The man who brought the world Lemonheads and Atomic Fire Balls routinely serenaded the restaurants where he dined and held mandatory family dinners every

Britain's Prince Harry, or Captain Wales as he is known in the Army Air Corps, has completed his Apache pilot training -- and picked up a prize to boot.

A bill legalizing gay marriage passed Washington State's House of Representatives Wednesday and will soon be signed into law, The Seattle Times reported.

One day after Rick Santorum's startling breakthrough in the presidential race, his few aides decamped to distant states to start building campaign

An energetic Mitt Romney returned to the campaign trail in Atlanta Wednesday after losing three contests to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.

Authorities say a father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged with killing the couple.

A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said

Country duo Sugarland resisted delaying the start of a concert last August at the Indiana State Fair despite threatening weather that later caused a deadly

Investigators said Wednesday they have found 200 additional photos they believe were taken by a former teacher who is accused of committing lewd acts on 23

Federal prosecutors say a former Granby police captain investigated child pornography while he secretly amassed one of the largest child porn collections in

Republicans are looking to stop illegal immigrants from claiming federal child tax credits, including refund checks averaging $1,800. It's an effort that has

A federal judge convicted a Chinese-born American Tuesday of stealing trade secrets but acquitted her of more serious charges of corporate espionage at a trial

Lawmakers are poised to legalize gay marriage in Washington state, which would make it the seventh state in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed.

Some Pittsburgh-area parents are complaining that students at a largely white high school dressed in banana suits at a basketball game and taunted their

Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals provide

A veteran Denver television anchor is being treated for injuries after she was bitten in the face by a dog while doing a live broadcast about a dog rescued by

The armed man who was shot to death by a court officer after he stormed into an upstate New York court Wednesday was identified as a former landlord with a

Feces sniffing dogs and the timing of a national tragedy helped scientists get their proof that the sound of ships is stressing whales out.

A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was

After some minor speed bumps, daredevil adventurer Felix Baumgartner's plans to plunge 23 miles from the edge of space back to Earth is finally coming to

The social worker who brought the young sons of Josh Powell to see him for a supervised visit begged authorities for help after he slammed the door in her

Winning yesterday's Republican presidential caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota has propelled Rick Santorum into second place in the race for delegates.

Australian airline Qantas has taken one of its A380 super-jumbos out of service after cracks were found in its wings.

President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday said Argentina would take its complaint about alleged UK militarization of the disputed Falkland Islands to the United

Students at a public Pennsylvania university can buy the "morning after" pill from a campus vending machine, though the school's minister is working to get the

Pecan farmers in Georgia are seeing record profits, but the boom comes with a rise in the number of looters intent on stealing their crops.

A political firestorm over abortion and birth control spread suddenly to multiple fronts on Tuesday. A high-ranking official resigned from the Komen

A presidential historian, collector and author pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to steal documents signed by leaders throughout U.S. history.

Prosecutors asked Tuesday to have Jerry Sandusky kept indoors as part of his bail conditions, citing complaints that the former Penn State football assistant

Arizona, Michigan and Florida, three of the states hit hardest by the housing crisis, will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, officials with

US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday said lawmakers working on an extension of a popular payroll tax cut had only until early next week to

Newt Gingrich is criticizing both Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama's records on requiring Catholic organizations to provide contraceptive aids in some

Rick Santorum seized a solid lead Tuesday night in Minnesota's Republican caucuses, bidding to extinguish front-runner Mitt Romney's modest campaign winning

A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on

An executive at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity resigned Tuesday over her support to strip Planned Parenthood of funding, but disputed

The Hubble Telescope has made it possible to study the physical properties of a galaxy of forming stars when the universe was much younger. NASA credits a

President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to

More than 40 states have signed on to a broad settlement with five big banks over foreclosure practices, according to the attorney general for Iowa late

President Barack Obama will release his budget plan next week, calling for $3 trillion in deficit reductions over 10 years, including $1.5 trillion in tax

The hulking cargo ship that tore through a western Kentucky bridge last month is carrying millions of dollars of rocket components that will be used to blast

In a sign that Rick Santorum may pose a potential threat to Mitt Romney in some upcoming primary contests, the former Massachusetts governor's campaign went on

Jared Loughner, the gunman who gravely wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six in a mass shooting last year, was ordered Monday to spend

Tim Tebow won't rule out running for political office someday.

A tamer, less combative Newt Gingrich showed up in Golden, Colo., on Monday, pulling most of his punches against Mitt Romney and arguing he is best suited to

Dan Conne says he and his wife and son thought they were going to die after getting lost while picking mushrooms and spending nearly a week in the rugged

A team of Russian scientists successfully drilled down to an "alien" lake deep below the ice in Antarctica that was hidden for an estimated 20 million years,

A Missouri teenager who admitted stabbing, strangling and slitting the throat of a young neighbor girl wrote in her journal on the night of the killing that it

A Butte man who told officers he instigated a police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire

A new species of prehistoric crocodile that dates back 95 million years ago has been identified by a University of Missouri researcher.

An Alaska father was pleading for the return of his 18-year-old daughter, who was abducted from the coffee shop where she works, announcing that he was

Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, killed himself and his two young sons Sunday in a planned inferno at his Washington home,

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was hospitalized Sunday for what officials said was "hypertension with a possibility of a stroke," a police statement

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested Sunday that the Republican primary race needs "one conservative candidate" that offers a contrast to

When US News & World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer

A Florida man was fatally shot during an altercation with a neighbor over his barking dog, the Ocala Star-Banner reported Sunday.

The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of

Following his last place finish in the Nevada caucuses, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Sunday that the primary race is a "long, long way

Mitt Romney's decisive victory in Nevada was never much in doubt. He won the state's caucuses four years ago, kept his organization active and he could count

Now it's on to Colorado, Minnesota and Maine.

A medic charged with misconduct for callously failing to help a dying pregnant woman is still banking city paychecks, more than two years after getting

Newt Gingrich pledged he would not withdraw from the Republican presidential race following Mitt Romney's projected victory in the Nevada caucuses Saturday

Outrage mounted Sunday after Russia and China blocked the UN Security Council's resolution on Syria, in what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as a

A family of three missing for six days was found alive Saturday after getting lost while mushroom picking in an Oregon wood.

North Korea's hard-line communist regime is using old US-made target drones to develop unmanned attack aircraft, South Korea intelligence sources said Sunday.

The US is planning a major shift in its Afghanistan military strategy, with elite Special Forces troops taking greater responsibility from conventional units

Egypt is to try 44 people, including Americans, over the funding of non-governmental organizations, a judicial source said Sunday, a day after the US said aid

Ailing Ground Zero responders are finally getting their last checks from a settlement with the city, but many are crestfallen that the payments are less than

Mitt Romney cemented his position as the Republican presidential candidate to beat after being called as winner of the Nevada caucuses Saturday night, just

For the first time, 21st-century audiences are able to hear the voice of Otto von Bismarck, one of the 19th century's most important figures.

The Boston Police Department was working Saturday to restore its website after it was attacked by hackers upset by police behavior at "Occupy Boston"

Iran began military exercises Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz, a show of force in the strategic oil shipping channel amid rising tensions over Tehran's

When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer — "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. — she was so

A Florida supporter of Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign filed a lawsuit Friday against Newt Gingrich, his campaign and the former House speaker's security

Republican Rick Santorum said Saturday he wants to "endanger" rival Newt Gingrich while presidential rival Ron Paul claimed "the American people are waking

The psychiatrist treating alleged Brian Cashman stalker Louise Meanwell urged the Yankees general manager -- and Meanwell's own mother -- to call 911 and

Republican presidential front runner Mitt Romney reached for his second straight victory Saturday in quiet Nevada caucuses, a contest that Newt Gingrich and

More than 300 people were killed in the Syrian protest hub of Homs, as a UN Security Council vote on a resolution to condemn the violence ended with a dual

Newt Gingrich appeared to wipe a tear away after singing along to a rendition of "God Bless America" during a prayer meeting in Las Vegas on the eve of

Passengers on board two different Florida-bound cruise ships have been hit by a fast-spreading norovirus.

On Sunday, sweater vest-loving GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum will be like a kid in a candy store.

A high school teacher in Florida is facing possible suspension after a student of Haitian descent claimed she called him "little chocolate boy."

A North Carolina woman read the Bible for more than an hour to a man who had slashed her throat, while he held a knife to her neck.

An American woman who was kidnapped by Bedouin tribesmen in Egypt said her captors were "very nice" and she was treated like family.

US President Barack Obama on Saturday accused the Syrian regime of showing a "disdain for human life and dignity" after the massacre of hundreds of civilians

Military officials say the wife of a U.S. Marine died and a Navy corpsman and his wife were injured in a propane gas explosion outside a remote Northern

President Barack Obama urged Congress to pass a proposal aimed at helping the economy by allowing homeowners to refinance their mortgages, in his weekly radio

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is fighting an Indiana election board's ruling that he does not have enough support to appear on the state

The debate coach who worked with Mitt Romney ahead of two well-received debate performances in Florida is no longer with the Republican's presidential

US soldier Bradley Manning -- accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of confidential US diplomatic and military cables to the website WikiLeaks -- will face

President Barack Obama and the first lady are planning a low-key Super Bowl weekend, breaking from previous years when they invited celebrities, politicians

In Nevada, sparsely populated counties collectively called "the rurals" often help decide close races. That has sent Republican presidential aspirants

A painting by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Cezanne has been bought at auction for a world-record $250 million by the nation of Qatar, Vanity Fair

One of Washington's top trade groups for adult beverages wants to kill a provision in a House transportation bill that would require states to mandate car

The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado and parts of neighboring states on Friday, creating whiteout conditions on the eastern plains,

Both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum continued to hammer Mitt Romney Friday for his recent remark that he is "not concerned about the very poor," with Santorum

The campaign of Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) paid his daughter and her band $9,500 to sing at campaign-related events, The Boston Globe reported Friday.

Gov. Terry Branstad urged the Legislature on Friday to require elected officials to pay more for their health care coverage.

Saboteurs stole passwords and sensitive information on tipsters while hacking into the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks