The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence will pay $1.3 million to four people who said they were abused by priests, lawyers announced Friday.

Fuel prices have grounded an unexpected frequent-flyer: Diddy.

Bacterial contamination has been found in well water at a northeast Oklahoma restaurant linked to an E. coli outbreak that killed a man and sickened dozens of others,...

A judge on Friday accepted a plea deal that reduced the murder charge for a software programmer who led authorities to his wife’s body after his initial...

The Republican National Committee on Friday made its penalties stick against South Carolina, New Hampshire, Florida and Michigan for holding primaries earlier than...

Supporters of a proposal to ban affirmative action in Arizona said Friday they were abandoning a lawsuit aimed at getting the measure on the Nov. 4 ballot.

Animal rights activists broke into a mink farm and released hundreds of the animals from their pens, police said.

A retired University of Tennessee professor accused of passing secrets from his work on a U.S. Air Force contract to two foreign graduate students testified Friday that...

A 6-year-old girl playing hide-and-seek with her grandmother found a newborn baby girl abandoned in a vacant lot next to her home.

Barack Obama’s audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television...

A locomotive train slammed into a propane tanker truck in north-central Oklahoma on Friday, triggering a huge explosion that killed two people and injured a third,...

The newspaper industry’s downward spiral is accelerating as the weak U.S. economy depresses already-tumbling advertising revenue and forces more rounds of job...

Police with bullhorns plan to go street to street with a tough message about getting out ahead of Hurricane Gustav: This time there will be no shelter of last resort....

Some members of the civilian jury that acquitted a former Marine accused of war crimes in Iraq say they weren’t qualified to judge actions in combat, and military...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s reputation as a crusading reformer after pushing through higher taxes on oil companies has been tarnished by revelations that members of...

Like the NFL teams beginning their new seasons, Usher is hoping to go all the way to the Super Bowl.

Treasury prices mostly fell Friday ahead of the long holiday weekend as traders booked profits in an abbreviated session.

A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab...

Homicide investigators used ground-penetrating radar Friday to determine if the bones of a long-vanished couple were buried in the backyard.

Federal authorities say two airliners were a minute away from colliding when they turned away from each other over the Caribbean this week.