Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcemen...

Today is Friday, Sept. 19, the 263rd day of 2008. There are 103 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 19, 1796, President Washington's f...

California regulators reacting to the deadly wreck of a commuter train issued an emergency order Thursday banning train operators from using cell phones on duty.The ...

It looked like an urban rodeo on the streets of New York City.Police say a young bull made a dash for freedom through the streets of Queens on Wednesday night but su...

It looked like an urban rodeo on the streets of New York City.Police say a young bull made a dash for freedom through the streets of Queens Wednesday night but sudde...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders averted a historic budget veto Thursday, agreeing to a compromise spending plan that includes the governor's demands for ...

The stock market finally found reason to rally Thursday, and Congress promised quick action as the Bush administration prepared a plan to rescue banks from the bad debt at ...

It looked like an urban rodeo on the streets of New York City.Police say a young bull made a dash for freedom through the streets of Queens Wednesday night but sudde...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to use more caution in her call for the West to stand up against Russia, whi...

Episcopal Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church, was ousted from ministry Thursday by his fellow bishops.Word of possible financial crisis fix lifts stocks, Patrick Rizzo, Jeannine Aversa And Martin Crutsinger

The stock market finally found reason to rally Thursday, and Congress promised quick action as the Bush administration prepared a plan to rescue banks from the bad debt at ...

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcemen...

On his last day in office, disgraced Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick issued a statement urging Detroit residents to get behind his replacement."He will need your support beca...

An man who was cited in June for not wearing a shirt has been ordered to pay a $25 fine and court fees. A related charge of failing to obey a lawful order has been dropped....

Two northwest Iowa men have been arrested and charged with stealing an 82-year-old bronze bell from a church. Authorities say the men stole the bell from the Oakdale Evange...

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcemen...

The new chief executive officer of Agriprocessors, the kosher meatpacker targeted in an immigration raid and accused of child-labor violations, said Thursday that his compa...

As of Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, at least 4,168 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.<...

The mother of a Marine who witnesses say covered a grenade with his body to save comrades in Iraq plans to appeal to Congress to award her son the nation's highest military...

Forty-seven years ago, 14 black students from Tennessee State University were beaten and arrested during the Freedom Rides that helped integrate the South.For their ...

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley isn't expected to face charges after a lengthy investigation into his lurid messages to underage congressional pages, two federal law enforcemen...

Two federal officials have told The Associated Press that no charges are expected against former Congressman Mark Foley after a lengthy investigation into his lurid compute...

Yemeni-Americans in this upstate New York city have seen terrorism from two sides.On Wednesday, one of their own was a victim of global violence, killed with her new...

A Philadelphia judge says a man accused of attacking a subway passenger with a hammer is too mentally ill to go to trial.Twenty-six-year-old Thomas Scantling will re...

Maryland's medical examiner has concluded a jail inmate accused of killing a police officer was strangled in his cell.Nineteen-year-old Ronnie White was found dead i...

A levee protecting this western Texas border town from the swelling Rio Grande failed Thursday, and water was creeping toward populated areas of the town of about 5,000.Unknown Mozart fragment found in French library, Angela Doland

It's a forgotten melody, sketched in black ink in a swift but sure hand. The single manuscript page, long hidden in a provincial French library, has been verified as the wo...

Hundreds of people whose beachfront homes were wrecked by Hurricane Ike may be barred from rebuilding under a little-noticed Texas law. And even those whose houses were spa...

California regulators reacting to the deadly wreck of a commuter train issued an emergency order Thursday banning train operators from using cell phones on duty.The ...

They stand within feet of speeding locomotives, climb signal poles to photograph passing trains and try to befriend conductors and engineers.Passionate train buffs c...

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Maryland's medical examiner has concluded a jail inmate accused of killing a police officer was strangled in his cell.Nineteen-year-old Ronnie White was found dead i...

A self-described mob hit man testified Thursday that he was reluctant to kill a gambling executive but was convinced by a Boston organized crime kingpin that a trusted FBI ...

There's a grocery store open for business on Galveston Island. Cell phone towers are connecting calls. More lights are coming back on at night.But for all the little...

A Tennessee police officer has pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault charges after he was caught on video using a chokehold on a man suspected of hiding marijuana in his...

NASA is extending the Phoenix Mars mission again. The three-legged spacecraft has been digging trenches near the Martian north pole since landing on May 25 and its work was...

The operators of a farm where workers were secretly videotaped abusing pigs said Thursday they were launching an investigation and those responsible would be fired.M...

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Jurors who have been told to refrain from judging O.J. Simpson on his past heard a recording Thursday of a police employee exulting: "This is great. ... California can't ge...

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A mother provoked her husband to abuse her 7-year-old daughter and did nothing to help as the battered, naked girl lay dying on their apartment floor, a prosecutor told jur...

A new coalition of 22 major medical groups says public confidence in vaccine safety needs to be restored to avoid risks for deadly disease outbreaks.Thursday's messa...

Police in suburban Westchester County said a 13-year-old's detective work led them to a 17-year-old accused of stealing a $2,275 mountain bike. Scarsdale police said the bi...

It wasn't the preferred way to enter the Knoxville Museum of Art, but Richard Anthony Smith told police he was on a mission. The 25-year-old Knoxville man called 911 from h...

First-degree murder charges were announced Thursday against a man suspected in a June killing spree that left eight people dead in Illinois and Missouri.The indictme...

The barrier island community of Galveston just "isn't ready" for residents to return even briefly to the city thrashed by Hurricane Ike, officials said Thursday as they ple...

Aspirin is among the most popular remedies used by people. Turns out some plants like it, too. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research were surprised to...

Federal officials tell AP: No charges expected for ex-Congressman Mark Foley in page scandal...

A Special Forces soldier will be court-martialed early next year on charges that he killed an Afghan civilian and cut off his ear near a remote village, the Army said Thurs...

Emergency vehicles with lights flashing led twin processions to open the new Interstate 35W bridge before dawn Thursday, less than 14 months after the shocking and deadly c...

Troubled meatpacking company Agriprocessors has hired a New York attorney to be its new chief executive officer.Bernard Feldman will take the helm of the nation's la...

A woman kept alive by a feeding tube since a stroke has died, effectively ending a legal battle between her husband and mother in a case similar to Terry Schiavo, whose fat...

California regulators have issued a temporary ordering banning train operators from using cell phones while on duty.The California Public Utilities Commission unanim...

The tumult in the U.S. economy finally is starting to affect an industry that has enjoyed years of growth: major league sports. The NBA is laying off employees. Major Leagu...

One way to help prevent overfishing may be to guarantee each fisherman a specified share of the catch, according to a new report.Collapse of fish stocks is much less...

Serious crime is up but arrests are down in Chicago, and some police officers say they are working the streets less aggressively out of resentment toward their new chief an...

A woman undressed and posed young children at a baby sitter's home so her ex-boyfriend could photograph them, jurors concluded Thursday in a massive child-pornography case ...

The barrier island community of Galveston just "isn't ready" for residents to return even briefly to the city thrashed by Hurricane Ike, officials said Thursday as they ple...

O.J. Simpson's defense lawyer tried to show jurors on Thursday that police quickly made him the focus of their investigation into a hotel room confrontation and might have ...

A few tents cropped up hard by the railroad tracks, pitched by men left with nowhere to go once the emergency winter shelter closed for the summer.Then others appear...

A former newspaper executive was found shot to death in his apartment, which had been set on fire, authorities said.The body of William McMichael Jones, former presi...

The only American killed in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen was an 18-year-old high school senior who had gone overseas for an arranged marriage to a Yemeni man, her...

After four big hurricanes in three years, residents of the Cajun towns along the fast-eroding coast of Louisiana are wondering just how much more they can take.Hurri...

Aspirin is among the most popular remedies used by people. Turns out some plants like it, too.Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research were surpri...

A woman whose bulldogs mauled two people to death, including a 91-year-old man, was sentenced Thursday to up to 15 years in prison.Circuit Judge Stanley Latreille or...

With a wave, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick drove away from the Manoogian Mansion on his last day in office.But it's not known if he and his family were on a casual ...

Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.Scientists will examine ima...

The nation's leading psychologists' association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other military de...

Screams of anguish reverberated across the phone line — the only clue dispatchers needed to gauge the magnitude of the tragedy.A train crash. Bloody victims. Despe...

The wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards says her husband's extramarital affair has allowed her to focus on the importance of her children and heal...

Tim Reiterman, a longtime reporter and editor for The Los Angeles Times, has been named news editor for The Associated Press in northern California.The appointment w...

Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.Scientists will examine ima...

A cold front was to continue bringing stormy weather to areas of the Southeast on Thursday. Light rain showers and slight to moderate thunderstorms were predicted for Flori...

Leave your Bhagavad-Gita at home while traveling out of town?If you're staying at the Hotel Preston, you can get a copy of the ancient Hindu text for your room from ...

A federal appeals court has rejected claims that using Christian crosses in city logos and buildings is unconstitutional.The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in De...

Hurricane Ike was about as mighty and destructive as they come, but it couldn't break the bond between Nora Smallwood and her two dogs. She'd just as soon drown than abando...

A steady stream of motorists crossed the new Interstate 35W "smart bridge" as it opened early Thursday, a little more than a year after the old one collapsed into the Missi...

Trial has begun for a baseball player-turned-actor accused of brutally killing a cat in a jealous rage after complaining that his ex-girlfriend cared more for the furry fel...

A Marine sergeant singled out by President Bush for throwing his body on a grenade to save his comrades in Iraq will receive the prestigious Navy Cross rather than the nati...

The right to emergency shelter for homeless people in the city has been established in a legal agreement between Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration and advocates for ...

Federal authorities investigating why a Metrolink commuter train ran a red signal and into an oncoming freight train have confirmed that the engineer was text messaging whi...

For six years, and for no pay, Dennis Edney has represented Omar Khadr, the next prisoner at Guantanamo Bay to face trial in a military tribunal system that the lawyer call...

A new Chicago airport or a vast expansion of one of the city's existing airports will be necessary to keep pace with booming demand for air travel in the coming decades, th...

Authorities have reported a total of 56 deaths in 11 states as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S.:Texas — 22, including at least five in Harris Cou...

With oil and gas drilling heating up as an issue in the presidential race, environmentalists and the governor reiterated their opposition to tapping reserves off the state'...

When police detective Andy Caldwell heard that O.J. Simpson was a suspect in a robbery, he said he couldn't believe it.The detective, who with his partner was the fi...

Flight control of the International Space Station will return to the Johnson Space Center on Friday, NASA said Thursday as the Texas Gulf Coast slowly tries to get back to ...

A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect.Ike's littlest evacuees find comfort in playing, Michelle Roberts

Grown-up evacuees among a sea of cots anxiously chatter on cell phones, figuring out what comes next. But arranged in a nearby corner are hula hoops, toy cars and crayons â...

Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.Scientists will examine ima...

More than a year after a key Minneapolis bridge collapsed and killed 13 people, state troopers prepared to lead motorists in a slow procession Thursday morning across the n...

One by one they left the sodden Hitchin' Post Package Store like a boozy bucket brigade — four generations of the DeVillier family schlepping muddy plastic laundry basket...

It was held at the home of Red Sox Nation, but the thousands gathered in the seats were there to swear allegiance to an even larger and more powerful nation.The Oath...

Residents trying to get back to this hurricane-ravaged city Wednesday spent hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, only to be turned away at the bridge by officials worried th...

From Texas rice farms to Midwest cornfields, some farmers in the path of Hurricane Ike's remnants saw profits sink as strong winds battered crops.Along with prospect...

The city of Berkeley has made a big step toward starting a pioneering program to provide city-backed loans to homeowners who install rooftop solar-electric systems.T...

The U.S. military aborted an attempt to shoot down an incoming missile with two interceptors Wednesday after the target malfunctioned shortly after launch off Kauai....

An official says a rocket motor exploded and caused a fire at a weapons factory in southern Arkansas, and that one worker was killed.Calhoun County Sheriff Bob Dunn ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay _ When I interviewed Paraguay's new president, Fernando Lugo _ "the bishop of the poor" _ here this week, my first question was the one at the center of ...

On the morning of Nov. 5, whoever wakes up as president-elect should be able to answer a question that stumped Robert Redford's character at the end of "The Candidate."...

Bristol Palin's pregnancy resurrected memories of all the black girls and women I've known who've had an uncertain, unwelcomed future as unwed moms.Palin, 17, is the...

The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, Sept. 17:___It's hard to find a silver lining in the storm clouds on Wall Street. ...

After two weeks' vacation and more than 1,700 Midwestern highway miles, I came home looking for some wisdom. I found it on the editorial page of Sunday's St. Louis Post-Dis...

MOSCOW _ A series of bankruptcies that have hit some leading air carriers and tour operators in the last month suggest that a serious crisis is brewing in global civilian a...

Floating the new water(less) closet _ an outhouse, actually a porta-potty for stationary use _ across the river and wrestling it up the 15-foot bank, the inquiring mind und...

The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, Sept. 17:___Oil prices are plummeting around the globe, down 38 percent since July. It'...

If you live in Galveston, Texas, Hurricane Ike will be remembered for its destruction. But history may remember the ninth named storm of the 2008 season for swinging the 20...

At the presidential debates that start next week, Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden should be put on the spot on the foreign policy issues every bit as much as Republica...

Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is coming to the United Nations next week.If he holds a news conference, he will, of course, be challenged on Iran's suspect n...

BANGKOK, Thailand _ During many years as a newspaper journalist, now and then I was called upon to cover what police reporters call the "perp walk." A suspect, "the perpetr...

The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday, Sept. 17:___U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., should step down or be removed ...