Authorities in Cincinnati say six people were wounded in what officials described as an after-hours establishment

While police investigate and searches continue, family members of a North Carolina soldier who disappeared three weeks ago can do little more than wait for news.

An Alabama judge has stopped lawyers from publicly discussing the murder charges against a grandmother and stepmother accused of making a 9-year-old girlrun to death as punishment for a lie, but a debate over the case is still raging on Facebook.

Vice President Joe Biden says he hopes Osama bin Laden was wrong in his assessment that Biden would not be able to lead the nation if the president was killed.

Police say they are investigating a body found in the stable area of Churchill Downs the morning after the Kentucky Derby as a homicide. But there is no connection to Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another.

The Senate is the newest arena in the election-year face-off over student loans, and both sides are starting out by pounding away at each other.

Republican party leaders are starting to rally around Mitt Romney, but there's no stampede of support for the expected GOP presidential nominee.

He's a smug, Harvard-trained elitist who doesn't get how regular Americans are struggling these days. More extreme than he lets on, he's keeping his true agenda hidden until after Election Day. He's clueless about fixing the economy, over his head on foreign policy. Who is he?

Indianapolis police say a 14-year-old girl found covered in blood faces a preliminary murder charge in her 4-year-old cousin's stabbing death.

Tucson police say they still haven't eliminated any possibilities as the search for a missing first-grader enters its third week.

Former President Bill Clinton has recorded an audio advertisement opposing North Carolina's proposed constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

A freak accident in the Bronx is being touted by some transportation advocates as evidence that New York City's aging highway system needs major upgrades.

Federal officials say the National Christmas Tree planted near the White House a year ago has died and is being removed.

A government agency's plan to deepen a Georgia shipping channel faces a $14 million obstacle -- a Confederate shipwreck that's been rotting in the Savannah River since 1864.

The track superintendent at Churchill Downs cancelled morning training for the Kentucky Derby and its 13-race card after a night of thunderstorms.

Mitt Romney isn't running a "severely conservative" campaign. But it's not exactly a "Massachusetts moderate" effort either.

He's been in campaign mode for months, but President Barack Obama makes his quest for a second term official with rallies Saturday in Ohio and Virginia. He'll be casting Republican rival Mitt Romney as a flip-flopping protector of the rich.

That notion about people getting strange under a full moon is just folklore and it's a good thing too because tonight is the night of the super-moon.

It's been almost 11 years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and family members of some of the victims are preparing to watch via closed-circuit TV as the self-proclaimed mastermind and four co-defendants are arraigned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A bill legalizing marijuana for medical purposes has passed the Connecticut Senate. The state joins 16 others and the District of Columbia in enacting such legislation.

The Texas-based wife of an Army officer serving in Afghanistan witnessed her husband's death as the two video chatted via Skype, his family said Friday.

Adam "MCA" Yauch, a founding member of the pioneering rap band Beastie Boys, died Friday after a nearly three-year battle with cancer, the band's publicist said.

Former media mogul Conrad Black was released from a federal prison in Miami early Friday after serving about three years for defrauding investors.

During a tornado, the most common cause of death is a head injury. Could a helmet possibly help?

A researcher at an infectious diseases laboratory in San Francisco has died of a rare bacteria strain, California health officials said, raising fears the man's friends and fellow researchers may too have been infected.