Surveillance laws expire
WASHINGTON — Eight days after blocking it, Senate Republicans have agreed to begin debate on a House bill that would overhaul the National Securi...
Son of 'Barney' creator enters plea
LOS ANGELES — The son of a co-creator of the children's show “Barney and Friends” has pleaded no contest to shooting and wounding his...
TOKYO — Godzillas galore, including last year’s Hollywood version, stomp on buildings, thrashing about and breathing fire, in a video game going on sale globally mid-Jul...
Load slips free, falls 28 stories
NEW YORK — A massive air-conditioning unit being lifted by a crane to the top of a Manhattan office building broke free Sunday, fell 28 ...
LOS ANGELES — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson outmuscled the competition at domestic movie theaters as the earthquake epic “San Andreas” hauled in an estimated $53.2 million o...
DOVER, Del. — He was the privileged son of a longtime U.S. senator and two-term vice president, yet Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III was no stranger to personal adversity.
Whe...
New rules to take effect
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says a new federal rule regulating small streams and wetlands will protect the drinking water of more ...
11 people remain missing in Texas
WIMBERLEY, Texas — A handful of volunteers trudged along the muddy and brush-filled banks of the Blanco River in Central Texas, searchin...
RENO, Nev. — Accused of murder for confronting two unarmed trespassers with a deadly barrage of gunfire, Wayne Burgarello walked out of a Nevada courthouse a free man af...
500 square off at Ariz. mosque
PHOENIX — About 500 protesters gathered Friday outside a Phoenix mosque as police kept two groups sparring about Islam on separate sides of...
