Alexandria, Va., is one of several communities that have lifted or are considering loosening restrictions on sidewalk signs and ...

Four hospitals in New York state paid kickbacks to get more patients into their drug treatment programs, which billed Medicaid ...

The Kansas parents who failed to report their 11-year-old adopted son missing nearly a decade ago are "people of interest" as ...

Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter.

Authorities combing through 60 tons of trash, searching for the body of a baby allegedly dumped by his 16-year-old mother, found ...

Spending on prescription drugs in 2007 showed the smallest increase in more than four decades, driven by rising use of low-cost ...

Suffering a trauma could predispose children to chronic fatigue syndrome as adults, a study shows. In a report in today's Archives ...

Parts of Interstate 84 remain closed in Eastern Oregon, hit by a snowstorm. Up to 8 inches is expected Monday in some areas, ...

A fast-moving house fire killed eight people, including four young brothers, despite the homeowner's frantic attempts to save ...

A drug investigator says authorities delayed the arrest of a woman tied to Gov. Sarah Palin's family until after the November ...

The late Sen. Claiborne Pell was remembered during his funeral service Monday as a patrician statesman of enormous personal ...

A judge has ordered an Illinois prison inmate who killed his cellmate after allegedly warning guards he would harm the man to ...

Fire tore through a small-town homeless shelter early Monday, partially collapsing the building and killing five men, fire officials ...

A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman's argument that she had religious reasons for smuggling endangered ...

Authorities searched a southern Louisiana marsh by boat Monday for clues that might determine what caused a helicopter crash ...

A federal judge in Chicago has given prosecutors an additional three months to present evidence and obtain an indictment in the ...

Fire tore through a small-town homeless shelter early Monday, partially collapsing the building and killing five men, the founder ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that the government can keep secret the identities of detainees allegedly abused at the Guantanamo ...

A contractor has been indicted on homicide charges in a crane collapse in midtown Manhattan that killed seven people last year, ...

Griffin B. Bell, the shrewd Southern lawyer who grew up with Jimmy Carter and became U.S. attorney general after Carter was ...

Former President Bill Clinton praised the late Sen. Claiborne Pell during his funeral service Monday as a quirky multimillionaire ...

Fire has struck a homeless shelter in the town of Paris, Texas, and the fire chief says more than one person was killed.

Authorities in Ohio have arrested a man in the shooting death of a woman whose 4-year-old son was abducted by the gunman and ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's attorney general, Griffin B. Bell, has died in an Atlanta hospital at age 90.

Illinois' lieutenant governor says his state has become an "international laughingstock" because of corruption allegations against ...