Posted: 12:14 PM The former neighborhood watch volunteer who killed Trayvon Martin told his wife to buy bulletproof vests for them and for his attorney, according to jailhouse calls released Monday.
Posted: 11:51 AM The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a rape conviction over objections that the defendant did not have the chance to question the reliability of the DNA evidence that helped convict him.
Posted: 11:49 AM Microsoft is expected to make a "major" announcement Monday.
Posted: 10:47 AM Pennsylvania prosecutors say 10 young men were sexually abused by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, charges he has repeatedly denied.
Updated: 11:47 AM Prosecutors in Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse trial rested their case Monday after calling the mother of one of his alleged victims.
Posted: 10:07 AM Federal regulators have determined that design flaws appear to be the cause of excessive wear in tubing that carries radioactive water through California's troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant.
Posted: 4:22 AM Two Alaska State Troopers were shot Sunday in a remote town north of the Arctic Circle, touching off a near-nine hour standoff that ended with the suspected gunman apparently taking his own life, authorities said.
Posted: 4:21 AM Crews in northern Colorado faced powerful winds Sunday as they battled a blaze that has scorched 87 square miles of mountainous forest land and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history.
Posted: 4:17 AM The defense in Jerry Sandusky's child sexual abuse trial could begin putting on its own witnesses early this week, and one of them could be the former Penn State assistant football coach himself.
Posted: 4:15 AM "I expect that it will be a candid discussion, it will get down to business," White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said ahead of the lengthy morning meeting between Obama and Putin.
Posted: 2:35 PM The National Park Service says it has permanently suspended efforts to recover the bodies of four Japanese climbers killed in an avalanche on Alaska's Mount McKinley.
Posted: 1:24 PM Rick Santorum is sticking by earlier questions he posed about former rival Mitt Romney's authenticity, saying the points he made during the primary campaign were legitimate.
Posted: 1:08 PM Legal experts say the new arrest of a teenage burglary suspect who was allegedly beaten by several Houston police officers during an incident caught on video could pose problems for prosecutors who are still trying to get convictions in the case.
Posted: 12:27 PM Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky will soon get the chance to give jurors his side of the story in his trial on child sexual abuse charges.
Updated: 1:16 PM Rodney King, the black motorist whose 1991 videotaped beating by Los Angeles police officers led to some of the nation's most destructive race riots, has died at age 47.
Updated: 11:48 AM Police say a former television screenwriter was arrested after punching his poodle in the face so hard that it died of a brain injury.
Posted: 11:42 AM Mitt Romney kicked off his three-stop bus tour of Ohio by telling rain-soaked voters in the battleground state that the country is about to get "a little brighter."
Posted: 10:19 AM Sen. John McCain says the lack of U.S. aid to Syrian rebels is "shameful," and that helping the opposition would be the biggest blow to Iran in 25 years.
Posted: 10:16 AM Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.
Posted: 10:13 AM Authorities say a wildfire in northern Colorado that has destroyed 181 homes and burned more than 85 square miles is 45 percent contained.
Posted: 10:11 AM A Maryland man faces trial in a $9.1 million fraud case that is shedding light on problems in a renewable energy credits program run by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Posted: 10:07 AM Residents near areas burned by New Mexico's Little Bear Fire have been dealing with a new worry this weekend -- flash flooding.
Posted: 10:05 AM It will be President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin's first meeting since Putin returned to Russia's top job.
Posted: 10:21 PM Police say the man wanted in a deadly armored car heist at a university in western Canada has been arrested by U.S. border officials in Washington state.
Posted: 2:09 PM When it comes to arresting drug traffickers and dismantling organized crime, the investigation into a U.S. horse racing operation allegedly laundering money for one of Mexico's most powerful cartels is rare -- and difficult to prosecute.
