The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions ...

Today is Thursday, March 11, the 70th day of 2010. There are 295 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 11, 1985, Mikhail S. Gorba...

Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat.Typh...

The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy....

Huntington Beach police are asking for the public's help in identifying any potential victims among dozens of young women apparently photographed by Rodney Alcala, convicte...

Two off-duty Pennsylvania law enforcement officers were with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger at the Georgia nightclub where a woman accused him of sexual...

Honeycreeper birds, a fly and several ferns, trees and shrubs found only on a Hawaiian island were among 48 species added Wednesday to the endangered species list, boosting...

Two Marine Corps fighter pilots have been rescued from the ocean off South Carolina after their aircraft went down.The U.S. Coast Guard says it was notified by the M...

Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expa...

A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined twins has died. ...

A northern Mississippi school district decided Wednesday not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear ...

After a $62 million overhaul, the Coast Guard will have its third icebeaker back in service in 2013, filling a critical need as the fleet takes on new responsibilities, the...

In his 28 years with the Burbank Police Department, Sgt. Robert Quesada had never heard of anything quite like it: A well-respected teacher at one of the city's public scho...

The Kansas City school board narrowly approved a plan Wednesday night to close nearly half of the district's schools in a desperate bid to avoid a potential bankruptcy....

At least two dozen felony drug cases were dropped Wednesday in San Francisco Superior Court amid questions of evidence tampering at the city's crime lab.Public Defen...

A federal judge who found it unconstitutional that Congress tried to cut funding to the activist group ACORN has rejected a government request to change her mind and has or...

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant accused of serving illegal and endangered whale meat.Typhoon Restaurant Inc...

Ohio State University said Wednesday a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors before killing himself didn't reveal that he had a criminal record, raising mo...

Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who robbed and shot a New Jersey minibus driver, then stole the bus and ran him over, leaving him paralyzed....

Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues ...

Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks...

U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy is blasting the news media as "despicable," accusing it of ignoring the war in Afghanistan even as troops continue to die there.The Rhode I...

A special agent for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has requested a warrant to search a California sushi restaurant where activists say they were served...

Democrats claimed momentum Wednesday in their drive to enact the sweeping health care legislation sought by President Barack Obama, citing near agreement on crucial issues ...

The prom's off at a northern Mississippi school after a lesbian student demanded she be allowed to bring her girlfriend.The American Civil Liberties Union had demand...

Authorities say at least a dozen drug cases have been dropped in San Francisco Superior Court amid questions about evidence handling at the city crime lab.Public Def...

A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff's dispatcher who took his c...

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter held his first news conference after a bike accident last week and says he's in pain, but recovering.The governor signed 28 bills on Wednes...

The New Jersey Supreme Court's disciplinary committee has publicly reprimanded a lower-court judge who belittled an immigrant defendant's poor English skills and compared a...

A former Detroit city councilwoman was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for bribery after a federal judge refused to set aside her guilty plea during ...

A former employee of Texas state facility for the developmentally disabled accused of sanctioning fights among residents has pleaded guilty midway through his Corpus Christ...

Dallas police say a former city attorney accused of shooting a father and son inside their financial business has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.Sr. Cpl. K...

A California woman has been arrested after animal control officers found 60 dogs in crates inside her small Lakeside home east of San Diego.Sixty-five-year-old Alice...

Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general's ...

A New York judge has declared a second mistrial in the case against a New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges.The Brooklyn trial of Hal Turner was...

Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia.But online, federal aut...

Students across the nation might eventually use the same math and English textbooks and take the same tests if states adopt new rigorous standards proposed Wednesday by gov...

Second-degree burglary charges have been filed against an Ames man who broke into a church where he allegedly used the institution's electronic equipment to watch pornograp...

Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census have announced a campaign to reach that hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngst...

When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the ...

A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to ...

A letter carrier who is a registered sex offender has been reassigned after concerns were raised that he was delivering mail in a San Diego suburb with many children, a Pos...

A Russian-speaking immigrant who police said may have been practicing dentistry without a license for years in Oregon has been charged with murder in the shooting death of ...

Lawyers for a Jordanian man charged with trying to blow up a Dallas skyscraper plan to depose witnesses in Jordan who know the suspect.A federal judge in Dallas last...

Oklahoma Gas and Electric officials said a pole climbing bobcat is to blame for a power outage in southern Oklahoma OG&E spokesman Brian Alford said repair crews found ...

Ohio State University says a background check on a janitor who shot two supervisors didn't reveal a criminal record, even though he had spent five years in prison.Th...

Gov. Charlie Crist's grand plan to revive the dying Florida Everglades by buying back the land, a key part of his legacy, could be on the cusp of collapsing and dealing ano...

A former Detroit city councilwoman was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for bribery after a federal judge refused to set aside her guilty plea during ...

First lady Michelle Obama challenged software and video game designers Wednesday to develop games and tools that get kids, especially 9- to 12-year-olds, excited about eati...

A Georgia judge has barred authorities from releasing crime scene and autopsy photos of a 24-year-old University of Georgia graduate slain while hiking.DeKalb County...

A California middle school teacher who's reportedly wracked with guilt over an affair with a 14-year-old boy has been returned to jail following a brief court appearance.Bad blood detailed in Maine 'lobster wars' trial

Even under the rough-and-tumble rules of the sea that Maine lobstermen live by, staring down the barrel of a 12-gauge shotgun is extreme.But that's where fishermen a...

Lawyers for the state of Wyoming and the Colorado Mining Association say a 2001 federal rule banning construction of new roads on National Forest land violates the law....

Last week, Sarah Killen had three Twitter followers.This week, she has 20,000 — as well as a new iMac computer and offers to help pay for a dress and drinks for he...

Authorities said Wednesday that they are "astounded" by the heroic actions of a 7-year-old boy who hid with his younger sister in a bathroom and called 911 while armed robb...

A late philanthropist's modern art collection featuring a rarely seen work by Pablo Picasso is being auctioned in New York City.The seminal painting by Picasso is ca...

Doris "Granny D" Haddock turned a mother's critical remark into a springboard for a lifetime of adventure.Haddock was seven when she overheard her mother say, "She's...

Officials say an Ohio death row inmate was attempting suicide when he overdosed on pills two days before his scheduled execution.Spokeswoman Julie Walburn said Wedne...

A 37-year-old woman was accused of putting her 14-year-old behind the wheel because she was too drunk to drive. The woman was arrested Saturday after Washington County Sher...

Someone is spinning quite a yarn over one New Jersey shore town. An unknown person dubbed The Midnight Knitter by West Cape May residents is covering tree branches and lamp...

Virginia's General Assembly became the first in the nation Wednesday to approve legislation that bucks any attempt by President Barack Obama and Congress to implement a nat...

A federal judge has denied ex-Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers' request to withdraw her guilty plea in a corruption case and sentenced her to three years and one month i...

An ex-Marine acquitted on charges of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees sued the city of Riverside Wednesday over not being rehired as a police officer.Jose Luis Nazari...

2010 Cadillac CTS 3.6 Sport WagonBASE PRICE: $38,265 for base, rear-wheel drive model; $40,165 for base, all-wheel drive model; $43,365 for rear-drive model with 3.6...

Station wagons have been passe in the United States for years, but this didn't stop Cadillac from launching its first U.S.-built wagon.The 2010 CTS Wagon is a nicely...

The crash of a Toyota Prius in New York caught the attention of federal regulators Wednesday after the driver said it accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, ...

A campaign to give elderly Netherlands residents the right to assisted suicide has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, enough to force a parliamentary debate on the matt...

As he speaks to hundreds of Iowa evangelicals about his "faith walk," it's clear former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is connecting with the audience.Santorum may ...

Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm.A ju...

Authorities say five of the six people killed in an Arizona bus crash were California residents, and all were Mexican citizens.A medical examiner on Wednesday said t...

As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control an...

In a story March 5 about use of sewage sludge in compost, The Associated Press reported erroneously that San Diego was one of several California cities that gives away comp...

Eleven adopted and foster children forced to sleep in cages by their adoptive parents have reached a $1.2 million settlement with the Ohio county where they once lived....

After three Providence police officers were arrested last week in a cocaine-peddling sting, Chief Dean Esserman called it a "hard day" for the department.The departm...

For soldiers patrolling in Iraq and Afghanistan, death can come from a bomb hidden in a trash pile or an innocent-looking face in the crowd. Returning home alive can depend...

A Georgia judge has dismissed most of the remaining legal claims in a dispute between the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., months after the siblings reached a s...

Workers are breaking up a huge boulder threatening to tumble down a cliff onto Interstate 70 in western Colorado, days after a rock slide that closed the highway indefinite...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:March 6Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald, on early warning systems i...

Two former Ohio day care workers accused of slipping an over-the-counter dietary supplement into candy and giving it to their charges to help them sleep at nap time were ch...

Authorities say a flight from Miami to the Dominican Republic had to return to an airport gate because of an unruly passenger.Miami International Airport spokesman G...

First lady Michelle Obama is challenging software and video game designers to develop games and applications that get kids excited about living healthy.She says thou...

A judge says New York City can keep the "Tavern on the Green" name for the famed restaurant building in Central Park that's been forced to close because of financial proble...

Three American scientists who contributed to the mapping of the human genetic blueprint — an advance that continues to give the medical world a better understanding of hu...

A former New York state investment officer has admitted helping channel hundreds of millions of dollars in public pension fund money to politically connected investment fir...

The self-dubbed "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond, all-American profile would help mask her plan to kill a Swedish cartoonist is a rare case of a U.S. woman inciting forei...

A boyfriend of the American woman charged in a foreign terrorism plot says she never showed any Muslim or other religious leanings.Kurt Gorman of suburban Philadelph...

A flight from Miami to Chile has returned to an airport gate because of an unruly passenger.Miami International Airport spokesman Greg Chin says American Airlines fl...

A state appeals court has ordered parole for a former Southern California dentist convicted of killing three patients with drug overdoses.A ruling Tuesday by the 4th...

The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart mapping out criminal turf in Florida — part of an internati...

Two former Ohio day care workers have been charged with giving children an over-the-counter dietary supplement to make them sleep.Hamilton County Prosecutor Joseph D...

Four workers are safe after getting stuck on a drawbridge that went up unexpectedly in FloridaPompano Beach city spokeswoman Sandra King says hydraulics failed on a ...

They say crime doesn't pay. For one robber in California, it did — but not much. Authorities in Riverside County say a woman with a gun robbed 11 customers at a market an...

The highest court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that requires gun owners to lock weapons in their homes in a ruling applauded by...

The Washington Post says more than two dozen people have canceled their subscriptions over a photo of two men kissing that ran on the front page.The photo was taken ...

The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating a restricted airspace violation by a small plane that came within 30 miles of the nation's capital.Spoke...

A worker appears to be stuck clutching onto a Florida drawbridge fixed in the air in Pompano Beach.Firefighters were heading to the bridge over the Intracoastal Wate...

The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woma...

Prosecutors in West Virginia have dropped a misdemeanor charge that accused an FBI security guard of spying on girls as they tried on prom gowns at a Fairmont mall.A...

The most prominent person caught in an corruption investigation in Detroit is returning to court to be sentenced in a bribery scheme involving a city sludge contract.Assisted suicide group preparing for Ga. trial

The leader of an assisted suicide group charged with helping a 58-year-old Georgia man with cancer kill himself says he's looking forward to a trial that he hopes will vali...

Parents, students and community leaders were making one last bid Wednesday night to persuade Kansas City school board members not to close nearly half the district's school...

An indictment against a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an...

Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The p...

A judge has overturned the verdict against a Massachusetts man convicted of running over a duck walking her ducklings across a mall parking lot, and prosecutors say they wi...

The Kansas City, Mo., school board is set to vote Wednesday night on a proposal to close half the schools in the district.The Kansas City district is expected to ove...

The Los Angeles coroner's office says "The Lost Boys" actor Corey Haim is dead at 38.Coroner's Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said Wednesday that Haim died at 2:15 a.m. at Pro...

Math and English instruction in the United States moved a step closer to uniform — and more rigorous — standards Wednesday as draft new national guidelines were release...

The driver of a Toyota Prius told police in suburban New York that her car accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall....

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congr...

Cindy Hickey had rehearsed what she would say to her son when she finally got to talk to him months after he was detained in Iran. When the time came, the conversation last...

The city's major hospital network, which runs Miami's only round-the-clock trauma center and is a safety net for the poor and uninsured, is running out of money and could c...

Investors are continuing to search for direction after two days of relatively flat trading. Stock futures are edging higher.A market surge that began a year ago appe...

Another snowy day was expected over the central part of the country Wednesday as two low pressure systems were forecast to combine over the Plains.A system that brou...

It was 2005 when Bruce Barcomb received the call he'd been awaiting for nearly three decades: Police had finally identified the man who raped and murdered his little sister...

An indictment against a suburban Philadelphia woman accused of recruiting jihadist fighters online and moving to Europe to try to kill a Swedish artist is a rare case of an...

An Ohio State University janitor who shot two supervisors, one fatally, and then killed himself had complained that he was being treated unfairly, though records show he sl...

Authorities say a man was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer after asking a woman to silence her cell phone during a screening of the film "Shutter Island" at a So...

Indiana's plan to lay off some meat inspectors to save money and reduce the time inspectors spend with small, independent processors has the industry and farmers fearing it...

A former aide to John Edwards has been given until Friday to provide a judge with a full explanation of how he handled materials including a videotape purportedly showing t...

Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new...

Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to co...

A suburban woman "desperate to do something" to help suffering Muslims has been accused of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and help terrorists overseas, eve...

Federal agents are investigating a high-end Santa Monica, Calif., sushi restaurant, following a video sting orchestrated by the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary "...

A pioneering deep-sea robot made by Massachusetts researchers has been lost off the coast of Chile.Researchers abruptly lost contact with the $1.1 million robot Frid...

A terrified 7-year-old boy begged emergency dispatchers to send police to his Southern California home where three armed robbers threatened his parents, according to a reco...

Doris "Granny D" Haddock, a New Hampshire woman who walked across the country at age 89 to promote campaign finance reform and later waged a quixotic campaign for U.S. Sena...