Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.

Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm.

Firefighters say a man and a boy have died in a Manhattan apartment building fire, possibly after jumping from a sixth-floor window.

A fugitive accused of fatally stabbing his estranged second wife in suburban Chicago was arrested in northwestern Indiana on Tuesday, more than a decade after he spent...

An East Hartford man called police to report he had been robbed while trying to buy crack cocaine.

Forrest City police weren’t able to catch their man after a high-speed chase through town, but the cell phone he left behind gave away his identity.

Passengers on a Dallas-bound flight that made an emergency landing in Arkansas because of smoke in the cockpit were diverted again, this time in Louisiana, because of...

We’ve known for a while that large astronomical events can spell bad news for life: supernovae unleash unimaginable levels radiation, asteroids can kick up...

Costa Rican-American physicist/rocket scientist Franklin Chang-Diaz is typical of the new breed of entrepreneurs driving the future of space travel.

An ex-convict hid his criminal past to get work as a court-appointed sentencing consultant and bilked the city out of more than $60,000 with phony efforts to help...

A federal judge in Louisiana has overturned the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a prison guard.

A detective and prosecutors did not commit crimes when they put together a murder case against a man whose conviction was later overturned on DNA evidence, a special...

Kern County supervisors refused to ban gay marriage, rebutting a conservative group that sought to make it the first California county to reject the statewide policy.

A 22-year-old man has been charged with shooting at random motorists over three days in the Dallas suburbs, and prosecutors said Tuesday they would treat the charges as...

Nicole Kidman has described Nashville as a quiet escape, a nice place to raise a garden or grab coffee without photographers in tow.

Four people were charged following an assault on a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Vermont-Quebec border, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

State prisoners with hepatitis C aren’t getting the health care they need, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that adds to complaints about the medical...

A bit player snared in a government crackdown on the Chicago mob was sentenced Tuesday to six months in federal prison for converting video games into gambling...

A woman being taken from a hospital’s emergency room to intensive care was trapped in an elevator for about three hours and later died.

TV One, the cable network aimed at African-American viewers, will cover Barack Obama’s nominating convention but is ignoring John McCain’s.