The Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into an historic year...

A zoo in suburban Chicago plans to reopen an exhibit where 16 stingrays died last week when a malfunction let the tank’s water get too warm.

A man convicted of murder for failing to seek medical help for his handicapped daughter for more than a week after she suffered third-degree burns in a scalding bath...

Violent storms on Thursday in a 25-mile-long swath of central New Hampshire destroyed several homes, damaged dozens of others and left at least one person dead,...

The State Department’s inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have...

A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.

The State Department’s inspector general is investigating Iraqi oil contracts after four Democratic senators complained that department employees may have...

A naturalized U.S. citizen accused of helping to lead an Iranian terrorist group must face trial on a charge of providing material support to terrorism, a federal judge...

A paralyzed man claimed in a lawsuit Thursday that seven Chicago police officers dragged him from a car and beat him unconscious when he was too slow to obey their...

U.S. Attorney Troy Eid says escaped convict, his wife and 3-year-old daughter were found slain outside a farm house east of Denver on Thursday in an apparent...

A police spokesman says a man has been arrested in a shooting that wounded three people at a Phoenix community college campus.

Two Marines apparently killed one of their Camp Pendleton comrades in a dispute over stolen drug money, prosecutors said Thursday.

Two Marines apparently killed one of their Camp Pendleton comrades in a dispute over stolen drug money, prosecutors said Thursday.

Country singer Chris Cagle has been found not guilty of domestic violence after his girlfriend refused to testify against him.

Charges have been dismissed against a Camp Pendleton Marine sniper accused in the shooting deaths of two Syrians in Iraq.

Officials say three people have been shot at a community college in Phoenix.

If you haven’t heard of “Twilight,” ask a teenager. The best-selling young-adult book isn’t bound for the big screen until December, but fan...

Police and the World Trade Center site’s owner sketched out a security agreement Thursday that settles a turf war over who will protect ground zero against...

Baylor University regents on Thursday fired the school president, the second in three years to leave amid clashes with the faculty at the world’s largest Baptist...

President Bush on Thursday nominated Paul S. Diamond to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, withdrawing his earlier pick for the job after she drew...