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CLEVELAND – Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them – most by strangulation – and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.
McLEAN, Va. – It galled her to do it, but Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, please confess, she wrote.
After months of negotiations with Russia, Obama administration officials are hopeful about a breakthrough – possibly this week – that would enable the two sides to sign a successor to their most extensive nuclear weapons treaty before it expires Dec. 5.
WASHINGTON – Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For troubled service members, military therapists are at their sides.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s family says he confided in them that he felt harassed as a Muslim in the U.S. military – and wasn’t treated as an American and soldier should be.
Joyous Buddhist pilgrims welcomed the Dalai Lama back Sunday to the Himalayan town he first set foot in five decades ago while fleeing Chinese rule in his native Tibet - a rare trip close to his homeland that has angered Beijing.
A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck a crowded market Sunday in northwest Pakistan, killing the mayor and 11 other people and injuring dozens, police said.
Hurricane Ida swiped the resort city of Cancun on Sunday with bands of wind and rain as it steamed north toward the Gulf of Mexico, where officials issued a hurricane watch for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi.
President Barack Obama said Sunday it was time for the Senate to "take the baton" on health care reform after the House passed its plan for overhauling the nation's health care system.
A bipartisan House coalition voted Saturday to prohibit coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan that Democrats would establish to compete with private insurers.
The House has used a near party line vote to reject a Republican health overhaul bill.
A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood is in critical but stable condition.
A brother of the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood says the Army psychiatrist is peaceful person - and hopes he will be treated fairly by the legal system.
Mourners were asked to pray for the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood and his family, and an Army chaplain exhorted his congregation on Sunday to draw together even if the gunman's motives may never be fully known.
No new talks are scheduled as the strike by Philadelphia bus drivers, subway and trolley conductors and mechanics enters its second work week following the collapse of a proposed deal.
President Barack Obama's health care initiative has cleared its first big hurdle in the House, with lawmakers voting to advance the debate.
Texas governor Rick Perry has visited with wounded victims from the Fort Hood shooting.
President Barack Obama says now is the time for Congress to "answer the call of history" and approve legislation revamping the country's health care system.
House Democratic leaders say President Barack Obama, who made a quick trip to Capitol Hill, inspired their party to pass health care legislation.
The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system.
Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters.
The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct. 28 attack that killed five of its workers, but it's still determining exactly how many.
The Palestinian uncle of Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan says his nephew loved America and wanted to serve his country.
Russia could back sanctions against Iran if it fails to take a constructive stance in international talks over its nuclear program, President Dmitry Medvedev said in remarks released Saturday.
An Afghan police official says at least two private security guards have been wounded and two fuel tankers set on fire in eastern Afghanistan when militants attacked a supply convoy for NATO forces.
Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.
Finance officials from rich and developing countries pledged Saturday to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured and committed themselves to urgent action on tackling climate change.
MOSS LANDING, Calif. – Marine biologists think they’ve figured out why a growing number of dead harbor porpoises have been found on California beaches in recent years: dolphin attacks.
A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo Indian reservation in search of cash or valuable items.
BARCELONA, Spain – U.N. climate negotiators said Friday that it still is possible to conclude a strong, 192-nation deal to define future work in fighting global warming, despite low expectations for setting legally binding emissions targets next month.
A crackdown in more than 80 countries turned up $3.5 million hidden in carry-on and checked bags as people smuggled illicit money across international borders.
A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others.
An appeals court has ruled that state police botched an eastern Pennsylvania prostitution investigation in which troopers gave an informant money to pay for sex four times at a massage parlor, along with a total of $180 for the man’s trouble.
WASHINGTON – With a historic vote possible as early as today, one Washington state representative, Brian Baird, said Friday that he couldn’t support the Democratic health care bill, while another, Adam Smith, said he had yet to make up his mind.
An engine tail cone popped off a Delta airlines jet shortly after takeoff from New York’s Kennedy Airport. It plummeted thousands of feet into a Long Island neighborhood before landing harmlessly on someone’s lawn.
KABUL – More than 25 members of international and Afghan security forces were injured Friday in fierce fighting in northwest Afghanistan while carrying out a large-scale manhunt for two missing American soldiers, military officials said.
The House approved legislation Friday aimed at making chemical and water treatment facilities less vulnerable to terrorist attack.
Iranian officials arrested a Japanese reporter and two Canadian reporters during anti-government protests this week and charged them with “unauthorized reporting,” the semiofficial Fars news agency reported Friday.
WASHINGTON – French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence.
SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. – No bars or razor wire hold former Florida inmate No. 082629. Instead, William Dillon sits on furniture the color of ripe lemons, surrounded by cheerful animal statues and blooming plants, a prisoner no longer after 27 years.
WASHINGTON – As bad as Friday’s jobs report was, showing October’s unemployment rate jumping sharply to 10.2 percent, the outlook is likely to worsen for American workers well into next year. Economists expect the jobless rate to keep climbing, perhaps above 11 percent, as employers produce more with fewer workers and shy away from hiring.
President Barack Obama summoned Democrats to "answer the call of history" Saturday as the House pushed toward a vote on a landmark health care bill holding out the promise of coverage for tens of millions who lack it.
Members of Philadelphia's largest transit union and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority are set to vote on a contract to end the strike that has idled buses, subways and trolleys for five days.
Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 60.
Police on Friday shot and wounded a person-of-interest sought in the Halloween night killing of a Seattle police officer, just as a massive memorial service for the officer drew to a close.
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