Police say a Southern California man posed as a U.S. marshal to kidnap a distant cousin's wife and falsely deport her to the Philippines.Police said Tuesday they arr...

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 2, the 33rd day of 2010. There are 332 days left in the year. This is Groundhog Day.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 2, 1848...

A woman who befriended a Florida lottery winner who later went missing was charged Tuesday with trying to conceal his slaying, five days after his body was found buried in ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have seized nearly a ton of marijuana hidden in a banana shipment at a cargo facility near the U.S.-Mexico border.Officia...

The initial 911 report from the Vancouver, Wash., elementary school was alarming: shots fired at a school playground. That had police and SWAT officers scrambling Tuesday m...

A teenager is dead after the car she was riding in was hit broadside by a school bus north of Greeley, Colo.Investigators say the Tuesday-morning crash killed 15-yea...

A Michigan woman has been charged with sexually exploiting her daughter after investigators found explicit photos of the girl on a convicted sex offender's computer....

A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is on trial to face animal cruelty charges for marketing "gothic kittens" with ear and neck piercings over the Internet.The trial o...

Former police officer Drew Peterson's ex-wife was so afraid of him that she kept changing the locks on her doors, and so certain it wouldn't do any good, that she asked her...

The Justice Department says a federal jury has found a couple guilty of enslaving a Nigerian widow at their Texas home for nine years.The department says in a statem...

The petroleum and trucking industries are asking a federal court to block California's first-in-the-nation mandate for cleaner, low-carbon fuels.The lawsuit was file...

A woman who befriended a Florida lottery winner who later went missing was charged Tuesday in connection with his slaying, five days after his body was found buried in her ...

Nevada lawmakers lashed out at President Barack Obama on Tuesday after he made another reference to Las Vegas while explaining how people should make tough choices on spend...

A convicted sex offender was found guilty Tuesday of strangling and stabbing his neighbor and her two teenage children in their trailer home in southern Wisconsin.Ju...

The U.S. Tax Court ruled Tuesday that a Massachusetts woman should be allowed to deduct the costs of her sex-change operation, a decision that could have broad implications...

The woman who shot and wounded Dr. George Tiller in 1993 has warned that abortion providers will "continue to be stopped," despite a Kansas jury's first-degree murder convi...

A Times Square karaoke club worker has pleaded guilty to beating a patron to death with a steel pipe and slashing her throat on the roof while the club threw a party honori...

A California man who killed himself and his 9-month-old son in an apparent murder-suicide left dozens of angry, desperate messages to the boy's mother, including a lengthy ...

Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says hundreds of layoffs are likely, possibly more, as the state grapples with a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall.Gibbons on Tuesday met wi...

Prosecutors investigating Michael Jackson's death plan to file a criminal complaint charging the singer's doctor with involuntary manslaughter rather than seek a grand jury...

Former police officer Drew Peterson's ex-wife was so afraid of him that she kept changing the locks on her doors, and so certain it wouldn't do any good, that she asked her...

Where there's the Web, there's a way.Seeking to overcome a broadcast blackout imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court, a pair of gay Los Angeles filmmakers have undertaken...

A 30-year-old Idaho man has been taken into custody in connection with the stabbing death of his pregnant wife in North Carolina nearly five years ago.Police say the...

A southern Texas couple accused of locking the woman's 12-year-old daughter in a closet for about a year except to attend school remained in custody Tuesday, while the girl...

President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people's, taking a political risk by escal...

A 47-year-old New Orleans man has pleaded guilty to making death threats against President Barack Obama.John Turnpaugh entered the plea in federal court on Tuesday. ...

An Oregon woman who was investigated for allegedly trying to take a baby from a hospital has pleaded no contest to initiating a false report and second-degree custodial int...

Two suspected smugglers have pleaded not guilty in the drowning deaths of two passengers aboard a boat packed with illegal immigrants that capsized off the coast of San Die...

President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people's, taking a political risk by escal...

Nineteen members of the Florida Army National Guard have been injured when the bus they were riding in overturned at a training center.National Guard spokesman Lt. C...

Concern about the heavy metal cadmium in jewelry grew Tuesday as a California environmental group said new testing of adult necklaces and bracelets bought at three leading ...

Officials say a New York City man beat his girlfriend's dog so brutally with a belt that the animal lost its left eye and suffered six broken ribs.Manhattan prosecut...

The Secretary of the Interior, who is weighing the fate of a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, said Tuesday that killing the pioneering project wouldn't hurt t...

President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people's, taking a political risk by escal...

An Oregon couple was found guilty Tuesday of criminally negligent homicide for praying over their ill son instead of seeking medical help.The jury returned the verdi...

A National Transportation Safety Board report says investigators couldn't find a mechanical reason for a May plane crash in a northern Nevada cow pasture that killed all fi...

The U.S. Tax Court has ruled that a Massachusetts woman should be allowed to deduct the costs of her sex-change operation in a decision that could have wide-ranging consequ...

A defendant representing himself against five murder charges says he was at an amusement park when a Southern California girl was kidnapped and killed in 1979.Rodney...

A California judicial commission has admonished a retired judge for ordering that an attorney who settled a class-action lawsuit be paid in $10 coupons for women's apparel....

Mississippi is poised to become only the second state to require a doctor's prescription for cold medicines containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in methamphetamine....

The federal government has agreed to pay a $52 million settlement so it will not have to complete the so-called "road-to-nowhere" through North Carolina's mountain wilderne...

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's comments show she is "unrepentant" and "has lost touch with reality" after her convictions on perjury and embezzlement charges, prosecutors s...

An Oregon man has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service and a logging company on allegations that they failed to cut down a tree before it fell and injured him.US Reps from Mo. to propose blocking EPA gas rules, Chris Blank

Two congressional members from Missouri said Tuesday that they plan to file legislation blocking the Environmental Protection Agency from developing its own greenhouse gas ...

"Avatar" is a dreamy space fantasy that has made more money than any movie in history. "The Hurt Locker" is a ground-level dose of war-on-terror reality and one of the lowe...

The cherub- faced 23-year-old nicknamed "Cheeks" on trial in this Texas-Mexico border city was a midlevel thug working for drug cartel hit squads, authorities say, but the ...

Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 Yellowstone National Park bison from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal ...

The Burtchville Township fire chief says three people in a sport utility vehicle told him they were lost but knew they had to drive east. Did they ever. The three were resc...

So packed is the parking lot at Utah's busiest driver's license office that on certain days people circle it endlessly in their cars, waiting to pounce on an elusive open s...

A western Pennsylvania woman faces a hearing on charges that she hit a transit but driver in the head with a snowball because he wouldn't let her board with an expired bus ...

An Arizona school principal who penned a sarcastic letter that chided parents for children who were either "too lazy or too stupid" to complete their assignments in class w...

The first black woman to head the National Guard in any state has taken charge in California.Brigadier General Mary Kight (kite) was sworn in Tuesday by Gov. Arnold ...

Hours after Kathleen Savio's body was found in her bathtub, her boyfriend voiced suspicions to police that her ex-husband, then-police officer Drew Peterson, might be invol...

Prosecutors say a Utah man tried to hire a hit man to kill witnesses in a fraud case against him by dictating a letter from jail by Morse code.The disclosure came Tu...

A black Ohio man claims in a federal discrimination lawsuit that a white worker at a Pennsylvania Burger King spat on his food while a co-worker tried to obscure his view.<...

A law enforcement official says prosecutors plan to charge Michael Jackson's doctor with manslaughter rather than take the case to a grand jury.The official told The...

An Arizona school principal who penned a sarcastic letter about students has been suspended after it was mistakenly sent home to parents.The letter sent home with se...

Austin police say a man who called 911 to complain about alleged bank fraud was arrested when he was found with a machete and 20 other knives or blades. Douglas Dockery, 50...

The trial of four former social workers in a case linked to the starvation death of a disabled Philadelphia teenager has been postponed after the dismissal of two jurors.Hospital, doctors sued over late Steeler's death

The family of former Pittsburgh Steeler Dwight White is suing the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and three doctors, claiming negligence contributed to his death.Man upset over gas pump drives SUV through window

A man was charged with attempted murder after authorities said he drove his truck through the window of a service station. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Randy Christian sai...

No one expected Frank Palazzo to rob a bank when the 71-year-old painting contractor rolled up to one in his silver Jaguar.However, authorities say Palazzo did just ...

Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley said businessman J.A. Auger and his wife, Relda, were so close in their 75 years of marriage it seemed natural that they would leave the wo...

A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as pr...

A federal judge has rejected a government request to dismiss a lawsuit by a U.S. citizen who was locked up for seven months at an immigration center.Army veteran Ren...

There are matchmakers and then there are match breakers, such as the Huron County judge who sent a woman to jail for polygamy and gave her six months to divorce one of her ...

Memphis police said a security officer at a downtown mall found a man in the mall's fountain, stealing coins. The man, 47, was charged with stealing about $33 from the foun...

A 5-year-old California girl who was mauled along with two siblings by a pack of escaped dogs remained hospitalized Tuesday and was unable to breath on her own, police said...

Weighing the fate of a proposal to build the nation's first offshore wind farm near Massachusetts, the Secretary of the Interior said Tuesday he's "bullish" on the future o...

Authorities say someone planted a bomb that exploded under a pickup truck in a South Carolina neighborhood.Spartanburg County deputies say the explosive device destr...

In a new memoir, South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford writes that Gov. Mark Sanford sought her advice about his romance and how to deal with the media after she discover...

Day laborers sued a Southern California city on Tuesday, claiming a ban on seeking work on the street violates their civil rights.The lawsuit filed against Costa Mes...

A man regulators call "the Octopussy" and six other white-collar defendants pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan to securities fraud charges in an insid...

In a Jan. 28 obituary for retired Air Force Lt. Col. Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Air Force had designated Archer an...

The German shepherd that was fished out of the Los Angeles River in a dramatic televised rescue has been released from quarantine to his owner.Four-year-old Spikey w...

A federal appeals court said Tuesday a 22-year prison sentence was too lenient for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Air...

Instructors lectured to classrooms peppered with empty seats at an Ohio technical college where graffiti had warned that black students would die Tuesday, as the school pre...

Michael Jackson's doctor is in Los Angeles, anticipating a decision by the district attorney's office on whether to charge him in the singer's death.The spokeswoman ...

A former Ohio morgue worker in prison for having sex with a corpse awaiting autopsy has been sentenced on two more counts of sexually assaulting corpses.A judge on T...

A woman who wanted to adopt an Arizona baby missing for more than a month was arrested Tuesday, but police said she was not connected to the boy's disappearance and that sh...

A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven — space companies for hire.Mimicking a scene 51 years ago when th...

A naturalized American citizen and Army veteran who was detained for more than seven months by immigration authorities is suing the federal agency and the officers who hand...

A federal appeals court says a 22-year prison sentence is too lenient for an al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport at t...

President Barack Obama unleashed bare-knuckled criticism against opposition Republicans on Tuesday, using some of his toughest language yet to paint them as electoral oppor...

A Wisconsin woman who tied up a cheating lover and glued his penis to his stomach said Tuesday that she didn't mean to hurt him and only overreacted because he had tried to...

Appeals court tosses sentence for millenium bomb plotter, says 22-year term too lenient...

A 43-year-old man who had won millions in a lottery jackpot before he went missing nine months ago died of "homicidal violence," Florida authorities said Tuesday.Fur...

A federal law against lying about military medals is facing First Amendment challenges in Colorado and California.Lawyers in both cases have made similar arguments a...

A federal drug agent charged with framing 17 people in an undercover sting in Ohio says he may have made mistakes during the investigation.Agent Lee Lucas returned t...

A drilling technique that is beginning to unlock staggering quantities of natural gas underneath Appalachia also yields a troubling byproduct: powerfully briny wastewater t...

Punxsutawney Phil might be an expert at shadow spotting, but texting? Not so much.About two hours after the famous groundhog "saw" his shadow and predicted six more ...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has met with leaders of two Indian tribes opposed to a wind farm proposed for the waters off Cape Cod.Salazar says he had a "wo...

A drunken man set fire to his apartment by tossing a lighted toilet paper roll soaked in paint thinner into a baby carriage near the front door, touching off a blaze that e...

Police conducted an anti-terrorism drill at one of the Washington subway system's busiest stations, launching a new initiative aimed at deterring terrorist activity....

Americans' love affair with top-shelf booze cooled last year as the recession took a toll on high-priced tipples.A new report by an industry group shows people drank...

Aaron Ruben, who produced such TV hits as "The Andy Griffith Show," "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C." and "Sanford and Son," has died. He was 95.His son, Tom Ruben, says the eld...

America's last surviving World War I veteran is now 109.Frank Woodruff Buckles celebrated his birthday Monday with family and friends at his home in West Virginia.Motor City freeze: Detroit home encased in ice, David Runk

The two-story house and its boarded-up, broken windows have been covered with sheets of ice that glow in the sunlight, and icicles reach from the edges of the roof almost t...

A Colorado man charged with sexually abusing boys at a school he founded for street children in Haiti pleaded not guilty Tuesday to new charges that raise the number of all...

A man regulators call "the Octopussy" and six other white-collar defendants pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan to securities fraud charges in an insid...

The U.S. government is asking a Miami federal judge to clear the way for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to be extradited to France on money-laundering charges.Ohio college prez lives among students amid threat

The president of an Ohio technical college is spending a few days living in a dorm where graffiti warned black students would be killed Tuesday.Spokeswoman Judy Sinn...

A former New York school superintendent who admitted taking part in the theft of $11.2 million from a Long Island school district has been released from prison.Frank...

A teacher at a New York City public school has been charged with turning his fourth-grade classroom into a fighting ring.Joseph Gullotta told two of his students, ag...

It was a Zinger of a theft in Tennessee. It also included cupcakes, Twinkies and other snack cakes from the Merita Bread Company. The Kingsport Times-News cites a report fr...

An Ohio technical college plans to dedicate a peace monument the same day graffiti in a dorm warned that black students would be killed.Hocking College is kicking of...

The U.S. Supreme Court may have stopped broadcasts of California's same-sex marriage trial, but that has not prevented filmmakers from re-enacting it for the Internet.<...

Police say a collision between a bus and another vehicle on eastern Long Island killed one person and slightly injured 15 others.The crash Tuesday morning involved a...

David Brown, a film and theater producer who helped bring to the screen two of the 1970s' biggest hits, "Jaws" and "The Sting," has died. He was 93.Brown, who was th...

A suspect in a fire that killed five Guatemalan immigrants in Brooklyn told investigators that he was drunk when he set the blaze by using paint thinner to light a roll of ...

Police on New York's Long Island say one person has been killed and nine others injured in a bus crash.Southampton Town Police did not have many details about the Tu...

It took Thomas Dold 10 minutes and 16 seconds Tuesday to earn his record-tying fifth consecutive win in the Empire State Building Run-Up, a punishing 86-flight scamper to t...

A federal drug agent took the stand at his Ohio trial and denied framing 17 people in an undercover sting.Agent Lee Lucas testified Monday at his Cleveland federal c...

Three people involved in a June standoff in North Dakota that followed an Alabama prison break have been sentenced to at least 10 years in prison.Judge Zane Anderson...

The top federal prosecutor for New Orleans has removed himself from the case of four conservative activists arrested last week while trying to capture hidden camera footage...

A southern Texas couple accused of locking the woman's 12-year-old daughter in a closet for about a year except to attend school have been arrested.Jail records show...

A northeastern Pennsylvania woman is heading to trial on animal cruelty charges for marketing "gothic kittens" with ear and neck piercings over the Internet.Thirty-f...

A New York City teacher is accused of turning his fourth-grade classroom into a fighting ring.Queens prosecutors say Joseph Gullotta told two of his students, ages 9...

The groundhog has spoken. And it's bad news.Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW'-nee) Phil has emerged to see his shadow before chilly revelers in Pennsylvania, meaning wint...

A Colorado man charged with sexually abusing boys at a school he founded in Haiti has pleaded not guilty to more allegations.Douglas Perlitz appeared Tuesday in fede...

The trial of four former social workers linked to the starvation death of a disabled Philadelphia teenager is set to begin.The trial gets under way Tuesday for Multi...

Winter weather was expected to move through the Midwest on Tuesday, while the Pacific Northwest could see another rainy day.A low pressure system that moved off the ...

When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a ...

Thousands of people are expected to gather before dawn in western Pennsylvania to await a weather forecast by the world's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney (puhnk-suh-TAW...

Sonny Brave Eagle and his family spent six days in the dark without a phone or working radio before law officers found them in their home after a fierce winter storm cut po...