Today is Wednesday, Nov. 25, the 329th day of 2009. There are 36 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 25, 1783, the British evacuated Ne...

A Chicago police spokesman says two high-ranking officers have been reprimanded after a video surfaced that showed officers posing with a handcuffed suspect at the G-20 mee...

A Los Angeles anti-gang intervention worker has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a burglary he admitted was done for the benefit of a street gang.Marlo "Bow ...

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is blaming low oxygen for the death of a coal miner at a west Alabama mine.Fifty-three-year-old James Chaney of Ber...

A man who was pushed into a glass window by a San Francisco-area transit officer will not face felony charges in the incident that was caught on video.Michael Gibson...

Los Angeles County leaders responding to the summer's destructive Station Fire voted Tuesday to urge the U.S. Forest Service to allow helicopters to battle wildfires at nig...

A scheme to transport stolen cell phones, laptops and video game systems that evolved into a plot to ship machine guns and anti-aircraft missiles to Syria was broken up wit...

On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the government: a census worker found bound with duct tape...

A man accused of killing a man and wounding three others after he was escorted out of a bar in Colorado has been charged with first-degree murder.Eagle County Distri...

As of Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at least 845 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. 24, 2009, at least 4,365 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count....

A Minnesota man hosted a gathering for several young Somalis days before they left Minneapolis to fight with a terrorist group in their war-torn homeland, according to cour...

Someone made off with loot from a Georgia church but also left behind an apology. A note scrawled on the wall said: "Sorry but I'm poor. Forgive me Lord." The Rev. Roger Da...

The Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks and representatives of almost 300 alleged victims of clergy abuse have agreed on a settlement of almost $10 million.The agreement w...

As an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff sought help from a doctor — a move generally discouraged by e...

An Indian tribe wants to build a grand, $1.5 billion, Las Vegas-style casino resort on a swath of land overlooking San Francisco Bay — a spot more than 100 miles from its...

A jury considering racketeering and murder charges against John "Junior" Gotti told a judge Tuesday it was deadlocked for a second time before resuming work and indicating ...

Four NBC affiliates broadcasting the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are banning a commercial promoting veganism sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.Police: Ky. census worked staged death as homicide, Bruce Schreiner And Roger Alford

On the surface it all seemed like a gruesome hate crime in a rural part of Kentucky with a history of disdain for the government: a census worker found bound with duct tape...

A cool-headed legal debate has replaced the once-passionate calls to oust Gov. Mark Sanford that began after his tearful summertime admission that he disappeared from the s...

A Jordanian man charged with trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper with what he thought was a car bomb will go on trial next summer.A federal judge has moved Hosam S...

Federal court papers say that as an Ohio execution team tried to find a vein during an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt, prison staff asked a doctor for help.Dr...

Obama to announce more troops for Afghanistan next week to 'finish the job' — expects supportWASHINGTON (AP) — War-weary Americans will support more fighting in ...

Two men have pleaded guilty to shooting high-powered pellet guns at dozens of cars on San Francisco Bay area freeways.They were charged in at least 45 shootings on I...

Talk about getting stuck with the cheap seats.The Pontiac Silverdome, built three decades ago for $56 million, is being virtually given away — sold at auction for ...

Let us give thanks — and pass the Purell.Your family might be sharing more than turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. Swine flu may also be on the table — an...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says photographs of his Porsche illegally parked in a Beverly Hills red zone are proof that even he makes mistakes.The Republican governor...

A New Jersey blogger scheduled to go on trial next week on charges that he threatened three federal judges in hate-filled postings has subpoenaed the state's governor-elect...

Two school buses have collided at a red light, sending 17 children to several Ohio hospitals.School Superintendent Valerie Browning says the accident occurred Tuesda...

A former New York City police officer has admitted he held a suburban school superintendent at gunpoint in June.Peter Cocker pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charg...

Police in Southern California say a man has been caught on surveillance videotape stealing a nun's purse at a Los Angeles-area supermarket.San Fernando police say tw...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's lawyer says the events surrounding the Republican's June absence from the state to meet with an Argentine lover don't warrant impeachment...

A New York gallery will auction off what is believed to be one of three known surviving historic envelopes postmarked on the first day of the Pony Express.The envelo...

Former top Pentagon officials investigating the attack at a Texas Army post have visited the site of the shootings and a military hospital.Former Army Secretary Togo...

A tempest in a trash can is brewing in San Diego County, where ACORN is trying to recover tens of thousands of documents taken from its garbage by a Republican activist.'Junior' Gotti jury signals deadlock _ again, Larry Neumeister

It sounds like John "Junior" Gotti will have to wait a few more days before he learns his fate in his fourth racketeering trial.The jury in federal court in Manhatta...

Sarah Palin, who says the 2012 presidential election isn't on her radar, took her "Going Rogue" book tour to the biggest of the battleground states Tuesday, including a sto...

A former condominium owner and Southern Methodist University officials have settled a four-year property dispute involving the site of George W. Bush's presidential library...

Charis Wilson, who inspired photographer Edward Weston during an 11 year relationship and posed for many of his pictures, has died. She was 95.Wilson died Friday in ...

A former postal supervisor who says he was fired for refusing a late shipment of Netflix DVDs in Spokane is suing the Postal Service.John A. Branda told The Spokesma...

A man was arrested after police said he left his 5-year-old son in a tractor-trailer while he ducked into an Indianapolis strip club to drink. The 39-year-old was arrested ...

A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like...

An Ohio zoo is ready to show off its newest additions — a trio of lion cubs.The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said that beginning Tuesday Kitambi (ki-TAHM'-bee) and hi...

An eastern Pennsylvania prosecutor wants charges dropped against a couple who refused to pay a tip at a restaurant where they said they got poor service. Northampton County...

A judge has sentenced a California man to death for murdering a girlfriend who refused to help him dispose of another girlfriend's body.Santiago Martinez of Long Bea...

A Connecticut man has pleaded not guilty to charges he set his girlfriend on fire and tried to set her 12-year-old daughter ablaze.Fifty-year-old Howard Stewart of N...

Flushed evidence doesn't go far if your toilet's on a septic system. DeSoto Parish sheriff's Lt. Toni Joe Morris said Tuesday that deputies brought in a backhoe when drug a...

A man whose car became stuck on a set of railroad tracks bailed out before a commuter train plowed into it. Danny Ray Olsen, 62, said he took a wrong turn in Ogden and got ...

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airline...

South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina began a monthslong process on Tuesday that could ultimately rem...

Clergy sex abuse victims and their supporters said Tuesday that Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop is not doing enough to protect children from pedophile priests even as ...

A body that washed ashore at a North Carolina wildlife refuge over the weekend has been identified as the owner of a commercial fishing boat that sank off the New Jersey co...

A financial dispute between Oprah Winfrey's mother and a high-end fashion store in Wisconsin has been settled.Details of the agreement between Vernita Lee of Milwauk...

Three lacrosse players for a Catholic university in New England have been charged with conspiring to sexually assault a female student in a dorm room.A lawyer for on...

Scientists report that rising temperatures appear to be responsible for cutting the snowpack in Oregon's Cascade Range in half over the past 77 years.The report from...

The U.S. State Department announced Tuesday that it is now offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb-maker suspected of once targeting commercial airline...

A baby-faced cop killer accepted a Philadelphia jury's death sentence Tuesday, vowing to take responsibility for shooting the veteran officer during a doughnut-store robber...

Los Angeles police have released a composite sketch of a man believed to have killed at least 11 people since 1985.The sketch released Tuesday was originally compile...

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: toppling the World Trade Center towers.He will soon be given a chance to repeat a...

A judge says two owners of a Chicago nightclub where 21 people were killed in a stampede down a stairwell six years ago must go to prison.Cook County Circuit Court J...

The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $5 million for a Palestinian bomb maker suspected of targeting commercial airliners and aiding the Iraq insurgency.<...

A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like...

Ky. police: Census worker found hanging killed himself, staged death to look like homicide....

After nearly a week together, the crews of shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station said goodbye Tuesday and closed the hatches between them.Atlantis wil...

A gym owner-turned-investment fund manager was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that left investors short $35 million once the fraud unrav...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says a leak was discovered at a western Pennsylvania reactor, but workers quickly resolved it and no radioactive release was reported....

The captain of a charter jet that crashed on takeoff at a New Jersey airport in 2005 has been indicted on charges of fraud and lying to investigators.An indictment r...

Three generations of Wyeth artworks will be auctioned next month, including 14 original oil canvases by N.C. Wyeth that were used to lavishly illustrate the classic adventu...

Workers at Butterball's turkey-tips hot line are used to oddball situations:_The woman who cleaned out her turkey with a scrub brush and asked if that was OK to do. ...

Bill Golden survived more than 20 years in the Army and another 30 in law enforcement. He fell sick with colon cancer, and at 86, he has an artificial hip and arthritis in ...

New York Gov. David Paterson wants the Legislature to grant him emergency, one-time power to close a $3.2 billion deficit in the face of inaction by lawmakers.In an ...

A Minnesota man has pleaded not guilty to terror-related charges in connection with the disappearances of as many as 20 young men who left the Twin Cities to fight with ter...

A man just released from prison for taking hostages at one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's New Hampshire campaign offices in 2007 has been arrested again.Leeland Eisenbe...

The attorney for a Sacred Heart University lacrosse player charged with helping two teammates sexually assault a woman says the accusations are a gross exaggeration of alco...

Authorities say there were at least five attacks on red-haired students at a Southern California middle school after a Facebook group announced "Kick a Ginger Day." However...

New York's top court ruled Tuesday that the state can use eminent domain to force homeowners and businesses to sell their properties for a massive development in Brooklyn t...

Celebrity chef Paula Deen got an unexpected serving of ham — across her face.The Food Network star was helping unload 25,000 pounds of donated meat for an Atlanta ...

Authorities were set Tuesday to release findings from an investigation into the death of a census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest...

The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire time in the subway system.The boy...

Authorities say a fire at an apartment complex under construction in Dallas left seven firefighters injured.Jason Evans, a spokesman for Dallas Fire-Rescue, told KRL...

The father of a North Carolina girl who was kidnapped and killed said Tuesday he made the best decision he could at the time when he let her live with her mother, who has s...

NASA's new dad in space, shuttle astronaut Randolph Bresnik, said Tuesday he had no problems focusing on his job while awaiting his daughter's birth.Abigail Mae Bres...

The father of a dead North Carolina girl isn't second-guessing his decision to let 5-year-old Shaniya (shuh-NY-uh) Davis live with the mother accused of prostituting her.Arms dealer pleads guilty in Ala. smuggling case

A Belgian arms dealer has pleaded guilty to illegally exporting airplane engines and parts from the U.S. to Iran for use in aging F-5 fighter jets sold to the Islamic natio...

Sarah Palin, who says the 2012 presidential election isn't on her radar, took her "Going Rogue" book tour to the biggest of the battleground states Tuesday, including a sto...

A real estate agent showing a house got to the basement and found about 100 human bones in a corner. James Kenny, a forensic investigator with the Terrebonne Parish Coroner...

More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Stork Craft Manufacturing are being recalled, the biggest crib recall in U.S history, following reports of four infant suffocations...

Two main weather features were expected to bring active weather to the U.S. on Tuesday.A low pressure system over the Central U.S. was forecast to strengthen as it m...

Former French intelligence officer Herve Jaubert believed he was essentially being held captive in Dubai when his passport was confiscated by authorities amid a dispute wit...

Sparkly reindeer-dung necklaces are going on sale at an Illinois zoo that hopes to attract the same holiday shoppers who swept up its dung Christmas ornaments last year.Obituaries in the news

Albert Taylor Scroggins Jr.COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Albert Taylor Scroggins Jr., a World War II veteran and former dean of the University of South Carolina's journali...

South Carolina legislators upset with Gov. Mark Sanford's summer disappearance to see his lover in Argentina on Tuesday began debating a measure that ultimately would remov...

After a 92-year-old grandmother was cut down in a hail of police bullets during a botched raid three years ago, her community seemed to trust officers about as much as the ...

The man in charge of the New York City Police Department's security planning for the upcoming trial of the Sept. 11 terror attack suspects is being promoted.Police C...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's mysterious five-day summer disappearance to meet with his Argentine lover will come under sharp scrutiny by a special legislative panel.<...

The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle-station complex are resting after their three successful spacewalks.The 12 space travelers will get a few hours off Tuesda...

TV Guide Network says it will air a special program starring singing sensation Susan Boyle next month.The one-hour documentary, "I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle S...

An Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people during an attack on his Texas post will likely plead not guilty to the charges against him and may use an insanity defense...