Posted: 11:56 AM A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.

Updated: 11:44 AM Graduation speeches usually touch the great things graduates will do with their lives. But some speakers, like David McCullough Jr., are giving graduates a dose of reality instead.

Posted: 11:23 AM The New Mexico fire, near the mountain community of Ruidoso, is now 30 percent contained after firefighters in took advantage of a break in hot, windy weather to build lines on Monday.

Posted: 11:20 AM The boy, labeled Victim No. 1 by prosecutors, is now 18 years old. He choked back tears as he spoke of encounters that included Sandusky fondling him, kissing him and ultimately engaging in a sex act.

Posted: 11:18 AM After eight weeks, jurors are finally getting to hear closing arguments in the Roger Clemens perjury trial Tuesday, and they are expected to begin deliberations later in the day.

Posted: 10:42 AM The violence is nowhere near its historical peak of the early 1990s, when Chicago recorded roughly 900 homicides per year. But from Jan. 1 through late May there were 203 homicides.

Posted: 10:33 AM A central Ohio man killed his ex-wife outside an apartment when she arrived to pick up their two children, and their 13-year-old son called an emergency dispatcher to report the stabbing, police said.

Posted: 10:31 AM The Coast Guard says a reported explosion on a motor yacht off central New Jersey likely was probably a hoax and that an extensive search and rescue operation cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Posted: 10:29 AM Trial was set to begin Tuesday in the 2009 attack on a teenager who was doused with alcohol and set ablaze by his own middle school classmates in a dispute over a $40 video game.

Posted: 10:27 AM A bitter dispute over whether the University of North Dakota should save or scrap its Fighting Sioux nickname headed to voters on Tuesday

Posted: 8:33 AM Democrats are hoping that late campaign appearances by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will help push her hand-picked successor to victory in a special congressional election in Arizona.

Posted: 7:50 AM Commerce Secretary John Bryson is taking a medical leave of absence to undergo tests after suffering a seizure connected to two traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area over the weekend.

Posted: 6:13 AM Down the back stairs of the clubhouse kitchen, on a plot lost among the expanse of tightly trimmed fairways and greens, weeks-old food is buried under a tarp and mulch and left to decompose.

Posted: 6:11 AM Anyone who's had a hospital stay knows the beeping monitors, the pagers and phones, the hallway chatter, the roommate, even the squeaky laundry carts all make for a not-so-restful place to heal.

Posted: 6:09 AM If Google has its way, you won't need "Google.com" to do your searches. You can simply go to ".Google."

Updated: 6:29 AM Residents in Middleborough have voted to make the foul-mouthed among them pay fines for swearing in public.

Posted: 5:19 AM Authorities in Montgomery left a home early Tuesday where they believed the man charged with fatally shooting three people near Auburn University might have been hiding.

Posted: 5:17 AM The first witness to take the stand against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky said he regretted having kept the alleged sexual abuse a secret.

Posted: 5:34 PM The first witness in Jerry Sandusky's trial said the former Penn State assistant football coach sexually abused him as a young teenager on campus and in hotels and later sent him "creepy love letters."

Posted: 5:32 PM Desmonte Leonard's last address was at a residence in Montgomery, and authorities said they believe he returned to the city after gunfire erupted late Saturday in Auburn, about 50 miles away.

Posted: 5:30 PM The U.S. team that tried for more than a month to negotiate a reopening of blocked Pakistani supply routes into Afghanistan is coming home without an agreement, U.S. officials said Monday.

Posted: 5:29 PM A Commerce Department official says Secretary John Bryson has a "limited recall of the events" in which he had a seizure and was involved in two traffic accidents in the Los Angeles area.

Posted: 5:26 PM The New York-based Center on National Security says states have attempted to prosecute terrorism charges no more than a few dozen times, though precise figures were not available.

Posted: 5:22 PM The mother of an unarmed 19-year-old Arizona man fatally shot in the back by a U.S. Border Patrol agent has sued the federal government and the agent.

Updated: 3:10 PM A Ku Klux Klan group is attempting to join Georgia's "Adopt-A-Highway" program for litter removal, creating a quandary for state officials.