Discoveries behind St. Louis Cathedral include a small silver crucifix from the 1770s or 1780s and traces of previously unknown buildings dating back to around the city's founding in 1718.

City Hall has banned snacking near its famous monuments in the historical center. Violators face an $80 fine.

The marine mammals have been feeding on fish in the Shrewsbury River near Red Bank for the past few weeks.

Grave robbers allegedly sold human skulls to makers of traditional medicines and amulets.

Grace Saenz-Lopez secretly kept her neighbors' dog after telling them the pet died.

Nikolay Sazhin almost knocked out his opponent with a blow to the chin. But he had to take the queen to win the match.

PITTSBURGH - A Tennessee woman tried to poison her hospitalized infant son by repeatedly injecting salt water into his feeding tube in what she claimed were attempts to hasten the death of a suffering child, police said.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese said Wednesday he is confident he will be vindicated in the legislative bonus investigation and intends to remain leader of the House Democratic caucus.

PHILADELPHIA - A man faces one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder after a fatal crash that followed a domestic dispute in Philadelphia.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A former Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate on Wednesday asked the state's highest court to reopen his two-year-old ballot-access case because state legislative officials arrested last week on corruption charges were allegedly involved in the challenge

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A candidate viewed as a threat to Democrat Bob Casey in Pennsylvania's 2006 Senate race wants help from the state's highest court because legislative officials arrested on corruption charges were allegedly involved in knocking him off the

PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh-based McCune Foundation isn't taking any new grant applications until September because the National City Corp. stock it owns is plummeting.

PITTSBURGH - If family members who own the Pittsburgh Steelers sell all or part of the team to outside interests, the county controller wants the team to repay at least some of the $281 million taxpayers ponied up to build

PHILADELPHIA - The top federal prosecutor in Philadelphia is joining the firm of Conrad O'Brien Gellman & Rohn.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Eduardo Najera and Jarvis Hayes are bringing more than points, rebounds and experience to the New Jersey Nets.

NEW YORK - The Coast Guard says it has detained a cruise ship in New York Harbor after a safety inspection found significant hull damage.

WASHINGTON - A panel of government experts on Wednesday said studies from Johnson & Johnson are not strong enough to justify approval of its antibiotic to treat pnuemonia.

NEWARK, N.J. - New York Red Bulls midfielder Claudio Reyna says he is retiring.

NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey is more than a half-year into a mild recession that should end in early 2010, according to a Rutgers University economic forecast released Wednesday.

TRENTON, N.J. - Ousted union chief Carla Katz on Wednesday was expected to ask a federal judge to restore her as head of the largest state worker union.