Today is Friday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2009. There are 55 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 6, 1934, Nebraska voters approved a co...

A California county will pay $800,000 to the father of a bicyclist who was killed when a deputy fell asleep while driving his patrol car.Santa Clara County officials...

Police and health officials say a refrigerated truck carrying H1N1 vaccine has been recovered after being stolen from outside a swine flu clinic in Milwaukee.Health ...

A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.Customs agents found the 1965 v...

A cousin of the man suspected of opening fire at Fort Hood, Texas, says his family is shocked and saddened by the tragedy.Nader Hasan of Falls Church, Va., said in a...

A Volkswagen van stolen 35 years ago in Washington state has been found in a shipping container at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.The Spokesman-Review newspaper ...

A Denver center that offered counseling and legal help to immigrants who sought asylum after they were tortured in their home countries has closed after losing its federal ...

An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in th...

Ida has weakened to a tropical depression with 35 mph top winds as it sweeps over Nicaragua.The storm rumbled ashore Thursday at hurricane strength, but began losing...

A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wo...

A jury has found an Iowa woman guilty of killing her 2-year-old son and seriously injuring his older brother when she slit the boys' throats before cutting her own neck las...

Desperation filled the voice of the boy on the other end of the phone line. Through fits of agitation and sobbing, he pleaded repeatedly with the emergency operator on the ...

A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 11 other people and left...

Defense attorneys are asking a judge to move the trial of a mother and her boyfriend accused in the slaying of an Idaho boy this summer.Melissa Jenkins and Daniel Eh...

A judge has ruled that a Long Island man accused of murdering his mother is not mentally fit to stand trial.Eduardo Barragan, the son of the businessman who founded ...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has announced her candidacy for a full term in next year's elections, saying she'll be the strong leader the state needs to tackle its budget crisis...

A man convicted of fatally beating and shooting an East Texas man during a burglary almost 12 years ago was executed Thursday, in a case that gained notoriety because juror...

The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaultin...

Locked safes, medical equipment and clothing piled from floor to ceiling were among the hoards of personal belongings sorted by police on Thursday after a couple was arrest...

A judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for an Idaho man accused of intentionally driving his pickup truck into a pair of Idaho State Police motorcycle troopers park...

Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger has been named the grand marshal of the 121st Tournament of Roses parade.Sullenberger will ride a flower-festooned float in t...

Workers are altering part of the Vigo County jail to fix a design flaw that allowed inmates to crawl through the ceiling to visit other cells. Eight pods in the 7-year-old ...

Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism...

No verdict was reached Thursday in the trial of a Florida man who claims he was too fat to have killed his former son-in-law, but jurors asked to review key evidence in the...

Police released a 911 call in which a shaken young woman tells a dispatcher about a drunken, naked girl on a high school campus whom officers later said was gang-raped by a...

Federal and tribal law enforcement agents descended on a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation early Thursday to make an arrest as part of their investigation in...

A spokesman says officials from Philadelphia transit's largest union are meeting with Gov. Ed Rendell to discuss their contract.A strike by Transport Workers Union L...

Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years:___Nov. 5, 2009: The Army says 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in a shooting ra...

Army says 12 killed and 31 wounded in pair of shootings at Fort Hood; One shooter killedFORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort H...

A prosecutor in the first criminal trial stemming from the raid of a polygamist group's Texas ranch urged jurors to convict a 38-year-old member of sexual assault of a chil...

It wasn't long ago that thousands of members of the Church Universal and Triumphant followed their leader's call to donate their life savings to build underground shelters ...

A convicted murderer has been sentenced to six consecutive life terms for killing six women throughout Central California during the 1970s and '80s.Seventy-year-old ...

A pharmacy college graduate was indicted Thursday on new charges in an alleged terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and shoot people at American shopping mall...

Ned Lamont, the anti-Iraq war political phenomenon who nearly knocked Joe Lieberman out of the U.S. Senate, has turned his attention to next year's race for the Connecticut...

It's not unusual to see a deer or a cow crossing Oklahoma's rural highways. But an elephant? A couple driving home from church nearly slammed into a giant pachyderm that ha...

The medical marijuana dispensary in this California wine country town is in a former auto dealership, and has more registered patients than the town has residents. Los Ange...

Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.More charges filed against LA serial killer

A Los Angeles County grand jury has charged a convicted serial killer with three more murders based on DNA evidence.Authorities said Thursday that 53-year-old Michae...

Yankees manager Joe Girardi capped off a victorious evening by helping a car crash victim in suburban New York.Police say Girardi pulled over to help after a woman l...

The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.The Army says one shooter has been killed and ...

Airborne nitrogen pollution from vehicle exhaust and farm fertilizer is turning algae in the alpine lakes of Rocky Mountain National Park into junk food for fish, a study s...

An eastern Indiana woman says her family's dog deserves a special treat after his barking saved her family from an early morning house fire. Laura Sizemore said Dash, a 2-y...

For just this weekend, a neighborhood in this city that has lain dormant in boxes and under plastic coverings for nearly a decade, is coming back to life.Everyone im...

A Fort Hood spokeswoman says one shooter is in custody after a mass shooting on the Texas Army base. Army officials say at least seven people are dead and 20 wounded.Its `Mother' dead, doomsday sect's future in doubt, Matthew Brown

It wasn't long ago that thousands of members of the Church Universal and Triumphant followed their leader's call to donate their life savings to build underground shelters ...

Federal authorities said twin sisters from the Detroit area sold their children's Social Security numbers to people who claimed the kids as dependents on their tax returns....

Jim Stevens said he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup. Stevens, of Jonesborough, said ne...

The infamous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in his backyard would have been nearly impossible to fake, according to a new analysis by a Dartmouth College p...

Unemployed and desperate, a 19-year-old Sheboygan man is trying to sell one of the only things he owns — his name. Calvin Gosz has put the rights to give him a new name o...

Police officers reported finding a mail carrier passed out drunk in his U.S. Postal Service mail truck in Boynton Beach. According to a release, police received a 911 call ...

A 20-year-old man who called 911 to get his fast-food order straightened out has been told to pay a $300 fine. Washington County, Ore., sheriff's deputies said Raibin Raof ...

An Atlanta man who rescued one stray dog from traffic now has his hands full with 10 pooches. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday that Gary DeNicola rescued ...

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics?What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk manageme...

Investigators spent five days searching a rural area of dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that ha...

Actress Angela Lansbury will be the first recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Award from a Washington-area theater that has produced more of the composer's works than any oth...

New York City police say a scalper arrested for selling fake World Series tickets outside Yankee Stadium tried to win his freedom by bribing an officer with seats.Th...

South Carolina's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an ethics investigation into Gov. Mark Sanford's travel must be made public, clearing the way for lawmakers considering i...

Phoenix police found medicines, passports, stereo and video equipment, video games, laptop computers and even adoption paperwork in a house holding hundreds of pieces of st...

Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the first criminal trial of a member of a West Texas polygamist sect after days of plodding through photos and records seized from...

A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the...

Disgraced ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair talking to college students about ethics?What's next? The former head of Lehman Brothers on financial risk manageme...

It's not unusual to see a deer or a cow crossing Oklahoma's rural highways. But an elephant? A couple driving home from church nearly slammed into a giant pachyderm that ha...

Federal agents descended on a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation early Thursday to make an arrest in the slaying of a nun whose body was found in her home on ...

A man who agreed to testify against his friends in a fatal gang attack on an Ecuadorean immigrant pleaded guilty Thursday to hate crime charges, telling a judge he knew fro...

Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a "civilized person" on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer — until, she sa...

A court commissioner has denied Jamie McCourt's bid to be reinstated as the chief executive of the Los Angeles Dodgers.Superior Court Commissioner Scott Gordon ruled...

Federal agents seized computers, bank and investment records, cash and even the key to a Ferrari during an all-night search at the office of an attorney suspected of operat...

Ida has been downgraded to a tropical storm, weakening as it dumps heavy rains over Nicaragua.The storm was at hurricane strength when it hit the country's Atlantic ...

A mother who reported her infant daughter missing had secretly turned her over to her baby sitter, who hid her in a box under a bed, authorities said Thursday.Chryst...

The FBI says it has made an arrest in the slaying of a nun who worked on a New Mexico Indian reservation.The announcement Thursday morning came days after the body o...

A court hearing in Phoenix for an Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because she had become too Westernized has been delayed because he is on a suicide watch.<...

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik admitted in court Thursday that he lied to the White House while being considered for chief of Homeland Security....

Four inmates who came to the rescue of a Florida jail guard when he was attacked by another inmate may be getting some help of their own.Deputy Larry McKinnon said T...

An Oklahoma couple driving home from church hit an animal — a really big one.An elephant that escaped from a nearby circus collided with the couple's SUV Wednesday...

Pastors urged the families of missing people Thursday to provide DNA samples that could help the coroner's office identify the remains of 10 people found in a home, and the...

Hurried repairs at a badly weakened flood-control reservoir have greatly reduced but far from eliminated the risk of flooding this winter in the Green River Valley near Sea...

Some of New York City's largest employers — including Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and big universities — have started receiving doses of the much-in-demand swi...

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up beads, metal tools and other artifacts that may pinpoint part of the elusive trail of the 16th-century ...

Bounce it, kick it, catch it. Chase, throw or smack it. The ball, arguably the most popular plaything of all time, has finally earned a place inside a glass case at the Nat...

Jury deliberations got under way Thursday in New Jersey in the trial of a Florida man who claims he was too fat to have killed his former son-in-law.Edward Ates (AYT...

Federal agents spent the night searching the law offices of a high-profile South Florida attorney suspected in a massive fraud scheme.A spokesman for law firm Rothst...

A packed commuter train struck and killed a rail worker during the morning rush Thursday, disrupting service for three hours and stranding hundreds of riders on a system al...

For days, there were no memorials in a run-down neighborhood where 11 bodies were found in one home. No flowers or framed photos. Just a few small melted candles and two st...

A natural gas pipeline exploded in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, shaking homes, melting window blinds and shooting flames hundreds of feet into the air, authorities said...

Advice about soft drinks and health from one of the nation's largest doctors groups will soon be brought to you by Coke.The American Academy of Family Physicians has...

October's retail sales results, the best performance since April 2008, show that Americans are spending a little more. But will they be willing to pay full price this holid...

Sister Magdalena has returned home — empty now in the absence of a roommate who had worked so hard to empower people on the Navajo Indian Reservation.That roommate...

Authorities say a medical helicopter has crashed on Arizona's San Carlos Indian reservation during a training flight and both people aboard are seriously injured. There wer...

Opel employees walked off their jobs to attend a mass rally at the automaker's headquarters Thursday, protesting General Motors Co.'s decision to abandon the unit's sale to...

Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.The "Dashboard" feature unveil...

Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed...

For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as wide...

October sales reports from major retailers ranging from Target Corp. to Macy's Inc. are expected to offer more evidence of a spending recovery when they're released Thursda...

After days of meticulous plodding through photos and records seized from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, jurors could begin deliberating the sexual assault case again...

William AveryTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Former Kansas Gov. William Avery, who served one term in the Statehouse in the 1960s, has died. He was 98.Gov. Mark Parkins...

Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops ever.After two months with little letup in r...

California corrections officials say they're working to improve the monitoring of released sex offenders, responding to a scathing report that cited missed chances to catch...

Sister Magdalena has returned home — empty now in the absence of a roommate who had worked so hard to empower people on the Navajo Indian Reservation.That roommate...

A baby missing for five days was found alive in a box under her baby sitter's bed, and authorities said Thursday they plan to charge the sitter, her husband and the child's...

The dangerous Green River lost its sting in the early 1960s when a dam ended floods that frequently swamped its Seattle-area valley.But the years have weakened the d...

Ida weakens to tropical depression with 35 mph top winds as it sweeps over Nicaragua....

The discovery of 11 bodies in one home in a run-down neighborhood here has relatives of the presumed victims wondering how such a gruesome scene could have gone unnoticed f...

Hundreds of Yankees fans poured into the streets of New York early Thursday to celebrate the team's 27th World Series championship, a party that extended uptown and began b...

John "Junior" Gotti's mother unleashed a profanity-laced tirade Wednesday after a judge dismissed two anonymous jurors at her son's racketeering trial, saying he was being ...

CLEVELAND — The run-down Cleveland neighborhood where 50-year-old Anthony Sowell quietly carved out an existence is the type of place where women can disappear almost in ...

Just days before starting a triathlon of trials, former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik appears to be opting for a shortcut.A person familiar with th...

General Motors Co.'s decision to scrap the sale of European subsidiary Opel raised new uncertainty Wednesday over the unit's future, astonishing politicians in Germany and ...