A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection Saturday, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by...

Today is Sunday, Nov. 22, the 326th day of 2009. There are 39 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy w...

Dozens of protesters are occupying the main administrative building at University of California, Santa Cruz in the third straight day of protest over fee hikes and cuts to ...

A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, polic...

Officials say a three-alarm fire on the boardwalk in Atlantic City has been declared under control.Atlantic City Police Sgt. Monica McMenamin says the fire that brok...

Authorities say a New York City subway car became a scene of bloody terror when a man whipped out a knife and fatally stabbed a fellow passenger.Police say two men i...

Vice President Joe Biden told Iowa Democrats on Saturday that the Senate handed the president a big victory with its decision to move forward with debate on sweeping legisl...

Authorities say four people were hurt when one of San Francisco's historic cable cars jarred to a sudden stop while traveling through downtown.Municipal Transportati...

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday....

The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gun...

Officials say a three-alarm fire has broken out on the boardwalk in Atlantic City.Deputy police Chief Joseph Nolan says the fire Saturday is at the Central Pier. Nol...

Hundreds have gathered to salute Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.Motown Records founder Berry Gordy, along with A...

A military magistrate has ruled that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial.For now, Maj. ...

Authorities arrested a Sacramento fisherman Saturday in connection to shooting a sea lion in the head.California game wardens said they arrested Larry Allen Legans, ...

Democrats seal 60-vote majority to advance health care bill; Landrieu, Lincoln to vote 'yes'WASHINGTON (AP) — In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote...

Police say a bank robbery suspect in Ohio may have eaten evidence when he gobbled a piece of paper while handcuffed and lying across the hood of a police cruiser.A p...

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday....

Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.Long Beach...

A court-martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill...

A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a viable threat.Bob Purtiman s...

A prosecutor has told a court martial that a former Air Force nurse killed three terminally ill patients with excessive medication because they were not dying quickly enoug...

The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."Whenever a student gets within a few feet, Anastasia Bodnar waves and smiles, trying t...

Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.He pulls a protest sign from his maroon 1961 Volkswagen van — he has 30 to 40 st...

The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.The grou...

Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.But she can l...

A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.<...

Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sen...

Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.The apartment had been condemned for the squalo...

When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at thei...

On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the ne...

Police say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school.The nine children were injured in the accident Frid...

Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounce...

A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday....

Black ties and gowns filled a ballroom Saturday in a big-bucks salute to Detroit-style royalty — the King of Motown, the Queen of Soul and the Kid of Rock.Motown R...

WASHINGTON — The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more c...

The gunman who carried out Saipan's most violent attack in recent memory ended his life on the same rocky cliffs where numerous Japanese leapt to their deaths to avoid capt...

Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.During Christmas seasons for decades, these dedicated elves resp...

Heavy rains was forecast to continue over the Gulf States on Saturday while the Pacific Northwest was expected to see scattered precipitation.A strong low pressure s...

An astronaut is gearing up for the first spacewalk of his career while awaiting the imminent birth of his daughter.Atlantis crewman Randolph Bresnik will step out Sa...

A collection of Michael Jackson memorabilia, including the now iconic rhinestone-studded glove he wore when he performed his first moonwalk dance in 1983, is being sold at ...

Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for the meager bounty of a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions, court documents sa...

The son of a late San Francisco pornography mogul will stand trial on accusations that he crushed his ex-girlfriend's skull with a baseball bat.Marin County Judge Ke...

The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out o...

California is investigating several companies suspected of bilking churches nationwide of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fraudulent computer leasing schemes, auth...

A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually a...