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TAMPA, Fla. – Authorities in Florida say a man and woman who were intoxicated had to be rescued after falling asleep in a dumpster that was later emptied into a garbage truck. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s officials say the couple had been sleeping in a dumpster outside a convenience store near …

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – For the second consecutive winter, bitter weather threatens to turn the surface of the Great Lakes into a vast frozen plain. The federal Great Lakes research laboratory in Ann Arbor reports Friday that nearly 81 percent of the five lakes’ surface area is ice-covered. On Thursday, …

WASHINGTON – Josh Lederman of The Associated Press and Jim Avila of ABC News have won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential coverage under deadline pressure. Lederman won in the print category for his breaking stories about a fence jumper who made it inside the White House before being apprehended. …