The state's top rail safety regulator said Monday he would seek an emergency order banning train operators from using cell phones, as federal investigators sought to determ...

Today in HistoryToday is Tuesday, Sept. 16, the 260th day of 2008. There are 106 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years a...

State lawmakers on Monday were considering a compromise plan to end California's longest-ever budget stalemate, a proposal that includes increasing the paycheck withholding...

Men, women and children of all ages stepped right up and twirled together twine and chile pods at the New Mexico State Fair, trying to create the world's largest chile rist...

As of Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, at least 4,158 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.NY allows AIG to borrow from subsidiaries, Ieva M. Augstums And Stephen Bernard

American International Group Inc. will be allowed to use $20 billion of assets held by its subsidiaries to provide cash needed for the troubled insurer to stay in business,...

A plane carrying the U.S. and Mexican heads of the International Water and Boundary Commission disappeared Monday while touring floods along the Rio Grande.Commissio...

As of Monday, Sept. 15, 2008, at least 521 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in ...

O.J. Simpson's robbery-kidnapping trial was interrupted Monday when the first witness, a sports memorabilia dealer who has had previous heart attacks, pointed to his chest ...

A wealthy gold trader was charged Monday with paying one of his workers to arrange the stabbing death of the businessman's estranged wife, authorities said.James Fay...

The head of New Mexico's Game and Fish Department could lose his hunting license for two years after he was accused of illegally shooting a deer on private land.An i...

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., threw out plans Monday to allow more than 500 snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone National Park, drawing sharp criticism from Wyoming's ...

Federal officials blamed railroads Monday for refusing their requests to install an expensive safety feature on all U.S. tracks that many say could have prevented Southern ...

Today is Monday, Sept. 15, the 259th day of 2008. There are 107 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 15, 1789, the U.S. Department of F...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Sunday an investigation was planned into why staff at a public housing complex apparently left residents without care overnight during Hurricane ...

An alphabetical list of people killed in Friday's Metrolink train disaster and information known about them.Families of one male victim and one female victim have no...

Houston's airports are planning to reopen to commercial flights Monday with limited service after suffering some damage from Hurricane Ike.Flights stopped coming and...

Houston's airports are planning to reopen Monday with limited service after suffering some damage from Hurricane Ike.George Bush Intercontinental Airport and Hobby A...

A motorist drove onto a sidewalk near a park on Sunday and ran down three men, killing one and injuring the two others, authorities said.One man has been arrested an...

The state's top legislative leaders say they have reached a deal to end California's record budget impasse.It was not immediately clear whether the tentative deal wo...

Federal investigators on Sunday combed railroad tracks and crushed wreckage looking for evidence to explain the nation's deadliest rail disaster in 15 years and made plans ...

A father and son drowned in northwest Indiana while trying to rescue children from a flooded ditch as heavy rains from the remnants of Hurricane Ike forced hundreds of evac...

As of Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, at least 4,157 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.Pilfered primate freed from jail, returns to Maine

An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla is back home at an eastern Maine flea market-style store two weeks after it was stolen and later dumped in a cornfield in Vermont.A...

Houston, a fast-paced metropolis that churns on industries like oil, medical research, space technology and law, was dragged to a near halt by Hurricane Ike. But unlike its...

"Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy — a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure. ...

Three years ago, an elderly Italian man pulled his van into a South Florida park to sell some rare, 2,500-year-old emeralds plundered from a South American tomb. But Ugo Ba...

Nearly 2,000 people in Texas who refused orders to evacuate before Hurricane Ike have been rescued by land, air and water.A door-by-door search is under way in Galve...

U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water,...

The new Interstate 35W bridge, replacing one whose deadly collapse into the Mississippi River scarred the city's image and emotions, may be getting kudos for opening ahead ...

In a frustrating quirk in government policy, the most tightly controlled drugs — like painkilling narcotics prone to abuse — are the ones that most often elude environm...

It began as a case of six missing boaters. Then came the dramatic tale of an attack on the high seas by Cuban pirates, four fatal shootings and the rescue of two survivors ...

Hurricane Ike's deadly surge has kept thousands of evacuees holed up in cramped quarters — shelters, RVs, even a warehouse — as they face the prospect of returning to f...

Houston officials have issued a weeklong curfew for the city devastated by Hurricane Ike.Officials announced that a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew would begin Sunday night ...

Forecasters warned of "certain death," a possible 25-foot surge of water that would wash across the Texas and Louisiana coast, wiping away towns in a white-capped, churning...

The walls that line the pair of lanes in this tiny bowling alley seem close enough to make a bowler feel claustrophobic. But at a 100th anniversary party Saturday, the wall...

This isn't just any wheelchair-accessible path — it's part of the Appalachian Trail.The 2,175-mile trail's fourth wheelchair-accessible location opened to the publ...

The school system in coastal Baldwin County — 60 miles by 25 miles of Alabama farmland framed on two sides by waterfront towns — was short on teachers, especially in co...

Hurricane Ike spared Louisiana a direct hit, but its winds and waters killed two people as coastal areas were inundated with a storm surge that crawled some 30 miles inland...

Even as they plucked people from rooftops and wrecked neighborhoods on Saturday, emergency responders grumbled over how many brushed off dire warnings and tried to ride out...

Today is Sunday, Sept. 14, the 258th day of 2008. There are 108 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key was in...

Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks fanned out along the flood-stricken Texas coast Saturday in a monumental effort to reach tens of thousands of people wh...

Authorities report that Hurricane Ike has killed two people in Louisiana and likely two in Texas.Terrebonne Parish coroner senior investigator Gary Alford says a 16-...

Veteran firefighter Searcy Jackson III was among the first to arrive at the steaming wreckage of the Metrolink commuter train Friday. Surrounded by blood and agony, he and ...

It's a rainy day for the Manhattan restaurateur who sued a supermodel claiming she intentionally damaged his designer umbrella, said to be worth $5,000.State Supreme...

A van carrying high school cheerleaders rolled on a southern Arizona interstate, and two other vehicles crashed behind the wrecked van. Two people were killed, and 14 were ...

No charges will be pursued in the case of a Lubbock television station reporter arrested last year after trying to gauge security at two Amarillo hospitals, according to an...

As of Saturday, Sept. 13, 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 i...

A family's two pit bulls burst into the house from the backyard to attack a 4-month girl, mauling her to death even as her grandmother tried to escape with the baby into an...

Hurricane Ike created a wave of price spikes at gas stations across the country Saturday.Fears that the massive storm would cut off supply lent to wide disparities i...

The head of the nation's Veterans Affairs system said Saturday it still could be months before inpatient surgeries resume at a southern Illinois hospital. But rehabbing the...

A tanker truck driver has been found guilty of vehicular homicide for a fiery crash in 2005 that killed four people, including the mother of Tampa Bay Lightning center Jeff...

Ray Wilkinson sat with his feet propped on the railing of his front porch Saturday, calmly dragging on a Marlboro Light as reporters asked whether he considered himself bra...

A man accused of shooting four women and then setting their house on fire to cover up the crime surrendered to police Saturday.Rolando Terrell turned himself in to I...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says no one is allowed on Galveston Island in the aftermath of Ike except emergency personnel.Ike made landfall at Galveston as a Category 2 hu...

The Swiss architects of the iconic Bird's Nest stadium at the Beijing Olympics are bringing their innovative style to New York City with a translucent glass skyscraper desi...

Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places. There are handouts of $2,000 and bottles of Dom Perignon, lucky finds o...

Twelve years after terrorists' gunfire killed 17-year-old American David Boim at a bus stop in a West Bank town near Jerusalem, U.S. courts are still trying to settle wheth...

A jogger grabbed Julie Harmia as she was walking home from a bus stop, shoved his hand into her mouth, dragged her to a vacant lot and raped her.As he left he said: ...

A famous Texas nightclub where Frank Sinata and Bob Hope once performed is no longer — thanks to Hurricane Ike.The 79-year-old Balinese Room — a popular dance an...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency says search and rescue teams are at the ready in Houston, poised to go to the aid of those stranded by Hurricane Ike.But a FE...

Officials in one southeast Texas county say they are trying to rescue families trapped by devastating floods from Hurricane Ike.Orange County Judge Carl Thibodeaux s...

Long before her windows started humming and the lanky pine trees began swaying, new mother Claudia Macias had second thoughts about her family's decision to ride out Hurric...

Experts say Hurricane Ike's storm surges are less severe than originally predicted and the worst is probably over.Hydrologist Benton McGee from the U.S. Geological S...

In a wood-paneled basement filled with boxes of nuts, bolts and screws, a college journalism class is under way.Naked wooden beams and ductwork hang overhead. The in...

Investigators are reviewing at least 30 unsolved murder cases for possible links to an unidentified serial killer suspected in at least 11 slayings since 1985.The un...

Nearly 3 million people are without power in the Houston area as Hurricane Ike slams the Texas coast.It will likely be a while before electricity returns. CenterPoin...

A quiet neighborhood on the city's northwest tip was transformed Friday into a scene of incredible devastation when a commuter train carrying hundreds of people home during...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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.<...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.AP Enterprise: Drugs affect more drinking water, Martha Mendoza

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...

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...

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 ...

Four tree-sitters who ended their occupation of a University of California at Berkeley oak grove this week have pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges.The four fa...

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was among hundreds of Muslims attending a suburban Chicago service on Thursday to mourn the death of Imam W.D. Mohammed, the son of N...

A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory.The Reverend Christopher Layden plead...

A 27-year-old Army national guardsman was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for his role in an immigrant smuggling scheme.Pfc. Jose Rodrigo Torres wa...

A woman who lives near the Smoky Mountains used a musical instrument to scare away two men who broke into her home. The Knoxville News Sentinel quoted a Sevier County Sheri...

Authorities say a 62-year-old man fired a gun and chased his neighbor with a machete after two arguments over watering plants on Tuesday.The Pasco County Sheriff's O...

A businessman said he was so frustrated with the condition of a public bathroom in the western Michigan tourist town of Saugatuck that he cleaned it himself, and billed the...

Hurricane Ike's gargantuan size — not its strength — will likely push an extra large storm surge inland in a region already prone to it, experts said Thursday.Ik...

Authorities who seized scores of illegal African clawed frogs from Nevada residents say they have traced the creatures — banned because of their potential for ecological ...

The Navajo Nation is seeking full control of one of the only national monuments entirely on reservation land, the majestic Canyon de Chelly and its hundreds of ancient rock...

A man suspected of breaking into the home of two California farmworkers, rubbing spices into the face of one man and smacking another with an 8-inch sausage has been set fr...

North Dakota wants assurances that Minnesota officials are closely monitoring cattle and wild deer if the federal government agrees to ease requirements for bovine tubercul...

A former Afghan tribal leader accused of smuggling $50 million worth of heroin into the United States was so influential in his homeland that he formed his own army and tea...

A disgruntled worker at a Boeing plant said he cut electrical wires on a $24 million Chinook military helicopter because he was upset about a job transfer.Matthew Mo...

A New York judge threw out an indictment against five operators of a Florida pharmacy targeted almost two years ago in an investigation of illegal steroid sales over the In...

North Carolina officials say a Mexican court has approved returning a Marine accused of killing a pregnant colleague to the U.S.Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown said T...

A man pleaded guilty Thursday to running an organization that authorities said smuggled dozens of illegal immigrants per day through a live bombing range in southeastern Ca...

Investigators say a veteran defense attorney who once represented the mobster immortalized in "Goodfellas" has plotted to murder witnesses in another case.Robert Sim...

A fire broke out early Thursday at an apartment building for the elderly and disabled, forcing firefighters to use a ladder truck to rescue residents from upper floors and ...

Two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up have been denied a request for a new hearing.The 5th U.S. Circuit Cou...

The wave of storms battering the U.S. has plunged the American Red Cross deep into debt as it rushes to prepare for Hurricane Ike, prompting a searching look at how to stab...

At least 46 million Americans are supplied drinking water that has tested positive for trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals, an increase from the 41 million people repor...

Police who videotaped a man having sex with his comatose wife in her nursing home room violated his constitutional rights, an appeals court ruled Thursday.David W. J...

A man acquitted this week on federal charges of abducting two black teenagers slain in 1964 is sick, has no criminal record and should be released from prison immediately, ...

A fluffy little dog named Lexi is being called a hero for helping to rescue an 85-year-old neighbor who collapsed in his Brooklyn apartment.Linda Deutsch concedes th...

A South Carolina judge has delayed sentencing for a man facing a possible death sentence for raping and killing a Clemson University student after his lawyers asked for a m...

If model thin is always in, at least there were fewer protruding collar bones and ribs to be counted at New York Fashion Week.Models were up to sizes 2 and 4 — not...

Seven months ago, Rudy Crew's peers named him the nation's top school superintendent, bolstering a long-standing reputation as an education innovator. Student achievement i...

The killer taunted investigators, scrawling in blood on one dead man's wall: "Victem #4 in 2 weeks. Catch me if u can." He lit candles around the body and laughed when the ...

A judge ruled that a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter can be questioned about unidentified sources he used in a 2004 story about an ethics investigation into a hig...

Call it the time capsule that time forgot.A city committee voted recently to open a time capsule buried in 1958, when the city was celebrating its centennial. The pl...

The Army's top medical officer says commanders are looking to their counterparts in the Air Force and in civilian agencies for ways to cope with an alarming increase in sui...

A sex offender who posed as a 12-year-old boy to enroll in Arizona schools has pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges, two stemming from the charade he pulled for two yea...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is publishing a ritual blessing for the Quinceanera, the coming-of-age celebration for Hispanic girls on their 15th birthday....

New data from a public health registry that tracks the health effects of 9/11 suggest that as many as 70,000 people may have developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a r...

As New York City's crime rate continues to drop, police officers are using their weapons less, and last year they fired the fewest times since the police department began r...

Arkansas' colleges and universities can admit illegal immigrants, the Arkansas attorney general's office says.Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said in an ad...

After a deadly and destructive trip across the Caribbean, Hurricane Ike began to move across the Gulf of Mexico, where it was expected to strengthen before plowing into Tex...

Authorities said the man accused of a shooting rampage that left six people dead in northwest Washington stole the guns used in the attacks as well as a pickup truck involv...

Feeling the pinch of soaring energy costs, and with a projected budget deficit on the horizon, Gov. Chris Gregoire has asked a few hundred state employees to start working ...

Federal regulators trying to contain a fish-killing virus in the Great Lakes region have issued rules for shipping live fish across state lines that some wholesalers say wi...

This seaside gambling resort was counting on a strong August to help it avoid posting a record-breaking second straight year of declining revenues.It didn't get what...

Newspaper editors are struggling to adapt as more and more readers turn away from the printed page and toward the Web, mobile devices and other means to get their news, a l...

One hundred years ago, publisher Walter Williams laid out his vision for the world's first journalism school. Foremost among his ideas: a daily newspaper that would cover t...

The University of Oklahoma wants its main campus to be completely powered by wind by 2013, a plan the school's president calls one of the largest renewable energy commitmen...

Less than two months into the job in the oilfields of West Texas, Brandon Garrett was sliced in half by a motorized spool of steel cable as he and other roughnecks struggle...

The frail and elderly were put aboard buses Wednesday and authorities warned 1 million others to flee inland as Hurricane Ike steamed toward a swath of the Texas coast that...

A judge on Wednesday rejected claims that DNA evidence clears three men convicted of killing three 8-year-old boys in 1993 and denied their requests for a new trial....

A middle school teacher suffered some bruising and a big scratch on his back after he struck a bear while riding his bicycle to school.Jim Litz said he was traveling...

The city plans to turn the stench of its residents' waste into sweet green cash and renewable energy.The San Antonio Water System will sell captured methane gas gene...

Two studies call into question whether many people with arthritis are needlessly undergoing one of the most common operations in America: arthroscopic knee surgery.O...

A construction worker was killed Wednesday when a partially built retail and residential building collapsed in a Richmond suburb, officials said.Emergency crews foun...

Debris piled across medians, drivers passed cautiously under dark traffic lights and at least a few residents camped in front yards to avoid the sweltering heat of houses w...

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday proposed scaling back a multibillion-dollar transit hub and abolishing the agency that approved redevelopment plans at ground zero, see...

A lucky cat owes one of its nine lives to a firefighter who revived it with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Al Machado rescued the cat from a burning apartment Tuesday, telli...

Gov. Brian Schweitzer has established himself as the P.T. Barnum of Montana's energy resources, coaxing corporations to tap the state's huge reserves of fossil fuels even a...

The city and the United Nations, which have tussled for years over parking tickets and property taxes, are now squabbling over schoolchildren — specifically, whether it's...

About four out of 10 freshwater fish species in North America are in peril, according to a major study by U.S., Canadian and Mexican scientists.And the number of sub...

A man who says he bought moldy cookies in the King County Jail is suing the county for pain, suffering and emotional distress. Moses Wiggins, 41, said he didn't notice the ...

Heart disease and diabetes caused the sudden death of Imam W.D. Mohammed, the former Nation of Islam leader who abandoned some of its teachings decades ago to embrace mains...

Police in Hunterdon County say two twin brothers attempted to switch their identities during a motor vehicle stop. Readington Township police said a patrolman stopped Julio...

Former President Clinton has been in talks with the directors of a huge college scholarship fund for families of Sept. 11 victims to address complaints that the program has...

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Duke University says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's son was properly dismissed from the golf team and was never promised a spot on the squad.Andrew Giuliani s...

The National World War II Museum on Wednesday unveiled a Nazi fighter plane rarely exhibited in the U.S., and it will be displayed in a simulated dogfight with its British ...

The ex-wife of former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey said Wednesday she has decided to drop a fraud claim against him, bringing finality to a protracted, bitter and very pub...

Here are ways to protect your joints from osteoarthritis or slow its progression:_Lose weight. Excess weight stresses hips, knees and other joints; every pound lost ...

Real volcanos may take millennia to form, but in Las Vegas they can take just 20 years to look dated.That's what The Mirage hotel-casino concluded before it mounted ...

The publisher of the graduate business school entrance test said Wednesday it has thrown out the scores of 84 prospective students after shutting down a Web site they used ...

Searching for an economic boost and home to perhaps the most compelling story of 9/11, rural Somerset County is trying to pull off a balancing act: Remembering the victims ...

A fifth suspect has been arrested in the slayings of five men believed to be illegal immigrants from Mexico who were beaten, electrocuted and slashed in an alleged drug hit...

Ralph S. Plaisted, an insurance salesman turned explorer who in 1968 led the first expedition that indisputably reached the North Pole over the ice, has died. He was 80.Craig lawyers argue to overturn plea in sex sting, Brian Bakst

Sen. Larry Craig skipped court Wednesday during arguments before an appeals panel that he should be able to take back his guilty plea in an airport men's room sex sting.Another Fossett search winding up in Nevada, Brendan Riley

The biggest search this year for Steve Fossett has ground to a halt with team members leaving a rugged mountain area without finding any sign of the aviator-adventurer who ...

A jail inmate wrestled a gun away from a guard in a hospital emergency room and escaped in a stolen SUV early Wednesday, but crashed hours later during a police chase and t...

In a Sept. 6 story about charges filed against actor Shelley Malil in the stabbing of his former girlfriend, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the actor's at...

Getting a message from New York to San Francisco these days is as easy as a click of a mouse. But nearly a century ago, sending a missive across the country was an ordeal t...

A federal judge agreed Wednesday to shave two years from former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff's prison sentence for a fraudulent Florida casino boat deal because of his...

Police have arrested a man suspected of brutally attacking a dozing subway passenger with a hammer while other riders did nothing to stop the assault, the city's police com...

A gigantic land deal for a territory larger than the city of Chicago, intended to help restore the dying Everglades, has been delayed as both sides work out details of the ...

A 21-year-old mother of two said Wednesday she survived five days trapped in a wrecked truck at the bottom of a ravine by squeezing water from a leaf and thinking about her...

Authorities in Ohio say a man who was locked out of his apartment tried to climb through a window, got stuck and suffocated.Jack Kasler was found with his legs dangl...

Repeating a favorite line from a Disney movie helped a Florida father and his autistic son survive more than 15 hours treading water in the Atlantic, the man said Wednesday...

A 21-month occupation of an oak grove at the University of California at Berkeley has ended peacefully, but not without some dispute, as the remaining four tree-sitters des...

Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar — even if only for the first decade after they are diagnosed — have lower risks of heart attack, death and other complic...

A day after telling reporters they were "evil," incoming Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers offered no apologies for her outburst."I meant that yesterday ...

A death row inmate whose lawyers argued a secret romantic relationship between the judge and prosecutor tainted his trial has won a reprieve — but not because of the alle...

Colorado's Supreme Court censured two former prosecutors for failing to turn over information to attorneys for a man who served 10 years in prison on a first-degree murder ...

Talk about a Big Mac attack! Don Gorske says he has eaten 23,000 of the burgers in 36 years.The Fond du Lac man said he hit the 23,000 milestone last month, continui...

Since he started Facebook in college 4 1/2 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg has learned — sometimes painfully — that he can't make significant changes to the popular online h...

The number of immigrants applying for U.S. citizenship has sharply declined in the first half of 2008, compared to the first six months of 2007. A look at application total...

Kent State University is offering financial bonuses to professors if they help student retention numbers and attract more research dollars, an incentive usually given to sc...

Newly built-up sandbars crucial to wildlife in the Grand Canyon have rapidly eroded in the last four months, some shrinking back to the size they were before a costly manma...

Strong grain prices and Montana's oil boom are leading to questions about the future of the state's beet industry and its sugar factories.With the sugar-beet harvest...

Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors wh...

A man who tried to send his late wife's body to their native Ecuador for burial is suing American Airlines and a funeral home, claiming her remains were sent to the wrong c...

Prosecutors will get to see the marital records of a mystery man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller and who is being investigated in a California couple's disappearance.Ark. boy charged with MySpace threat meant as joke

A teenager in Arkansas has been charged with posting threats on a MySpace page even though he wasn't planning an attack.Police in Fort Smith said Tuesday they obtain...

The union representing state prison guards filed a formal notice Tuesday that it will seek to recall Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an effort his advisers say they are taking ...

A federal oceanographer says a flip-flop in atmospheric conditions is creating a feast for salmon and other sea life off the West Coast, reversing a trend that contributed ...

A dozen valuable paintings including works by Marc Chagall, Diego Rivera and Emil Nolde were stolen from the home of an elderly couple, and police issued an international a...

Imam W.D. Mohammed, who succeeded his father as leader of the Nation of Islam but abandoned its teachings of black supremacy and moved thousands of its followers into mains...

Taxi operators have sued the city over requiring yellow cabs to go green, saying cars that run on a mix of gasoline and electric power can't handle the workout they would g...

A Philadelphia teenager was convicted of first-degree murder Tuesday for killing a 16-year-old boy to steal his dirt bike.The verdict against Eric Smith, 18, carries...

The latest design for the Sept. 11 memorial entrance pavilion has a facade that evokes the World Trade Center's twin towers, and builders still hope the memorial will open ...

The executive editor of The Associated Press said Tuesday the news cooperative hopes to work through problems with a handful of newspapers who say they may leave the AP as ...

A special lane to speed prescreened pedestrians across the nation's busiest border crossing opened Tuesday, expanding a service that had been available only to motorists co...

A federal judge on Tuesday partially blocked one element of the nation's recently overhauled bankruptcy law, saying that a provision restricting the advice lawyers can give...

A single scrap metal company was responsible for about 70 barges and ships that floated loose in a major New Orleans canal during Hurricane Gustav, with at least a few thre...

An island of peace amid the bustle of Logan International Airport was dedicated Tuesday to honor the 147 passengers and crew killed when terrorists flew two planes from her...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered his intelligence czar to oversee the handling of an international cash scandal last year, a prosecution witness told jurors Tuesday...

The owner and managers of the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant were charged Tuesday with more than 9,000 misdemeanors alleging they hired minors and had children y...

Deadbeat dads and moms around the country are discovering that their economic stimulus checks from Washington — intended to encourage the purchase of TVs, cars and other ...

A man with four previous drunken driving convictions who was stopped for weaving in and out of traffic on Interstate 40 was ready with an excuse for his poor driving: his p...

Some 55 prostate cancer patients were given too-low doses of radiation treatment at the local Veterans Affairs hospital in the past 6 1/2 years, and federal investigators w...

Hurricane Gustav caused an estimated $372 million in damage to Louisiana crops, flattening fields and dumping as many as 20 inches of rain, agriculture officials said Tuesd...

Homeowners already pinched by high food and gas prices have grown increasingly anxious about staying warm this winter.At state assistance offices and at community or...

It's a new era for tipsters as officials announced Tuesday that city hot lines are now able to receive photos and video from computers and cell phones.Callers to the...

Nearly seven years after terrorists took down the World Trade Center's twin towers, police officials have embarked on an ambitious plan to secure the new development that i...

Rhode Island's prison system has entered into an agreement with U.S. immigration authorities that allows for the early release of illegal immigrants imprisoned for nonviole...

A millionaire convicted of hiring an assassin posing as a flower delivery man to kill his socialite wife asked Georgia's top court for a new trial Tuesday.Attorneys ...

Pierre police are looking for a shoplifting suspect who got away by swimming across a narrow part of the Missouri River. An assistant police chief said officers responded t...

The new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis is set to open sometime next week.The Minnesota Department of Transportation said Tuesday that Gov. Tim Pawlenty and oth...

CHICAGO (AP — Maybe you CAN blame being fat on your genes. But there's a way to overcome that family history — just get three to four hours of moderate activity a day. ...

Police in Scottsdale say they've arrested a man driving a photo-enforcement van on suspicion of drunken driving. Sgt. Mark Clark said the van owned by Scottsdale-based Redf...

A drifter accused of helping her gang torture an 11-year-old boy was sentenced Tuesday to 37 years in prison.Michaela Clerc, 21, and her gang scalded, whipped and st...

At least one Miami-Dade official thinks it's an embarrassment to have a street named after retired baseball star Jose Canseco.That's why Miami-Dade County Commission...

An escaped kangaroo kept police and firefighters busy after fleeing its owner's home and bounding through a small town near Cologne. The animal was eventually caught in a n...

Nathan Green Gordon, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing 15 fellow airmen during World War II and later served 20 years as lieutenant governor, has died, a rela...

With just under two weeks until disgraced Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick steps down as part of a plea deal in two criminal cases, his successor is putting his own mark on the posit...

The trial of five men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at Fort Dix will begin as scheduled on Sept. 29 despite attorneys' requests for a delay, a judge said Tuesda...

The Gulf Coast watched anxiously as Hurricane Ike trudged toward areas still cleaning up after Gustav, with disasters pre-declared in much of eastern Texas and Louisianans ...

A California woman who escaped from a Michigan prison more than 30 years ago and remade her life as a suburban mother pleaded guilty to escape Tuesday after a judge said he...

Former President Bill Clinton has been named the next chairman of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, succeeding former President George H.W. Bush, the center...

An 8-foot-tall mechanical gorilla that was swiped in broad daylight from its longtime location outside a store has turned up several hundred miles away — with an apologet...

A judge in Tennessee is refusing to throw out a first-degree murder charge against a man accused of killing his wife's student lover.A lawyer representing 33-year-ol...

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami say the eye of Hurricane Ike has powered ashore in western Cuba's province of Pinal del Rio.The center of the C...

Illinois prison officials say a woman convicted in the drowning deaths of her three children has been released on parole after serving part of a 10-year sentence.Ill...

Attention, amorous guys: Killarney's an Australian cutie, but woo her with care.The feisty gal once swatted at a beau who got a little close, and gave another poor f...

Taking aim at a longstanding rite of passage for 16-year-olds, an influential auto safety group is calling on states to raise the age for getting a driver's license to 17 o...

Pssst. The secret's out at KFC. Well, sort of. Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corpor...

Southern California's taco truck war continued to sizzle as county officials asked a judge to reinstate a law he threw out last month that had forced truck operators to mov...

Following in your father's footsteps by attending the same university is one thing. But moving into the same dorm room as your dad?Mike Robell has found himself in B...

College slackers in Indiana, beware: Educators want you to earn your degrees in four years or less or it might cost your schools some of their state support.A new st...

Nevada's budget woes have resulted in less security for the state's first lady, Dawn Gibbons, currently going through divorce proceedings initiated by Gov. Jim Gibbons....

The U.S. Border Patrol has been stopping cars and checking drivers' nationalities on a highway near a small town on the Olympic Peninsula, some 56 miles from a ferry termin...

The nation's second-largest transit system announced $40 million in belt-tightening measures, despite a more than 5 percent ridership surge in 2008 compared to last year.Illinois governor not shying away from spotlight, Deanna Bellandi

Not long ago, Gov. Rod Blagojevich would rarely venture out in public. When he did, he would bolt afterward, eager to avoid questions about the corruption trial of his form...

After heavy spring rains and record summer flooding, Iowa farmers are finding cold comfort as autumn arrives.September has started out chillier than normal, leaving ...

A molecular biologist who is searching for a cure for malaria is among five people being named Heinz Award winners on Tuesday.The annual $250,000 prize is given to p...

The body of a toddler found in the trunk of his mother's car may have been there for months as she drove around town, evaded questions about him and was even arrested, poli...

The nation's public transportation systems logged a 5.2 percent jump in ridership in the second quarter, according to industry figures to be released Tuesday, as record-hig...

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 9, the 253rd day of 2008. There are 113 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 9, 1776, the second Continental Co...

Milwaukee police say a 15-year-old girl has died three days after she was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver during an after-school fight.Police say Liliana Razo...

A ranch company found negligent in a 2005 landslide that killed 10 people has agreed to sell its assets to pay for damages, the plaintiffs announced Monday.A jury la...

Houston police officers have used Tasers more on black suspects than any other group of individuals, according to a city study released Monday.Of 1,417 Taser deploym...

The union representing California's prison guards said Monday it was starting a recall attempt against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who took office after the previous govern...

As of Monday, Sept. 8, 2008, at least 514 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in l...

Army units spending 18 months or more at home are being asked to spend part of that time honing conventional warfare tactics, Gen. George Casey said Monday.The move ...

Next month's shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope faces an increased risk of a destructive hit by space junk because it will be in a higher, more littered orbit tha...

A large shark entangled itself in a surfer's leg rope in Australia and began towing him and his board out to sea, the surfer said Tuesday.John Morgan, a 51-year-old ...

A woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the chance for parole for burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave after fighting with her boyfriend. Common...

A man who killed 13 people in a 1982 shooting rampage in northeastern Pennsylvania can't be executed because he suffers from a major mental illness, a judge ruled Monday.4 dead in shooting-arson in NJ apartment building, David Porter

Authorities who rushed to a burning home Monday morning found three people dead and a fourth fatally wounded, and said the fire apparently was set to cover up a shooting.Final defendants settle RI nightclub fire lawsuits, Eric Tucker

The final defendants to settle lawsuits over a 2003 nightclub fire that killed 100 people have agreed to pay survivors and victims' relatives more than $250,000, according ...

A Fort Hood soldier shot to death his lieutenant during a confrontation at his off-base apartment Monday, then killed himself, police said.The lieutenant and a staff...

A Memphis man is accused of leaving his 3-year-old son behind while running from police on foot after a traffic accident. A 46-year-old man was charged with driving under t...

A group of ministers filed a complaint Monday with the Internal Revenue Service to stop a conservative organization from encouraging pastors to endorse or oppose political ...

A gunman took several hostages during a failed bank robbery on Monday, then killed himself after authorities surrounded the building, police said.No hostages appear ...

In initial versions of a Sept. 7 obituary for Hall of Fame college basketball coach Don Haskins, The Associated Press erroneously reported the surname of a member of Haskin...

A nurse was charged with first-degree murder Monday for allegedly killing a terminally ill heart patient with a paralyzing drug last year.But her lawyer says Lorie H...

A convicted sex offender facing execution for raping and strangling a Clemson University student feels so guilty for his crimes that life in prison would be harder on him, ...

Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. Blumberg is chairman of an organization offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 t...

KEY WEST, Fla. — This beautiful small island is like its own country: People don't like to be ordered around, especially when it disrupts commerce. And business here is a...

Opponents of a Dallas suburb's ordinance aimed at barring illegal immigrants from renting housing asked a federal judge Monday for a temporary restraining order to block it...

Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage befor...

Two people have been arrested and charged in the slaying of a sheriff's deputy who was gunned down while responding to an early morning burglary last month, authorities sai...

Gov. David Paterson said Monday that some New York state lawmakers are like Count Dracula, showing pleasant faces to lull citizens' advocates but becoming bloodsuckers when...

With the flick of an eight-foot switch at midday Monday, this Southern city became the first market in the U.S. to make the change to digital-only broadcasting.The s...

An Oregon man playing in the yard with his toddler sons captured a 6-foot-long lizard capable of killing pets and injuring humans. Ryan Nelson said he thought it was a croc...

A civil rights group sued the New York Police Department on Monday seeking to learn more about a plan to use license plate readers and a network of 3,000 surveillance camer...

Wearing campaign buttons or a T-shirt with candidates' names at a polling place is not grounds for preventing anyone from voting, the Pennsylvania Department of State says....

For tourists, the new memorial to 184 people who died at the Pentagon in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is not especially convenient. Nor is it ideal from a security perspe...

The University of Iowa has shucked its ban on an annual corn eating contest after removing the gluttony.Phillip Jones, the school's vice president for student servic...

Inside the dark, cliffside space last occupied by the people of Frijoles Canyon some 500 years ago is evidence of more recent human activity: graffiti proclaiming "2008" an...

Officials at Indiana University of Pennsylvania say someone fired gunshots into the air on the school's campus early Monday but no one was hurt.University spokeswoma...

Next month's shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope faces an increased risk from orbiting debris.The shuttle Atlantis will be flying in a higher altitude where...

Authorities called off evacuation orders for the Florida Keys on Monday as a ferocious Hurricane Ike shifted south over Cuba and appeared on track to miss the low-lying U.S...

Chemicals used to clean jewelry exploded Monday at a business that makes gold and silver alloys, burning one person and sending 29 others to hospitals for evaluation.AP names 9 Gramling Award winners for excellence

The Associated Press has named nine members of its global staff, including two involved in the high-profile tracking of delegates in the U.S. presidential race, as winners ...

Nearly a year after O.J. Simpson walked into a casino hotel room intent on reclaiming some sports memorabilia, he and his lawyers walked into a courthouse Monday to pick ju...

Three bodies and one injured person were found after a house fire Monday morning and officials said at least two of the four victims had been shot.The fire caused ex...

Firefighters in Baltimore are trying to contain a growing blaze at a shopping center.The fire started Monday morning at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center. Fire D...

Detroit's mayor has a deadline for moving out of the city's official mayoral residence now that he has pleaded guilty and is resigning.Officials say Kwame Kilpatrick...

A solitary sheep is living life in the fast lane.An animal shelter worker spotted the sheep last week grazing just feet from traffic on a wooded highway median near ...

Thousands of victims of Hurricane Ike settled in at shelters for what could be weeks, and others waited wearily in line for food, water, ice and gasoline Monday as it becam...

Entire subdivisions obliterated. Oil and chemical slicks in the surf where vacationers once frolicked. Longhorn cattle roaming desolate streets. But, most stunning of all, ...

Thousands of victims of Hurricane Ike settled in at shelters for what could be weeks, and others waited wearily in line for food, water, ice and gasoline Monday as it becam...

Evacuees streaming into hundreds of makeshift shelters set up around Texas are bringing all the belongings they can carry and at least one unanswerable question: What now?<...

A week after jurors were told to forget O.J. Simpson's past, the prosecutor in his robbery-kidnapping trial on Monday reminded them of the civil judgment against the former...

Rescuers say they've found 60 survivors on an isolated barrier island devastated by Hurricane Ike.Rescuers have tried for nearly three days to get in to find out how...

Federal rail investigators said Monday they would go to court to get an engineer's cell phone records to determine if he was text messaging when his commuter train slammed ...

A federal agency hit three construction firms with penalties totaling $313,500 on Monday for alleged safety violations leading to a tower crane collapse that killed seven p...

Above the law or victim of a prosecutor's obsession?Dr. George Tiller, who is among the nation's few late-term abortion providers, filed papers Monday seeking to sup...

The upheaval in the American financial system sent shock waves through the stock market Monday, producing the worst day on Wall Street in seven years as investors digested ...

The former top aide to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick chose to go to trial Monday, rejecting prosecutors' offers that included pleading guilty to two felony counts and serv...

An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed his young daughter and critically injured his young son then took his own life Monday, police said.Chicago police ...

A man on trial for the killings of four people aboard the "Joe Cool" charter fishing boat was a victim of a master manipulator who plotted alone to hijack the vessel and fi...

Two boys ages 15 and 11 were left at Nebraska hospitals over the weekend, the first youngsters surrendered under the state's new safe-haven law that allows caregivers to ab...

Like many parents, Diana Ennen had trouble getting her daughter Amber to exercise.So two years ago, Ennen decided that Amber was coming to the health club. Now age 1...

The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitize its collections to make science, history and cultural artifacts accessible online and dramatically expand its outreach to ...

The Marine Corps is no longer allowing troops who have extra-large tattoos on their arms to serve as recruiters or security guards at U.S. embassies.Marine Corps spo...

Prosecutors said Monday they won't bring criminal charges against a man who carried guns in a case into a Denver hotel during the Democratic National Convention last month....

Three men and three teenagers were indicted Monday on murder and other charges for the execution-style slayings that shocked New Jersey's largest city more than a year ago....

The coroner's office says the death toll in the Los Angeles commuter train crash has reached 26 with the death of a man in a hospital.Coroner's assistant chief Ed Wi...

A New Hampshire couple are trying to figure out what to do with a homing pigeon that came to the wrong home — theirs. From an identification band, Don and Fran Roy of Man...

The mother of a missing Florida toddler is back in jail.Sheriff's deputies say Casey Anthony was arrested for a third time Monday while visiting her case manager. Th...

Your rabbit's ears aren't floppy? Sorry, that's not an emergency. So said police in Scotland when a woman rang the emergency 999 number to discuss her concerns about her ne...

A 40-year-old man walking his dog in the nude was Tasered by police when he refused to follow an officer's commands. David McCranie of the Tallahassee Police Department sai...

Lehman Brothers, a 158-year-old investment bank choked by the credit crisis and falling real estate values, filed for Chapter 11 protection in the biggest bankruptcy filing...

State troopers will lead a slow, somber procession of motorists across the Mississippi River early Thursday to mark the opening of the new bridge replacing one that collaps...

Fear rippled through a group of Latino parents in suburban Atlanta when a friend was deported to Mexico and temporarily separated from her two young U.S.-born children. The...

Police say a 20-year-old woman faces an aggravated assault charge after she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an...

A Pennsylvania woman who thought she was petting a neighbor's cat got a smelly surprise when it turned out to be a skunk. Not only did the skunk spray the woman before dawn...

Hurricane Katrina chased bluesman Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown from his adopted home in New Orleans to his hometown here on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he died in exile. Now,...

Commuters reunited Monday for the first workday since a deadly train crash, embracing fellow riders — many known only by sight — and mourning those who died in the acci...

A federal judge in Pittsburgh has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a woman held captive for 10 years.Judge Gary Lancaster ruled Friday the lawsuit failed to meet the sta...

Louisiana's social services chief has resigned amid heavy criticism from the governor over her department's response to Hurricane Gustav.Gov. Bobby Jindal's spokeswo...

A prosecutor told jurors Monday they will learn "the true face" of O.J. Simpson during the former football star's trial on charges of robbing sports memorabilia dealers in ...

"Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy — a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.<...

Latino advocates and a civil liberties group have filed a federal lawsuit against a Dallas suburb whose officials are trying to drive out illegal immigrants.The grou...

Hundreds of first responders at two staging areas in Texas for Hurricane Ike have run out of food and water.Congressman John Culberson said Sunday that 300 National ...

In a Sept. 14 story about college remedial classes, The Associated Press gave the incorrect name of a California school. It is Long Beach City College, not Long Beach Commu...

Former FBI agent John Connolly made a corrupt career out of protecting Boston mobsters, including passing along critical information leading to the 1982 slaying of a gambli...

Rescuers flew into a hard-to-reach area of the swamped Gulf Coast Monday and uncovered a devastated landscape: Hurricane Ike had obliterated entire subdivisons, and emergen...

A new bridge over the Mississippi River will open Thursday in Minneapolis to replace the one that collapsed and killed 13 people last year.Officials gathered Monday ...

Prosecutors say a grand jury has indicted six men accused in the execution-style killings of three college students in a Newark schoolyard last year.The men, who wer...

Opening statements have begun in O.J. Simpson's trial on charges that he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas a year ago.Prosecutor Chris Owens has beg...

More than 48 hours after Hurricane Ike swamped the Gulf Coast, rescuers flew for the first time Monday into areas cut off by the storm and found a scene of devastation, wit...

Federal officials investigating a commuter rail collision that killed 25 people said they want to review cell phone records to determine if an engineer blamed for running a...

Midwest residents cleared debris from their yards Monday as crews worked to restore electricity to millions of customers left without power by a weekend of violent storms c...

With glass from shattered skyscrapers littering the streets, the nation's fourth largest city didn't open for business as usual Monday, and thousands of people faced long s...

The Metrolink spokeswoman who announced that a deadly train crash was caused by an engineer's mistake resigned Monday because the railroad's board had called her words "pre...

Just two weeks ago it was drought that was causing many Illinois farmers some sleepless nights.And now it's the weekend's record rainfall and ensuing flooding that a...

Losing it devastating punch as a major hurricane, Ike nevertheless drubbed the Midwest with powerful winds and floodwaters that are being blamed for at least 15 deaths....

A Vermont man planning to ride in a 508-mile bicycle race in California is taking the long way to the starting line. He's pedaling there.Joe Desena, 39, says he is l...

The former mayor of Newark, N.J., is due at a federal prison camp Monday.Sharpe James was to report to Petersburg, Va., to begin serving a 27-month sentence. He was ...

The fast moving remnants of Hurricane Ike were to continue moving rapidly through eastern Canada and into the Canadian Maritimes on Monday, taking with it the precipitation...

Commuters were set to return to Southern California's rails Monday, the first work day after a grisly train collision that left 25 dead and 138 injured.Federal and l...

When Wall Street woke up Monday morning, two more of its storied firms had fallen.Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, said it is...

Albert "Jay" Cox couldn't believe his eyes when he saw a freight train hurtling toward the commuter train he was riding."Because the brakes of our train were not bei...

American International Group Inc. said Sunday it is reviewing its operations and discussing possible options with outside parties to improve its business after a week when ...

A kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa that was the target of a sweeping immigration raid this year is not the only venue where the plant's owners are locked in a fight over un...

He may not be caped, but in the bat world, Jason Corbett is definitely a crusader.Since January, the Arizona conservation biologist has taken on a specialized role t...

Losing it devastating punch as a major hurricane, Ike nevertheless drubbed the Midwest with powerful winds and floodwaters that are being blamed for at least 13 deaths....

For four hours the two roommates trudged through crashing waves and deadly currents to escape their island community. He, clinging to a neighbor's small boy. She, helping a...

When O.J Simpson and five other men pushed into a cramped casino hotel room to confront two memorabilia peddlers a year ago they were only trying to retrieve keepsakes and ...

When O.J Simpson and five other men pushed into a cramped casino hotel room to confront two memorabilia peddlers a year ago they were only trying to retrieve keepsakes and ...

Bank of America Corp. said early Monday it would acquire Merrill Lynch in an all-stock transaction worth about $50 billion that should lift the uncertainty shrouding Merril...

The biggest search and rescue operation in Texas history was set to continue Monday and thousands of people faced long stays in crowded shelters because their homes were da...

When Wall Street woke up Monday morning, two more of its storied firms had vanished.Lehman Brothers, burdened by $60 billion in soured real-estate holdings, said it ...

Frank Mundus, the legendary shark fisherman said to have inspired the Captain Quint character in the movie "Jaws," has died. He was 82.Mundus died Wednesday at The Q...

Bank of America Corp. said early Monday it would acquire Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in an all-stock transaction worth about $50 billion that should lift the uncertainty ...

Most of the men in the 2 1/2-ton truck had embarked on the grim hunt for bodies in the wreckage of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. On Sunday, they prepared to risk the...

A failed plan to rescue Lehman Brothers was followed Sunday by more seismic shocks from Wall Street, including a government-brokered takeover of Merrill Lynch by the Bank o...

Hurricane Ike destroyed a number of production platforms and damaged pipelines in Gulf of Mexico...

Rescuers said Sunday they had saved nearly 2,000 people from the waterlogged streets and splintered houses left behind by Hurricane Ike. Glass-strewn Houston was placed und...

Federal investigators said Sunday that audio recordings from a commuter train are missing required verbal safety checks between the engineer and the conductor in the second...

It's a tough lesson for millions of students just now arriving on campus: even if you have a high school diploma, you may not be ready for college.In fact, a new stu...

The remnants of Hurricane Ike swept into the Midwest Sunday with powerful winds and flooding that were being blamed for at least 13 deaths. Thousands have been evacuated an...

Students are doing better in elementary and middle school, but key indicators show little progress among high school and college students, Education Secretary Margaret Spel...

Authorities have reported a total of 40 deaths in 10 states as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S. midsection:Texas — 10, including one person found...

Over the last few months, you may have read in this column that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's stand on free trade and his Republican rival John McCain's ...

What a strange country.Last month, one of our two major political parties nominated an African American as its candidate for president of the United States.Hi...

Jane, you ignorant slut.Actually, I believe that the e-mail called me a hateful slut. And it wasn't in ``Saturday Night Live''-style jest.Then there was the w...

People always say the Bush administration is in bed with the oil companies, but it turns out to be literally true.According to the Interior Department, some governme...

I had barely heard of Sarah Palin before Aug. 29. Almost all I knew was that she sued the Interior Department last month to keep polar bears off the Endangered Species List...

The following editorial appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday, Sept. 14:___Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama offers sound solutions to mammoth de...

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Friday, Sept. 12:___On the campaign trail and during their convention, Republicans have tou...

The following editorial appeared in The Miami Herald on Saturday, Sept. 13:___Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia see themselves as...