Two teenagers have been charged as adults for the death of a 16-year-old girl who was shot after a homecoming football game in Long Beach last month.
The top commander at Fort Hood is crediting a civilian police officer for stopping the Fort Hood shooting rampage that killed 13 people at the Texas post.
A neighbor says an Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas cleaned out his apartment in the days before the rampage.
President Barack Obama says the "whole nation is grieving right now" over Fort Hood shootings.
A new national poll found that only about a third of adults who have tried to get a H1N1 flu vaccine have been able to get it. The numbers are about the same for parents who tried to get the vaccine for their children.
President Barack Obama says new figures showing national unemployment has hit the double-digit mark are regretful and says he's working hard to restore the struggling economy.
A House leader says Democrats haven't yet lined up enough votes to pass their health care reform bill and may push the vote set for Saturday back one day or more.
The U.S. Army now says the suspect is still alive and the death toll remains at 12 after a shooting rampage on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.
Cleveland police have identified a third person whose remains were found in the home of a murder suspect.
Police have released a 911 recording in which a young woman reports seeing a drunken, naked girl whom officers later said had been gang-raped on a high school campus.
An Ohio coroner's office says it has identified a second set of remains from a Cleveland home where several bodies were found.
Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and smuggling the cigarettes to New York.
The Democratic-controlled Senate has blocked a GOP-led effort to prevent Sept. 11 terrorists from being prosecuted in civilian federal courts.
A Cleveland woman who says suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell once choked and threatened to kill her now feels guilty and wishes she had reported the assault earlier.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she held an emotional meeting with the families of three American hikers detained in Iran and is renewing appeals to Iranian authorities to release them.
The White House says President Barack Obama will sign a bill Friday morning that expands a popular homebuyers tax credit and extends unemployment benefits.
Prosecutors have rested their case against a 38-year-old man from a polygamist group on trial for sexual assault of a child in West Texas.
The American Medical Association says it supports the House Democratic health care reform bill, but it can't give a full endorsement yet.
Philadelphia transit officials say a rail worker has been struck and killed by a regional train, snarling commutes into the city already complicated by a transit strike.
A makeshift memorial that includes a stuffed animals and sign stenciled with the word MISSING has appeared in a Cleveland neighborhood where investigators found 11 bodies in one house.
The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in Iraq -- one in combat and one of noncombat-related injuries.
Tropical Storm Ida is laying into Nicaragua's Corn Island just hours after forming in the southwest Caribbean.
Toyota says it has returned to a profit in the latest quarter after government incentives boosted sales for the world's top automaker.
A senior US diplomat says Washington will not lift its sanctions on Myanmar unless its ruling generals make concrete progress toward democratic reform.
The swollen Ouachita River has topped 47 feet, but the rate of its rise has slowed and the levee system remains intact.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional budget umpires say the House Republican health plan would only make a small dent in the number of uninsured Americans.
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