An Illinois appellate court ruled Friday that the city of Chicago cannot be held liable for a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people and injured dozens more.

When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch were pregnant or had...

Several bodies have been found in a northern New Jersey home under circumstances that were not immediately clear to authorities.

Former Sen. George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential candidate and an early backer of Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined a noisy rally for Barack Obama on Friday...

Michigan and Florida alone can’t save Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign. Interviews with those considering how to handle the two states’ banished...

Going potty without a partner can lead to punishment for students at a Burgaw elementary school, but parents want the policy flushed.

Authorities said an 8-year-old Pontiac boy took a stolen car on a joy ride and caused a three-vehicle crash. Pontiac police said the boy sneaked out of his house...

A Brown University student says she’s been suspended for hitting a New York Times columnist with a pie during an Earth Day speech.

Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber harassment...

Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state’s new law that...

Soon after taking office, the next president will get some advice about how to prevent a nuclear attack on the U.S., researched and written by top experts on weapons of...

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will visit four nations in the Middle East later this month to discuss foreign investment, the fight against terrorist financing and...

The California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage will not be the last word.

Supplies from U.S. relief flights were given directly to nongovernmental organizations Friday to help with the aftermath of Myanmar’s disastrous cyclone, the...

When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch were pregnant or had...

The leader of a Southern California Indian tribe and a sheriff’s department vowed Friday to work together to lower tensions after three people were killed on the...

A hepatitis C outbreak affecting more than 80 people and exposing tens of thousands more was caused by workers reusing syringes at a Las Vegas clinic, federal health...

A nurse survived eight days in the wreckage of a Turkish hospital destroyed by an earthquake in 1992. A newborn was rescued after more than a week in the rubble of...

Canadian energy officials Friday scrapped development of a nuclear reactor project to produce radioactive isotopes for the diagnoses of cancer and other illnesses,...

Classified ad Web site Craigslist is denying online auctioneer eBay’s allegation that it unfairly diluted eBay’s stake in it and says its board was acting...