Today is Thursday, March 18, the 77th day of 2010. There are 288 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 18, 1910, the first filmed...

A convicted sex offender charged with murdering a California teenager lived near a preschool for at least 16 months before parole agents forced him to move, according to st...

Police in Washington state say a man who accompanied his wife to a church for a counseling session shot the woman several times at the church, killing her.Federal Wa...

Authorities say a 15-year-old girl was savagely beaten by a teenage boy while waiting for her bus outside a Florida middle school.The Broward Sheriff's Office says t...

Prosecutors say a member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been found guilty of sexual assault of a child.Texas Attorney ...

A California Highway Patrol report released Wednesday says an officer responding to a report of a runaway Toyota Prius arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver...

Three booby-trap attacks on an anti-gang task force in Southern California prompted the arrests of about 30 members of California's largest motorcycle gang, prosecutors sai...

The New York state Senate's newest member has taken office, ending a lengthy saga in the chamber after his expelled predecessor was convicted of assault.Democratic S...

Detectives in Los Angeles County have arrested a man on suspicion of stabbing a moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer during a screening of the film "Shutter Island...

A Colorado company is accused of illegally exporting defense technology used by the U.S. military to South Korea, China, Russia and Turkey, federal prosecutors said Wednesd...

A black former college professor who reported finding a noose on her New York City office door has lost one of her three lawsuits surrounding plagiarism accusations that go...

A defense lawyer says a Harvard Law School graduate accused of setting a fire at a New York City chapel that temporarily housed the remains of Sept. 11 victims was so drunk...

The U.S. Marine Corps' investigation of the February death of an Indiana Marine in Afghanistan concludes that he was fatally shot when an Afghan security contractor fired s...

The online-only successor to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is celebrating its first birthday.Seattlepi.com began on the Web on March 18, 2009, a day after the 146-y...

Authorities in Washington state on Wednesday resumed their search for a woman who appears to have abandoned a van on a remote Puget Sound beach over the weekend and disappe...

The Idaho Supreme Court has denied requests from six death row inmates who said they were entitled to new trials because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made after their convic...

A Louisville man has been indicted on a charge of threatening to kill President Barack Obama in a poem posted on a white supremacist Web site.The U.S. attorney's off...

An angry letter and a bag of Golden Flake chips were taped inside Major Bashinsky's abandoned car when it was found near downtown Birmingham.Days later the snack foo...

Two bank robbery suspects, including one dressed in a green leprechaun costume, were shot dead after a St. Patrick's Day chase and shootout with police in Tennessee, author...

A woman feared she'd never see her young child again unless she complied with her husband's scheme to sell her sexual services on Craigslist, authorities said Wednesday.Computer programmers indicted in NY Madoff fraud

Two former employees accused of helping fraudulent Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff (MAY'-dawf) program an old computer to generate false records have been indicted.Woman accused of sending text about drugs to agent

A Mangum woman has been arrested for allegedly sending a text message about illegal drugs to a drug task force agent. A warrant was issued for the woman for possession of a...

Immigrants who have been victims of crimes and help authorities prosecute perpetrators can now get help from the U.S. Labor Department with their applications for a special...

Schoolchildren, parents and hundreds of residents have spent days packing and stacking sandbags to protect their cities against the rising Red River. The National Guard is ...

Some drivers in Newport Beach said they were left flat after a spike strip fell out of a police car and punctured their tires. A police report said the strip, which is desi...

Complaints of sudden acceleration in Toyotas repaired under recalls have nearly doubled in the past two weeks, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data....

A convicted embezzler who snagged a $9.1 million business tax credit from the state of Michigan and appeared on stage with Gov. Jennifer Granholm has been arrested on a par...

The attorney representing a jogger accused of yelling at police and citizens during his runs through Portsmouth, New Hampshire said an order barring his client from the cit...

Authorities in California say they've arrested several dozen people in a statewide crackdown on an outlaw motorcycle club, and there may also be some arrests in other Weste...

Police say they're investigating as suspicious the death of a college student whose body was pulled from a Rhode Island river this week.Gregory Hart was last seen Su...

Authorities are hailing the arrests of 149 people in a drug investigation in a gritty New Jersey city Conan O'Brien mocked on NBC's "Tonight Show."Mayor Cory Booker ...

Tennessee's head Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Levy was arrested in Mississippi and charged with felony marijuana possession after investigators found a package of pot with hi...

The Episcopal Church has approved the election of a lesbian assistant bishop in the Diocese of Los Angeles, making her the second openly gay bishop in the Anglican global f...

Police in Tennessee say two bank robbery suspects have been shot and killed after they fired at police officers during a car chase.Gallatin police Sgt. Bill Storment...

The Department of Veterans Affairs was fined $227,500 after incorrect radiation doses were given to 97 veterans with prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center, ...

Saving Utah's endangered June sucker may require moving a river.Federal officials this week announced they're in the early stages of planning a project to shift the ...

The $75 million heist at a pharmaceutical warehouse in Connecticut this week was just the most audacious example of a growing phenomenon: Thieves are stealing large quantit...

A small but significant portion of medical studies exclude gays from participating, sometimes without an apparent scientific reason, several cancer researchers say.I...

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...

A jury has recommended the death penalty for an Ohio registered sex offender jurors convicted of killing two teenage Cincinnati girls and burning their bodies.The ju...

A federal jury on Wednesday rejected allegations that New Orleans police unlawfully arrested two men who were videotaping them along a Carnival parade route in 2007....

The Department of Veterans Affairs has been fined $227,500 after incorrect radiation doses were given to 97 veterans with prostate cancer at the Philadelphia VA Medical Cen...

An announcement at a Walmart store in New Jersey ordering black people to leave brought chagrin and apologies Wednesday from leaders of the company, which has built a fragi...

Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left...

A Hawaii inmate who claims she was raped by two guards at a private prison has sued the state and prison operator Corrections Corporation of America.The woman says i...

Police said a man broke into a Pittsburgh home and climbed into bed with its owner, apparently because he was drunk and cold following a rap concert. Homeowner Frank Fontan...

The Corrections Corporation of America is replacing the top two officials at Idaho's only private prison after the American Civil Liberties Union sued over claims of brutal...

A 25-year-old man did not take his inability to get more beer well. Lafourche sheriff's spokeswoman Lesley Hill Peters said the man was accused of breaking furniture and th...

Police say a mentally disabled teenage boy stole a bus in suburban Philadelphia and hit several cars before crashing to a halt and being arrested.Upper Darby police ...

A wheelchair company and its technicians are to blame for the death of a disability advocate who died after his wheelchair malfunctioned during routine repairs, pinning his...

Gov. David Paterson's press secretary on Wednesday became the fourth top staffer to quit amid dual scandals, resigning just hours after her boss publicly proclaimed for the...

Banking giant Wachovia Corp. has agreed to pay $160 million to settle a federal investigation into laundering of drug money through Mexican exchange houses.The agree...

A judge threatened to arrest a newspaper reporter who saw a psychiatric evaluation of a serial-killing suspect, then backed off Wednesday when she learned that her predeces...

A U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday that a northeastern Pennsylvania prosecutor may not pursue felony charges against a teenage girl who appeared in a racy cell-phone phot...

Authorities say two men killed in a Southern California home last week were smuggling illegal immigrants and got into a fight over profits from their human cargo.She...

Former President Jimmy Carter on Wednesday called the divide among Republicans and Democrats in Washington "unprecedented," and said President Barack Obama should hold priv...

Some children lugged sandbags that weighed more than they did. Determined teens showed up just after dawn with groups of friends, ready and willing to shovel. New groups of...

Airport security agents mistakenly allowed a bottle of liquid to pass through before it was properly scanned early Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport, causing a...

Nearly two years ago, North Carolina's groundbreaking innocence panel received the evidence it needed to free a man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongly convic...

Gov. David Paterson's press secretary is resigning, making her the fourth top staffer to resign amid scandals that threaten the administration.Press Secretary Mariss...

An Ohio judge has learned that a colleague allowed a newspaper reporter to see a psychiatric evaluation on a Cleveland man accused of killing 11 women.Cuyahoga (ky-u...

Doors are expected to shut on more than a quarter of Detroit's 172 public schools in June as the district fights through steadily declining enrollment and a budget deficit ...

A Boston family says their quadriplegic son died after his wheelchair malfunctioned during routine maintenance, pinning his legs under a table and causing him to suffer sei...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:March 15Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald on why change in credit ru...

A federal judge refused Wednesday to postpone the June start of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial, brushing aside defense attorneys' claims that they won't hav...

Authorities in Washington state called off ground and water searches for the woman who abandoned a van on a remote Puget Sound beach over the weekend and disappeared with h...

Let the record reflect that the Tennessee state Senate has endorsed fish tanks and live birds in barber shops.The Senate on Wednesday voted 30-1 for a measure allowi...

Authorities are trying to determine if an heir to one of Alabama's best-known companies was killed or took his own life.Mountain Brook Police Chief Johnny Stanley sa...

Prosecutors say a western Pennsylvania woman who improperly cared for hundreds of cats at a self-styled animal sanctuary has been violating her probation by not paying rest...

All the world from the Sydney Opera House to the Empire State Building turned Irish, or at least Irish for the day, as revelers marked St. Patrick's Day with bagpipes, danc...

The emergency financial manager for Detroit public schools says 44 schools and a support building will close in June as the district addresses budget issues and declining e...

An al-Qaida-trained terrorist convicted in an attempted bombing on the millennium is appealing a federal court's ruling that his 22-year sentence was too lenient.A t...

A broken drive shaft likely caused a Mexico-bound bus to veer wildly on a Texas highway before flipping over, killing two passengers and injuring 40 others on board, invest...

New York Gov. David Paterson broke his silence Wednesday, saying that he didn't try to persuade a woman to drop a domestic violence complaint against a top aide and that hi...

When American Rabbi Joshua Spinner moved to Berlin's trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood a decade ago, there were no other Jews to be seen.Now when the sun sets on a...

Virginia is reopening rest areas less than a year after a budget shortfall prompted their closing.Gov. Bob McDonnell was on hand Wednesday for a ribbon cutting at th...

A federal agriculture report says the light brown apple moth will continue to be regulated as a quarantine pest, despite arguments its danger is overstated.The moth,...

An Alaska wildlife veterinarian will examine whether two wolves shot by officials this week were the animals that killed a teacher out jogging alone along a rural village r...

Police say a security breach at Los Angeles International Airport halted screening at three terminals for about 20 minutes.Sgt. Belinda Nettles says a woman in a whe...

Boston College has received a $20 million gift from the co-founder of a Massachusetts supermarket chain and his wife to help train teachers for Roman Catholic schools and u...

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...

A judge has ordered a newspaper reporter arrested over a leaked psychiatric evaluation on a Cleveland man accused of killing 11 women.Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) Count...

Los Angeles International Airport police say security screening at a terminal was halted for about 30 minutes by a security breach that was quickly resolved.Sgt. Bel...

Authorities in Texas have released the identities of the two people who died when a tour bus headed for Mexico crashed.Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman ...

The father of a boy who vanished along with his mother last weekend has arrived in Washington to look for them.Jay Carver arrived at Seattle-Tacoma International Air...

Detroit Public Schools are considering closing 45 schools in the next five years because students are leaving the district.The district's emergency financial manager...

Voters in the upstate New York birthplace of the women's rights movement have approved a proposal to dissolve their village government.Tuesday's ballot proposal to m...

If Koozie the dog were a cat she would be down to seven lives. The 8-year-old mix-breed pooch had to be rescued — not once, but twice — from the broken-up ice of Lake E...

Stock futures are rising Wednesday after U.S. and Japanese central banks reaffirmed plans to keep interest rates low in an effort to drive economic growth.The U.S. F...

A doctor who questioned an unusually high fare is credited with touching off a widespread investigation into cabbie rip-offs.Dr. Mitchell Lee was riding home from NY...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials are reviewing security tapes to try to determine who used a southern New Jersey store's public-address system to tell "all black people" to l...

Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives went on display Wednesday, exploring 6 million years of evolution a...

Friends of a Utah mother missing since December plan a search of the remote desert area where the woman's husband says he was winter camping when she disappeared.In ...

Most of the U.S. should see another day of mild weather Wednesday as a large ridge of high pressure continues to build over the middle of the country and stretch over most ...

Some children lugged sandbags that weighed more than they did. Determined teens showed up just after dawn with groups of friends, ready and willing to shovel. New groups of...

A 67-year-old country musician from Montana who spent four days in his car stuck on a remote mountain road was weak and losing hope when an Idaho couple out for a drive in ...

The bus had been on the interstate about an hour when the spring breakers and other travelers headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border heard a noise and then felt the bus flip ...

A series of children's textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, inaccurately portraying its followers as inherently violent and ...

The kit-built single-engine plane was gliding quietly as it came down for an emergency landing on a beach. Pharmaceutical salesman Robert Gary Jones, listening to his iPod ...

Months of heavy rains throughout the South are forcing International Paper Co. to look beyond its usual suppliers for wood for its central South Carolina mill and turn to p...

Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here.As the state continues to receive e-mails seeki...

A 23-year-old woman allegedly attacked by a registered sex offender at the same park where he is accused of killing a San Diego teenager two months later said Tuesday that ...

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...