Today is Saturday, March 20, the 79th day of 2010. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 1:32 p.m. Eastern time.Today's Highlight in History:...

An Indiana man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in California prison for the 1985 murder of a single mother in Anaheim.Wendell Patrick Lemond of Indianapolis w...

The Arizona Game and Fish Department has fired an employee based on results of an internal investigation into the capture and death of what was the only known wild jaguar i...

Activists in Nevada are questioning the rising death toll from a government roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno.U.S. Bureau of Land Management spokes...

A Lehman Brothers whistleblower warned his bosses that accounting gimmicks the bank used before its collapse may have been illegal, his lawyer said Friday.Matthew Le...

A man died while skydiving in Florida after authorities say he had problems with his parachute.Zephyrhills police say 68-year-old Paul C. Luter III appears to have d...

The latest member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for sexual assault of a child.Th...

A car has collided head-on with a school bus in central New Jersey, killing the car's driver and wounding three people, including two high school students.The crash ...

A 31-year-old man who allegedly held his girlfriend against her will in a Utah apartment for three weeks has been charged.Anthony G. Whyms faces one count of aggrava...

The Rapid City, S.D., police chief said in a report released Friday that he regrets his department's outing of a lesbian Air Force sergeant led to her military discharge, b...

A Southern California man has pleaded not guilty to stabbing a moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer during a screening of the film "Shutter Island."Landry B...

A suburban police department left behind a roomful of evidence when it closed two years ago — including a moldy sexual assault kit that authorities said linked a man to t...

The family of a Texas man who died while imprisoned for a rape he didn't commit has been given a framed copy of the state's first posthumous pardon — a document that fina...

A state Senate report released Friday said nurse assistants who lost their certification over abuse, negligence or theft in nursing homes were able to go to work as caregiv...

Prosecutors say a police officer was justified in firing his gun during a standoff with a Utah man who worked as an undercover informant during an investigation into Americ...

Police officers in this retirement town in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.First, a natural gas pipe was sho...

A Washington man accused of shooting his ex-wife to death during a counseling session at a Federal Way church has been charged with first-degree murder.King County p...

A pro-democracy activist jailed for months in Myanmar after trying to visit his sick mother in prison arrived home in the United States on Friday, capping weeks of discussi...

U.S. Border Patrol agents say they seized 45 bundles of marijuana found inside a tractor-trailer at the Arizona-California border.Agents stopped the Freightliner at ...

Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered e...

California authorities say a thief in the Hollywood Hills stole a truck with a 5-year-old boy sleeping inside but the child was found safely soon after.Los Angeles p...

A prosecutor suggested Friday that a mother accused of killing her autistic 8-year-old son in an apparent murder-suicide attempt had a mental problem that spurs people to s...

A state Senate subcommittee plans to hold a hearing next week on findings by an oversight office that show nurse assistants who lost their certification with one state depa...

A convicted embezzler who snagged more than $9 million in business tax credits from the state of Michigan has been charged with defrauding an elderly neighbor.RASCO ...

A woman gardening wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has brought neighborhood complaints and new rules from a housing authority in Colorado.Boulder Housing ...

An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before they leave their native countries, heal...

It was a day like any other day — except that it was the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. And, for the most part, that was forgotten."Honestly, wi...

California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young wo...

In stories March 16 and March 17 about a jogger hit and killed during an emergency landing by a small plane on a South Carolina beach, The Associated Press erroneously iden...

Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berli...

California parole officials have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after several recent high-profile lapses.The new policy requires parole agents to ...

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for his role in a 2007 crime spree in Illinois that left a sheriff's deputy dead.Macon County Judge Tim Steadm...

An Olympic gold medalist says the governing body of the U.S. swim team hasn't done enough to address widespread sexual abuse in youth swimming.Deena Deardurff Schmid...

Cheesecake in hand, the police commissioner personally apologized Friday for the 50 or so mistaken, door-pounding visits that police have made to the home of a bewildered e...

A North Carolina man who helped murder an Orange County fortuneteller and her daughter has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.Phillipe Zamora of Roanoke Ra...

Police have been overwhelmed since they released more than 100 photos found in a serial killer's storage locker, more than 30-year-old pictures of unidentified girls and wo...

A day after a boy's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound, authorities searched unsuccessfully for his missing mother."No, we haven't heard of anything be...

The Federal Reserve must reveal documents identifying financial companies that received Fed loans to survive the financial crisis, a federal appeals court ruled Friday....

An unusual public split between U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, nuns and hospitals over abortion in the health care overhaul could undermine the church hierarchy's influence o...

A federal judge on Friday rejected a legal settlement that would have given at least $575 million to people sickened by ash and dust from the World Trade Center, saying the...

Judge orders renegotiation of settlement for workers sickened at World Trade Center site....

It's the financial equivalent of a high medal count at the Olympics or a seat on the U.N. Security Council — a triple-A credit rating, the seal of approval that lets inve...

Gardeners and landscapers along the Eastern seaboard are making haste — and money — as spring begins and they pick up the pieces from the region's particularly harsh wi...

A judge ruled Friday that Casey Anthony is indigent and can use public money to help pay for her defense against charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter.Circ...

Charges have been dropped or convictions vacated in 185 drug cases in one of the nation's most crime-ridden cities because information gathered in a criminal investigation ...

One of three men convicted of killing Malcolm X 45 years ago was granted release from weekends in prison in his 17th appearance before a state parole board.Thomas Ha...

A year ago, weather forecasters changed their estimate late in the game of just how high the Red River would rise, stoking an 11th-hour sandbagging flurry in Fargo that pro...

A federal appeals court says Anna Nicole Smith's estate will receive none of the more than $300 million that she claimed her late billionaire husband had promised her.<...

Before Casey Anthony was arrested on a charge of killing her 2-year-old daughter, ABC paid the Florida mother and her relatives $200,000 for exclusive use of family photos ...

Top prosecutors in South Carolina and Florida say they're ready to sue if health care reform legislation passes this weekend.South Carolina Attorney General Henry Mc...

The man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years has been ruled out as a suspect in two unsolved murder cases involving children in Reno, ...

President Barack Obama is allowing thousands of Liberians living in the United States to remain in the country for an additional year and a half.A presidential memor...

In response to neighborhood reports of a topless gardener, the housing authority in a Colorado town plans to amend its rules so that tenants cover up when they're outside.<...

Consumer protection officials say a Virginia-based conservative advocacy group led by the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been raising money without ...

Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home.Mortgage holder Amer Haddadin says he is starting foreclosure proceedings on the $565...

Landscapers are hoping an extra-white winter along the East Coast means they'll be seeing a lot of green by repairing the damage left behind.A series of strong storm...

The nation's largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens' lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation.James Roha...

A convicted sex offender charged with murdering a 17-year-old California girl was repeatedly fined for drug and driving offenses following his 2005 release from prison — ...

A lesbian high school student embroiled in a legal flap over her school's prom policy has received a $30,000 scholarship on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."Constance McMi...

Prosecutors have charged a Kansas man with one felony count of bus hijacking for an alleged assault that forced a Greyhound bus off a central Utah highway.Santos Ant...

A day after a boy's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound, authorities pressed forward with their search for his mother.Thurston County sheriff's Lt. Chri...

Ronald Taylor was handcuffed in a hospital bed where he was being treated for cancer when his lawyer came to tell him a Connecticut judge overturned his conviction in a 199...

Four men accused of trying to bomb synagogues and shoot down planes in New York last spring did little more than go along with a fake plot proposed, directed and funded by ...

The Federal Reserve must reveal documents identifying financial companies that received Fed loans to survive the financial crisis, a federal appeals court ruled Friday....

The projected crest of the Red River at Fargo, N.D., has dropped a half-foot, which is good news for a city braced for flooding.The National Weather Service revised ...

A California watchdog group says nursing assistants who lost their certification still found work caring for the elderly.In a report released Friday, the California ...

The sex offender charged with murdering a San Diego County teen was repeatedly fined for drug and driving offenses after his prison release — once while driving a car tha...

Mister Rogers cared deeply about his neighbors and his neighborhood, both in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and in real life.Now, friends and colleagues of late te...

Actresses Demi Moore and Nia Vardalos were linked to an online chain of Twitter posts that ultimately led to Florida authorities intervening Friday when an 18-year-old man ...

Mister Rogers cared deeply about his neighbors and his neighborhood, both in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe and in real life.Now, friends of the late television ic...

Oprah Winfrey and several schoolgirls allegedly abused at her academy in South Africa are expected to testify at an upcoming trial in Philadelphia.The school's forme...

President Barack Obama described the stakes of this weekend's health care vote in stark terms Friday, using words uttered so rarely out of the White House that they seem al...

President Barack Obama says Congress should ignore the politics around his health care overhaul and remember that the unpopular proposals that created Medicare and Social S...

An assistant manager at the World Trade Center visitor center has been charged with stealing more than $40,000 from it.The alleged thefts occurred between August and...

Hundreds of exotic birds and a dog have died in a blaze that destroyed a building at a private Las Vegas nature preserve and sanctuary.Las Vegas fire spokesman Tim S...

A central Indiana woman accused of dousing her two dogs with gasoline and setting them on fire because they bit her faces two felony counts of animal cruelty.Court d...

Two women in Phoenix are in critical condition with hundreds of bee stings after a swarm attacked them while they were out for an evening walk.A witness tells KTVK-T...

Ground zero recovery workers who say they suffered health problems after inhaling the ash and dust left by the collapse of the World Trade Center plan to go before a federa...

A New York woman ordered to pay $9 million to her lover's wife in North Carolina says she plans to appeal the judgment.The News & Record of Greensboro reports th...

By the time 9-year-old Jabari Sanders called 911, his mom was already giving birth to his little brother in the bathroom of their home."The baby's coming now!" Jabar...

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...

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 Massachusetts judge has denied a motion to dismiss charges against a woman accused of failing to fill prescriptions to treat her autistic son's cancer.The Salem Ne...

An assistant manager at the World Trade Center visitor center has been charged with stealing more than $40,000.The alleged thefts occurred between August and Februar...

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 senior New York City police official apologized Friday for the 50 or so door-pounding visits police made to the home of a bewildered elderly couple.It seems a glit...

Commuters might start calling this one the Love Bus.A college student proposed to his girlfriend on a NJ Transit bus at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal on Thu...

A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago takes a close — sometimes even microscopic — look at one short and enigmatic phase in the 65-year-long artistic career ...

WHAT: The Art Institute of Chicago is opening an exhibition titled "Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917."WHERE: 111 S. Michigan Ave. or 159 E. Monroe St. Chicago.<...

Now that sex addiction has found its poster child in Tiger Woods, more people are familiar with the affliction. Yet how it's treated remains a mystery to many.Curios...

School districts have imposed all sorts of drastic cuts to save money during the down economy, canceling field trips and making parents pay for everything from tissues to s...

Most of the nation will see generally pleasant conditions on Friday, but there are some clouds, rain and snow in store for the western Plains and the Rockies.Low pre...

Oil prices drifted below $82 a barrel Friday in Asia, pulling back from a monthlong rally that was fueled by mostly positive news about the U.S. economy.Benchmark cr...

Fess Parker, a televison icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy Crockett and later Daniel Boone, has died at the age of 85 of natural causes.Parker, who was also...

A former porn actress says she may reveal more potentially embarrassing information about Tiger Woods after releasing sexually graphic text messages that she claims prove h...

The body of an 8-year-old boy who vanished with his mother has washed ashore on an island beach in Puget Sound about 12 miles from where their abandoned minivan was found. ...

Police in this picturesque city in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them.First, a natural gas pipe was shoved thro...

The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.The "p...

The brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and the teenage boy accused punching and stom...

If the woman dubbed "Jihad Jane" goes on trial, she would become just the second American woman tried on U.S. soil on terrorism charges — and the first accused of directl...

An American who admitted slipping quietly into the Indian city of Mumbai on scouting missions that led to the November 2008 attack that left 166 people dead already has sta...

For farmer Brian Thomas, getting to town for errands is no simple matter these days as floodwaters cover fields and sections of country roads in the rural areas near Fargo,...

Americans who grew up on grilled cheese and macaroni have developed more adventuresome tastes in adulthood, experimenting with a broader range of cheeses and often seeking ...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has closed two chapters of his life, agreeing to pay $74,000 in fines to resolve ethics charges brought against him after last summer's rev...

Maryland's official song may include a line about "Northern scum" left over from the Civil War era, but the state isn't feeling so Southern anymore.Though Marylander...

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 ...

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...

Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery.P...

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, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman ...