Two brothers accused of running a multistate cocaine ring called the Black Mafia Family have been sent to prison for 30 years.Terry Flenory of Los Angeles and Demetr...

Today is Saturday, Sept. 13, the 257th day of 2008. There are 109 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 13, 1788, the Congress of the Co...

A man who sparked fears of an assassination plot against Barack Obama missed a federal court hearing on a drug charge Friday because he's in the Denver jail on another case...

A federal appeals court has rejected a second attempt by a delivery man to claim a piece of Howard Hughes' fortune, a plight first dramatized by the 1980s Academy Award-win...

A commuter train carrying 222 people collided head-on with a freight train during the Friday afternoon rush, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and trapping an unk...

Hurricane-force gusts of at least 74 mph are lashing Galveston, Texas, as Hurricane Ike approaches.The National Hurricane Center says the storm hasn't strengthened i...

A commuter train carrying 222 people collided head-on with a freight train during the Friday afternoon rush, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens and trapping an unk...

A Metrolink spokeswoman says seven people have been killed in the collision of a commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.Sp...

A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's fourth-largest city, shut down the hear...

A commuter train believed to have been carrying up to 350 people during the afternoon rush collided with a freight train Friday, killing four people, injuring dozens and tr...

Prosecutors sought a first-degree murder conviction and could have sent him away for life. Instead, a jury convicted the teacher's husband of reckless homicide, for fatally...

A monster-sized Hurricane Ike bore down on the Texas coast late Friday, threatening to rattle the sparkling skyscrapers of America's fourth-largest city, shut down the hear...

Twenty-two people are riding out Hurricane Ike aboard a crippled freighter in the Gulf of Mexico.But the Coast Guard says the crew is OK Friday after the worst of th...

Storm surge driven by Hurricane Ike breached levees in coastal Louisiana Friday and flooded hundreds of homes in areas along the Gulf of Mexico still recovering from Gustav...

A Metrolink commuter train believed to be carrying up to 350 people collided with a freight train Friday, killing four people and injuring dozens of others. Firefighters ex...

Federal Aviation Administration officials gathered Friday to promote new flight and navigational technologies that reduce fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions while also d...

Mars Petcare US announced a voluntary recall Friday of all dry pet food products produced at its plant in Everson, Pa. between Feb. 18 and July 29, citing potential contami...

A Metrolink commuter train believed to be carrying up to 350 people collided with a freight train Friday, killing two people and injuring an unknown number of others. Firef...

Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm nearly as big as Texas itself, battered the coast Friday, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries an...

It is not the jury of O.J. Simpson's dreams, but neither does it shape up to be his nightmare.The all-white jury that on Monday will begin judging him and a co-defen...

Parts of Houston and surrounding areas have been put under a curfew order as Hurricane Ike approaches.Mayor Bill White and Harris County Judge Ed Emmett enacted the ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says two people have been killed in the collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train.Sheriff's Deputy Byro...

As of Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at least 519 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in ...

As of Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.Judge halts immigrant rental ban in Dallas suburb, Linda Stewart Ball

A federal judge on Friday stopped a Dallas suburb's latest attempt to drive away illegal immigrants, ruling that Farmers Branch cannot enforce a ban on apartment rentals to...

A Metrolink commuter train collided with a freight train Friday, toppling one of the passenger cars onto its side.Firefighters battled a fire under part of the wreck...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is asking President Bush for a "wide-reaching emergency declaration" in all 88 counties in the line of fire from Hurricane Ike.Perry said a dec...

Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm nearly as big as Texas itself, began battering the coast Friday, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refine...

A woman who slashed a young mother's throat and kidnapped her newborn in rural eastern Missouri, setting off a frantic search that drew national attention, was sentenced Fr...

It's not the best-researched global-warming theory, but it could be the most horrifying to certain fans of college football: Environmentalists said Friday that climate chan...

Hurricane Ike is on the cusp of major hurricane status as it aims for Texas, with winds of 110 mph. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say the storm coul...

A federal judge has stopped a Dallas suburb's latest attempt to prevent illegal immigrants from renting housing in the community.Federal Judge Jane Boyle on Friday g...

A 33-year-old woman is accused of stealing her daughter's identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad.Wendy Brown is charged with felony identity ...

An 18-year-old man was charged Friday with murdering a woman and her three young daughters, then setting fire to their home, and authorities say they consider the man a "pe...

Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander ditched his profession and turned into a serial predator, hunting for girls and young women to have humiliating and painful sex with hi...

Scientists accustomed to working alone with deadly pathogens could be forced to buddy up in the laboratory as military officials and civilian contractors review security me...

A Galveston boat and yacht repair warehouse has been destroyed by flames because the streets were too flooded by Hurricane Ike for fire trucks to reach it.Galveston ...

The storm came without a name — without warning — and it shaped the future of weather forecasting.It's known simply as The Great Storm of 1900, and it was the wo...

A 33-year-old woman stole her daughter's identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad, according to a criminal complaint filed against the woman.We...

Authorities say tens of thousands have ignored evacuation orders and are staying behind as Hurricane Ike takes aim at the Texas coast.An Associated Press survey show...

The man in charge of the country's nuclear regulatory agency says the United States needs a generation of new scientists, engineers and skilled workers to staff, build and ...

Twenty-two people are riding out Hurricane Ike aboard a crippled freighter in the Gulf of Mexico.The nearly 600-foot ship called the Antalina sent a distress call ea...

Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm nearly as big as Texas itself, began battering the coast Friday, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refine...

Four construction workers in northeast Nebraska died in a collapsed trench after one of them fell in and his co-workers tried to rescue him, officials said Friday.Th...

The streets in this coastal city were mostly deserted Friday. Someone used red paint to scrawl "We don't like Ike" and "Take a Hike Ike 2008" on a boarded-up building.<...

The Connecticut attorney general and communities in four Northeastern states have asked a federal court to halt a new air traffic plan for the region, citing noise, polluti...

A New York charity says it has turned down a share of a $3 million lottery jackpot because accepting the money could send the wrong message to gambling addicts.The L...

Houston's quiet-spoken mayor is hardly one for bold moves. But there was Bill White, telling Houstonians to ride out Hurricane Ike because it was too late to escape....

Authorities say a drainage trench being constructed along a northeastern Nebraska highway has collapsed, killing four workers.The Knox County attorney's office issue...

At first, even the threat of "certain death" was not enough to persuade Bobby Taylor to flee this small town directly in the path of Hurricane Ike.His wife, Elizabet...

Leaders of the largest Haitian community in the U.S. are again pleading to stop their countrymen from being deported to their homeland that has been racked by four deadly s...

An 18-year-old man has been charged with murdering a woman and her three daughters, then setting fire to their Southern California home to hide the crime.The Los Ang...

A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in rough water as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to d...

Just thinking about it is enough to rattle your teeth. The Dutch media are enthralled by the trials of two men dubbed the "horror dentists." They were caught separately pra...

When fishing gear is lost off boats, it's not really gone. In webs and rolling clumps, the nets, ropes and traps endure for decades as destructive artifacts of the fishery,...

The summer's been a bummer for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Although he still likes to say being governor of California is the best job he's ever had, Schwarzenegger has faced ne...

A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in rough water as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to d...

A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in high waves as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to de...

A disbarred lawyer who lived three doors down from the Clintons and was down to $300 in his bank account executed his wife of 30 years to collect her nearly $900,000 life i...

A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in high waves as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to de...

Police said a man pretending to be a door-to-door vacuum salesman stole $25,000 in jewelry after a widow let him into her Cypress home.Sgt. Tom Bruce said the woman ...

A man is going to prison for shooting a 7-year-old Detroit girl who took a number of bullets aimed at her mother.Prosecutors say Calvin Tillie was sentenced Friday t...

Pat Bertoletti has eaten 1.75 gallons of ice cream in 8 minutes, 266 pickled jalapenos in 15 minutes and 42 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in 10 minutes, and 21 pounds ...

Boy, how people here wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark. Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to anot...

An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter's boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter's room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn'...

A sprawling and strengthening Hurricane Ike steamed through the Gulf of Mexico on Friday on a track toward the nation's fourth-largest city, where authorities told resident...

A reputed Colombian drug lord more used to a life of luxury than solitary confinement wants out of his cramped maximum security cell in New York City.A lawyer for Ju...

There's gold in them thar vaults! But how much? A reader's curiosity about how much of the shiny stuff is stored at Fort Knox inspired one of three questions in this editio...

Two gunmen fired on a group of people gathered for a trophy presentation after a neighborhood youth basketball game, killing the league's organizer and a teenager, and woun...

Mayor says at least 10 dead in Los Angeles commuter train wreck....

A sprawling and strengthening Hurricane Ike steamed through the Gulf of Mexico on Friday on a track toward the nation's fourth-largest city, where authorities told resident...

A North Carolina-based convenience store chain is asking customers in 11 states — mostly across the Southeast — to limit gasoline purchases to 10 gallons as Hurricane I...

Hurricane Ike lumbered closer to Texas early Friday, hours before it was forecast to lash the coast with heavy rainfall, intense winds and severe thunderstorms.Ike c...

Tensions have flared between Somali workers and officials at a Colorado meatpacking plant over when employees can break for prayer during the Muslim observance of Ramadan.<...

Amid the engines' roar, the Air Force Reserve pilots and navigator worked calmly as their huge plane neared the eyewall of Hurricane Ike.The gray cloud, looming 50,0...

When word surfaced this week that Gov. Brian Schweitzer suggested in a speech this summer that he influenced Montana's 2006 U.S. Senate race to help a fellow Democrat, Schw...

As recently as three years ago, many elderly residents in this part of southeastern North Dakota were forced to order their medications by mail.These days, customers...

A large group of well-meaning officials from several states have a message for you and your family: Go take a hike.They're urging moms and dads to take their kids aw...

A surfer who put his fingers into the mouth of a shark to pry himself free during an attack believes the fish took no further interest in him because it didn't like the tas...

About 40 Chicago police officers rode a bus from Chicago to Des Moines in hopes of persuading an appeals court to free a fellow police officer serving a prison sentence.Survey finds holes in US disaster preparedness, Karen Matthews

In a disaster such as an earthquake or terrorist attack, nearly two-thirds of U.S. parents would disregard orders to evacuate and would rush to pick up their kids from scho...

The U.S. Navy has followed the other military services by awarding death benefits electronically after a controversy erupted when a grieving father of a dead sailor was mis...

An all-white jury will judge O.J. Simpson and a co-defendant on kidnapping and robbery charges after defense lawyers lost a contentious courtroom battle to include two Afri...

Keep your bison off my property or risk having them hunted, software executive Jeff Hawn warned his neighbor outside this old Colorado mining town. In a lawsuit he said the...

Sultry weather can be hard on any traveler, and for wine it can be disastrous.A high-tech shipping label now being used by some in the industry aims to warn customer...

As a gigantic Hurricane Ike steamed through the Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast, officials in America's fourth-largest city made a bold decision: Instead of fleeing, ...

Testing prompted by an Associated Press story that revealed trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in drinking water supplies has shown that more Americans are affected by the pr...

Familiar rituals of grief marked the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11 on Thursday as thousands paid tribute at the attack sites, the presidential candidates laid flowers at ...

Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the heart of the U.S. refining industry and...

The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Thursday, Sept. 11:___If any of the Republican or Democratic presidential candidates had refused to ta...

The presidential candidates have discussed quite a few issues in this campaign. Strangely, though, voters have heard little about homeland security.Yet the risks to ...

During this September of our dissonance, the nation feasts on all things Sarah. News sources, Web sites, and the cacophony of cable chatter, on both sides of the chasm, are...

Anna Wintour feels our pain.In the September issue of Vogue magazine, Wintour informs us that she and her fellow editors are taking this recession very, very serious...

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, Sept. 11:___In a welcome, if belated, decision, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates...

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, Sept. 11:___The track is almost 17 miles long. Racers travel in opposite directio...