MOUNT VERNON, Wash.-- The trucker was hauling a load of drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and...
PHOENIX-- A federal judge ruled Friday that the office of America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff systematically singled out Latinos in its trademark immigration patrols, marking the first finding by a court that the agency racially profiles people
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A new military communications satellite has been launched into space.
SAN DIEGO-- The last of the brothers accused of creating an infamous Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty Friday to helping send hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States, marking one of the final milestones in an investigation that began two decades ago.
ORLANDO, Fla.-- Data released Thursday by the defense from slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin's cellphone includes texts with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school, as well as photos of a gun and what looks to be a potted marijuana plant.
In the wind-swept prairie called Tornado Alley, the scene is eerily familiar: Homes smashed to splinters. Trees and telephone poles snapped like twigs. Piles of bricks, overturned cars and dazed survivors sifting through rubble in search of a precious photo or heirloom. A town in ruins.
THORNTON, Colo. -- All students at a Denver-area high school are safe after a report that a man with a rifle was seen near campus, police said Friday.
WASHINGTON-- Government health officials are investigating several complications reported with potentially contaminated medications made by a Tennessee specialty pharmacy.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. -- New Jersey used a record-breaking gesture Friday to celebrate its recovery from a record-setting storm, proclaiming to the nation that the Jersey shore is back in business following Superstorm Sandy.
MOORE, Okla. -- When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.
COLLEGE PARK, Ga. -- Sixteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.
The average price of a gallon of gasoline is about the same as it was last year at this time, and could be slightly cheaper by Monday. But it's more than double what it was in 2000. Here's how the price of gasoline on Memorial Day has changed since then, according to GasBuddy.com.
It's going to be another busy Memorial Day weekend on the nation's highways.
UNDATED -- The National Weather Service is predicting another busy hurricane season in the Atlantic.
NEW YORK -- Travelers heading out for the Memorial Day weekend may be facing pain at the pump but that won’t stop them from getting in their cars.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-- Federal officials investigating last week's commuter train derailment in Connecticut say the engineer described an "unusual condition" on the track before the train derailed.
MOORE, O.K.-- Instead of days filled with barbeques for Memorial Day weekend, there will be more clean-up and more heartache for residents of Moore, Oklahoma.
MOORE, Okla. -- After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery -- for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their neighborhood.
GREENVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- A moderate earthquake centered in rural northeastern California and felt in two other states damaged some homes and ruptured a tank that supplies residential drinking water in the densely forested region, officials said Friday.
TRENTON, N.J. — Twenty-nine bars and restaurants, nearly half of them TGI Fridays, filled premium brand liquor bottles with lower-quality booze and sold it to patrons who thought they were buying the good stuff, authorities said Wednesday.
