Hours before the California Supreme Court issued its decision on gay marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom heard rumblings that the justices would uphold the state’s ban.

A carnival ride spinning with people collapsed at a county fair Friday night, injuring at least 17, including three seriously, an emergency official said.

Missouri lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a bill that adds new restrictions and requirements for illegal immigrants, the cities in which they live and the...

Police found three decomposing bodies with multiple stab wounds inside a northern New Jersey home Friday night, a prosecutor said.

Emergency officials say a carnival ride has collapsed at a fairgrounds, injuring three people severely.

The federal government isn’t used to being snubbed when it offers to help local governments.

A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat...

A New York financier has been sentenced in San Diego to more than eight years in federal prison for laundering bribes for former Congressman Randy “Duke”...

Police found at least three bodies inside a home Friday night, and authorities were treating the case as possible homicides, an official with the prosecutor’s...

The investigation into the bombing of the San Diego federal courthouse has led to the arrest of a woman accused of using false identification in an attempt to obtain...

A minister from a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was caught in an Internet sex sting and charged with online solicitation of a minor, police said Friday.

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...