Backers of a proposed high school touted as a haven for gay and bullied youth have pulled their proposal, saying they wanted to spend another year to finalize their...

A spacewalking astronaut accidentally let go of her tool bag Tuesday after a grease gun inside it exploded, and helplessly watched as the tote and everything inside...

Capitol Hill Democrats say President-elect Barack Obama appears to have settled on Congressional Budget Office chief Peter Orszag to be his budget director.

An Ohio Democrat elected earlier this month to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones has also won a special congressional election in Cleveland to fill the...

A Massachusetts state senator, photographed by the FBI allegedly stuffing bribe money under her sweater, has been indicted on eight counts of attempted extortion.

A wealthy retiree opened his three-story lake home to an out-of-work mechanic he had befriended, then was murdered and his possessions plundered, according to...

Cody Linley won’t be graduating “Dancing with the Stars.”

Attorneys for the state and inmates’ rights groups clashed Tuesday at the opening of a high-stakes trial over whether California’s jam-packed prisons have...

The head of the Wisconsin firefighters union resigned Tuesday over a racist comment he made the day after Barack Obama became the first African-American elected...

Police say the owner of a New York City variety store shot and killed two armed men who tried to rob him.

The former chairman of the state Senate’s budget committee was convicted Tuesday of bribery and pension fraud, making him one of the most powerful New Jersey...

A father arrested after his 6-year-old daughter was shot to death in their Washington state home allegedly told police he had been drinking double shots of vodka while...

Google Inc. has opened an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine’s archives that have never been seen by the public before.

While state agencies are being told to rein in their spending, Texas House members have ordered at least $140,000 in renovations for their members-only lounge,...

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a Washington political power and...

A bonfire built by a group of young adults caused a weekend wildfire in Santa Barbara that destroyed 210 homes, including multimillion dollar mansions, and injured more...

An Iowa zoo has recaptured a flamingo that flew over a Des Moines neighborhood, a golf course and the entire zoo during a 7-hour freedom flight.

Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales were indicted Tuesday on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that...

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term.

Former President Bill Clinton’s nonprofit foundation raised more than $124 million last year as his wife sought the Democratic presidential nomination, according...