Shuttle Endeavour arrived at the International Space Station early Wednesday, delivering a new room and observation deck that will come close to completing construction 200...

California's insurance regulator plans to take steps Wednesday to pressure insurance companies into ending any financial relationship they have with Iran.A state law...

A spokesman for The Discovery Channel says the captain of the "Deadliest Catch" fishing vessel Cornelia Marie has died.Capt. Phil Harris suffered what his family des...

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 10, the 41st day of 2010. There are 324 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 10, 1967, the 25th Amendmen...

One pedestrian is dead and another seriously injured following separate accidents in San Francisco involving city-owned vehicles.Witnesses said a slow-moving water d...

Connecticut officials have met with people who live near a power plant where there was a deadly explosion a few days ago to document damage to their homes.The Portla...

A convicted rapist who could face the death penalty in five alleged serial killings from the 1970s presented "The Dating Game" defense Tuesday during a surreal court sessio...

A man accidentally shot himself in the leg shortly after leaving a Jupiter gun store. Police said the unidentified man went to Chuck's Guns and Ammo Monday afternoon, looki...

The New York Senate voted Tuesday night to expel a senator convicted of a misdemeanor charge of assaulting his girlfriend, a resolution the lawmaker assailed as an injustic...

A jury has convicted a 23-year-old California man of killing his girlfriend's 1-year-old son.The Superior Court panel in Long Beach deliberated for an hour Tuesday b...

A grand jury declined Tuesday to indict a Muslim chaplain accused of trying to smuggle razor blades and scissors into a jail, spurring his release without bail while the ca...

The New York Senate is set to vote on expelling a senator convicted of misdemeanor assault.The Senate's Democratic majority agreed to set a vote Tuesday night on the...

A grand jury has declined to indict a Muslim chaplain accused of trying to smuggle razor blades and scissors into a New York City jail.The grand jury's move Tuesday ...

When Ronald "Loony" Barron urged a young graffiti tagger to put away his paint cans, he was doing what he viewed as his mission — steering kids away from crime — but he...

Authorities have arrested a California man who they say was teaching a sixth-grader how to drive when his car crashed into another vehicle, killing the boy, his mother and ...

A man police dubbed the Bicycle Bandit has admitted committing eight bank robberies in southern New Jersey and Delaware.Prosecutors say Brian Layton went on a yearlo...

Democratic former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is urging President Barack Obama to fire Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, another former Virginia governo...

Target Corp. said Tuesday it was pulling its Valentine's Day "Message Bears" from store shelves after California's attorney general raised concerns that the toys have illeg...

Gov. David Paterson's chief of staff is seeking an internal inquiry into how The New York Times' reporting of a story led to unproven rumors of wild, personal misconduct by...

A San Francisco jury has found a former reality TV show contestant guilty of killing a man in 2007.Twenty-nine-year-old Jamal Rashead Trulove of Oakland was convicte...

A man acting as his own lawyer in a case charging him with five 1970s serial killings played a video clip Tuesday of himself as the winning contestant on "The Dating Game" ...

Endeavour zoomed toward a midnight rendezvous with the International Space Station late Tuesday, and NASA grew ever more optimistic that the shuttle is free of any launch d...

New York Gov. David Paterson, defying calls from even fellow Democrats to drop out of the race for a full term, said Tuesday that he would leave only if the voters turned h...

The California attorney general is asking Target Corp. to pull its Valentine's Day "Message Bears" from store shelves over concerns that they have illegal levels of lead.Murtha to be buried in heart of his Pa. district

Rep. John Murtha's family says the late congressman will be buried in the heart of the Pennsylvania district he represented for nearly 40 years.Murtha's family says ...

An 11-year-old boy faces assault and weapon charges for trying to stab a classmate with a pencil over a math problem. Police in New Hartford, 80 miles west of Albany, said ...

The Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints are celebrating Mardi Gras-style.Carnival floats carrying players, coaches and team owner Tom Benson started rolling throu...

The body of a U.S. Air Force officer visiting Haiti at the time of last month's earthquake has been found in the rubble of a hotel in the country's devastated capital, mili...

The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted onli...

Space shuttle Endeavour is on course to hookup with the International Space Station during the middle of the night.Endeavour and its crew of six are due to arrive at...

The New York Senate has passed a resolution opposing trials of terrorists being held in New York City.The resolution passed Tuesday urges President Barack Obama and ...

Nevada officials on Tuesday outlined drastic cuts to the state's Medicaid program that include plans to ration adult diapers, eliminate denture and hearing-aid programs, an...

The second wife of a former suburban Chicago police sergeant testified at a pretrial hearing Tuesday that he had threatened to kill her and said he could make it look like ...

If snow keeps 230,000 government employees home for the better part of a week, will anyone notice? With at least another foot of snow headed for Washington, Philadelphia an...

The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up homemade bombs in a Colorado hotel for an attack on New York City pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he trie...

The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do "not blame anyone" for her father's death and criticized a medical examiner's finding that Daniel ...

Wealthy European nations were moving closer toward swallowing a bitter pill Tuesday: rescuing Greece from its overspending before its debts drag down the euro and stock mar...

A new winter storm washed over the wildfire-scarred foothills north of Los Angeles Tuesday, leaving some residents to flee their homes in baggage-laden cars while others us...

California's senior senator wants to halt the proposed expansion of the West's largest toxic waste dump while the state investigates birth defects in a nearby town.S...

A medical expert says a man claiming he was sodomized by police with a baton did not have severe enough injuries to support his account.Dr. Frank Sconzo testified Tu...

A new indictment has boosted criminal insider trading charges against one of America's richest men in what New York authorities have described as history's largest hedge fu...

A California man with a genius IQ who is charged with the serial killings of five females donned an earring Tuesday and took the witness stand in his own defense.The...

New York Gov. David Paterson says he believes an anticipated story by The New York Times about his personal conduct won't include much-rumored talk of wild behavior....

A Massachusetts woman was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter.Carolyn Riley, 35, was accused...

A former Philadelphia police officer has turned himself in to face murder charges in the shooting death of a neighbor during an off-duty altercation last year.Forty-...

Los Angeles County prosecutors are looking into a complaint that the mayor of Carson cuts off public speakers at City Council meetings if he doesn't like what they're sayin...

A smelly problem is piling at trails around Jackson where people go hiking and cross-country skiing with their dogs. How big is this problem? Bridger-Teton National Forest ...

A bandit who likes to steal makeup from a well known drug store chain has returned after a six month absence. Chandler police said the "Blue Basket Bandit" attempted a thef...

In the last year, the nation's private colleges have laid off staff, shelved construction projects, slashed sports teams and turned down thermostats to cut costs. But stude...

A Massachusetts woman has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the prescription drug overdose of her 4-year-old daughter.Carolyn Riley was accused of overmed...

Mass. mother guilty of second-degree murder in daughter's fatal prescription drug overdose....

A North Carolina court has temporarily stopped the security rules that a judge issued for the retrieval of the John Edwards sex tape.The North Carolina Court of Appe...

The convicted killer of a Kansas abortion provider has little sympathy for the family of his victim, comparing them to the relatives of a hit man in a recording posted onli...

The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan has criticized an autopsy report about her father's death and insists it was not a homicide.A Kerrigan family attorney ca...

The 27-year-old Ohio man who was arrested after authorities say he walked through a passenger screening checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport without a boarding pass f...

A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffoca...

Rap star Lil Wayne has gotten a temporary reprieve from jail — for dental surgery.The Grammy Award-winning rapper's sentencing in a New York City gun case was post...

State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing unusual about the rate of infant birth defects in an impoverished San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the We...

Federal wildlife officials plan to move a handful of endangered Sonoran pronghorns to the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in western Arizona next winter in hopes of establish...

A Roanoke man claims sheriff's deputies beat him in the city jail because of his burping. Thomas Scott Vandegrift made the allegations in a federal lawsuit filed last week ...

In his push to move stalled health care reform, President Barack Obama is appealing to American pocketbooks by calling one health insurer's major rate hike in California a ...

A North Carolina court is halting the retrieval of a John Edwards sex tape after a former aide to the presidential candidate balked at a judge's demand that a security offi...

Canada's government says it will appeal a British Columbia court ruling that sanctioned North America's first safe injection site for drug users.The Vancouver site, ...

A Michigan man who had hundreds of live and dead Chihuahuas and Chihuahua mixes in his home has been sentenced to five years of probation in a mental health program and ord...

Ted Anthony, a veteran editor and correspondent for The Associated Press who has helped develop social media strategies and new storytelling techniques in AP newsrooms, has...

The man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet Tuesday, then fled, and he is consider...

A retired Army master sergeant who pleaded guilty to bribery and money-laundering charges stemming from his time in Iraq has been sentenced to three years and four months i...

A worker who was in a Connecticut power plant when it exploded on Sunday tells The Associated Press there was a smell of natural gas in the plant less than an hour before t...

The intimate details of the sex life of a former state legislative aide became fodder for the jury in a public corruption trial Tuesday as he explained that his affair with...

Police in at least two states are increasingly using a DNA crime-solving technique that some legal experts say amounts to guilt by association: If your brother, father, unc...

A suspect was arrested Tuesday in the killing of a well-known anti-gang counselor who was shot to death when he confronted a tagger writing graffiti in Los Angeles, police ...

The death of the father of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan was ruled a homicide Tuesday when an autopsy showed he died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son in...

Some workers building a Connecticut power plant shattered by a gas explosion had been spending more than 80 hours a week there before the blast killed five Sunday, The Asso...

A man with a genius IQ who is charged with killing five females has donned an earring and taken the witness stand in Southern California.Rodney Alcala, who is repres...

State officials say there's nothing unusual about the rate of birth defects in a central California town near the largest toxic waste dump in the West.Department of ...

Authorities say a drunken man stole an ambulance from a Wisconsin ski area with the patient and paramedics still inside. The Dane County Sheriff's Department says emergency...

The former president of the only facility that can dispose of low-level radioactive waste for 36 states said Tuesday that he wants to open a new disposal facility in Utah.<...

A lawyer for a Rutgers University graduate student charged with a January security breach at Newark Liberty Airport that led to worldwide flight delays entered a plea of no...

A spate of recent fires that destroyed or damaged several churches in eastern Texas were intentionally set, likely by the same person or group, federal authorities said Tue...

Police say a well-known former gangster who has counseled against violence was killed when he confronted a graffiti-writer in Los Angeles.Police say Ronald "Looney" ...

Homeowners in mud-ravaged foothill towns north of Los Angeles packed their cars and fled Tuesday as evacuation orders took hold and a new winter storm approached.Off...

A Massachusetts medical examiner has found that figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's father died of a heart rhythm problem after suffering a neck injury so severe it damaged his ...

The Dow Jones industrial average climbed back above 10,000 on hope that the European Union will help Greece manage its growing debt burden.The Dow was up more than 2...

A registered sex offender has been indicted on murder charges in the death of an 11-year-old Maryland girl whose body was found on Christmas day.Wicomico County Sher...

Top New York Democrats were silent Tuesday as Gov. David Paterson, already fighting to remain politically viable, fought to lay to rest unconfirmed rumors and news reports ...

A New Hampshire House committee is recommending against repealing the state's five-week-old gay marriage law.The Judiciary Committee also voted Tuesday to recommend ...

State and federal law enforcement agencies were vigorously working Tuesday to try to find out who has been setting fire to churches in eastern Texas.Fire broke out a...

Police began excavating a landfill Tuesday in search of a body or other evidence in the disappearance of an 8-month-old Arizona boy who was last seen with his mother at a S...

Investigators looking into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a Connecticut power plant under construction were interviewing survivors on Tuesday, and cre...

A glider pilot who flew to safety through a fireball from the midair collision of two planes over Boulder says it was just seconds between when he saw one plane approaching...

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...

Authorities have called on residents of more than 500 homes in the wildfire-scarred Southern California foothills to evacuate by Tuesday morning, fearing that heavy rains f...

A family member who testified earlier that an Ohio doctor denied poisoning his wife now says the defendant admitted to the killing.Firas Essa (EE'-suh) returned to t...

A real estate developer who once claimed to own $2.7 billion dollars worth of New York skyscrapers has been charged with stealing millions of dollars from investors....

The nation's first double hand transplant recipient has left a Pittsburgh hospital after medicine cleared up a rash that signaled he might be rejecting his new hands.Man charged in Newark Airport breach due in court

A graduate student from China charged with breaching security at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport is due in court Tuesday.Haisong Jiang (hy-SOHN' je...

Little more than a week ago, Lil Wayne was reinforcing his place in rap's pantheon with a commanding performance at the Grammy Awards ceremony. His latest album, "Rebirth,"...

Betsy Sathers wears the glow of a new mother as she perches on the couch in her family room, smiling and chatting with visitors while still managing to keep an eye on the 2...

Snowy weather was expected to move into the Eastern U.S. from the Plains on Tuesday.A strong low pressure system that brought 3 to 5 inches of snow to the Midwest an...

Rep. John Murtha, who said the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq was based on "flawed policy wrapped in illusion" and called for a withdrawal of U.S. troops...

Over the past 12 years, Josh Libresco's health insurance premium has increased almost eight-fold for his family of four.The 54-year-old San Rafael resident is facing...

While residents of the mud-covered neighborhoods north of Los Angeles scramble to clean out their homes and yards, another storm bore down on Southern California, prompting...

Model Brooklyn Decker landed the coveted Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover this year.The 22-year-old wife of tennis star Andy Roddick said being chosen for the front...

Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday and headed for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices have been closed since last week and utility worke...

Another jolt of Saints euphoria is on tap for New Orleans Tuesday when the Super Bowl champs board floats borrowed from Mardi Gras krewes for a victory parade through the g...

So you're a guy? Poor you!You get slapped on your bottom at birth, then spend the rest of your life being shoved around by wives and girlfriends who make you mow the...

Los Angeles County authorities have ordered mandatory evacuations for more than 500 homes in mudslide-prone foothill neighborhoods as a new storm approaches.Sheriff'...

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 ...

Eleven students have been arrested during a raucous lecture at University of California, Irvine, where Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren spoke about U.S.-Israel relations.Fires strike 2 more east Texas churches

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...

Endeavour's astronauts inspected their ship early Tuesday for any launch damage as they raced toward a 200-mile-high rendezvous with the International Space Station....