Today is Tuesday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2010. There are 353 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 12, 1910, at a White House dinner ho...

Missing moon rocks from the first and last human lunar landings have been discovered in a locked cabinet in Hawaii.The rare rocks from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 mi...

A famed strongman who once lifted 3,200 pounds at Coney Island during its heyday and was still bending quarters with his fingers at age 104 died Monday after he was hit by ...

A man long suspected in the 1982 Chicago-area Tylenol slayings has submitted a DNA sample and fingerprints to authorities, a friend said Monday.Roger Nicholson said ...

Two same-sex couples gave intimate accounts of their private and public lives Monday during the opening day of a highly anticipated federal trial to decide the constitution...

A 20-year-old Detroit woman who police say had a strained relationship with her mother is accused of talking her 22-year-old boyfriend into shooting the older woman to deat...

A British motivational speaker has been indicted on charges he killed a Las Vegas woman during a meditation session and stuffed her body in a trash barrel.Michael Vi...

Government employees, engineers, volunteers and home and business owners were out examining everything from bridges to office buildings across Northern California's Humbold...

An Oregon man who FBI agents say was angling for frequent flier miles has made his first court appearance on a charge of interfering with a commercial jetliner crew by fill...

A slain Las Vegas federal court guard was eulogized Monday as a dedicated police officer and public servant who loved his family, horses, crossword puzzles and doughnuts, a...

Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, launching inquiries into high levels of cadmium in children's ...

Authorities say three western Missouri men charged with kidnapping a man in New Jersey apparently abducted the wrong guy.Forty-six-year-old Douglas Stangeland of Nev...

The Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would make the state the 14th to allow chronically ill patients access to marijuana for medical reasons.Democratic Gov...

Thousands more people may be buried at a historic black cemetery in a Chicago suburb than the land is supposed to hold, according to a study obtained Monday by The Associat...

Sobbing and sniffling, Mark McGwire finally answered the steroid question. Ending more than a decade of denials and evasion, McGwire admitted Monday what many had suspected...

In a widely reported national interview over the weekend, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson by saying the Democrat withheld his vote...

Five activists have filed a ballot initiative to legalize all adult marijuana possession in Washington state.Its sponsors include two Seattle lawyers as well as the ...

A U.S.-trained scientist accused of shooting at FBI agents and helping al-Qaida continued her pattern of courtroom theatrics on Monday as her attempted murder case neared t...

A lawyer asked a judge Monday to toss out charges against the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to civilian courts, saying he was tortured for 14 hours over five ...

News organizations, including The Associated Press, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, filed court papers Monday supporting Northwestern University's fight of a...

Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, warning Asian manufacturers not to substitute other toxins for...

Philanthropist Brooke Astor's 85-year-old son can stay out of prison while he appeals his conviction for looting his mother's fortune, an appeals judge ruled Monday....

One of two lesbians suing California to overturn its ban on gay marriage testified Monday that she and her partner have experienced an emotional roller coaster during the p...

Linda Ashton, news editor for The Associated Press in Utah and Montana, has been named AP's news editor for Arizona and New Mexico.The appointment was announced Mond...

A famed strongman who once lifted 3,200 pounds at Coney Island during its heyday and was still bending quarters with his fingers at age 104 died Monday after he was hit by ...

Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, will return to her broadcast roots and take her conservative message to Fox News as a r...

Here's something you don't often see in this town at the heart of the state's $9 billion citrus industry: a sign at the public library that says, "ICE! On sidewalk. Be care...

A federal judge presiding over a highly anticipated gay marriage case peppered lawyers with questions Monday, asking if they had evidence the Constitution grants gays the r...

Saying the child suffered "severe neglect in every way," a judge sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison Monday for the death of her adopted, quadriplegic daughter, whose s...

A Salem man caught while wearing his female neighbor's underwear this summer has pleaded guilty to burglary. Marion County Judge Albin Norblad on Monday sentenced 48-year-o...

A lawyer in New York is arguing that charges be dismissed against the first Guantanamo Bay detainee in civilian courts because he was tortured and denied a trial for so lon...

There was no last second proclamation of innocence or even a statement to the handful of reporters waiting in the freezing cold for the man who pleaded guilty to orchestrat...

The vital signs are improving for American automakers.General Motors may reopen some shuttered factories because it can't produce four of its vehicles fast enough to...

A federal panel has recommended that researchers who work with the world's deadliest pathogens undergo more frequent security screening.The Working Group on Strength...

Angry that the military planned to send him back to Iraq past his date to leave the military, a Fort Stewart soldier recorded a hip-hop song that blasts the Army and descri...

A man was released from jail on charges he threatened a neighbor who had disturbed him by stomping snow from his feet outside their apartment building. Police said 46-year-...

A man representing himself in a potential death penalty trial involving five grisly 1970s murders sparred Monday with a retired homicide investigator after the witness expl...

A friend of a man long suspected in the 1982 Chicago-area Tylenol slayings says the man has submitted a DNA sample and fingerprints to authorities.Roger Nicholson sa...

A South Carolina man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing an $80 slab of meat. The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg reported Thursday that 51-year-old Mark...

A 29-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly using a stun gun on a woman who tried to hug her on Christmas night. Deborah Downing has been jailed $15,510 bond. She was ...

Love for each other and the environment — and creative thriftiness — have prompted a Spokane couple to collect aluminum cans to help pay for their wedding.Andrea...

A 12-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly pointing what turned out to be a toy gun at a convenience store clerk in northern Florida. The Walton County Sheriff's O...

Oops, wrong number.Some New Year's Eve revelers in Carlsbad who had a little too much to drink got a surprise when they called a toll-free number for a free tow home...

Police say a Pennsylvania man in a hospital gown stole $50 from his ex-girlfriend at Wal-Mart, then tried to flee on a store-owned motorized shopping scooter.Thirty-...

Newark police are looking for a burglar who steals men's shoes and photos that depict men. Five homes have been burglarized since Dec. 26 by a man who entered through an un...

A man was being credited with tying the 77-year-old world record for catching the biggest largemouth bass. The International Game Fish Association announced Friday that it ...

Hundreds of New Yorkers have been riding the city's subway trains in their underwear.They stripped down to their undies on Sunday for the ninth annual No Pants Subwa...

A Port St. Lucie man who stole a delivery driver's keys to get back at him over a grudge has been arrested on felony burglary charges. Matthew Everett Gray allegedly admitt...

The Japanese foreign minister is visiting Hawaii for talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the relocation of a U.S. Marine Corps base in Okinawa.Katsuy...

D.C. police said a woman awoke to find a stranger cuddling her in bed. Police said they don't know how the man got into the Glover Park home early Sunday. Sgt. Nicholas Bre...

A St. Cloud man who allegedly told Target store employees he "wanted to get into trouble" was in jail after police said he smashed a big-screen TV with a baseball bat. Poli...

When he was released from prison in 2007, former Providence Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr. said someone should slap him if he ever went back into politics.U.S. Rep...

Flight schedules have returned to normal at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport following a lengthy power failure.Check-in lines were long Monday morning but fli...

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — who is known to shake salt on his pizza — is focusing on sodium as the next unhealthy enemy in his crusade to coax people into eating...

Before the first juror is selected or witness called, a decision allowing a confessed killer to argue he believes the slaying of one of the nation's few late-term abortion ...

A federal panel has recommended that researchers who work with deadly pathogens undergo more frequent security screening.The report was issued Friday by a panel Pres...

A former Providence, R.I., mayor convicted of turning City Hall into a shakedown racket might run against Congressman Patrick Kennedy or the incumbent mayor.Vincent ...

A former high-ranking NASA official pleaded not guilty Monday to nine federal charges accusing him of steering a $600,000 contract to Mississippi State University, a client...

Yale University says a lawsuit by Peru seeking the return of thousands of Inca artifacts removed from the famed Machu Picchu citadel nearly a century ago should be dismisse...

Court papers allege that an Olympia woman, angry that her husband left her, tampered with his power tools so that he received a powerful electric shock. Carolyn Paulsen-Ria...

NASA is still shooting for a shuttle launch next month, despite bad hoses for a new room at the space station.Endeavour is supposed to blast off Feb. 7 with the Tran...

California officials on Monday were still tallying damage estimates from a powerful earthquake that struck Humboldt County over the weekend, with only the city of Eureka so...

The judge presiding over a highly anticipated gay marriage case peppered lawyers with questions Monday as they presented their opening statements, frequently interrupting t...

A drunken-driving charge has been dismissed against a Rhode Island federal prosecutor whose arrest sparked an internal investigation into whether police treated him favorab...

Two Navy SEALs accused in the mistreatment of an Iraqi detainee should be tried at the U.S. base in Iraq where the alleged victim is being held, a military judge ruled Mond...

A passenger inadvertently carried shotgun shells onto a Dallas-bound Midwest Airlines plane at Milwaukee's airport on Monday before he realized his mistake and alerted flig...

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday the Obama administration has concluded that the best way to pressure Iran to come clean on its nuclear ambitions is to...

The city of Eureka says it has racked up at least $14.3 million in damages from a powerful earthquake that struck over the weekend off the coast of Northern California....

A soldier is in a Georgia jail on charges he threatened his Army superiors in a rap song about being deployed to Iraq instead of being released from service.Spc. Mar...

Authorities say a cleaning crew found a threatening letter on a parked US Airways aircraft, but no explosives or other dangers were discovered.Greg Meyer, a spokesma...

The sci-fi tales "Avatar" and "Star Trek," the comedy "The Hangover" and the recession-era story "Up in the Air" are among nominees for best screenplay from the Writers Gui...

In one of two federal cases Monday involving illegal trade with Iran, a chemical engineer in suburban Philadelphia is being sentenced to four years in prison for trying to ...

A Washington state blood center is offering donors a deal: Give a pint of blood, get a pint of beer. Cascade Regional Blood Services in Tacoma says its "Give blood, get bee...

A third trial has started in the case of a suspected serial killer accused of killing a 12-year-old girl more than 30 years ago in Orange County.Rodney Alcala was tw...

A former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee and her cousin are being accused of stealing more than $721,000 in Hurricane Katrina relief money.Former FEMA w...

A Navy SEAL accused in the mistreatment of an Iraqi detainee will be tried in a U.S. military court in Iraq.A military judge in Virginia on Monday set the court-mart...

A suspect in the death of seven Chicago-area people who took cyanide-laced Tylenol in 1982 is calling a Massachusetts TV host "totally delusional" for asking whether he was...

The top U.S. consumer product regulator is warning Asian manufacturers not to substitute other toxic substances for lead in children's items, a message that follows the lau...

A Las Vegas Strip procession and color guard honors were planned Monday for the funeral of the veteran court security officer who was killed in a shootout with a shotgun-wi...

A woman accused of cutting a baby from a pregnant teenager, killing her, and passing the baby off as her own, had not been pregnant, even though she told her family she was...

A California congresswoman said she's alarmed by the number of people killed by police in the Southern California city of Inglewood and will look into getting a federal cou...

The crew of a plane that landed with a belly flop at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday "did everything right" as they brought the jetliner down after a landing...

About 100 people are demonstrating outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco as the trial for California's gay marriage ban begins.Most of the demonstrators ar...

Jury selection in the trial of a man charged with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion doctors was delayed Monday after prosecutors challenged a judge's decis...

A tax-evading man convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons that he and his wife held during a nine-month standoff with federal authorities was sentenced Monday to 37 yea...

Rod Blagojevich apologized Monday for saying he's "blacker than Barack Obama," but the disgraced former Illinois governor said he probably won't try to make amends directly...

Parents accused of killing their 4-year-old daughter by overmedicating her with prescription drugs asked a judge Monday to dismiss murder charges, arguing that a new medica...

The Colorado man who admitted orchestrating the balloon boy hoax reported to jail Monday to begin a 90-day jail sentence.Richard Heene pleaded guilty to attempting t...

The highest court in Massachusetts has disbarred a former state House speaker for his conviction on a federal obstruction of justice charge.Thomas Finneran pleaded g...

Jury selection in the trial of a man charged with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers has been delayed to give prosecutors time to challenge a key ...

The Colorado man who orchestrated the balloon boy hoax has turned himself in to begin a 90-day jail sentence.Richard Heene reported to the Larimer County jail in For...

Jury selection in the trial of a man charged with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers has been delayed until Wednesday.Attorneys had been ex...

Former basketball star Jayson Williams pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault and will serve at least 18 months in prison for accidentally killing a limousine driver i...

A California man who scammed investors by posing as an Oscar-winning sound engineer is going to prison.The U.S. Attorney's Office says 46-year-old Brice Carrington h...

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (blah-GOY'-uh-vich) is apologizing for what he calls a poor choice of words during a magazine interview in which he claims he's "blacke...

A southwestern Pennsylvania man who can't believe he received so few votes in a local judge's race is taking his appeal of the results to the U.S. Supreme Court.Robe...

NJ Legislature approves bill to make state 14th with medical marijuana; governor supports it....

Megan Anderson's nerves are shot. But she presses ahead — the dogs need her.She pulls into the driveway of Scarlet-Maple Farm Kennel. She tells the adolescent boy ...

Stock futures are rising, pointing to a higher opening Monday, following strong gains in overseas markets.Stocks are getting a lift globally after a new report showe...

Henry Ford's great-grandson arrived at the shuttered auto plant to brag about a plan to revive the vast empty space: Investors would transform it into a modern factory to m...

Snowy conditions were expected to return to the Northeast on Monday as light and scattered mixed precipitation persisted in the Northwest.A low pressure system spinn...

Investigators were trying to determine why part of a United Airlines jetliner's landing gear failed to deploy, forcing terrified passengers to crouch in their seats and bra...

Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a ...

Accused serial killer Rodney Alcala is entering an arena almost unheard of in a capital case.He is representing himself Monday in his third trial on charges of killi...

The trial of the man charged with killing one of the nation's few late-term abortion doctors begins Monday with lawyers trying to pick unbiased jurors in a widely publicize...

Accused serial killer Rodney Alcala has been sentenced to death twice before in the murder of a 12-year-old girl and has decided to represent himself in his third trial in ...

The father who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the balloon boy hoax is to turn himself in to begin serving a 90-day jail sentence Monday following a media blitz in which he...

The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage got under way Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behal...

A judge was set to hear arguments from lawyers Monday before deciding if a terrorist bombing suspect's rights were violated when he was held for five years for questioning ...

It's little wonder that farmers fret about the future of the livestock industry. In the past two years, feed costs skyrocketed, pork and dairy prices plummeted, and animal ...

A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were stu...

Cadmium is a soft, whitish metal that occurs naturally in soil. It's perhaps best known as one half of rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, but also is used in pigments, ...

Moving swiftly, U.S. product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry imported from Chi...

Northern California's Humboldt County escaped with what appears to be just minor damage from a powerful weekend earthquake, and residents and officials say their quake read...

Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena dominated by phonies.Study: Newspapers still a step ahead in local news, Michael Liedtke

Most local news still flows from newspapers even as an Internet-driven upheaval diminishes the depth of their coverage, according to a study to be released Monday.Th...

City health officials have battled trans fats and high-calorie fast food. Now, they're taking on salt.The health department released draft guidelines Monday recommen...

A United Airlines flight landed with part of the plane's belly or wing striking a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday morning after the right-side land...