An Arizona man accused admonishing motorists of traffic laws while posing as a police officer apparently picked the wrong driver to pull over.A Maricopa County jury ...

Spurred by budget crises, California and Michigan together reduced their prison populations by more than 7,500 last year, contributing to what a new report says is the firs...

Today is Wednesday, March 17, the 76th day of 2010. There are 289 days left in the year. This is St. Patrick's Day.Today's Highlight in History:On Marc...

Latin Grammy winner Ramon Ayala says he had no idea his band was playing at a drug gang's holiday party before the Mexican military raided the event and detained them.<...

Authorities say they found 58 illegal immigrants in a west Phoenix drop house Tuesday following a lengthy police pursuit on a state highway.Arizona Department of Pub...

A federal judge in Denver ruled that a suspected Mexican drug lord accused of helping smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into the United States should be held wit...

A state report issued Tuesday on a gang and racially motivated riot at a California prison last year recommends changes in managing inmate gang members as well as improveme...

A woman championed as the Obama administration's emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio h...

A former substitute teacher at a juvenile probation camp was arrested Tuesday for investigation of supervising a series of fights between students in rival gangs, authoriti...

The teen father of Sarah Palin's grandson has been ordered to make interim child support payments of $1,750 per month to Palin's daughter.The amount is 20 percent of...

The commanding officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Sacramento has been temporarily relieved of duty, five months after several crewmen died in a collision betwee...

A federal judge on Tuesday said farmers can harvest their genetically engineered sugar beets this year, ruling the economic impact too great and that environmental groups w...

Cornell University, an Ivy League school known for its spectacular gorges and haunted by a reputation for suicides, took the extraordinary step of posting lookouts on bridg...

Relatives and friends of four women who have been missing since the 1970s told investigators they recognized their loved ones in photos found in the locker of a convicted s...

Sheriff's deputies said they found 385 marijuana plants at the home of an outspoken medical marijuana activist who nearly killed a robber in a shootout this week. It's not ...

School officials in a rural Mississippi county told a lesbian student to get "guys" to take her and her girlfriend to a high school prom and warned the girls against slow d...

A crowded bus carrying young families and spring breakers toward Mexico went careening off a Texas highway and flipped onto its side Tuesday, killing two people and forcing...

U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday that she's confident the House will have the votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care legislation, possibly a...

A state report on a prison riot urges changes in the way gang members are managed behind bars.The report released Tuesday by the California Corrections Department ca...

A bench warrant has been issued for Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne, who is facing drug and weapons charges in Arizona.A Yuma County Superior Court judge issue...

A 67-year-old country musician from Montana who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road said he wrote a goodbye letter and was preparing himself for deat...

Northern California authorities are investigating the discovery of a human head and two arms along a river.Sutter County sheriff's Lt. Butah Uppal says the body part...

An attempt by civil rights groups to keep sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban from obtaining internal campaign documents could delay a verdict in the federal tri...

A former Los Angeles County probation camp teacher has been arrested on allegations that he encouraged fights between juveniles during class.Sheriff's spokesman Stev...

State and Army officials say they've reached an impasse in negotiations on monitoring chemical weapons stored outside Pueblo, Colo.The Colorado health department sue...

Two people who were overcome in an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony last year were unconscious when emergency crews arrived, and an autopsy concluded they died of heat stroke u...

A Chicago man accused of scouting out the Indian city of Mumbai before the 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotting to attack a Danish newspaper has agr...

The Navy has relieved a Pearl Harbor-based submarine commander of his command after he became drunk at a Navy ROTC event.U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force spokesman...

When a Tennessee jailer ripped the gold grill from a new inmate's teeth two days before Thanksgiving last year, it left the 31-year-old man in excruciating pain and left ta...

After 10 years of revisions, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is publishing a final report designating habitat for the California red-legged frog that inspired Mark Twain...

Former Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers is relying on a court-appointed lawyer to pursue an appeal of her prison sentence for corruption.That means the public wil...

Despite searches by divers, boats and aircraft, investigators have yet to turn up any solid leads in the weekend disappearance of a Washington woman and her 8-year-old son....

For Tiger Woods, this figures to be a Masters like no other. Woods said Tuesday he will end more than four months of seclusion and play at Augusta National in three weeks, ...

Prosecutors say a Chicago man accused of scouting the Indian city of Mumbai before a November 2008 terrorist rampage will plead guilty to federal charges.David Colem...

Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his daughter's third birthday. He was enjoying a moment to ...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she will freeze funds for expanding the virtual fence that originally was supposed to monitor most of the 2,0...

The Pacific smelt, a small silvery fish that was a staple of Northwest American Indian tribes when the Lewis and Clark expedition arrived, is getting federal protection bec...

Several journalists described run-ins with New Orleans police Tuesday as they testified about allegations that city officers routinely arrest or threaten people who film th...

Family and friends of four women who have been missing since the 1970s have told police they recognize their loved ones in photos found in a serial killer's locker.H...

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 woman championed as the Obama administration's emblem for health care reform does not have to choose between her home and her health, according to officials at the Ohio h...

In a Hollywood-style heist, thieves cut a hole in the roof of a warehouse, rappelled inside and scored one of the biggest hauls of its kind — not diamonds, gold bullion o...

DNA taken from the young son of a man accused of killing a college student and raping two other women can be used as evidence in his upcoming trial to try to link the suspe...

Magazine publishers may have a new way to boost flagging circulation: the iPad.The Audit Bureau of Circulations said Tuesday that it has changed its definition of a ...

Environmentalists are asking the federal government to set aside an area of the Southwest more than half the size of California to help protect the endangered jaguar.NYC abuzz: Sweet deal makes bees legal, David B. Caruso

Urban beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret.The city's health board voted Tuesday to overturn a longtime ban on beeke...

Deputies are investigating a report that armed men broke into a northern Colorado home where medical marijuana was being grown, tied up two people, ransacked the residence ...

A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of placing paper clips instead of stainless steel posts inside the teeth of root canal patients while billing Medicaid for the mor...

A South Carolina museum has voted against erecting a monument to the state's secession from the Union almost 150 years ago.The board of the Patriots Point Developmen...

Authorities in Wisconsin say a resort employee mixed chlorine with another chemical, causing an explosion that left her with broken bones and a mild chemical burn.Oc...

Eight charter companies that provide air travel between the U.S. and Cuba want to block an order requiring them to help pay a $27 million award won by a woman who said she ...

A bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and sending at least 30 people to hospitals, of...

New York City's 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large letter grades near t...

A Greyhound bus veered off the road and through a fence in central Utah after a Kansas passenger kicked the driver in the head, police said.Six people, including the...

A series of drenching storms have replenished many of California's reservoirs, freeing up more water for parched farms and cities throughout the state, Interior Secretary K...

Southern Californians were jolted from their sleep before dawn Tuesday as a small but strongly felt earthquake struck beneath Los Angeles' eastern suburbs.No damage ...

A 41-year-old man faces felony charges after firing a shotgun at the fence around his home to "blow off steam" after an argument with his wife. Mandeville police spokesman ...

A middle school teacher was accused of biting off part of a man's ear during a confrontation at a St. Paul diner. Prosecutors said the 30-year-old woman was drunk when she ...

A father of two in town on business was jogging on the beach and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing, ...

Police said a central Pennsylvania thief who stole the wheels off a car was nice enough to replace them — albeit with worn tires. Police in Lancaster said the thief broke...

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...

A North Carolina man exonerated of a prostitute's murder in a groundbreaking innocence hearing agreed Tuesday to let police test the clothing he wore more than 18 years ago...

A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of putting paper clips in patients' mouths during root canals, then billing Medicaid for the stainless steel posts he should have ...

When the swollen Red River threatened his uninsured house last spring, all Mark Baumgardner could do was pack up, leave and hope he wouldn't lose everything.In the e...

A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling t...

A bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and sending at least 30 people to hospitals, of...

The U.S. Navy says two fighter jets on a training mission collided over the northern Nevada desert, but both pilots survived.The crash east of Fallon Naval Air Stati...

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...

Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls' school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted...

A former Harvard University student was indicted Tuesday as an accessory after the fact in the 2009 fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Cambridge man inside a Harvard dormitory...

The powerful nor'easter had moved out at sea, but flooding lingered Tuesday in many Northeast communities.Many places from the mid-Atlantic to New England were still...

A New Jersey appeals court has put on hold a conservative tea party group's effort to throw a Democratic U.S. senator out of office.The three-judge panel Tuesday ini...

The patient was only slightly injured when he limped into a hospital in the northwest New Mexico city of Farmington. The only problem was, he was a dog. When the automatic ...

A tour bus headed for Mexico carrying 40 people overturned along a southern Texas highway on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring an unknown number of others, ...

A former Harvard University student has been indicted on accessory and firearms charges in the 2009 shooting death of another student.Brittany Smith was indicted Tue...

Texas official says 2 people killed in crash of Mexican tour bus in southern Texas....

Beekeepers in New York City no longer have to keep the honey of their labors a secret.The city's Board of Health decided Tuesday to allow beekeeping in the city afte...

Edmund Dinis, the former prosecutor whose political career sputtered after he oversaw the grand jury investigation into the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's involvement in the Ch...

A prominent cardiologist accused leading heart organizations of being too cozy with industry and allowing those ties to influence its policies and education programs for do...

A man accused of exposing himself to a neighbor's child fatally shot a responding police officer and was killed by backup officers, authorities said Tuesday.Elyria p...

Nine crew members and passengers aboard a Jamaica-bound US Airways flight were taken to a hospital with coughs and sore throats after smelling strong odors Tuesday, two mon...

It's not every day you see a horse fly. But with the greatest of ease, a heavy-duty helicopter plucked a mustang named Colorado off a western Arizona river sandbar Tuesday ...

The New York City Board of Health has voted to require restaurants to tell the public what inspectors think of their cleanliness by displaying large letter grades near thei...

A 67-year-old Montana musician who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road said he wrote a goodbye letter and was preparing himself for death when he was...

US Airways says seven crew members were taken to a hospital from a North Carolina airport after complaining of headaches and nausea aboard a flight.The crew had been...

A cable TV spokeswoman says preview clips for adult programming appeared on two channels dedicated for kids in North Carolina because of an "equipment failure."Time ...

Tiger Woods says he is returning to golf at the Masters....

A New Jersey appeals court is allowing a conservative tea party group to proceed with an effort to throw a Democratic U.S. senator out of office.The three-judge pane...

A dozen illegal immigrants were hidden in the truck bed and extended cab of a pickup that led police on a lengthy pursuit in west Phoenix.The Arizona Department of P...

A woman who drove into a lake after a late-night party, killing her three young sons, pleaded guilty Tuesday to three counts of child endangerment after tearfully telling t...

A death row inmate who tried to kill himself last week by overdosing on pills as his legal challenges dried up was executed Tuesday for robbing and strangling his neighbor ...

A crash between two freight trains near a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh has killed one person.The Allegheny County medical examiner says the Union Railroad wor...

A New Hampshire police chief is defending his department's handling of the case of a missing woman who died from apparent exposure to cold weather in Maine.Sarah Rog...

Thieves scaled a wall at a pharmaceutical warehouse over the weekend, cut a hole in the roof and rappelled inside to steal about $70 million in antidepressants and other pr...

A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, official...

A train engineer is unaccounted for after a train derailment spilled diesel fuel into a creek near a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh.Allegheny County 911 dispatc...

Volunteers in North Dakota were in flood-fighting mode again Tuesday filling sandbags while contractors constructed clay levees along the fast-rising Red River to help prot...

Authorities say tens of millions of dollars worth of prescription drugs have been stolen in a brazen, well-planned heist at a pharmaceutical company warehouse in Connecticu...

Marc Shannon says the prospect of using a sandbag wall to protect his Fargo home from the rising Red River doesn't seem so alarming. Not after last year, when the city deal...

Doctors are reporting an exciting win for gene testing and personalized medicine: Checking patients' DNA before starting them on a popular blood thinner helps get the trick...

A 38-year-old jogger from Georgia is dead after a single-engine plane making an emergency landing hit him as he ran on a South Carolina beach listening to his iPod.T...

A three-day rainstorm that flooded basements and roadways and ripped trees out of the soaking wet ground was among the most devastating ever to the electrical grid in some ...

Laurence Lallier slipped carefully between two naked women facing each other in a narrow doorway at the Museum of Modern Art."I didn't want to step on their feet," s...

A single-engine plane with oil on its windshield hit and killed a man on a Hilton Head beach as the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing.The man was walking...

An earthquake east of downtown Los Angeles rippled across Southern California before dawn Tuesday, jolting millions of people awake and putting first-responders on alert.Md. ACORN chapter disbands in video scandal's wake

A former leader of Maryland's ACORN chapter says the group shaken by a video scandal will no longer operate in the state.The videos showed ACORN workers, including w...

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 ...

Millions of southern Californians have been shaken awake by an early morning earthquake.The magnitude 4.4 quake was centered about 10 miles east of downtown Los Ange...

Lawyers in Nashville have worked out a settlement after a sheriff's lieutenant ripped the grill off a man's teeth at the county jail.Anthony McCoy was arrested in No...

New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in "ab blaster" classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen for the fir...

New England was forecast to see another day of light showers, while scattered thunderstorms would persist in the Southern Plains on Tuesday.A low pressure system lin...

Toyota Motor Corp. was quiet last week when James Sikes told reporters how the gas pedal got stuck on his 2008 Prius, leading him on a wild ride on a Southern California fr...

An Alaska Fish and Game spokeswoman says state officials have located and killed two of the wolves believed responsible for the death of a teacher who was killed while jogg...

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...

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...

After the poisonous snake slithered into the whooping crane family's marshy grounds and sank its fangs into the chick's neck, death seemed certain.The bird's head qu...

Marc Shannon says the prospect of using a sandbag wall to protect his Fargo home from the rising Red River doesn't seem so alarming. Not after last year, when the city deal...

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 Washington state and ...

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 90 mil...

A single-engine plane with oil on its windshield hit and killed a man on a Hilton Head beach as the pilot was trying to make an emergency landing.The man was walking...