An Army specialist accused of killing two fellow soldiers and taking their baby in Washington state could face the death penalty if convicted in her upcoming court-martial....

Authorities say five cars on a freight train derailed in downtown Philadelphia, but none tipped over and there were no injuries or hazardous materials involved.CSX s...

Tens of thousands of Burmese refugees are being forced into makeshift camps in Bangladesh and face widespread starvation unless they receive more humanitarian aid, accordin...

For more than a year, Sarah Palin has been one of the most famous political and cultural figures in the country. Even by that standard, though, last week was an extraordina...

Today is Tuesday, March 9, the 68th day of 2010. There are 297 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 9, 1862, during the Civil Wa...

A United Airlines spokeswoman says a plane carrying 15 passengers and three crew members has arrived safely at Fresno Yosemite International Airport in central California a...

More than 1,000 mourners have gathered to remember a 14-year-old girl whose remains were found over the weekend in a remote area north of San Diego.Maurice Dubois (d...

Two former ACORN workers are accused of repeatedly trying to register the same voters during a Milwaukee drive to meet quotas set by the organization.Maria Miles and...

Authorities in Oklahoma say an infant has died after being attacked by a dog on tribal land near Perkins.Stillwater firefighters dispatched an ambulance to Iowa Trib...

A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers trying to regulate the state's medical marijuana industry is calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to stop raids of medical ...

Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren has offered to return to the University of California, Irvine to exchange views with students who heckled him raucously on campus last month...

Authorities say at least five homes and a barn owned by the county government were destroyed in a tornado in western Oklahoma.Oklahoma Department of Emergency Manage...

A California Highway Patrol officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County f...

Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died. He was 84.Chicago-based public relatio...

The California Highway Patrol says an officer helped slow a runaway Toyota Prius from 94 mph to a safe stop after the accelerator got stuck.The CHP says driver James...

Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday a...

A Massachusetts judge has turned down a new trial request by a man who called himself Clark Rockefeller.Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter (GAYR'-hahrtz-ry-tur) was convi...

Paris pulsed with retro energy on Monday, as the French capital's fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear shows moved into day six with Giambattista Valli's feather-light display...

Police are searching the French Quarter in New Orleans and checking with businesses for surveillance videotapes of a Texas energy executive who disappeared after walking ou...

Sarah Palin has been no friend lately of socialized health care.She has criticized Canada's system, saying it should be dismantled in favor of free enterprise. And s...

A rock slide punched gaping holes in a bridge and left huge boulders on Interstate 70, closing a 17-mile stretch in western Colorado and prompting Gov. Bill Ritter to decla...

A Reform Jewish task force on intermarriage said Monday that the movement should do more to encourage mixed-faith couples to be active in Jewish life, including creating sp...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday the federal government will become more vigilant to make sure students have equal access and opportunity to everything ranging f...

Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul,...

CIA Director Leon Panetta said Monday the country's counterterrorism operations have placed al-Qaida's top leaders under extreme pressure and many are "on the run" but rece...

For Hollywood pundits, industry folk and Oscar fans still paying attention on Monday, a major question remained: How did David slay Goliath?For as much as "The Hurt ...

The remains of some of the nation's earliest Chinese settlers, whose graves were discovered five years ago during construction of a light rail line, will soon be reburied i...

The Obama administration plans to toughen civil rights enforcement in the nation's schools with a broad review touching on everything from academics to discipline.Ed...

A high-profile defense attorney hired by Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on Monday disputed a college student's claim that the two-time Super Bowl winner...

A registered sex offender charged with murdering a teen girl last month is a focus of the investigation into the death of a 14-year-old girl whose remains were found more t...

First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening...

Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons.Mu...

There were no obvious signs of trouble when gunman John Patrick Bedell approached a Pentagon security checkpoint Thursday night. But Pentagon police officer Marvin Carraway...

A Louisiana judge has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of murdering five teenagers in a 2006 shooting spree.The killings prompted then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco to...

A California man was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various ...

A third New York City police officer has been charged in the robbery of $1 million worth of perfume from a northern New Jersey warehouse.Federal authorities arrested...

An African man provided money and was trained with weapons and explosives in a bid to help a terrorist organization seeking to destabilize Somalia and attack U.S. interests...

A man who smuggled songbirds into Los Angeles from Vietnam by hiding them in his pants had his sentencing postponed.Sony Dong of Garden Grove was scheduled to be sen...

A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense.Fl...

Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes Monday a...

A rock slide punched gaping holes in a bridge and left huge boulders on Interstate 70, closing a 17-mile stretch of the highway in western Colorado.The slide struck ...

Utah's Hill Air Force Base has hired a psychologist and others to deal with a rash of suicides, mostly among civilians complaining of harsh working conditions.Ogden ...

After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his to...

Denver airport officials say hundreds of bags were loaded onto airplanes in late December without being run through security scanners.Denver Airport Manager of Aviat...

A Hollywood associate of Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis was fined $5,000 Monday but spared prison time for his role as the "bag man" in the bribery of jail guards to h...

Three men are accused of stealing $2 million by installing devices on gas station pumps that harvested credit card access codes.The men pleaded not guilty Monday in ...

Prosecutors say a New Hampshire man obsessed with getting a Harley-Davidson motorcycle beat his landlord to death, assumed his identity and stole his pickup truck so he cou...

Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son was remembered at a funeral service Monday with fond words, laughter and music from his famous singing family.Michael Bryan was memori...

The mother of a 14-year-old girl whose bones were discovered in a rugged area north of San Diego says she's grateful for the sense of closure after a 13-month search.Hustler asks for crime scene photos of slain hiker, Shannon Mccaffrey

Authorities said Monday they will not give Hustler Magazine crime scene and autopsy photos of a woman who was slain while hiking in Georgia, with one lawmaker calling the p...

A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War's most infamous battles.The wa...

The judge who sentenced an Oregon couple to prison Monday for the death of their son says members of their church must quit relying on faith healing when their children's l...

Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-bli...

Gov. Ted Strickland on Monday postponed the execution of a convicted killer who managed to take an overdose of pills in his death row cell and was found unconscious just ho...

Gov. David Paterson was adamant about governing Monday, taking questions from the public at a town hall meeting and trying to make clear his authority to negotiate a state ...

Rising property taxes, failing eyesight and even a tumble that cracked her tailbone haven't forced 89-year-old Angeline DiBeneditto from the home she's had for more than si...

New York Rep. Eric Massa is now blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care, his third explana...

Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was...

A former high-ranking NASA official has pleaded guilty in Mississippi to designing contracts that netted him more than $270,000 in illegal profits.Liam P. Sarsfield ...

A gunman apparently angry over business dealings wounded a father and son at their financial services company inside an office building Monday, then shot himself as police ...

Ohio has postponed the execution of an inmate who they say overdosed on pills in his prison cell.Authorities say 43-year-old Lawrence Reynolds was found unconscious ...

Colorado lawmakers trying to regulate marijuana dispensaries are asking the U.S. attorney general to stop raids of medical marijuana operations.The group e-mailed th...

New York Rep. Eric Massa is blaming his resignation on a conspiracy by House Democratic leaders to force him out before a crucial vote on health care.Massa was one o...

A man brought from Nigeria to New York faces charges that he assisted a terrorist organization that tried to destabilize Somalia and targeted U.S. interests.Mohamed ...

The parents of Chelsea King are consoling the parents of a teen found dead in San Diego County.The remains of 14-year-old Amber Dubois were found Saturday, four days...

Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags fr...

Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn said Monday he is gay, ending days of speculation that began after his arrest last week for investigation of driving under the influence.<...

President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to ...

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has decided to visit a second Montgomery school after a complaint by a veteran black legislator.Officials with Duncan's office i...

A construction crane owner got a bargain-basement repair job on a giant rig, which fell apart and killed two workers when the fix failed, prosecutors said Monday in announc...

Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, has died at age 114 years, 294 days.She died Sunday a...

The Oregon City couple convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the faith-healing death of their son are to be sentenced Monday in Clackamas County Circuit Court.<...

It's back to business for New York Gov. David Paterson, who's holding a town hall meeting in Brooklyn.The subject at Monday's meeting is to be the state budget, not ...

A man who smuggled songbirds into Los Angeles from Vietnam by hiding them in his pants is facing up to 20 years in federal prison.Sony Dong of Garden Grove is schedu...

A New Hampshire woman certified as the oldest person living in the United States has died.Mary Josephine Ray died Sunday at a Westmoreland nursing home at age 114 ye...

The federal Department of Education wants to intensify its civil rights enforcement efforts in schools around the country, including a deeper look at issues ranging from pr...

A 17-mile stretch of Interstate 70 has been closed in western Colorado after a rock slide punched gaping holes in a bridge and left huge boulders on the highway.The ...

A spokesman for Marie Osmond says a funeral service for the singer's 18-year-old son is set in Utah.Publicist Alan Nierob says the service for Michael Bryan will be ...

Excerpts from letters published in "Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation," by Ellen Fitzpatrick. (HarperCollins 2010, $26.99)___"May I extend...

A low pressure system was forecast to move through the Southwest and the Rockies, then on to the Plains, bringing widespread precipitation including snow in the Southwest. ...

Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy's widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and d...

The students in Michael Dubson's physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for smal...

Officials say a jet carrying 74 people made an emergency landing at the Aspen, Colo., airport after smoke entered the pilot's cabin.Pitkin County Sheriff's Deputy Al...

Las Cruces police said a woman has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her ex-husband. Police said a 27-year-old woman was charged with three counts of aggravated battery ...

When 17-year-old Chelsea King went missing last month San Diego, Maurice Dubois had a sinking feeling that his 14-year-old daughter had fallen victim to the same killer.Cities not on track with Calif high-speed rail, Daisy Nguyen

Mayor Art Brown spent years pushing for a commuter train station combined with nearby housing in his community. But as townhouses are being finished around the $14 million ...

Touching on a sensitive issue among conservatives nationwide, the Republican-controlled Oklahoma Legislature is embroiled in a dispute over whether lawmakers should remain ...

Some Obama administration officials have made clear their unease with the increasing control a handful of corporations have over the nation's food supply, and this week in ...

A man walked into a Walmart carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said. The man was killed and an off-duty off...

A former student who had been celebrating a friend's birthday by drinking and socializing was found dead Sunday in a Carnegie Mellon University fraternity house, police sai...