A Los Angeles physician who investigators call the second "most prolific provider" of prescription drugs in the country has been convicted of 13 felony counts.A Supe...

Today is Tuesday, March 16, the 75th day of 2010. There are 290 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 16, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthor...

An official says a plane making an emergency landing struck and killed a man who was walking or jogging along a Hilton Head, S.C., beach.A Hilton Head Island fire an...

Twitter is working on a way to allow Chinese users to sign up to the social networking site in their own language, a co-founder of the site said Monday night, but access to...

The Wolverine State has lost its only known wild wolverine.State officials said Monday hikers found the 28-pound female over the weekend outside Minden, about 115 mi...

The former president of Pakistan on Monday criticized U.S. plans to begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan in just over a year.At a stop on his speaking tour, Perve...

A San Diego man who led a card-cheating ring that bilked dozens of casinos out of $7 million was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in federal prison.Phuong Quoc T...

It remains the most tantalizing art heist mystery in the world.In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two thieves walked into Boston's elegant Isabella Stewart Gardne...

A woman heading to her stepfather's house was "beyond lost" when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and o...

Prosecutors say surveillance video shows a sleep-deprived school bus driver running stop signs before causing a fatal crash last month outside a suburban Philadelphia middl...

Officials say a collision between a transit bus and light-rail train in downtown Houston has sent 19 people to the hospital. No serious injuries were reported.The Me...

The city's beloved Angels Flight began carrying passengers up and down a steep downtown hill again Monday, nine years after a fatal accident forced an extensive overhaul of...

A New Hampshire woman who fled her home in a manic state, leaving her husband and young son behind, left few clues when she abandoned her car 150 miles away in another stat...

Toyota Motor Corp. dismissed the story of a man who claimed his Prius sped out of control on the California freeway, saying Monday that its own tests found the car's gas pe...

Marquette University senior Kelly Magennis wasn't even up prepping for the start of the biggest spring break week on Texas' South Padre Island when the first text message a...

Medical marijuana advocates have failed to gather enough signatures for a ballot measure challenging a new Los Angeles law that will shutter hundreds of pot dispensaries.Some Toyota drivers suing in US for a full refund, Curt Anderson

A group of Toyota owners sued the Japanese automaker Monday, demanding a full refund for their recalled cars and seeking a payout that could exceed several billion dollars....

A soldier acquitted of killing a mother and two of her young daughters in North Carolina about 25 years ago is now going on trial in military court after prosecutors say ne...

A jury has acquitted a man of vehicular homicide while driving drunk in a 2008 crash that killed a Pennsylvania lawmaker.Jurors in Stroudsburg decided Monday that 46...

The world saw glimpses of the civil rights movement through Charles Moore's eyes: In black-and-white photographs, he captured arresting images of the integration riots at O...

A well-known Washington state medical marijuana activist traded gunfire with robbers who invaded his home early Monday, suffering minor shotgun pellet wounds and sending on...

A trial has begun in Boston for a former top U.S. Department of Homeland Security official accused of encouraging her Brazilian housekeeper to remain in the United States i...

Volunteers spent the weekend searching but have found no sign of a missing British exchange student from Virginia Commonwealth University.University spokesman Mike P...

Hundreds of passengers have taken ill with an intestinal bug on a Celebrity Cruise ship's third straight trip from South Carolina.Cruise line spokeswoman Cynthia Mar...

Quitting smoking can turn back time.A year after kicking the habit, smokers' arteries showed signs of reversing a problem that can set the stage for heart disease, a...

Officials say a collision between a transit bus and light-rail train in downtown Houston has sent 18 people to the hospital.The Metropolitan Transit Authority, which...

Toyota cast doubt Monday on a California man's claim that his Prius sped out of control, saying the report is inconsistent with the findings of the company's preliminary in...

Prosecutors urged a federal judge Monday to turn down ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's request to delay his corruption trial, saying public interest in the case warra...

Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods along Fargo's Red River on Monday as residents began preparing to keep the looming f...

Alaska State Troopers needed just one traffic stop to make two arrests for drunken driving. Troopers said a highway patrol officer arrested a 42-year-old man for drunken dr...

Two Northwest Airlines pilots who got distracted and overshot the Minneapolis airport have agreed not to fight the revocations of their licenses but could fly again under a...

Two iconic American clothing labels — preppy Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein, known for its modern aesthetic — are coming together under one roof.Calvin Klein pa...

Change is in the air for Detroit city workers. City employees will be urged not to wear perfume, cologne or aftershave as a result of a settlement in a federal lawsuit....

The most frequently stolen street sign in Green Bay isn't Lombardi Avenue, Reggie White Way or Brett Favre Pass. The distinction goes to a short street on the city's southw...

Toyota cast doubt Monday on a California man's claim that his Prius sped out of control, saying the report is inconsistent with the findings of the company's preliminary in...

The fiance of a mother whose minivan was found on a private Puget Sound beach is using his Web site to plead for information leading to the safe return of the woman and her...

The head of Rhode Island's emergency management agency says there is no immediate threat that a dam on a flooded river in West Warwick will fail.J. David Smith said ...

Maple syrup producers are under fire for tapping maple trees in Central Massachusetts cemeteries. The Worcester Telegram reports Monday that at least two cemeteries in Lanc...

Toyota urges examination of driver's account of runaway Prius incident....

Prosecutors say they've reached a plea agreement with an Arkansas woman who drove into a lake during a nighttime thunderstorm, killing her three young sons.Amber Tur...

Iowa City police arrested a woman who allegedly attacked her sister with the lid of a toilet tank. Nitasha Johnson, of Iowa City, was arrested early Sunday and was charged ...

What happened to a Chattanooga police officer's car was certainly under the radar. A city police spokeswoman said Sunday that Officer Clayton Holmes had been checking traff...

The former president of a small Manhattan community bank on Monday became the first person accused of trying to defraud the federal bailout program.Prosecutors also ...

Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options — anything to keep their cut of the profits rolling...

Space shuttle Discovery has some leaky valves that could delay its launch next month.NASA discovered the helium leaks over the weekend. The valves are part of a cont...

Torrential rains and high winds pounded the Northeast for a third day Monday, taking a heavy toll on people and property in a region that only recently restored power or fi...

The former president of a small community bank has become the first person ever charged with trying to defraud the bailout program.Charles Antonucci was arrested Mon...

Crews are using sand bags and granite blocks to shore up a Rhode Island dam that's at risk of breaking amid heavy rains.Officials and engineers are at the dam Monday...

President Barack Obama is delivering a new appeal to Congress on health care — "we need courage."Addressing a crowd in Ohio on Monday, Obama was briefly interrupte...

Police in Ohio have brought more charges against a Walmart shopper accused of punching children in the head for kicks.Columbus Police Sgt. John Hurst says two additi...

The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she is helping him live "a life of truth" and the two remain in love even after their affair helped trigger ...

As hundreds of injured survivors of the Haiti earthquake overwhelmed Florida hospitals in January, state officials pleaded with the federal government for basic information...

With a fresh sense of urgency, President Barack Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress, pledging it woul...

Michelle Williams, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Arizona and New Mexico, has been named chief of bureau for the South Atlantic region.The appointment w...

Thousands of people ripped off in a widespread scam by New York City taxi drivers who illegally doubled the rate of their rides could get some money back, but that is less ...

A Colorado man who sparked fears of an assassination plot against Barack Obama has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a separate theft case.The Colorado attorne...

An Ohio woman claims in a lawsuit that a Pennsylvania plastic surgeon used the wrong kind of breast implants on her, then kept her knocked out longer than necessary and con...

A torrential rainstorm that brought heavy winds to the Northeast, downing trees, flooding roadways and knocking out power, continued to pour rain on New England on Monday.<...

Police escorted convoys of flatbed trucks carrying piles of sandbags into neighborhoods along Fargo's Red River on Monday as residents began preparing to keep the looming f...

Three California men are lucky to be alive after their car veered off a highway and rolled 120 feet down a coastal cliff.The California Highway Patrol says the Toyot...

A downtown Los Angeles railway that shut down nine years after a deadly accident has resumed service with modern braking technology.Operators of the Angels Flight ra...

A Pennsylvania dentist has pleaded guilty to dumping medical waste into the ocean, causing numerous beach closures in New Jersey.Thomas McFarland had unsuccessfully ...

Medical marijuana advocates are gathering signatures for a voter referendum to block a recently passed Los Angeles law that will shutter hundreds of pot shops.The ef...

In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarc...

The mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards says she is helping him live "a life of truth" and that the two remain in love despite a tumultuous four years in...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's wife has been released from a Virginia hospital, where she was taken after being seriously injured in a traffic accident.Reid spo...

John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter didn't want him to run for president and considered it "reckless" for him to stay in the race after his wife's cancer returned, she sai...

The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the S...

Clothing maker Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy privately held Tommy Hilfiger in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $3 billion, creating one of...

A town in Arizona is missing a 25-year-old bottle of brandy.When officials in Somerton opened a time capsule Saturday, they discovered mementos from 1985 — but did...

A torrential rainstorm that brought heavy winds to the Northeast, causing damage and flooding, created some minor headaches for commuters Monday.At least eight peopl...

A torrential rainstorm that brought heavy winds to the Northeast is causing some minor headaches for commuters.In Massachusetts, the state Transportation Department ...

Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore f...

Wet weather was forecast to persist in the Eastern U.S. on Monday as a strong low pressure system slowly moved off the East Coast.The system that brought periods of ...

A bill introduced in the California Assembly is intended to increase safety for skiers and snowboarders and would give the state the most far-reaching ski resort regulation...

On a ridge near the 8,600-foot summit of Alpine Meadows ski resort, 17-year-old snowboarder Lucas Fuller scopes out the many chutes and bowls that radiate out from Ward Pea...

Actor Charlie Sheen is returning to court in Aspen on domestic violence charges stemming from a Christmas Day dispute with his wife.An arraignment is scheduled for M...

The man convicted of stalking ESPN reporter Erin Andrews and shooting nude videos of her through a hotel room peephole facing sentencing in a Los Angeles courtroom.M...

This much is not in dispute: Inspectors could not duplicate the sudden, unintended acceleration that a motorist reported last week when his Toyota Prius reached 94 mph on a...

A torrential rainstorm that brought heavy winds to the Northeast is weakening as it moves north, but the damage and flooding left in its wake might keep some people from th...

A Vermont dairy farmer who was among those targeted in a federal crackdown on undocumented workers says he thought three illegal workers had proper documentation.Cle...

On his 75th birthday, Bill Farthing decided to be reborn. In the six years since he'd buried his wife of 45 years, he'd felt as he did long before: Lonesome, different, out...