Police say a 14-year-old boy shot an intruder who broke into his Phoenix home and pulled a gun on him as he was watching his three younger siblings.

A Navy hazing case that led to the firing of the top enlisted officer aboard a nuclear submarine was sparked by gay jokes about a sailor who said another man tried to rape him in a foreign port, according to an investigative report obtained by The Associated Press.

Authorities say a man has been arrested in the shooting deaths of three men who were killed while they sat in a parked car near Columbia University's campus in New York City.

An Iowa woman is running barefoot across America.

President Barack Obama is marking the 40th anniversary of the landmark anti-gender discrimination law known as Title IX, saying it's proved to be a "springboard for success."

Chicago-area parents thought their pit bull was to blame when they heard their 18-month-old daughter crying and discovered one of her fingertips had been severed.

Police say two people have been found dead in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide in a room shooting at the Beverly Hilton, just hours before the Daytime Emmy Awards are being held at the posh hotel.

Sniff your way to love? Singles who have attended so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out.

The hundreds of vast, flooded rice paddies that cover miles of interior northern California may seem like an unlikely safe haven for shorebirds, but changes there may help improve the outlook for dozens of species in decline in recent decades.

The bullying that bus monitor Karen Klein endured on a ride home from an upstate New York school was egregious.

Their positions are clear.

Congressional bargainers are closing in on an agreement that would head off a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal loans to 7.4 million college students.

Authorities say the former Tampa Bay-area middle school principal charged in a rampage that left two dead and nine others injured was under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time.

A jury took less than two days to find Jerry Sandusky guilty of 45 of 48 counts of child sexual abuse, but the judge will need substantially more time to decide his punishment.

The Arkansas Supreme Court struck down the state's execution law Friday, calling it unconstitutional.

New accusations of abuse were leveled against the former Penn State assistant coach by a pair of new accusers, including his adopted son.

E-book readers have been relatively slow to borrow digital works from the library, frustrated by a limited selection and by not even knowing if their local branch offers e-releases, according to a new study.

Since Oprah Winfrey packed up the couch that Tom Cruise jumped on and ended her daytime talk show last year, no one has truly filled her role as the top go-to person in television for major interviews.

A newly released video shows Florida neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman at the scene of Trayvon Martin's fatal shooting a day later giving police a blow-by-blow account of his fight with the teen.

Commerce Secretary John Bryson said Thursday he is resigning from the Obama administration after suffering a seizure earlier this month in the Los Angeles area.

The Supreme Court unanimously threw out fines and sanctions Thursday against broadcasters who violated the Federal Communications Commission policy regulating curse words and nudity.

Attorneys for one of Jerry Sandusky's adopted sons said the former Penn State assistant football coach abused him.

Saying he's lost the trust of officials, a city manager fired a central Florida police chief who was criticized for his agency's initial investigation of Trayvon Martin's shooting death.

A suicide bomber attacked U.S. and Afghan forces at a checkpoint Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing 21 people, including three U.S. soldiers, U.S. and Afghan officials said.

President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege Wednesday to withhold documents a House committee is seeking in an investigation of a flawed gun-smuggling probe in Arizona.