A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testif...

Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contr...

Today is Friday, Nov. 20, the 324th day of 2009. There are 41 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 20, 1947, Britain's future queen, Pri...

A New York City gallery has auctioned over 200 rare postage stamps to raise $3.2 million for the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.Wall Street mo...

Heidi Klum and her post-baby body led the parade at the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show, which returned to New York with some fresh faces after four years on the road...

Jeanne-ClaudeNEW YORK (AP) — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the ...

Three South Carolina men accused of bilking people out of more than $80 million lied about how they would invest their money, so it doesn't matter if investors knew it was ...

California tax officials say an interior designer's false disability claim was uncovered when he was spotted on a home improvement television show.Fifty-six-year-old...

Expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense have testified a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality d...

A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday.Mario McNeill is being...

An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing. Indianapolis police arrested the suspect at Arl...

A 2-year-old in north Mississippi has done something few toddlers can: He helped his mother give birth to his brother. Bobbye Favazza told The Commercial Appeal she went in...

A New Jersey man who's been battling in Brazilian courts to get custody of his 9-year-old son is scheduled to testify before a congressional human rights panel in Washingto...

A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday.Mario McNeill is being...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:Nov. 15San Antonio Express-News, on the swine flu vaccine:Health and Huma...

A former assistant fire chief accused of setting two small fires in an arson-plagued steel town near Philadelphia has worked out a plea bargain freeing him from jail.Texas inmate executed after gov. rejects clemency, Michael Graczyk

Inmate Robert Lee Thompson was executed Thursday evening for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after the Texas governor rejected a parole board's recommendation to s...

Two men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of killing an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in a shootout in his garage, North Las Vegas police said.Police said that...

A Kansas City man who left his wallet on the counter of a bank he was robbing has pleaded guilty in federal court. Albert Perkins, 40, admitted Thursday that he stole more ...

Robert Lee Thompson has been executed for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after the Texas governor rejected a parole board's recommendation to spare him because he...

Authorities say an Arizona couple has been indicted in the theft of nearly 1,000 pieces of luggage from baggage claim carousels at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport....

A judge in Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's theft trial told jurors they must stop deliberating and asking questions after he dismisses them for the day.Visiting Judge...

Prosecutors can retry an ex-sailor who received a conditional pardon from Virginia's governor after spending 11 years in prison for the rape and murder of a fellow sailor's...

A U.S.-trained scientist accused of shooting at FBI agents and helping al-Qaida vowed Thursday to boycott her January trial.Aafia Siddiqui interrupted lawyers at her...

"The Oprah Winfrey Show," an iconic broadcast that grew over two decades into a daytime television powerhouse and the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire, will...

Gov. Rick Perry refused to spare a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery, rejecting a parole board recommendation that the death sentence of...

A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole's most beloved icon.Tenn. slayings suspect asked to hug daughter, Lucas L. Johnson Ii

A man charged with fatally stabbing and beating six people in Tennessee and Alabama asked a responding deputy to let him hug his 4-year-old daughter — the only person spa...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wants to report previously unrecorded flights he took on planes owned by friends and campaign donors, a state ethics official said Thursday...

A federal jury has ruled that New York City police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a professional clown who left a suspicious device that turned out to be a b...

Customs officials say they got a surprise when they found 316,000 glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments at the Los Angeles harbor.U.S. Customs and Border Prot...

Republicans assail health care bill, Democrats set Saturday night test vote on Senate measureWASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators ...

Some University of California regents who approved a student fee increase are trapped inside a UCLA building as protesters block the exits.The demonstrators are bein...

Three teenagers accused of setting a 15-year-old south Florida boy on fire have pleaded not guilty to attempted second-degree murder.Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent, ...

Another man has been indicted on terrorism charges in a federal investigation into the recruitment of Minnesota Somalis to fight in Somalia.Omer Abdi Mohamed of Minn...

Promising "you haven't seen the last of me," a 70-year-old disbarred lawyer convicted in a terrorism case surrendered to U.S. marshals Thursday to begin serving her prison ...

For the second time in a little more than a year, a glitch at one of the two centers that handle flight plans for the nation's air travel system set off delays and cancella...

On an Internet site, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante listed her hobbies as "killing people" and "cutting." It may have sounded like a teenage exaggeration, but authorities sa...

The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.The vote...

A shootout left two bank robbery suspects dead and two police officers wounded Thursday in suburban Denver, police said.Westminster police spokesman Trevor Materasso...

Intrepid Ohio State University researchers have learned students don't just party in a campus lake during rituals before the annual Michigan game. They also potty there. Th...

A New York City man imprisoned for nearly 20 years for a now-overturned murder conviction is set to be freed within days after a judge Thursday ordered him released while a...

Jurors at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti raised the specter of a fourth mistrial in the case, telling a judge Thursday that they were deadlocked on murder an...

Fargo police said a man ran over a light pole and punched a police officer in the mouth when the officer tried to arrest him. Police Sgt. Mark Lykken said police got a repo...

A Philadelphia jury has convicted a confessed cop killer of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a police officer on Halloween 2007.Twenty-three-year-old John Le...

Jurors in Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's theft trial are ending their first day of deliberations without a verdict.Visiting Judge Dennis Sweeney sent the jurors home...

A man accused of using a squeegee to hit another man during a fight over who was first in line at a gas pump was due in court on charges. The man, Hector Chavez, 21, was to...

A landmark court ruling blaming the Army Corps of Engineers' "monumental negligence" for some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Katrina could lead to a new deluge: billi...

A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work outside the International Space Station on Thursday and even whipped off an...

Maine author Phillip Hoose said winning a National Book Award for his chronicle of a young civil rights pioneer was all the more moving because she took the stage with him ...

Four men described as soldiers in a terrorism plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices have each been sentenced to less than a decade behind bars, far les...

Jurors deliberating racketeering charges against John "Junior" Gotti in New York City are going home for the weekend after signaling a possible deadlock earlier in the day....

Federal prosecutors have charged three men with diverting traffic from the Web site of Philadelphia-based telecommunications provider Comcast Corp.Authorities on Thu...

A former U.S. ambassador who served as a private advisor to Kurdish leaders in Iraq defended his financial stake in oil fields in the country's north, insisting Saturday th...

A merchant sea captain who was captured and held by Somali pirates in April reunited Thursday with the U.S. Navy crew and captain who were part of his daring rescue, thanki...

Nineteen alleged gang members have been indicted in Maryland on federal racketeering conspiracy charges.U.S. Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced the indictm...

Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students' interest in foreign study was at ...

When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right.The program has been p...

As hundreds of students demonstrated outside, University of California leaders on Thursday voted to approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the increase is...

Forget the apocalyptic earthquakes and alien abductions on the screen, the real movie horror is the fat-saturated popcorn sold by some theater chains, a nutrition advocacy ...

New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists.In fact, a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wants to report previously unrecorded flights he took on planes owned by friends and campaign donors, a state ethics official said Thursday...

The wife of U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., has been charged with drunken driving and hit-and-run after police said she hit a parked car in northern Virginia.Fairfa...

A new federal report says a passing car that went out of control caused an Alabama school bus wreck that killed four students in 2006.The wreck led to new rules for ...

A merchant sea captain who was captured and held by Somali pirates has thanked the U.S. Navy crew and captain who were part of his daring rescue.Richard Phillips sto...

Several family members who say they were sexually abused as children by adult relatives remember being taken to various locations and photographed with naked men, police in...

The jury at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti raised the specter of a fourth mistrial in the case, telling a judge Thursday that they were deadlocked on murder ...

A plan to pull 5 million pounds of unwanted carp from a Utah lake each year — one of the largest such attempts in the country — got initial backing Thursday from a fede...

When an ambulance brought Daniel Webb home from the hospital after he hurt his knee in March, paramedics warned the then 550-pound man he probably wouldn't be able to get u...

A New York sheriff is using money seized from drug dealers to buy drug-testing kits that he will distribute free to parents.Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent DeMarco sa...

Ohio's top public defender is taking on a rare challenge: accepting cases of convicted criminals who say they're innocent but don't have the DNA to prove it.The Ohio...

A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her ca...

A judge says the government must keep Yellowstone-area grizzly bears on the list of threatened and endangered species, denying an attempt by federal officials to reverse an...

Authorities say one passenger is hospitalized in serious condition after a tour bus crash in southern Minnesota killed two people and injured 20.The Minnesota State ...

In a Nov. 18 story about a hunter charged with shooting two college students he mistook for a deer, The Associated Press erroneously attributed information that the student...

Officers armed with beanbag guns stood by as hundreds of protesters chanted, marched and even took over a building Thursday on the UCLA campus, where University of Californ...

The jury is deliberating in the theft and misconduct trial of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon.Defense attorney Arnold Weiner drew applause Thursday from Dixon supporter...

California's public university system on Thursday agreed to fully reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital that was partially closed in 2007 after deadly lapses in care...

Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality — from paying new teachers ...

Campaign contributions to retired U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, a New Mexico Republican, paid for more than $700,000 in lawyers' bills arising from an ethics investigation into ...

A third man has been sentenced in Miami to federal prison for his role in a terrorism plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and blow up FBI offices.U.S. District Jud...

About $10,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from one of four people found shot to death last week inside a burning home in Oklahoma City, police said Thursday.Casey Ba...

A Chicago-area cemetery that was shut down after four former workers were accused of digging up graves in a scheme to resell burial plots is open again.Burr Oak Ceme...

An Ohio man has been charged with attempted murder after authorities said he put an infant and a toddler in a trash bin.A grand jury in Dayton returned the indictmen...

A Connecticut woman who police say was set on fire by her boyfriend can be heard screaming in a 911 call tape released by authorities.In a neighbor's call to police ...

A person in a chicken costume ruffled the feathers of Durango's city council as its members discussed rules for backyard fowl. At a council meeting Tuesday, someone in a ch...

A town on New York's Long Island is hoping for better attendance at its 16th annual holiday boat parade this year by restoring "Christmas" to the event's name.The Pa...

An off-duty Las Vegas police officer was shot dead early Thursday in a shootout in the garage of his home during what authorities said they think was a random robbery attem...

Prosecutors have asked to dismiss all 72 immigration charges against the former manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa after his conviction on financial fraud charges.<...

Authorities say final autopsy results show that three college softball players who drowned when their sport utility vehicle went into a North Dakota pond had not been drink...

The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabe...

A New Jersey airport security guard overheard talking about shooting President Barack Obama will be released from jail.John Brek appeared in state Superior Court in ...

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.The U.S. Post...

The daughter of Sen. John Kerry was arrested Thursday in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk.Alexandra Kerry, 36, was stopped by officers at about 12:40 a.m. and b...

A guided-missile destroyer has arrived in Norfolk for a reunion with the American merchant captain the crew helped rescue from pirates off the coast of Africa.The US...

The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking on campus.The University of Kentucky imp...

The runners-up to Merriam-Webster's 2009 Word of the Year (admonish), with definitions from the publisher's collegiate dictionary and, when applicable, the news event or st...

The case of one of four teens who were cited after rapping their order at a McDonald's in Utah appears headed for trial.Police in American Fork, about 30 miles south...

Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has di...

Merriam-Webster's annual Words of the Year dating to 2003, when the publisher started making the selection:2009: Admonish — "to express warning or disapproval to e...

Museum visitors in Washington will get the chance to step into "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert's old NBC office, which has been reassembled at the Newseum.An ...

Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months. ...

A private forecast of economic activity over the next six months edged up less than expected in October, signaling slow, bumpy growth next year.The Conference Board ...

New York's top court ruled Thursday that gay couples legally married elsewhere are entitled to some government benefits, boosting stalled legislative efforts to legalize sa...

Hundreds of protesters chanted, marched and took over a building Thursday on the UCLA campus, where University of California regents were scheduled to vote on a 32 percent ...

Oprah Winfrey's production company says she'll announce Friday that her show will end in 2011....

A tour bus driver suffered a ruptured aneurysm just before the bus veered off a southern Minnesota interstate and crashed, killing two people and injuring 20, the owner of ...

America's first casino to open outside Nevada is expected to hand itself over to its lenders Thursday because it can't pay the mortgage.Resorts Atlantic City in New ...

A pair of spacewalking astronauts, one of them a surgeon, hustled through antenna and cable work Thursday outside the International Space Station.Atlantis crewmen Mi...

AOL says it plans to cut about a third of its work force once it is spun off from the media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.That would amount to nearly 2,300 of the rou...

A police officer who used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission has been suspended — not for using the Taser but for not h...

A search warrant says a man charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl who was later found dead told police he took the girl to the hotel where she was last s...

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...

A New York pastor accused of using church funds to pay for plastic surgery has been ordered to serve five years probation.The Rev. William Blasingame also must pay b...

Small aircraft flying over the Hudson River near New York City are now following new flight rules.Thursday marks the first day for new regulations created by the Fed...

The fate of a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery was in the hands of Gov. Rick Perry after the state parole board recommended the death s...

Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that trying self-professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal civilian court in New York is unwise and unneces...

When the U.S. House admonished Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie!" at President Barack Obama during a health care speech to Congress, it not only lit up talk show lines...

Wet weather was expected to persist and intensify over the Northwest, while lingering showers could continue over the Northeast on Thursday.A strong low pressure sys...

Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether a death row inmate lives or dies.The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a rare ruling, has recommended that Robe...

California regulators have adopted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards for televisions, a move that will eventually ban power-hungry sets from the state's store ...

The University of California is preparing to ask students to pay $2,500 more over two years, a plan that has drawn protest at two major campuses.President Mark Yudof...

There's a swirl of activity in a spacious, modern kitchen as final meal preparations are made.An older man tries to swipe a felafel off an appetizer plate but instea...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford will face an ethics panel to answer charges that he may have violated state law, which his lawyer said would give the once-popular politici...

A former Cleveland bus driver who was on her cell phone when her bus struck and killed a man in a crosswalk has been found guilty of vehicular homicide.However, a ju...

Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible invol...

Starry-eyed children writing letters to the jolly man at the North Pole this holiday season likely won't get a response from Santa Claus or his helpers.The U.S. Post...

The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation ...

The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future.Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp a...

Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts are about to step out on the first spacewalk of their mission.Michael Foreman and Dr. Robert Satcher Jr. will float outside Thursd...

A hearing is set for South Carolina's Ethics Commission to decide whether the state's embattled governor should be prosecuted over his travels.The meeting Wednesday ...

Are cramped chickens crazy chickens?Researchers are trying to answer that question through several studies that intend to take emotions out of an angry debate betwee...

Investigators were starting to reconstruct a tour bus accident that killed two people and injured 21 in southern Minnesota, seeking answers to what caused the driver to swe...

An airline passenger suffered a slight injury while coming down an escape slide when a charter plane made an emergency landing in Kansas after losing an engine.Alleg...

A wild turkey that has been playing chicken along the New Jersey Turnpike won't have to dodge Thanksgiving traffic.State Fish and Wildlife officials netted the bird ...

Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Boo...

Two Chicago men accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper may have been involved in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authoriti...