Obama heads to Phoenix to talk housing
WASHINGTON — With the nation's real estate market on a winning streak, President Obama is heading to Phoenix on Tuesday to make a major speech on homeownership where he will...
Kids with rare premature aging disease meet in Alexandria, Va.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Imagine having a child who was born with cataracts and brain damage, and develops dementia and other ailments more often found in the elderly — and...
Pair tied to Ind. slayings, returned, killed woman
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The two teens accused of murdering a Harrison County, Ind., couple told police that they stabbed one victim to death, left and then returned, when they bludgeoned...
1.35 million youths a year have serious sports injuries
Occasional bumps and bruises are expected when kids play sports, but for more than 1.35 million children last year a sports-related injury was severe enough to send them to a...
Candlelight vigil honors Wisconsin Sikh victims
OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Monday night to mark the one-year anniversary of a shooting rampage at a Wisconsin Sikh temple with a candlelight vigil in...
Escaped python kills 2 young boys in Canada
Two young boys sleeping at their friend's home above an exotic pet store were strangled by a python that escaped its enclosure in the Canadian town of Campbellton, New Brunswick,...
3 dead, 2 wounded in shooting at Pa. town meeting
A gunman opened fire on a town supervisors meeting north of Philadelphia on Monday night, killing three people and wounding two others, police said. Pennsylvania state police dispatcher Tyler...
Details emerge on al-Qaeda link to embassy closures
The shutdown of U.S. embassies and a warning to American tourists came in response to an intercepted message between top al-Qaeda figures about a possible weekend attack, U.S. officials said....
Bus strike ends in Phoenix metro area
TEMPE, Ariz. -- A four-day bus strike that affected tens of thousands of Tempe, Ariz., area residents has ended as the union and the bus company reached an agreement on...
Kerosene scarcity in Nigeria is a national embarrassment
The Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Downstream, Hon. Dakuku Peterside, has described the lingering kerosene scarcity across the country as a national embarrassment. Dakuku made the statement in Calabar, Cross...