Posted: 5:50 AM A wildfire jumped firefighters' perimeter lines in the hills overlooking Colorado Springs, forcing frantic mandatory evacuation notices for more than 9,000 residents, destroying an unknown number of homes.
Posted: 5:47 AM Five-term Rep. John Sullivan fell to a tea party backed opponent in Oklahoma while Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch easily defeated another candidate backed by the insurgent group.
Posted: 5:45 AM ple cofounder Steve Wozniak says the U.S. piracy case against Kim Dotcom is "hokey" and a threat to Internet innovation.
Posted: 5:43 AM Here's what you need to know about the new postseason format put together by the commissioners of the 11 major college football conferences and Notre Dame's athletic director.
Posted: 5:39 PM Amare Stoudemire has been fined $50,000 by the NBA after the New York Knicks star tweeted a gay slur.
Posted: 5:37 PM A new U.K. study is taking a closer look at the link between stress and Alzheimer's disease.
Posted: 5:35 PM The Sanford Police Department investigator who informed his superiors that he believed there was enough evidence to charge George Zimmerman with manslaughter for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin is being transferred from the investigative unit to the patrol division.
Updated: 5:33 PM A California jury on Tuesday found that a former police detective who blamed the antidepressant Zoloft for his behavior was sane when he abducted and raped a waitress at gunpoint.
Posted: 5:25 PM Jerry Sandusky's adopted son Matt, now 33, told police he was abused starting when he was 8 years old, about a decade before the allegations for which the former Penn State assistant football coach was convicted, according to a police interview recording obtained by NBC News.
Posted: 2:30 PM A Kansas man who killed a 14-year-old cheerleader and burned her body at the asphalt plant where he worked was sentenced Tuesday to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Posted: 2:08 PM Jerry Sandusky's son told police he was abused starting when he was 8, a decade before the former Penn State assistant football coach adopted him
Posted: 2:04 PM The remains of three Union Pacific crew members killed when two trains crashed in a fiery head-on collision in the Oklahoma Panhandle have been recovered, the state's medical examiner's office said.
Posted: 2:02 PM With a vote looming to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a House committee chairman is challenging President Barack Obama's claim of executive privilege.
Posted: 11:34 AM Home prices rose in nearly all major U.S. cities in April from March, further evidence that the housing market is slowly improving even while the job market slumps.
Updated: 12:22 PM A woman captures a cub clinging inside her garage on the railings while mama bear comes to the rescue.
Posted: 9:57 AM Rice tells "CBS This Morning" she's not interested in joining Romney, who has more than enough delegates to win the presidential nod at the party convention in Tampa.
Posted: 6:51 AM Facebook has changed your email address. At least that's how many felt after a quiet but vast change in the way the company displays users' contact information.
Posted: 5:44 AM After raking Florida's Gulf coast with high winds and heavy rain Monday, Tropical Storm Debby promised to bring more of the same in the coming days as it continued to hover in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted: 5:38 AM The depiction of Jerry Sandusky on a well-known mural across the street from the Penn State campus has been replaced by an image of a poet and activist draped with a blue ribbon.
Posted: 5:35 AM The election of an Islamist president in Egypt is turning longstanding U.S. policy in the Mideast inside out.
Posted: 5:32 AM Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had so much trouble paying off their loans that the schools could lose access to federal student aid.
Posted: 5:20 AM Several dozen people have held a profanity laced rally to protest a Massachusetts town's bylaw allowing police to hand out $20 tickets for public swearing.
Posted: 5:17 AM Corporations and labor unions have been emboldened this election season to spend unlimited sums of cash. The Supreme Court is telling them to go full speed ahead.
Posted: 5:15 AM Arizona's police chiefs and county sheriffs hoped a U.S. Supreme Court ruling would settle their long-running debate on what role, if any, they should play in immigration enforcement.
Posted: 4:34 PM A severely malnourished 10-year-old Kansas City girl who was found locked in a closet remained hospitalized Monday and likely faces an extended recovery after an initial "failure to thrive" diagnosis
