Autopsy: Dead Russian adoptee bruised all over
A 3-year-old adopted by a West Texas couple had more than 30 bruises and other marks on his body as well as signs that he was routinely injured by ...

Baby, mom hurt in crash that killed grandparents
A suspected drunken driver slammed into a family crossing the street in a residential Seattle neighborhood, a crash that critically injured a newborn ...

Bomb-making materials found in Colo. suspect's car
Investigators found bomb-making materials and pants that appeared to have blood on them in the car of a man suspected of killing Colorado's prisons ...

Court ruling upends effort by Knox at normal life
Since Amanda Knox was acquitted of murder in Italy, she has tried to return to the life she knew before becoming an international media sensation.
School: Teen stabbed in Target store recovering
A 16-year-old girl who was used as a shield and stabbed by a homeless man who fled into a downtown Target store after a fight was visiting Pittsburgh ...

$338M lottery winner feels 'pure joy,' uncertainty
A New Jersey man feels "pure joy" at winning a $338 million Powerball jackpot but has no idea what he will do with the money — except buy a car, to ...
City: It didn't inspect airport monitors that fell
A large cabinet housing flight monitors that toppled on a 10-year-old Kansas boy, killing him and seriously injuring his mother at Birmingham's newly ...

Federal trial provides window into NYPD practices
The right people at the right time in the right location. That phrase — repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor — is at ...

Judge: Manson disciple can't keep tapes from LAPD
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department should be able to obtain the decades-old taped conversations between a ...

S. Calif. girl who survived crash describes ordeal
A 9-year-old girl who survived a rollover crash is out of a Southern California hospital and has described on video how she hiked more than a mile to ...

Court: Drug dog sniff is unconstitutional search
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police cannot bring drug-sniffing police dogs onto a suspect's property to look for evidence without first ...

USDA expanding program to fight rural poverty
A federal program intended to reduce poverty and improve life in rural areas through better access to federal funding is expanding to six states, ...
Ohio prosecutor drops charge against Pa. groundhog
Phil is off the hook. A winter-weary Ohio prosecutor who filed a tongue-in-cheek criminal indictment against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog over ...
Earthquake shakes Mexico City
Earthquakes shook a broad swath of southern Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital and sending thousands fleeing into the streets ...

NJ professor's quixotic quest to be Iran president
The man who wants to be the next president of Iran sits in a hotel lobby, steps from his office and thousands of miles away from the country he wants ...
Judge denies bail in defense secrets case
A federal judge denied bail Monday to a civilian defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to a Chinese girlfriend half his age, saying ...

Pa. groundhog's handler taking blame for forecast
An Ohio prosecutor who light-heartedly filed a criminal indictment against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog who fraudulently "predicted" an early ...

Relative, lawyer defend Ga teen shooting suspects
The lawyer for one of the Georgia teenagers charged with murder in a baby's shooting said Monday his client is "absolutely" not guilty and the ...

Gun link, but many questions in corrections death
Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements and his wife were watching television when the doorbell rang last Tuesday night. Clements opened the door and ...

APNewsBreak: No pups born to Isle Royale wolves
The gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park in northern Michigan are increasingly threatened, scientists said Monday, with no pups spotted during the ...

Woman gets prison time in 'total identity theft'
For almost 12 years, a Houston elementary school teacher and an illegal immigrant living in Topeka have engaged in a tug of war to claim the identity ...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis dies at 85
Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday. He was 85. Lewis worked ...
US military says Guantanamo hunger strike edges up
More prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, as defense lawyers expressed alarm ...
Child tells US court in Detroit he was slave labor
Some of the children were only in middle school when a former tennis pro from Africa faked immigration papers and brought them to Michigan, where he ...
Fla. authorities to review skydiver's helmet video
Authorities on Monday were reviewing footage from a helmet camera worn by a skydiving instructor who, along with a student, died in a jump at a ...