Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, cost the United States $152 billion annually in health care and other losses, according to a report released Wednesday...

U.S. teachers are more interested in school reform and student achievement than their paychecks, according to a massive new survey.The survey of 40,090 K-12 teachers...

Michael Jackson's children were never exposed to a mail-order stun gun recently delivered to the family's home, an attorney for the late singer's mother said Tuesday.Charges filed in Lakewood, Wash., police killings

The man accused of being the getaway driver in the Lakewood police killings has been charged with aggravated first-degree murder.Four counts were filed Tuesday again...

Authorities say two employees at an oil refinery in southeast New Mexico are dead and two others critically injured after a storage tank exploded into flames.Artesia...

Police say a man shot and wounded a cashier at a crowded Florida supermarket and then fatally shot himself in the parking lot.An Orlando police department news relea...

Thousands of people are at a vigil in a San Diego suburb for a 17-year-old girl whose body is believed to have been found five days after she went to a park for a jog.<...

An unfolding scandal threatening Gov. David Paterson and his administration claimed its second public safety official Tuesday when the head of the New York State Police sai...

A Southern California jury has determined that Botox-maker Allergan was not responsible for the death of a 7-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who died after receiving Boto...

The following recalls have been announced:_About 127,000 Scooby Doo, Tweety and Batman fork and spoon sets, made in China by Peachtree Playthings of Atlanta, because...

Although the tsunami that dealt a glancing blow to Hawaii on Saturday caused no physical damage or injuries, it did manage to hit Honolulu taxpayers' pocketbooks.But...

Police have arrested a man who they say pointed a gun at people in Kentucky State University's student center.Police spokesman Maj. Fred Deaton says there were no in...

Former Houston Mayor Bill White has won the Democratic nomination for Texas governor, outpacing six challengers and giving his party its best hope in years to take back the...

A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San Diego announced a KKK-style hood was found ...

Sarah Palin says she's going to play Tina Fey in an upcoming Las Vegas show.Just kidding.The former Republican vice presidential nominee turned into a standup...

Police say an 85-year-old patient shot and wounded a nursing supervisor in a Connecticut hospital.They say the nurse suffered non-life-threatening wounds while tryin...

The husband of former Cherokee Nation Chief Wilma Mankiller says his wife has been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer.Mankiller's husband, Charlie Soap, made ...

A North Carolina school board has voted to scrap a policy of assigning students by socio-economic background in favor of a system of neighborhood schools.The 5-to-4 ...

The state of Texas has executed a Dallas-area man convicted of fatally shooting a Brazilian engineer.Thirty-two-year-old Michael Sigala received a lethal injection T...

An unfolding scandal threatening Gov. David Paterson and his administration claimed its second public safety official Tuesday when the head of the New York State Police cas...

For at least 120 years, city officials have been promising to do something about the oily, smelly mess that is the Gowanus Canal.Now, federal authorities will see if...

A Southern California jury recommended the death penalty Tuesday for a North Carolina woman convicted of murdering a Vietnamese fortuneteller and her 23-year-old daughter.<...

The angry man of the Senate was at it again.Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, a 78-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher, played hardball on Capitol Hill, single-handedly holding...

A body found in a shallow grave Tuesday is believed to be that of 17-year-old Chelsea King, whose disappearance led to the arrest of a registered sex offender, authorities ...

New York State Police Superintendent Harry Corbitt is abruptly retiring effective Wednesday amid a domestic violence scandal threatening Gov. David Paterson.Corbitt ...

Authorities say they believe a body found in a grave is a San Diego County teen who went missing last week.Sheriff William Gore says the body was located Tuesday aft...

A newlywed Massachusetts couple spent their wedding night in separate jail cells after police said the bride tried to run over an old flame of the groom.Police say 2...

Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court....

A California man who tried to save water and money by removing his front lawn is being taken to court. Quan Ha pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a misdemeanor count for viol...

The board of the Los Angeles Unified School District has voted to send notices of possible layoffs to up to 5,200 teachers and other workers because of a huge budget gap.KKK-style hood found on UC San Diego campus

University of California San Diego police are investigating the third incident targeting black students at the school in as many weeks — a KKK-style hood placed on a stat...

A California man who tried to save water and money by removing his front lawn is being taken to court.Quan Ha pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a misdemeanor count fo...

Hours after the most damaging press reports yet surfaced in a scandal that threatens his administration, Gov. David Paterson struck back with a schedule of high-level budge...

A Florida man faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and his family.Federal prosecutor...

A federal appeals court has denied a rehearing for convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui (zak-uh-REE'-uhs moo-SOW'-ee).He is serving a life prison term a...

Police say an elderly patient has shot and wounded a nursing supervisor in a Connecticut hospital.They say the nurse suffered a non-life-threatening wound while tryi...

Police say a registered sex offender suspected in the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl in San Diego likely assaulted a jogger in the same park in December.San Die...

Prosecutors say they're close to reaching a plea deal with an imam accused of lying to FBI agents investigating a foiled suicide bomb plot against New York City.Ahma...

A Massachusetts newlywed couple didn't get to cuddle together during their first night as husband and wife. Instead, they spent the evening in separate jail cells after pol...

Republican strategist Karl Rove says in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and le...

Jessica Simpson says she's "a little bit angry" with ex-boyfriend John Mayer for an interview he gave to Playboy magazine in which he called the singer "sexual napalm."...

Bobby Wells has lived all his life in this remote Alaska village, where the Eskimo dancing of his ancestors was banned by Quaker missionaries a century ago as primitive ido...

An attendant at a central New Jersey animal shelter has been accused of killing two cats by strangling one and throwing the other to the ground head first.Eatontown ...

A mad emu gave deputies a Texas-sized hard time. El Paso authorities say the big bird was running loose Tuesday, snarling rush-hour traffic near Interstate 10 and attacking...

Police say they are considering whether to charge Naomi Campbell after her driver says she slapped and punched him while he was driving her around New York City.A la...

Convicted California serial killer Rodney Alcala apologized Tuesday to a woman who was 8 years old when he beat and molested her then left her for dead more than 50 years a...

A Utah businessman who worked a two-year sting operation for federal officials investigating looting of American Indian relics across the Southwest has died of a self-infli...

The leader of a household described as a religious cult was convicted of second-degree murder Tuesday along with two of her followers for starving a 1-year-old boy to death...

Police say three family members have been found shot dead in their home just west of Chicago.Darien Deputy Police Chief John Cooper identified the victims as Lori an...

The D.C. Council voted to censure former mayor Marion Barry over a report accusing him of violating conflict-of-interest laws.The report said Barry, now a council me...

Just 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast is an earthquake hotspot that threatens to unleash on Seattle, Portland and Vancouver the kind of damage that has shattered Ch...

A judge chided a divided family for filing legal motions instead of talking to one another, then pushed a reconciliation plan back on track Tuesday between a Muslim couple ...

In their annual town meeting on Tuesday, folks in this Vermont ski town voted on a town budget, debated the need for a new roof on the fire department building and adjourne...

The general commanding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan said Tuesday the military took a calculated risk when it warned people in the Afghan city of Marjah of a major offen...

The widow of a notorious Israeli thief has been convicted of receiving stolen property from a 27-year-old heist that included more than 100 expensive timepieces and museum ...

About 200 students have rallied at UCLA to protest recent racially tinged incidents and what they say is an intolerant atmosphere at University of California campuses.<...

New York Gov. David Paterson discussed his political future with the head of the state's Democratic Party on Tuesday, hours after the National Organization for Women joined...

Prosecutors have charged a 71-year-old suspect in a slaying that took place in 1972 — one of the oldest cold cases in Seattle.King County prosecutors say DNA evide...

An appeals court says a United Nations employee whose sexual harassment claims led to the resignation of the U.N.'s refugee chief cannot sue in U.S. courts.The 2nd U...

Over the past several years, immigration hard-liners at the Arizona Legislature persuaded their colleagues to criminalize the presence of illegal border-crossers in the sta...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Senators from Oregon and Washington have joined with East Coast counterparts to file a bill in Congress that would return control over liquefied natur...

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (LOW'-tuhn-burg) of New Jersey has returned to work on Capitol Hill after being diagnosed with lymphoma and receiving his first chemotherapy trea...

The angry man of the Senate was at it again.Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, a 78-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher, played hardball on Capitol Hill, single-handedly holding...

A panel says the attorney at the middle of a text messaging sex scandal involving former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick committed misconduct.The ruling by the Michig...

A couple who tried to save water and money by removing their lawn is being taken to court by the city of Orange. Quan and Angelina Ha have a scheduled court date Tuesday. T...

A couple escaped unharmed after they left their kitchen for the living room, just moments before a pickup truck came crashing through the kitchen wall. Lewiston police said...

Pennsylvania authorities are indefinitely suspending the medical license of a Delaware pediatrician accused of sexually assaulting more than 100 of his patients.The ...

In Today in History for Tuesday, March 2, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Doc Watson was born on March 2. His birthday is March 3....

Conservative Tea Party activists in New Jersey should have the right to try to throw a Democratic U.S. senator out of office, their lawyer argued in a state appeals court T...

The New York state Democratic chairman says embattled Gov. David Paterson will soon tell his side of the story in a scandal that threatens his administration.Chairma...

A man accused of shooting two Colorado students in the parking lot of a middle school was charged Tuesday with 15 counts, including attempted murder, assault and child abus...

A sex offender suspected in the disappearance of Chelsea King served only five years in prison for molesting a girl a decade ago after prosecutors rejected a psychiatrist's...

The disaster in Chile has brought new attention to an undersea fault along the Pacific Northwest capable of producing the same type of mega earthquake and inflicting heavy ...

Sea lions are returning to San Francisco's Pier 39 after an abrupt disappearance that left tourists disappointed and experts baffled.The number is fluctuating. But t...

Today is Wednesday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2010. There are 303 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 3, 1931, President Herbert...

The general commanding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan says the military is making progress on a campaign to drive terrorists from Afghanistan.But Army Gen. David P...

Consider it yet another victim of California's ongoing fiscal mess: The state Senate has indefinitely postponed action on a do-gooder resolution that would encourage Califo...

The Smithsonian Institution has rejected a donation of the suit O.J. Simpson wore when he was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend.The decision announce...

A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges Los Angeles' crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, claiming it would force nearly all of them to close.The suit by the nati...

A man accused of shooting two Colorado students last week now faces 15 charges, including attempted murder, assault and child abuse.Prosecutors formally filed charge...

President Barack Obama wants reporters to do the unthinkable: keep a secret.Obama sat down Tuesday afternoon for a Southern-style lunch at Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room, ...

Consider it yet another victim of California's ongoing fiscal mess: The state Senate has indefinitely postponed action on a do-gooder resolution that would encourage Califo...

A crackdown by Los Angeles on medical marijuana is drawing its first legal challenge.The lawsuit filed Tuesday by pot dispensaries and an advocacy group claims a new...

A smoky basement fire has forced the evacuation and closure of a New York City courthouse and postponed rap star Lil Wayne's sentencing in a gun case.Courts spokesma...

Tiger Woods is back at home after a week of family counseling in Arizona and is trying to get into a routine that includes golf and fitness, a person with knowledge of his ...

A teachers union has filed state labor relations charges over a plan to turn around one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools by firing the entire faculty....

Sounding a familiar clean-energy theme, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced details of a proposed energy rebate program he hopes will spur demand for insulation and...

Four months after Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter was elected president of the civil rights group he co-founded, the organization is in a tailspin and she is silent on wh...

President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass a series of rebates for people who take steps to make their homes more energy efficient.Obama says the Home Sta...

Three family members have been found shot dead in a Chicago suburb in what officials describe as a home invasion.Darien Deputy Police Chief John Cooper identified th...

More than a dozen states have formed an alliance to battle dismal college completion rates and figure out how to get more students to follow through and earn their diplomas...

A judge urged an Ohio couple to stick with counseling toward a reconciliation with their teenage daughter, who ran away to Florida last year claiming she would be harmed fo...

Topeka's mayor says the city shall temporarily be referred to as "Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics," in an effort to persuade the Internet giant to test ...

Authorities have resumed the search for 17-year-old Chelsea King in Southern California.King's father, Brent King, told "The Early Show" on CBS Tuesday that he will ...

General Motors Co.'s top sales executive says the company will not reopen any closed factories to build more of its hotter-selling new models.Vice President of Sales...

Mark Becker stood passively Tuesday as a jury found him guilty of murder in the shooting of a nationally known Iowa high school football coach.He seemed far removed ...

Gov. Rick Perry defeats Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to win GOP nomination for Texas governor....

Doctors planned to keep Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter hospitalized Tuesday night after he broke several ribs in a bicycle accident, his spokesman said.Ritter fractured f...

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is opening a consignment store in West Palm Beach about four years after he resigned from Congress following a lurid scandal.Foley says C...

A federal judge in Miami has released a former Argentine military officer wanted in his home country for the 1972 massacre of leftist guerrillas.U.S. Magistrate Judg...

An Ohio couple just wants a reasonable chance to reconcile with their daughter, who fled to Florida last year claiming she would be harmed for converting from Islam to Chri...

Earth's days may have gotten a little bit shorter since the massive earthquake in Chile, but don't feel bad if you haven't noticed.The difference would be only about...

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from a New York City courthouse because of a smoky basement fire.Courts spokesman David Bookstaver says it apparently started ...

Jurors who convicted a serial killer of murdering a girl and four women must now decide whether he should receive the death penalty.The penalty phase of Alcala's tri...

Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his job as an MSNBC pundit on Tuesday, one day after announcing he wouldn't run for U.S. Senate in New York, and said he woul...

The attorney for an Ohio couple says they just want a reasonable chance to reconcile with their daughter, a teenager who converted from Islam to Christianity and ran away t...

The National Organization for Women on Tuesday urged New York Gov. David Paterson to resign because of a report he directed two staffers to contact a woman about a domestic...

An Iowa judge says the jury has reached a verdict in the trial of a former football player accused of fatally shooting his high school coach.Iowa District Court Judg...

Northwestern Pennsylvania fire officials say fog being made for a music video prompted a restaurant to report a fire.The video was being shot Saturday afternoon at a...

The National Organization for Women is urging New York Gov. David Paterson to resign because of a report he directed two staffers to contact a woman about a domestic violen...

Authorities have charged three people in the theft and fatal beating of a baby alpaca in southwest Ohio.The 3-month-old alpaca, named Masterpiece, was reported stole...

Three people have been found shot dead in a Chicago suburb in what officials describe as a home invasion.Darien police Chief Robert Pavelchic says a young woman call...

Harold Ford Jr. says that even though he's decided not to run for U.S. Senate in New York, he hopes "another opportunity presents itself."The former Tennessee congre...

The parents of a 2-year-old Virginia boy whose body was found in a landfill face murder charges.A grand jury indicted 24-year-old Brandon Lockett and 23-year-old Mor...

Brian David Mitchell, the man charged with snatching Elizabeth Smart nearly eight years ago, could finally face a jury after a federal judge ruled Monday that Mitchell was ...

ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings did not commit a ...

Snow is falling in the north Georgia mountains and as far south as the Atlanta area, while several Southeastern states are seeing flakes or under winter storm warnings....

Police say five people have been arrested in connection with the slayings of a mother and two children whose bodies were found after an intentional fire at their Milwaukee ...

An Ohio woman taken to a maternity ward in her wedding dress became a newlywed and a new mom on the same day.Jamie Phillips says she felt contractions while her fath...

After months of waiting for a candidate of their own, California Democrats were anticipating an announcement Tuesday from state Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is expecte...

Mary Feller's family of three spends nearly $25,000 a year on health insurance premiums, which is more than they pay on their home's mortgage in California's Marin County.<...

Chelsea King is a straight-A student who plays French horn for the San Diego Youth Symphony, runs on the school cross-country team and actively volunteers in a peer counsel...

Rap star Lil Wayne is leaving his fans and fellow artists with a video blitz as he braces for as much as a year behind bars at the height of his career.The rapper is...

Gay and lesbian couples will soon be able to marry in Washington, but the debate over same-sex marriage has sounded different here, with references to interracial marriage ...

Wet weather was forecast to persist in the South on Tuesday, while snow was expected to diminish over the Northeast.A low pressure system that brought rain to the So...

On Saturday mornings, crowds of homeless gather with other needy people at picnic tables outside a church in an upscale Phoenix neighborhood, listen to sermons and settle i...

When North Carolina's Wake County decided to do away with race-based busing to desegregate schools, local officials came up with a novel solution to maintain balance.Scientists say tsunami models should be tested, Herbert A. Sample

In the coming months and years, scientists will pore over reams of data from what turned out to be the minuscule tsunami that reached Hawaii on Saturday.But already,...

Brent and Kelly King knew something was wrong when they discovered their 17-year-old daughter Chelsea wasn't home.They called her cell phone, then her friends. They ...