Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceuti...

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 18, the 322nd day of 2009. There are 43 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 18, 1959, "Ben-Hur," MGM's Biblica...

A 114-year-old woman believed to be the oldest native-born American and the third-oldest person in the world has died at a New York nursing home.Olivia Patricia Thom...

Cold weather and calm winds are helping firefighters in their battle against a wildfire in Southern California.Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Greg McKeown says t...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston's Logan International Airport were violated when he was threate...

No one is complaining about a $100,000 mistake made by a southern New Jersey store clerk.Indian Fields Market owner Domenic Galle says a man walked into the Bridgeto...

Call it udder shock. A South Carolina woman who heard a giant splash in her backyard discovered a 650-pound cow had fallen into her swimming pool.WSPA-TV reports tha...

Authorities in Colorado say a homeowner who was selling his house returned to the property to find a 24-year-old squatter wearing only underwear. Police in Golden say the h...

A police car working ahead of Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade was involved in a minor traffic accident Tuesday evening, but it wasn't part of the procession and the vi...

A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by electrocution in ove...

A Minnesota judge has closed the case of a teenager forced by the court to undergo chemotherapy against his family's wishes.Brown County Judge John Rodenberg says in...

San Antonio police say nearly 150 victim rape kits will face DNA testing as the department pushes to solve years-old cases.Police announced the new planned testing o...

A spokeswoman for Jaycee Dugard says only Dugard and her family should decide when and if a film is made based on the 18 years she spent with the man charged with kidnappin...

As of Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, at least 841 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in ...

As of Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, at least 4,363 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count....

An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.U.S. Rep. Donald Man...

Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced accusat...

A 1,679-mile pipeline crossing eight states is now fully completed and funneling natural gas from Wyoming and Colorado to the eastern edge of Ohio.The long-awaited R...

A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life i...

FBI officials say an elderly, thin, gray-haired man nicknamed the "Geezer Bandit" is responsible for holding up five San Diego-area banks since summer.Investigators ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (AN'-toh-nihn skuh-LEE'-uh) has said in a speech at Ohio State University the Constitution is best treated as an original document...

Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicid...

Big political names abound in New York: Mario Cuomo. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rudy Giuliani. And for political climbers seeking a stage in the media, a platform to join or d...

A lawyer for University of Rhode Island students has asked a judge to strike down a law allowing police in a beach town to place stickers on homes that host loud parties.Relatives of Mo. family doubt sex abuse claims, Maria Sudekum Fisher

If the tales they told police are true, a group of children in rural Missouri grew up in a house of horror, where some were raped by relatives, then told to write down thei...

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's yacht "Bull", two smaller boats and a Mercedes-Benz convertible were sold at auction Tuesday for more than $1 million combined.M...

As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and cri...

A Wisconsin man strangled his 14-year-old stepson with a necktie in a minivan in a Walmart parking lot, telling investigators he wanted to get revenge on his wife and her r...

A 19-year-old Brownsville man is jailed on a drug charge after he allegedly went door-to-door trying to sell marijuana. A Brownsville police spokesman says Anthony Carrazco...

AP sources: Senate health care bill likely to include new insurance program for long-term careWASHINGTON (AP) — Senate health care legislation expected this week i...

The District of Columbia has decided not to appeal a court ruling that found its police checkpoints in a high-crime neighborhood were unconstitutional.In a court fil...

A paparazzo testified Tuesday that an Ohio police chief told him he had access to ultrasound photographs belonging to the woman who carried twins for Sarah Jessica Parker a...

Big political names abound in New York: Mario Cuomo. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rudy Giuliani. And for political climbers seeking a stage in the media, a platform to join or d...

A black cat showed affection by crawling up and down a Texas police officer in a friendly display captured on the patrol car's dashcam. Taylor police Officer Keith Urban wa...

A letter President Abraham Lincoln wrote to a boy whose friends didn't believe he had met the commander in chief is being sold in Philadelphia.Lincoln sent the lette...

Prosecutors have begun investigating whether to charge ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and a photographer for a scuffle at Los Angeles International Airport.City ...

Los Angeles County's district attorney says he intends to prosecute owners of marijuana dispensaries that take cash for pot.District Attorney Steve Cooley said Tuesd...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a disbarred civil rights lawyer and ordered her to begin serving her sentence while a judge reconsiders whether ...

Security weaknesses uncovered in Los Alamos National Laboratory's classified computer network could increase the risk of a breach of classified information, the U.S. Govern...

The aunt of a 5-year-old girl whose body was found off a rural North Carolina road said Tuesday that she had a hard time letting the girl live temporarily at her mother's h...

A top South Carolina lawmaker says the embattled governor should not face impeachment simply because he secretly left the state in June — a trip he took to see his Argent...

A federal grand jury in West Virginia has linked five more people to an international scam that allegedly tricked government agencies in several states into paying at least...

Friends and relatives of executed D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad have gathered in Louisiana for his funeral.Muhammad was put to death last week in Virginia for kill...

What possesses a man to steal his ex-employer's bus, take it for a three-state joy ride and then post a video of the lark on YouTube?"It was inspired," Jacob Rehm, 3...

The federal government might get to collect billions of dollars in court-ordered restitution under a new divorce decree between imprisoned former Cendant Corp. chairman Wal...

A father and son have an extraterrestrial explanation for the strange rock that recently landed in their backyard in southwest Kansas. They are convinced it's a meteorite.<...

A northern New York man is recovering after being attacked by a 10-point buck while he was loading firewood. Authorities said Gerald Dabiew, 56, was cut and bruised from he...

No one is complaining about a mistake made by a store clerk in southern New Jersey. Indian Fields Market owner Domenic Galle said a man walked into the store and asked for ...

Zacarias Moussaoui was a clown who could not keep his mouth shut, according to his old al-Qaida boss, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. But Moussaoui was surprisingly tame when tried...

In a Nov. 16 story about a federal case involving a college student's disruption of an oil and gas auction in Utah, The Associated Press erroneously described a ruling by U...

Richard Martin keeps a rearview mirror on his desk to prevent co-workers from startling him in his cubicle. The walls are papered with sticky notes to help him remember thi...

Seven years after she was abducted at knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart finally has an apology — and a guilty plea — from one of her kidnappers."I am so sorry, Elizabe...

Out of 6,300 suggestions, San Diego Zoo managers have chosen a name for a baby panda born this summer.Zoo officials on Tuesday announced that the 3-month-old black-a...

Authorities say a Salt Lake City woman told them she gave her 9-month-old daughter to a suspected drug dealer because she was homeless, addicted to methamphetamine and unab...

You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies."We think of it as being caused by modern risk factor...

Now that most of the bodies found at the home of a suspected serial killer have been identified, Cleveland is turning its attention to the living — to any women who might...

For the first time, a miniature heart pump shows the potential to become a widely used, permanent treatment for many older people with severe heart failure. But can we affo...

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have affirmed that the church defines marriage between one man and one woman, and sex is meant for procreation.The pastoral lette...

A measure to let voters decide whether to ban same-sex marriages in D.C. cannot go on the ballot because it would violate a city human rights law, the Board of Elections an...

Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn't recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a federal def...

A man accused of murdering his wife has been charged with forging documents to steal a cemetery plot so he could be buried beside her.Bedford County District Attorne...

A preliminary report commissioned by the nation's Roman Catholic bishops on the roots of the clergy sex abuse scandal found no evidence that gay priests are more likely tha...

Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the swine flu vaccine.Many of the nation's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because of those runny-...

A baby panda born at the San Diego Zoo has been named Yun Zi — Chinese for "Son of Cloud."The black-and-white ball of fur was born on Aug. 5, but Chinese tradition...

A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a Skagit County shooting rampage last year has pleaded guilty and will spend the rest of his life in a mental ...

An Arizona congressman who believes it's a security risk to prosecute suspected Sept. 11 terrorists in Manhattan apologized Tuesday for suggesting New York Mayor Michael Bl...

Washington, D.C.'s Board of Ethics and Elections says a measure that would ban same-sex marriages cannot go on the city's ballot.The ruling was announced Tuesday. Op...

A death row inmate is scheduled to be executed by electric chair for killing a northern Virginia couple in 2001.Sixty-year-old Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to be ...

More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque Tuesday to educate visitors a...

A top South Carolina lawmaker says the embattled governor should not face impeachment simply because he left to see his Argentine lover over the summer.House Speaker...

A 245-acre wildfire in coastal mountains of Southern California was 75 percent contained Tuesday, Orange County authorities said. No homes were threatened.The blaze,...

The state parole board on Tuesday rejected a plea of mercy from a man who killed a woman and scattered her body parts, clearing the way for him to become the first person i...

Prosecutors in western Missouri filed 15 additional sex charges against a family already accused of sexually abusing children as a newly released search warrant claims some...

The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is on the move. And it's taking about 750 works of art with it.The museum is in the process of moving sculpture, painting...

A Missouri father and his sons have been arraigned on charges that they sexually abused many children years ago.During a brief court appearance Tuesday, four of the ...

Two of the seven charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon are being dropped.A judge dismissed the charges Tuesday during the mayor's theft trial. Prosecutors cla...

A dog trainer who helped look for a missing North Carolina 5-year-old says searchers overlooked it at first because all they saw were deer carcasses in trash bags.Bu...

The Los Angeles Police Department has a new chief.In a vote Tuesday, the City Council unanimously confirmed Charlie Beck to replace William Bratton, who quit last mo...

Seattle police say a man who thought he was ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it. An officer who was looking for an assault victim nearby Monday...

A New Jersey high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that school administrators violated her First Amendment free-speech and religious-freedom rights when they said...

Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official...

Granite Falls residents are suspicious of any newcomers, let alone a Muslim native of Pakistan who moved to this rugged, blue-collar mining town to open his own bar....

South Carolina lawmakers have formally received a resolution to impeach Gov. Mark Sanford because of his June rendezvous with an Argentine lover.The House on Tuesday...

Not far from the pulsating music and dancing of the high school homecoming, young men were drinking in a dimly-lit courtyard out of sight of chaperones.A friend invi...

Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time.Despite a global economic slump, worldwide carbon dioxide pollution jumped 2 percent last year, most o...

The Ohio Parole Board has rejected mercy for a man who killed a woman and scattered her body parts. He could be the first inmate to undergo the state's new, single-drug exe...

The small Maryland town where "The Blair Witch Project" was set has some new welcome signs. Please don't steal them.The new signs have little resemblance to the olde...

The recession is downsizing everything — even South Carolina's Statehouse Christmas tree.This year's tree is about 30-feet tall and doesn't even reach the top of t...

A woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty Tuesday as part of a deal with federal prosecutors and asked Smart to forgive her for all the pain ...

Homes and office buildings consume three-quarters of U.S. electricity, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory wants to lower that figure by erecting what it believes ...

Woman pleads guilty to federal charges in 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart....

Federal prosecutors in Miami want the maximum prison sentences for five men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices.Prosecutors s...

Police in North Carolina say more charges are coming in the case of a missing 5-year-old girl whose body was found dumped along a wooded road.Fayetteville police spo...

A former Marine turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday after being named a suspect in the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home, inc...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a disbarred civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case, forcing her to surrender immediately and requirin...

More than 14,700 U.S. taxpayers came forward to disclose billions in offshore bank accounts in 70 countries under a voluntary Internal Revenue Service program allowing most...

A federal appeals court has ordered a civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case to begin serving her prison sentence.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...

Authorities in Florida are searching for an alleged bank robber with "notably bad breath" who asked a teller to fill an orange Halloween bag with cash. The Broward County s...

Prosecutors in Missouri have filed 15 additional sex charges against a father and his adult sons who were already accused of sexually abusing children.The new charge...

Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts scoured their ship Tuesday for any signs of launch damage while pursuing the International Space Station.The early word was that t...

Colorado is gearing up to officially tax and regulate medical marijuana dispensaries, a move lawmakers say amounts to legal recognition of a growing industry.The sta...

A Scottish man is facing charges after the Philadelphia-to-London flight he was on made an unscheduled stop in Boston because he was allegedly being belligerent and disrupt...

Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure. It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as...

The father of a 5-year-old girl whose body was found off a rural North Carolina road regrets giving the girl's mother a chance to raise their daughter, even though she seem...

A western Pennsylvania man charged with murdering his wife has been accused of forging documents to steal a cemetery plot so he could be buried beside her.Thirty-nin...

Sarah Palin said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that a 2012 presidential bid is "not on my radar," but wouldn't rule out playing some role in the next presidential elect...

Sarah Palin said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that a 2012 presidential bid is "not on my radar," but wouldn't rule out playing some role in the next presidential elect...

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2009. There are 44 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 17, 1800, Congress held its first se...

Hundreds of rotting deer carcasses in a southwestern Pennsylvania yard are causing a stink among the neighbors. Randy Good of North Buffalo Township has a contract with the...

An Amtrak passenger train hit a car trying to cross the tracks near the South Carolina-Georgia state line and four people have been killed.Jasper County Coroner Mart...

Residents have come together in Cleveland to thank the coroner's office for quickly identifying women whose remains were found at the home of a suspected serial killer....

Fans in Sarah Palin's home state turned out as early as possible Tuesday to snap up copies of her highly anticipated memoir.Curiosity drove Natalie Baumgartner to pi...

Ed CzekajSTATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State University athletic director Ed Czekaj, who was credited with helping coach Joe Paterno build the football tea...

The bonfire collapse at Texas A&M University killed Carolyn Adams' daughter, Miranda. A decade later, Adams said she's grateful her daughter and the 11 other Aggies kil...

Wintry weather was expected to persist over the Central U.S. on Tuesday because of a strong low pressure system over the Midwest.The system, which brought snow to th...

Chicago's school board president shot himself in the head, officials said, as city leaders grappled with more bad news for a district trying to recover from the beating dea...

Seven years after it began, the wrenching saga of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping is expected to move toward resolution Tuesday with an expected guilty plea from one of the tw...

For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if the...

When 5-year-old Shaniya Davis was reported missing, suspicion turned to a man described as her mother's boyfriend. As he was let go, police targeted another man spotted on ...

For a week, authorities feverishly searched for a 5-year-old girl across central North Carolina, only to find her body Monday off a rural road following accusations the gir...

Firefighters made good progress Monday on a small brush fire that spread through more than 250 acres of rugged wilderness in southern Orange County.Some 300 firefigh...

A U.S. Airways airliner en route from Philadelphia to London made an unscheduled stop in Boston Monday after the pilot deemed a passenger's behavior unruly and decided to h...

The good news is that the pace at which people fell behind on their mortgages slowed during the summer for the third quarter in a row. The bad news is the overall delinquen...