Former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder for leaking information to Boston mobsters that ...

Authorities say 16 people are slightly injured after a bus carrying prison inmates crashed on a freeway near Los Angeles.

A Kentucky man accused of leaving his wheelchair-dependent sister's mummified body in his car trunk pleaded not guilty to a felony ...

Barack Obama may have a "funny name," as he once said but it might just catch on among the nation's newborns.

Overhauled security. New surveillance cameras. Sign language classes for staff. State officials said Thursday that they have ...

Julie Palas says she won't quit until there's a statue of civil rights pioneer J.R. Clifford on the West Virginia Capitol grounds ...

A stretch of Interstate 95 southbound was closed for much of the day Thursday after a tanker truck rolled over, spilling thousands ...

Tropical Storm Paloma dumped rain on the remote Nicaragua-Honduras border Thursday before strengthening on its way to the Cayman ...

The season's first major blizzard pounded the Dakotas and parts of Wyoming and Nebraska Thursday with wind gusts approaching ...

Prosecutors say they won't seek charges against former governor Eliot Spitzer for role in prostitution scandal.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday proposed $4.4 billion in new taxes and a similar amount in spending cuts to deal with ...

Two white supremacists pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges in what authorities say was a plot to kill President-elect ...

The city will close libraries and swimming pools, suspend planned tax reductions, cut more than 800 jobs and trim salaries for ...

Jurors on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a confessed gunman who says he was legally insane when he killed four people ...

The findings are likely to spur calls for greater spending on bridges across the nation, according to civil engineering groups.