Lightning strike injures 12 soldiers at Fort Carson in Colorado

A lightning strike has injured 12 soldiers at Fort Carson in Colorado, including one who is in critical condition. Officials ...

Kidnapped Ohio women kept diaries, prosecutors say

CLEVELAND –  Three women held captive in a run-down home for a decade kept diaries documenting the physical and sexual abuse they...

Lightning strike in Colo. sends 12 Fort Carson soldiers to hospitals; 1 in critical condition

FORT CARSON, Colo. –  A lightning strike has injured 12 soldiers at Fort Carson in Colorado, including one who is in critical con...

No word whether Bulger will take stand as racketeering trial testimony continues

BOSTON –  Prosecutors pushed for an answer, but it wasn't clear when James "Whitey" Bulger's trial adjourned fo...

165 years in prison for Mich. man who sexually abused children at group home he ran in Haiti

MIAMI –  A Michigan man has been sentenced to 165 years in prison for traveling to Haiti to sexually abuse children in a center f...

Sabotage not suspected in Florida gas plant explosion

TAVARES, Fla. –  Equipment malfunction and human error are among the possible causes of a series of explosions that spawned a 20-...

Texan gets another wrong water bill topping $66G

DALLAS –  A Dallas man says he's shocked to have been swamped with a nearly $67,000 erroneous water bill a few months after a...

Police in Colorado warn of self-described Islamist jihadist

FORT COLLINS, Colo. –  Police in Fort Collins, Colo., are alerting religious organizations to a self-described "Islamist jih...

Student left in DEA cell to get $4 million from feds

SAN DIEGO –  A 25-year old college student has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the federal government after he was abandon...

Woman found with can of green paint may have defaced Lincoln Memorial, prosecutors say

WASHINGTON –  A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral had a soda can of green paint with her when she was...

9-year-old Arizona boy digging for worms finds a handgun

PRESCOTT, Ariz. –  A 9-year-old boy digging for worms in northern Arizona found a gun buried near his home. Police in Prescot...

Car crashes into Missouri day care, 4 injured

KANSAS CITY, Mo. –  A car came crashing into a Kansas City day care center Tuesday when a sport utility vehicle rear-ended a park...

NJ woman pleads guilty in animal cruelty case involving dog found in trash chute

NEWARK, N.J. –  A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges Tuesday in a case that sparked international headline...

1 of 3 malnourished senior men found held captive in Houston garage dies

HOUSTON –  One of three men found malnourished and held against their will in a dungeon-like garage of a Houston house has died. ...

Vagos member testifies about beating in motorcycle gang melee at Nevada casino

RENO, Nev. –  A Vagos motorcycle gang member testified Tuesday that he thought he was going to be killed by Hells Angels leaders ...

Eric Shawn investigates the hit on Hoffa: 38 years later, the mystery endures

It all started, and ended, on this day. It was a hot July afternoon 38 years ago, nearly 92 degrees, when Teamsters president...

Manning supporters hail him as hero as judge prepares to deliver verdict in WikiLeaks case

FORT MEADE, Md. –  Supporters of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning are demonstrating at Fort Meade as a military judge prepares to delive...

Calif. judge refuses to dismiss murder case against Fla. man in Mediterranean cruise death

SANTA ANA, Calif. –  A California judge has refused to dismiss a murder charge against a man accused of strangling his ex-wife an...

Police: Woman arrested in green paint vandalism at Washington National Cathedral

WASHINGTON –  Police have arrested a woman in the splattering of green paint inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathed...

Lawsuit claims girl kicked out of summer camp over kiss

WESTPORT, Conn. –  The parents of a 15-year-old Connecticut girl sued a summer camp in Massachusetts on Monday, saying their daug...

Day 2 in hearing on alleged Sandusky cover-up; witness says Paterno was critical of Penn State

HARRISBURG, Pa. –  Day two of a hearing on whether three former Penn State officials covered up an allegation in the Jerry Sandus...

15 workers missing after blast at Florida gas plant

DEVELOPING: Workers were injured and several were missing after series of large explosions rocked a gas plant in Lake County, Fl...

Workers reportedly missing after blast at Florida gas plant

DEVELOPING: Workers were injured and several were reported missing after series of large explosions rocked a gas plant in Lake C...

Oregon wildfires force evacuation of 100 homes

PORTLAND, Oregon –  Erin Rightbower was not surprised to see the sheriff's deputy pull up to the driveway with an evacuation ...

Army soldier set to receive Medal of Honor recounts battle with Taliban fighters

Nearly four years after a day-long firefight that killed eight of his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan, the emotion of that day rem...

Mo. judge says he is confused about new grand jury indictment against Saudi man in slaying

WARRENSBURG, Mo. –  A judge overseeing the case of a Saudi national accused of hiring his roommate to kill a Missouri bar owner s...

Suspect in deaths of 3 Ohio women is indicted; charges include aggravated murder, rape

COLUMBUS, Ohio –  A man accused in the deaths of three women whose bodies were found wrapped in trash bags in Ohio has been indic...

Woman arrested in D.C. green paint splattering

A woman was arrested Monday in connection with the splattering of green paint at Washington's National Cathedral but it was n...

More green paint found splattered at two Washington landmarks

The Green Goblin may have struck again, with more splatters of green paint found defacing two Washington landmarks Monday. Ne...

Philadelphia row house collapses, injuring 8; witnesses report hearing explosion

PHILADELPHIA –  A row house collapse Monday severely damaged neighboring houses and hurt eight people, including a baby and a cri...

2 more plead guilty in probe of truck-stop chain run by Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. –  Two more members of the Pilot Flying J sales staff have pleaded guilty to defrauding customers at the truck-s...

Police arrest 8 as wild crowd hits downtown Huntington Beach, Calif., after US Open of Surfing

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. –  Police say eight people have been arrested after a rowdy crowd surged through downtown in the Souther...

Police: Ga. Waffle House patron opens fire on would-be robber, wounding him

UNION CITY, Ga. –  Authorities say a customer at a Waffle House outside Atlanta shot and wounded a suspect who was trying to rob ...

Judge continues deliberating in court-martial of GI who gave US secrets to WikiLeaks

FORT MEADE, Md. –  A military judge continues deliberating in the court-martial of an Army private charged with aiding the enemy ...

Fast food workers plan one-day strike for Monday

Workers at fast food restaurants in seven cities across America are planning to walk off the job Monday to protest what they say ...

Tour bus swept off road by Arizona floods, all on board OK

A Las Vegas-bound tour bus carrying 33 people was swept away in northern Arizona by floodwaters Sunday and turned on its side as ...

Analysis finds not enough monitoring of monitoring bracelets in US

Three decades after they were introduced as a crime-fighting tool, electronic ankle bracelets used to track an offender's whe...

Thousands of bees attack Texas couple, kill their horses

A swarm of about 30,000 bees has attacked a North Texas couple as they exercised their miniature horses, stinging the animals so ...

5 people killed in helicopter crash in northeastern Pennsylvania

A helicopter crash in a remote, wooded area of northeastern Pennsylvania claimed the lives of five people, state police said Sund...