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Patrols are on the lookout in a growing number of cities for everything from GPS devices and iPads to purses and spare change ...

Since the eruption, May 18, 1980, scientists have gained new understanding about the ecology and species survival.

Oil from a blown-out well is forming huge underwater plumes as much as 10 miles long below the visible slick in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

The woman was one of about 500 undergraduates to pick up diplomas Saturday during a commencement ceremony at Mills College, an ...

BP expected a mile-long tube to start siphoning oil from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday night after a setback. ...

In its latest experiment to stop the oil rushing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP is trying to guide a skinny, mile-long tube into ...

Schwarzenegger lays out bleak Calif. budget, calls for deeper cuts to health, social programs

Arizona's tough new law against illegal immigration has prompted furious protests and boycotts but Jewish groups say opponents ...

Several states put strict limits on the number of new charter schools. Another 11 states don't allow charters at all, even though ...

Four months after an earthquake devastated Haiti, Americans have donated $1.3 billion for disaster relief there, almost on a ...

An 87-year-old Connecticut woman doesn't have to share a $500,000 lottery prize with her 84-year-old sister, a judge ruled in ...

A tiny non-profit here thought it had an idea worth testing on the Gulf Coast oil spill: Try using booms created from old pantyhose ...

When a Superior Court judge would not let state police search Dr. Earl B. Bradley's office in December 2008, he told investigators ...

Residents in Oklahoma and Kansas girded for another round of severe weather expected Wednesday while cleaning up from the battery ...

Phoenix may be on the verge of losing hotel and convention center business worth about $90 million over the next five years because ...

BP engineers focused their attention Monday on a number of short-term solutions to plug the massive oil spill in the Gulf of ...

Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since ...

The tattoo on Christian Berrios' right forearm says "Knowledge is Power." For a high school dropout in a city with shuttered ...

It could be at least a day before BP can make another attempt at putting a lid on a well spewing thousands of gallons of crude ...

Citing new evidence, senior White House officials said Sunday that the Pakistani Taliban was behind the failed Times Square car ...

Icelike crystals encrusting the walls of a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box meant to contain oil gushing from a broken well deep ...

The deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and ...

Priests, rabbis, imams and Protestant ministers who serve as U.S. military chaplains came together Thursday to dedicate themselves ...

Two county hospital workers were placed on paid leave after anonymous complaints that they set up a makeshift beauty salon for ...

A prank literally spelled out in the University of Utah student newspaper has prompted administrators to put a hold on nine students' ...

A mission to the bottom of the sea to try to avert a wider environmental disaster began as crews eased a 100-ton concrete-and-steel ...

First-time claims for unemployment benefits dropped last week for the third straight time, a sign the job market is slowly recovering.

Oil executives, state and federal officials and especially residents want the oil spilling into Gulf Coast waters to stop but ...

As Tiffany Wiggers rests a hand on her pregnant belly and explains why she doesn't have flood insurance, the Harpeth River flows ...

Court papers released Tuesday say Faisal Shahzad acknowledged trying to detonate a bomb in a rusted Nissan Pathfinder that was ...