May 24 - By Associated Press
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May 1 - By Zeina Karam, Associated Press
On its towering hilltop perch, the Krak des Chevaliers, one of the world's best preserved Crusader castles, held off a siege by the Muslim warrior Saladin nearly 900 years ago. It was lauded by Lawrence of Arabia for its beauty and has been one of the crown jewels of Syria's tourism.
Apr 20 - By Associated Press
Police in the small southwest Ohio city of Hillsboro have returned an 82-year-old man to his home 280 miles away after he apparently got lost while driving in his Indiana hometown.

Apr 12 - By Tim Sullivan, Associated Press
The press bus took a wrong turn Thursday. And suddenly, everything changed in the official showcase of North Korean achievement.
Mar 30 - By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press
A disaster preparedness exercise to ensure California's child support system could be run remotely went smoothly, except for one casualty: the names, Social Security numbers and other private records of about 800,000 adults and children.
Mar 26 - By Associated Press
A New York City auction will feature a painting by art deco artist Tamara de Lempicka that vanished from public view after it was created in 1925.

Mar 23 - By Associated Press
A collection of rare movie theater posters found in a northeastern Pennsylvania attic has fetched a total of $503,000 at auction.
Mar 21 - By The Associated Press
“Sprint works aggressively with law enforcement agencies to deactivate lost or stolen phones, as well as their efforts to deter cell phone thefts. When a Sprint cell phone is reported lost or stolen, Sprint takes the following steps:
Mar 16 - By Associated Press
A Thai taxi driver has returned gold worth $450,000 to a customer who left the jewelry behind three days earlier.

Mar 13 - By Tom Odula, Associated Press
Adan Abdi worries that the students in his class show too little interest in education. That might be a common complaint among teachers, but Abdi's concerns go further: His students are interested in playing war.

Mar 12 - By Jeff Barnard, Associated Press
At 38, Jason Bjaranson was starting to figure it might be time to get out of commercial fishing on the Pacific Ocean. He was starting to think he should buy some life insurance, and had second thoughts about making what proved to be his last trip. But he had a family to support, and the bills were piling up.

Mar 11 - By Joann Loviglio, Associated Press
A rowdy band of bloodsuckers, gunslingers, wily wise guys, jaded private eyes, hardboiled reporters and good girls gone bad, stuck in an attic together for 80 years, is going its separate ways.

Mar 9 - By Michael Biesecker, Associated Press
When immigration agents deported Felipe Montes to Mexico two years ago, his three young sons were left in the care of their mentally ill, American-born mother in a small North Carolina mountain town.

Mar 4 - By msnbc.com

Feb 5 - By David Klepper, Associated Press
The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America's top diplomats.
Jan 16 - By Danica Kirka, Associated Press
A British tabloid reported Tuesday that it had been handed documents about security arrangements for the London Olympics that were left on a train by a police officer, the latest in a series of embarrassing mishaps involving British authorities misplacing government documents.

Jan 13 - By Associated Press
A Utah man who lost his class ring six months after he bought it is getting the keepsake back 45 years later, thanks to some Facebook detective work.
Jan 6 - By Associated Press
Louise Hearst Entzminger lost her class ring in a central Florida swimming hole in the 1930s.

Jan 5 - By Associated Press
A regional government is providing emergency funding to Bosnia's National Museum to save the 125-year-old institution from being forced to close due to unpaid utility bills.

Jan 4 - By Associated Press
A cat who wandered away from his new home in Florida has been reunited with his owner after being found nearly 2,000 miles away in Colorado.
Dec 23 - By Associated Press
An orange striped tabby cat that ran away from its home in Florida has been found — more than 2,000 miles away on a snowy street in Colorado.
Dec 23 - By Associated Press
A rare violin worth $172,000 that was mistakenly left onboard a Boston-to-Philadelphia bus by a groggy music student from Taiwan has been found and returned to its grateful owner.
Dec 17 - By Associated Press
A South Carolina toddler has been reunited with his family after being lost for more than a day in woods near his home and spending a rainy night outdoors as temperatures dropped into the low 40s.