Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar, 19, placed two pressure-cooker bombs along the finish line area to the Boston Marathon on April 15. The devices exploded with 10 seconds of each other, killing three and injuring more than 260.

Late on April 18, the brothers killed an MIT...

Michelle Knight, one of the three Cleveland women kidnapped and held captive for about a decade, has been discharged from the hospital where she had been receiving care.

In a statement emailed to reporters Friday, MetroHealth Medical Center said Knight had left the hospital and was asking for privacy.

“Michelle Knight is in good spirits and would like the community to know that she is extremely grateful for the outpouring of flowers and gifts. She is especially thankful for the Cleveland Courage Fund. She asks that everyone please continue to respect her privacy at this time,” the hospital said.

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Knight, 32, disappeared in 2002. She was held in a house at 2207 Seymour Ave. with two other women -- Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJeus, now about 23. All were abused and assaulted during their captivity.

Berry led the escape of the three women by breaking through a screen door Monday and, with the help of neighbors, called the police. All three...

HOUSTON--A local paramedic who responded to the massive fertilizer plant fire last month in West, Texas, has been arrested for allegedly possessing a destructive device.

Bryce Reed, 31, was arrested early Friday by officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to staff at the McLennan County Jail.

Reed was booked at 2:40 a.m. and released to ATF custody about five hours later, jail staff said.

Officials have not said whether Reed's arrest was related to the April 17 explosion at West Fertilizer Co. that killed 15, injured about 200 and destroyed hundreds of homes.

Reed could not be reached for comment, although he spoke with the Los Angeles Times soon after the massive West Fertilizer Co. explosion in the town of about 2,800 situated about 76 miles south of Dallas.

At the time, Reed said he narrowly escaped injury when he was ordered south of the fire just before the explosion to take the role of incident commander while his friend, a fellow first...

Ariel Castro, accused of kidnapping and raping three women held captive for years in his Cleveland house, is the father of the child born in captivity to one of the victims, officials said Friday morning.

State officials received a DNA sample from Castro on Thursday afternoon and worked to complete the tests, Ohio Atty. Gen. Mike DeWine announced.

“Forensic scientists worked throughout the night to confirm that Castro is the father of the six-year-old girl born in captivity to one of the kidnapping victims,” the office said in a statement posted on its website.

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The child, born in the house at 2207 Seymour Ave. in Cleveland, is the daughter of Amanda Berry, one of the three women Castro is accused of kidnapping and holding for about a decade. Police previously identified the child as Berry’s daughter but said they would wait for the DNA test results before naming the father.

Castro was arrested Monday and is accused of kidnapping and...

Minnesota is poised to become the second Midwestern state to legalize same-sex marriage after the state House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday that would allow the practice.

The House had been considered the measure's toughest hurdle. The bill passed 75 to 59 and heads to the state's Democratic-majority Senate, which is expected to consider it Monday.

Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, has said he will sign the measure.

Eleven states and the District of Columbia allow same-sex marriage -- including Delaware, which acted Tuesday. Minnesota would be the first Midwestern state to legalize it with legislation. Gay marriage is legal in Iowa because of a 2009 state Supreme Court decision.

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Minnesota, like Iowa, harbors a Midwestern progressive streak. (The state's Democratic Party is formally known as the Democratic Farmer Labor Party.) But Thursday's vote marked a stark reversal from 2011, when -- after a wrenching and emotional debate -- state...

HOUSTON -- A military judge ruled Thursday that relatives of accused Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan can be compelled to testify, potentially facing contempt charges if they refuse.

Several relatives of Hasan, 42, have said they will not testify, but the ruling forces them and other listed witnesses to do so or face possible charges, a Ft. Hood spokesman told the Los Angeles Times.

The Army psychiatrist is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in connection with the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting at the sprawling base in central Texas. After repeated delays, the trial is expected to start within weeks.

The military judge, Col. Tara Osborn, denied several other defense motions Thursday, including requests that would have granted the defense a media expert, further delayed the trial and allowed Hasan to plead guilty to lesser charges to avoid the death penalty (a request Osborn previously denied).

Hasan’s lawyers argued...