Authorities say a child's body found Thursday on an island beach in Puget Sound is that of an 8-year-old boy who vanished last weekend with his mother.Pierce County ...

Today is Friday, March 19, the 78th day of 2010. There are 287 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 19, 1860, lawyer, congressma...

When their mom went into labor with no one else around, a 9-year-old California boy and his 11-year-old sister quickly responded like pros and helped care for their newborn...

Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk — before starting a full-time job at a hospital — when he was gunned down during a robbery.Kansas ...

The Big East has been a big letdown for President Barack Obama.Through the first 12 games of the NCAA tournament Thursday, Obama has correctly predicted all but thre...

A clothing store owner who spent 23 years behind bars for a deadly arson fire after proclaiming her innocence was paroled from state prison and deported to Mexico on Thursd...

Two wolves suspected of killing a teacher outside a rural Alaska village did not have rabies, lab tests concluded Thursday.The animals were shot Monday from the air ...

A child's body found Thursday on an island beach in Puget Sound matches the clothing and haircut of an 8-year-old boy who vanished with his mother, leading a Pierce County ...

A Virginia man has been executed for killing a teen girl and then bragging about it to prosecutors once he thought he could not face the death penalty.Thirty-one-yea...

A former porn actress released sexually graphic text messages Thursday that she says prove her affair with Tiger Woods, and she said she may reveal more potentially embarra...

Documents released Thursday in the case of a motivational speaker charged with manslaughter expand on the already wide range of experiences participants reported having dur...

A four-star general will testify at a pretrial hearing in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war, a Marine Corps spokesman said Thursday.<...

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Arizona has launched a two-day, countywide crime and immigration sweep that authorities say will focus on drop houses, drug violator...

A rocket fired by Gaza militants smashed into a greenhouse in an Israeli border village Thursday, killing a Thai worker in the first such death since Israel's massive offen...

Bail has been set at $5 million for a 42-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his wife during a counseling session at a church in Washington state.Charles Parson...

The man who staged a St. Patrick's Day bank robbery in a leprechaun costume and died during a police shootout also held up a bank three days before Christmas in a Santa sui...

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...

A gunman who killed himself and five students at Northern Illinois University in 2008 may have been motivated in part by fury at academic changes the school made that he be...

Documents released Thursday in the case of motivational speaker James Arthur Ray offer more details of the experiences of the people who participated in a deadly sweat lodg...

A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana so it can gauge how drilling c...

Patients, growers and clinics in some of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana are falling victim to robberies, home invasions, shootings and even murders at the hands...

The Obama administration still wants to buy a prison in northwestern Illinois even if it's not used to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees.A Thursday letter from the Justi...

A Fresno City College science instructor violated a campus anti-discrimination policy when he told students that homosexuality is a mental disorder that should be treated w...

Convicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala may be linked to the unsolved cases of at least six people who disappeared or were killed, Orange County District Attorney Tony ...

Sandra Bullock is on a career high. America's Sweetheart and "Miss Congeniality" was repeatedly anointed as Hollywood royalty this year, sweeping awards season and capping ...

Federal safety officials recommended Thursday that better communications procedures be adopted in the wake of a fatal Montana plane crash and a Northwest Airlines flight th...

A child's body washed up on an island in Puget Sound on Thursday, and law enforcement officials said it could be an 8-year-old boy who went missing with his mother last wee...

A woman accused of trolling the Internet as Jihad Jane and agreeing to marry a suspected terrorist and kill a Swedish artist targeted by radical Muslims cooperated with aut...

Roman Polanski's attorneys filed an appeal Thursday asking that a special counsel be appointed to investigate alleged judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the fugitive ...

A Pennsylvania congressman says the U.S. terrorism suspect known as "Jihad Jane" cooperated in an international probe of radical Muslims.Republican Rep. Charles Dent...

The nation's oceans chief on Thursday detailed reforms on the ways fishermen are policed, including a proposal to force her agency to better justify penalties against them....

For the super-rich and everyone else, the economic recovery is taking place in two very different gears.A British company is betting there's a market in North Americ...

When Alana Sanders gave birth to her fourth child, the people on hand to towel off the baby and tie its umbilical cord weren't the usual team of doctors or nurses. They wer...

The signs of Maria Pinto's rise were clear when Michelle Obama entered the world stage wearing her designs, also favored by Oprah Winfrey.Today the signs on Pinto's ...

A burglar who spent about five hours on a store's computer after breaking into the business gave police all the clues they needed to track him down. Investigators said the ...

A songwriter and music producer says in a New York City lawsuit pop star Lady Gaga squeezed him out of her lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up wit...

A man from Maine who struck a match on a U.S. Airways flight to Boston's Logan International Airport is facing some heat — but not over matches. Massachusetts State Polic...

A Pennsylvania congressman says the U.S. terrorism suspect known as "Jihad Jane" has been cooperating in an international probe of radical Muslims.Rep. Charles Dent,...

A woman who says an on-duty Providence police officer raped her testified on the opening day of a sexual assault trial Thursday that she woke up in the bathroom stall of a ...

Authorities are investigating whether a motorcycle gang rigged a Southern California police building with booby traps after becoming angry when police monitored the funeral...

The Orange County district attorney says serial killer Rodney Alcala may be linked to the disappearances of two more people, bringing the total to at least six possible uns...

A jury convicted a New Hampshire man Thursday of beating his landlord to death with a hammer to steal his new pickup truck, and rejected the defendant's claims he acted in ...

A Chicago man admitted Thursday that he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai for a 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead and plotted an attack on a Danish newspa...

A Connecticut judge has overturned the convictions of two men serving 80 years for a 1993 murder and ordered their immediate release from prison, saying they are the victim...

A federal appellate court said Thursday it wouldn't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the ma...

Before this flood season, officials in Fargo asked homeowners to clear paths in their yards so that firm and straight walls of sandbags could be placed to protect their hom...

A clothing store owner who spent 23 years behind bars for a deadly arson fire after proclaiming her innocence was paroled from state prison on Thursday but immediately take...

A jury has convicted a New Hampshire man of beating his landlord to death with a hammer to steal his new pickup truck, and rejected the defendant's claims he acted in self-...

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.Family ...

A federal judge has approved a settlement requiring the government to suspend oil and gas leases on almost 38,000 acres in Montana because potential climate change impacts ...

Some suburban Philadelphia parents are seeking to halt a potential class-action lawsuit accusing their school district of using cameras in school-issued laptops to spy on s...

A Chicago man who pleaded guilty to helping plan an attack on a Danish newspaper says a coconspirator wanted newspaper employees beheaded to make a statement.David C...

A judge has finalized South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's divorce from his wife Jenny, ending their 20-year marriage.Court records show Family Court Judge Jocelyn Cat...

California's worker safety board says a proposal to require porn actors to wear condoms during filming needs more study.In a hearing Thursday, the six-member Califor...

A woman accused of strangling her daughter on a college campus apartment in Purchase, N.Y., told police she did it because the daughter was "disrespectful all the time," ac...

Owen Elementary, which closed in 2006, stands open to any who dare to take on its dark, winding hallways and shadowy classrooms on Detroit's southwest side.A weather...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has agreed to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve dozens of charges that he violated state ethics laws with his campaign spending and travel, i...

A Los Angeles gang member who was on parole has been sentenced to 93 years to life in prison for killing a 4-year-old boy.Howard Astorga had been convicted of killin...

An early-morning fire gutted a small hotel on the city's east side Thursday where an illegal electrical hookup was being used for power, killing a man and injuring two othe...

An ex-convict pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Thursday for killing his 80-year-old prison pen-pal lover, entombing the man's body in cement in a garden and then using...

The stock market made mostly modest moves Thursday after reports that pointed to an economy that's slowly regaining strength.The reports showed that inflation remain...

A Chicago man has pleaded guilty to charges alleging he scouted out the Indian city of Mumbai before a terrorist attack that left 166 dead and planning to attack a Danish n...

The unincorporated town of Congress sits at the junction of state highways 71 and 89 in the middle of the Arizona desert, a no-stoplight kind of place if ever you saw one. ...

A nudist in Boulder who was threatened with eviction last spring for gardening outside wearing only pasties and a thong has caused another stir by gardening topless. At lea...

An elderly Brooklyn couple say they're tired of hearing the phrase, "Police! Open up!" World War II veteran Walter Martin and his 82-year-old wife, Rose, said police have c...

A Defense Department official under investigation for allegedly running an off-the-books spy operation with private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan said the program...

When Alana Sanders gave birth to her fourth child, the people on hand to towel off the baby and tie its umbilical cord weren't the usual team of doctors or nurses.Th...

Day laborers on foot from Long Island and Californians who sold tamales to pay for their trip are expected to rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C., with tens of thousands of...

More than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers swept through El Paso on Thursday, picking up suspected members of the Barrio Azteca gang in an effort to fi...

A jury has awarded a North Carolina woman $9 million from her husband's lover after ruling the other woman ruined their marriage.The News & Record of Greensboro ...

New York Gov. David Paterson said Thursday that he was the first to reveal a conversation he had with a woman at the center of a domestic violence scandal, the second conse...

The 2010 World Cheese Championship Cheese Contest concluded Thursday with the crowning of the world champion in Madison, Wis. Here's a list of the top three finishers, alon...

An attempt by the California Legislature to impose what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks stalled Thursday over objections it woul...

A pilot who crashed an experimental airplane in the Arizona desert this week had two previous accidents and did not have the required medical certificate to fly a plane, a ...

A federal appellate court says it won't reconsider its ruling that former Attorney General John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible for misuse of the material witne...

Last fall, as swine flu cases mounted and parents desperately sought to protect their kids, the hard-to-get vaccine was handed out in some surprising places: the Royal Cari...

Three bear cubs orphaned by their mother's life of crime have been given a new lease on life in the Nevada outback.Biologists and volunteers used snowmobiles and sle...

A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama's s...

The Europeans are still the big cheeses.Swiss and Austrian cheesemakers took top honors Thursday at the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, beating ou...

Authorities in Washington state say a shoe that washed up on a Puget Sound beach over the weekend probably belonged to the woman who apparently abandoned a van on the beach...

The attorney for a woman accused of helping to steal a wristwatch from a dying man in a hospital waiting room says his client will plead guilty.Twenty-one-year-old J...

Gay couples who sued New Jersey for the right to marry once before are taking their case back to court.Six couples plus the surviving partner from a seventh filed a ...

The Air Force Academy says applications to attend the school next fall are up more than 17 percent after stepped up recruiting among minorities and in areas of the country ...

Utah's House Republicans say it was appropriate for a state lawmaker to resign after he acknowledged he paid a woman $150,000 to keep quiet about nude hot-tubbing a quarter...

Authorities in Idaho say a man suspected of killing his mother there earlier this month has been apprehended in Cambodia.Idaho Falls police say they learned Thursday...

A once-high-flying art dealer plans to admit swindling nearly $100 million from a star-studded clientele that included tennis great John McEnroe and the estate of actor Rob...

A 67-year-old man on Thursday admitted hijacking a plane four decades ago and forcing it to land in Cuba, telling a judge how he threatened to cut a flight attendant's thro...

A U.S. citizen accused of hijacking a plane and forcing it to go to Cuba more than four decades ago pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping, conspiracy to commit air piracy a...

A Pennsylvania woman accused of trolling the Internet as "Jihad Jane" while she cared for her boyfriend's father denied in court Thursday that she sought to kill a Swedish ...

Owners of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant are threatening to shut it down rather than build cooling towers mandated by New Jersey environmental regulators.Ex...

2010 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport CoupeBASE PRICE: $48,930 for base model; $54,770 for Grand Sport.AS TESTED: $69,855.TYPE: Front-engine, rear-wheel ...

Already bargain priced for the handling, power and iconic status it delivers, the Chevrolet Corvette ratchets up its value-for-the-dollar appeal this year with a new Grand ...

A woman who says she was raped by an on-duty Providence police officer has testified against him.The woman described Thursday the events that led to the 2007 alleged...

A defense lawyer says a former top fundraiser for Hillary Clinton intends to plead guilty in a federal bank fraud case.The lawyer for Hassan Nemazee told The Associa...

The Philadelphia-area woman who authorities say dubbed herself "Jihad Jane" online pleaded not guilty Thursday in federal court to a four-count indictment charging her in a...

A Democratic Ohio congressman said a group opposed to health care overhaul went too far by taking out a newspaper ad that included a large photo of him with his two young d...

Child's body washes up on island near Tacoma, Wash.; police say it could be missing 8-year-old....

The government is announcing a recall of some 1.2 million high chairs, saying they pose a fall hazard to children.The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced th...

An elderly Brooklyn couple say they're tired of hearing the phrase, "Police! Open up!"World War II veteran Walter Martin and his 82-year-old wife, Rose, say police h...

A union representative says eight crew members are still sick from problems on three earlier flights with a plane where crew and passengers got sick in North Carolina this ...

The father of 9 and 11-year-old siblings who helped deliver their baby brother at their Fremont home is calling his kids "super heroes."Faith and Jabari Sanders spra...

A cruise liner hit by an outbreak of intestinal illness for a third straight trip from South Carolina returned a day early Thursday as operator Celebrity Cruises brought in...

Authorities say illegal electricity was being supplied to a small hotel on Detroit's east side where one person was killed and two others were injured in a fire that gutted...

For 68 years, John E. Love has been haunted by the memory of carrying fallen comrades to a mass grave hollowed out of a Filipino rice field. Now, at last, a bit of history ...

Stock futures are trading in a narrow range, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average rose to its highest level of the year.Investors are heading into Thursday t...

The fatal stabbing of an Ecuadorean immigrant in November 2008 on Long Island was the culmination of a campaign of violence against Hispanics, prosecutors told jurors Thurs...

Two former assistant directors of the FBI are beginning a review of North Carolina's crime lab following revelations that led to a groundbreaking exoneration of a man wrong...

California lawmakers on Thursday were considering what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks as a way to get unsightly cigarette butts...

A California Highway Patrol officer responding to a report of a runway Toyota Prius last week arrived to find a Border Patrol agent near the driver with emergency lights on...

Condoms might be the only thing porn actors are required to wear if the state's workplace safety board approves a petition mandating their use.In a hearing Thursday,...

Nearly three years after a massacre that left more than 30 dead, Virginia Tech officials are urging calm as e-mails and Internet postings originating in Italy threaten anot...

Mac Butler believes he'll beat the bloated Red River and save his home again this year. But a canoe and kayak are tied up outside his house just in case he's wrong.B...

After a brief stint of fairly quiet weather activity over most of the West, a new patch of active weather was expected to move into the region Thursday.A strong Paci...

A Chicago man accused of helping scout out the Indian city of Mumbai before the 2008 terrorist attack that left 166 people dead is expected to plead guilty Thursday to fede...

Whether she was seeking love, vengeance or just an escape from her dreary, small-town existence, Colleen LaRose searched the Internet and, authorities say, found Muslim ext...

Idaho is leading the charge in a states-rights push to defeat a proposal in Congress that would require people to buy health insurance, a key piece of reforms being pushed ...

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 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...

A Providence police officer accused of raping a woman in a deserted police substation and then showing up to take a report after she called 911 heads to trial this week at ...

Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney ...

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...

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....

Authorities rescued an injured pilot who was trapped for about eight hours in the wreckage of an experimental plane that crashed on an Indian reservation south of Phoenix.<...