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A Southern California man has been sentenced to death for the torture and murder of a 16-year-old runaway girl who was stabbed more than 130 times and left in a...

Supporters of a bill that would give federal regulators power to force transit agencies to make safety improvements are rallying around a ruling that the lack of federal oversight contributed...

The House has approved a bill to boost safety standards for offshore drilling and remove a $75 million cap on economic liability for oil spills.

It was one of the most gentle, remorseful and respectful attempted robberies ever. A soft-spoken young woman working in a Florida cellphone store talked an apologetic, nervous bandit out of...

An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his American adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage.

As former first daughter Chelsea Clinton prepares to walk down the aisle Saturday, take a look back at some other first-family weddings.

Volunteers and government officials scrambled on Friday to save geese and other wildlife damaged by an oil spill in a southern Michigan river as the Canadian company that owns the...

A little orphan from Haiti has secured six more months in the United States as doctors in Minnesota try to treat a potentially deadly heart condition

The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group has come out against the planned mosque and Islamic community center near ground zero, saying more information is needed about funding for the...

A condominium exploded while under construction Friday, injuring eight people, including five construction workers. A resident and two firefighters were also injured.