When a man sounding remarkably like President-elect Barack Obama called a Florida congresswoman Wednesday, she assumed it was a crank call.

An autopsy has determined the death of a Japanese businessman found dead in a jail cell after being extradited to California in a decades-old murder conspiracy case was...

The legal staff for the U.S. House of Representatives has challenged the constitutionality of the Justice Department’s prosecution of retiring U.S. Rep. Rick...

A wealthy Russian-born businessman from suburban Philadelphia was charged Wednesday with traveling to orphanages in his native country to molest young girls and hire...

The current homeland security secretary advised his successor Wednesday not to reorganize the young department or try to please everyone.

Former President Jimmy Carter has written a new book on the Middle East with a title he hopes will not be as controversial as the last one, which was called,...

An autopsy shows the Metrolink engineer involved in a train collision that killed 25 people in September was not on drugs or medication before he ran a red light that...

In broadcasting the world’s first live 3-D football game to theaters in Los Angeles, New York and Boston on Thursday evening, the NFL promises an “up close,...

A family of Hurricane Katrina survivors whose new house was partly built with lumber from last year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree were among thousands who...

A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu _ despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the...

A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu _ despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the...

The outlook for the majority of the U.S. information technology sector is negative for 2009, Fitch Ratings said Wednesday.

One of the men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix said it was time to bring holy war to American soil after listening to an Islamist lecture, an...

Democrat Charlie Brown conceded defeat to Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock on Wednesday in their hard-fought race for California’s 4th District House seat,...

A stadium vendor has settled a lawsuit by the family of a girl paralyzed in a car accident caused by a drunken New York Giants fan for $26 million.

A judge imposed a gag order Wednesday in the capital murder case against a man accused of fatally beating a Little Rock television anchorwoman.

Milwaukee County jail inmates can knock an hour off their sentence for each hour they spend on some dirty work _ cleaning up blood, feces, saliva and other bodily...

A man whose conviction in the first terror-related case after 9/11 was thrown out can sue a former federal prosecutor over his handling of the case, a judge said...

The man charged with murdering Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew was a high-school dropout and street gang member with a long rap sheet for drug...

A prosecutor alleged Wednesday that Jennifer Hudson’s brother-in-law killed three of her relatives _ with a gun stolen from one of the victims _ because he was...