A man armed with a shotgun was shot by a court officer after he stormed into a Middletown, N.Y., court Wednesday morning.

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 6-year-old Texas boy is reportedly recovering after being snatched by a mountain lion from his mother's hand at Big Bend National Park.

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

Rick Santorum swept the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses as well as the Missouri primary Tuesday night in a huge upset victory that undermined Mitt Romney's

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

The CDC has determined the top ten sources of sodium in the American diet, and what they found is surprising.

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

The onetime Rutgers University student accused of trying to livestream a sexual encounter of a classmate who later killed himself faces a greater chance of time in prison than

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

A Wisconsin man who was thought to have moved away in 2007 reportedly killed himself, leaving his "nearly skeletonized body" to rot in his home for more than four years.

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

A man found dead in an abandoned New York subway room following a fire was the co-author of a graphic novel on his life in the tunnels.

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

A 30-year-old Phoenix man has died after suffering a spinal injury at an indoor trampoline park, fire officials said.

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

A California man who was killed after walking into oncoming traffic on Monday was wanted for murder.

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