Posted: 4:53 AM A lawyer for the U.S. soldier accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers last weekend says his client saw his friend's leg blown off the day before the rampage.

Posted: 4:48 AM Titanic museums in the Smoky Mountains and Branson, Mo., have told the ship's story to 7 million visitors in the past six years. Now the attractions are marking the Titanic centennial by sponsoring a Coast Guard cutter to take 1.5 million rose petals to the north Atlantic site where the ship sank.

Posted: 11:10 PM Everyone has been accounted for and three people were hurt after the roof collapsed at a Kentucky business.

Posted: 10:50 PM Authorities say five people have died after a small private plane crashed while trying to land at an airport in western North Carolina.

Posted: 3:54 PM Tennessee Republicans are calling for the rejection of a United Nations agenda on the environment and poverty.

Posted: 12:13 PM Lynn Szymoniak is walking away with an $18 million settlement after blowing the whistle on a "robo-signing" fraud that she says was perpetrated by some of the nation's largest mortgage companies.

Posted: 12:11 PM Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich late on Wednesday expressed frustration with both the news media and the Republican Party establishment for failing to understand his "large ideas" for transforming American politics.

Posted: 12:09 PM The uproar continues in the financial world over the very public resignation of a Goldman Sachs investment banker.

Posted: 12:06 PM Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) stock has touched $600 for the first time, the day before the company's latest iPad goes on sale.

Posted: 12:04 PM Campaigning on this island U.S. territory Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke out in favor of statehood for Puerto Rico but said he also favored requiring it to adopt English as its official language.

Posted: 11:56 AM A Texas infant who vanished eight years ago will be reunited with his mother after police arrested his former baby sitter who is accused of kidnapping him, authorities said Wednesday.

Posted: 8:49 AM Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has left his Chicago home and is heading to Colorado to begin a 14-year federal prison term for corruption.

Posted: 7:10 AM Many economists believe 4,000 fewer people applied for unemployment last week.

Posted: 4:14 AM The government has revamped its strategy for getting people to kick the smoking habit, and the new campaign is about to hit TV and radio air waves and billboards, magazines and newspapers.

Posted: 9:07 AM The U.S. deficit in the broadest measure of foreign trade increased at the end of last year to the highest level in three years, widened by a slight decline in exports and higher imports.

Posted: 5:04 AM A resurgent Rick Santorum swept primaries in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday night, upending the race for the Republican presidential nomination yet again and nudging Newt Gingrich toward the sidelines.

Posted: 4:58 AM The winter just ended was warmer than usual all across Tennessee.

Posted: 4:17 AM Labor unions plan to spend less money this year on specific candidates and political party organizations. And they'll spend more on door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and registration drives to help President Barack Obama and other Democrats.

Posted: 6:28 PM A man accused of crashing through a fence at the Philadelphia airport and speeding down a runway was having irrational thoughts that people were chasing him, his lawyer said.

Posted: 6:26 PM A woman accused of stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death with scissors told police she had been taking a weight-loss product, had trouble sleeping for several days and felt an "evil" presence before the attack.

Posted: 6:23 PM A toddler whose body was found inside a septic tank behind her home, just hours after being reported missing by her mother, died of accidental drowning, an autopsy showed Tuesday.

Posted: 6:22 PM The Senate was poised Tuesday to pass an overhaul of highway and transit programs that would give states more flexibility in how they spend federal money.

Posted: 6:20 PM Philanthropist Anne H. Bass received an injection from masked assailants who made a chilling ultimatum: Hand over millions of dollars for the antidote, or die from a deadly virus.

Posted: 6:17 PM The Obama administration urged Congress on Tuesday to keep secret a whole new category of information even under the Freedom of Information Act.

Posted: 6:15 PM A matchmaking recruiter charged with helping to run a big-money brothel has been on vacation, not the lam, her lawyer said as the woman surrendered Tuesday to face charges.