A former Olympic sprinter has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping a woman in a New York park.

A drug research company says a roomful of research monkeys quarantined at its lab in Sparks, Nev., were accidentally killed in May due to overheating.

Luisa Lopez says no one asked about her age when she started working at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant. She was 17, and within days she was on a...

A woman was arrested and charged with kidnapping Thursday after authorities say she was on the run for a month with five children she took in after Hurricane Katrina.

Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt attempted to ease concerns Thursday that the Bush administration is planning to issue new rules that would limit...

Sprint Nextel Corp. said late Thursday it has canceled a proposed $3 billion convertible stock offering that it had announced the day before.

Wheat prices jumped more than 50 cents a bushel Thursday after a big decline the previous day attracted new buyers seeking to lock in cheap supplies of the grain used...

A food company voluntarily recalled frozen ground beef Thursday that has been linked to 27 confirmed cases of E. coli at a Boy Scout camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Computers seized last week from a Frederick, Md., library may hold clues about the 2001 anthrax letters and the Army scientist accused of mailing them, the FBI said...

Two Louisiana businessmen who plotted to defy a U.S. trade embargo by exporting engineering software to Iran avoided prison Thursday when a federal judge ordered them...

Investigators in Ohio and Florida are still looking into the deaths of men with ties to a Georgia grandmother who has had five dead husbands, authorities said...

In an Aug. 4 story, The Associated Press reported that gay couples in California are using their weddings to wage a ballot fight. The story identified a source in the...

A black bear that broke into a British Columbia home in search of food was shot and killed Thursday, a day after a woman was attacked in the same neighborhood.

Three months after the deadly anthrax mailings, the commander of the nation’s top military biodefense lab declared that Army scientists there lacked the expertise...

Scientists have found ways to tease even more clues out of fingerprints’ telltale marks _ one in a string of developments that gives modern forensics even better...

After a racially charged Democratic primary campaign that turned particularly ugly in its final days, voters will decide Thursday between a Jewish incumbent congressman...

Bank of America Corp. revealed Thursday that it has received subpoenas and requests for information from various state and federal regulators regarding its sale of...

Two green sea turtles are leaving the Florida Keys for their new home at a Connecticut aquarium via FedEx.

Communications equipment maker Acme Packet Inc. sharply lowered its 2008 profit and sales outlook Thursday.

Computer security professionals tend to be a highly paranoid bunch, seeing potential threats everywhere. It turns out that some aren’t cautious enough, though.