Today is Tuesday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2010. There are 325 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 9, 1960, Adolph Coors Co. chai...

A sheriff's dispatcher says fires have struck two more rural east Texas churches, just hours after investigators announced that a blaze last week marked the eighth arson ag...

Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts are inspecting their ship, just hours after blasting into orbit.The shuttle is racing toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the...

Maine officials say two cross-sections cut from a 217-year-old giant elm named Herbie will be displayed by the town of Yarmouth and the state Forest Service.The 110-...

A 31-year-old Indiana man says he had not food but kept himself hydrated with Mountain Dew and snow while he was stuck in his snow-covered SUV in southwestern Colorado for ...

A 22-year-old New York mother accused of going out on a midnight beer run when a stove fire erupted in the apartment where her children were left alone has been found guilt...

A federal official says a fire that destroyed a church last week was the eighth case of arson against a house of worship in Texas this year.Spokesman for the U.S. Bu...

Authorities in Connecticut have launched a criminal investigation into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they ca...

The U.S. Coast Guard says the 28 crew members of a fishing vessel that caught fire 900 miles southwest of Honolulu have abandoned ship and are in two life rafts.A Co...

A $20 cab ride to the airport skyrocketed to the "snow rate" of $100 in the nation's capital, and those travelers who could get to the airport or train station still had to...

A lawyer for a ninth-grader charged with shooting a fellow student to death at their Alabama school says the violence was likely related to gang activity.Bruce Gardn...

Federal prosecutors say former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik should go directly to jail when he's sentenced next week.Kerik pleaded guilty in Novem...

Charlie Sheen and his wife were reunited Monday after a judge modified a restraining order and allowed them them to work out their differences following a Christmas Day dom...

Federal land managers said Monday they'll delay a roundup of most of the nearly 600 wild horses in a range in eastern Nevada, at least until after the herd's spring foaling...

A $20 cab ride to the airport skyrocketed to the "snow rate" of $100 in the nation's capital, and those travelers who could get to the airport or train station still had to...

The Rhode Island Fire Marshal says officials have pinpointed the origins of a house fire that killed five people, including a 7-month-old baby, but still haven't figured ou...

A wealthy 68-year-old jeweler with two ex-wives in Europe who is accused of killing his third wife and burning her body testified Monday that he learned how bodies are inci...

An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introd...

New Castle County Police said a man pointed a gun at a neighbor who was shoveling snow on Saturday at the Hampton Walk Apartments. A man told police a neighbor came outside...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a threat assessment of local pro- and anti-abortion rights activists before an expected rally last year, even though they...

People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday's Times-Picayune, which hollered "AMEN!" from its front page. The Saints' Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this str...

The Obama administration on Monday asked California's largest for-profit health insurer to justify plans to hike customers' premiums by as much as 39 percent, a move that c...

Authorities in California say a woman fell about 60 feet to her death after she chased her dog off a cliff in the Mendocino headlands.The chief of the Mendocino Volu...

An Ohio man has been sentenced to 44 years in prison on charges that he held his estranged wife at gunpoint at a retirement home where she worked.Police said Michael...

Harvard University says retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter will be the principal speaker at its spring commencement ceremony.The school announced Monday that...

A judge has sentenced a 26-year-old man to death for fatally shooting a Northern California police officer in 2006.San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Craig Parson...

New York Gov. David Paterson on Monday lashed back at what he called a "callous and sleazy" assault on his character in statehouse rumors and media reports that include acc...

Retired Asheville Fire Department employee Frank Griffin is $47 million richer, but he has few grand plans for the money. He mainly wants to spend more time with his wife.<...

Federal land managers will delay rounding up nearly 500 wild horses from a range in eastern Nevada until after the spring foaling season.Advocates trying to block th...

Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they could not rule ...

Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq...

Authorities have released the names of the five men killed in an explosion at a power plant that was under construction in a Connecticut town.Middletown police say P...

A graphic designer accused of surreptitiously killing a series of his girlfriend's cats pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated animal cruelty, ending an eerie case in which au...

The Rhode Island Fire Marshal says officials have pinpointed the origins of a house fire that killed five people, including a 7-month-old baby, but still haven't figured ou...

Attorneys for a motivational speaker charged in the deaths of three people during an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony wasted no time going on the offensive after his arrest las...

A 26-year-old Buffalo man remained jailed Monday on charges of holding a 13-year-old runaway in his house for six months, having sex with her more than 100 times and making...

The commander of Canada's biggest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women....

Felice Quinto, a renowned celebrity photographer and the likely model for the character Paparazzo in Federico Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita," has died. He was 80.<...

Days before a former suburban Chicago police officer's fourth wife vanished in 2007, she told a divorce attorney that her husband thought she suspected he had killed his pr...

A retired fire department employee in North Carolina is the winner of Saturday's Powerball lottery jackpot.Frank Griffin of Asheville came forward Monday to claim hi...

The man who pleaded guilty in the balloon boy hoax has been released from a Colorado jail to serve the rest of his sentence in a work-release program.Larimer County ...

Connecticut's governor is calling for a review of state safety codes following a deadly explosion at a power plant in Middletown.Rell announced Monday that she is cr...

Nicolas B. Tatro, the deputy international editor of The Associated Press and a veteran news leader who has directed newsgathering operations in AP bureaus across the Middl...

Sheriff's deputies said a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, then drove it down the hall. The car finally st...

An Ohio fire department says the smell of decaying radishes prompted calls from residents worried about a possible gas leak. Tiffin Township Volunteer Fire Department near ...

Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq...

Authorities said a man accused of stealing a car then reporting it stolen remains in custody after telling police he was robbed at gunpoint while trying to buy crack cocain...

A Chinese-born engineer convicted of espionage and other federal charges in California has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.Dongfan "Greg" Chung was se...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he is skeptical that the federal government would cover the cost of trying Sept. 11 suspects in Manhattan, a day after President ...

In a recorded jailhouse conversation, a teenager charged with fatally stabbing another student at a suburban high school told a friend he was being "persecuted" because he ...

Federal workers and school children got a day off Monday as the Mid-Atlantic region dug out from as much as 3 feet of snow that made travel nearly impossible and knocked ou...

Attorneys for a man convicted of murdering a prominent Kansas abortion provider have asked for a new trial or an order of acquittal for their client.Attorneys for Sc...

Abortion-rights advocates have been unable to halt the "Choose Life" license plate variations in nearly two-dozen states, so now they're working to balance the bumper debat...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he's skeptical that the federal government would cover the cost of trying Sept. 11 suspects in Manhattan.The mayor said Mo...

Another huge snowstorm is expected to smack the Philadelphia area this week and make it the snowiest winter on record in the city.The National Weather Service is pre...

A spokeswoman for New York Gov. David Paterson is calling rumors about his personal behavior "absolutely false" and says he will not resign.Paterson spokeswoman Mari...

Prosecutors on Monday dropped state charges against a woman in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart in exchange for a guilty plea related to the attempted kidnapping of Sm...

Search-and-rescue crews declared a section of an exploded power plant too unstable to comb through Monday, a task that lost urgency when officials said everyone assigned to...

A federal drug agent acquitted of framing 17 suspects in a 2005 investigation hopes to return to regular duty soon, the attorney defending him against civil lawsuits in the...

The deputy fire marshal of the town where a power plant explosion killed five people tells The Associated Press that no one is believed buried in the rubble.The comm...

A murder warrant was issued Monday against a former Philadelphia police officer accused of fatally shooting a neighbor during an off-duty altercation in November.Fra...

A North Carolina judge wants a security officer to accompany a former John Edwards aide as he goes to retrieve a sex tape of the two-time presidential candidate, increasing...

Chinese-born spy gets 15 1/2 years in prison in espionage case related to US space shuttle....

Six members of a suspended Rutgers University sorority have pleaded not guilty to charges of hazing.A lawyer for five of the women said Monday that they deny the all...

Federal workers got a day off as the Mid-Atlantic region dug out Monday from as much as 3 feet of snow that left tens of thousands without power while making travel nearly ...

Hoarse, hungover and happy, New Orleans woke up Monday wondering if that Super Bowl thing really happened.In the French Quarter, stragglers — decked out in Saints ...

Residents are being urged to stay away from their North Carolina mountainside homes after a 30-foot-high mudslide washed over their road.Emergency workers evacuated ...

A North Carolina judge wants security officers to accompany a former John Edwards aide as he goes to retrieve a sex tape of his former boss.Superior Court Judge Abra...

Marine Cpl. Jamie R. LoweJamie R. Lowe's parents wanted their son's funeral to be upbeat and patriotic, just like he was, so they asked people to show up in blue jea...

Army Spc. Brushaun X. AndersonBack in middle school, Brushaun Anderson could often be found in the computer lab with a few of his buddies — a curious student build...

A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing ...

A portion of a terminal at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was evacuated Monday after a man without a boarding pass walked through a passenger screening checkpoint and refused...

Thirty-four people are recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning apparently caused by a blocked chimney in a northwestern Pennsylvania church.The adults and children...

A Connecticut fire official says at least 95 percent of the nearly 100 workers who were at a power plant that exploded are accounted for.Middletown Deputy Fire Marsh...

Gov. David Paterson met privately with key Democratic leaders about his re-election plans as questions swirl around the state capitol about a variety of unproven accusation...

Just days ago, Lynn Gaulin's only daughter and future son-in-law were living in her basement while they planned for their lives together and cared for their 7-month-old dau...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stumped for Gov. Rick Perry at a rally Sunday in suburban Houston, adding some national Republican star power to Perry's re-election campaign...

Police say one person is dead and four critically injured after a shooting outside a nightclub near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.The shooting around 1:40 a.m. S...

A section of an under-construction power plant that exploded was too unstable to search Monday, and left questions about whether anyone was trapped inside because authoriti...

A strip club in Ohio has raised $1,000 for Haitian earthquake relief during what was billed as "Lap dances for Haiti." Marilyn's on Monroe in Toledo donated the $10 cover c...

As the first cases in a massive battle over illnesses linked to 9/11 near trial, an Associated Press investigation has found that several of the initial 30 suits contain in...

The New Orleans Saints turned the Super Bowl's postgame celebration into something out of the French Quarter.From the trophy podium on the field, Drew Brees blew kis...

North Dakota has the lowest unemployment in the nation and a booming oil industry. But with its good fortune has come an unexpected problem: homelessness, as desperate job ...

Charlie Sheen is facing arraignment Monday in connection with his Christmas Day arrest on domestic violence allegations involving his wife.The star of TV's "Two and ...

The crew aboard space shuttle Endeavour includes an accomplished musician whose latest exploits are with the cello and steel guitar, an engineer who helped launch shuttles ...

A strong winter storm was expected to continue tracking east through the Central U.S. on Monday.A low pressure system that developed over the Rocky Mountains was for...

Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what's likely the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program, hauling a new room and observation deck for the ...

Fire marshals on Monday were preparing to start their investigation into a massive explosion that rocked an under-construction power plant where gas lines were being tested...

It's been more than a decade since "Amy," as she's known in court papers, was first sexually abused by her uncle. The abuse ended long ago and he's in prison, but the pictu...

An elderly Chinese-born engineer convicted of economic espionage for hoarding sensitive documents that included space shuttle details faces sentencing Monday, and prosecuto...

Homeowners shoveled mud from living rooms and workers scooped debris from catch basins in a foothill neighborhood slammed by weekend rains as yet another storm takes aim at...

Dr. Conrad Murray, who has been trying to surrender to authorities for a week, will likely get his chance with prosecutors saying they will file a charge Monday in the deat...

Scores of workers in the snowy Mid-Atlantic region were given Monday off to shovel out from a blizzard that buried some areas in nearly 3 feet of snow as another, smaller s...

With cloudy weather still a concern, astronauts boarded shuttle Endeavour for the second day in a row early Monday in hopes of blasting off on the last big space station co...

With the weather prospects looking up, astronauts boarded shuttle Endeavour for the second day in a row early Monday in hopes of blasting off on the last big space station ...

An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five ...