Posted: 10:49 AM First Community Bancshares Inc. plans to acquire Peoples Bank of Virginia in a deal valued at about $40.6 million.

Posted: 10:37 AM New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and other northeast governors take their ideas for public education changes to morning television.

Posted: 7:05 AM A man has pleaded guilty to a civil rights charge in the case of a wooden cross bearing a racial slur that was burned in the yard of a black Ohio family.

Posted: 6:57 AM MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A group in Wisconsin wants to give tours of the bar where serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer met some of his victims.

Posted: 6:55 AM U.S. Coast Guard officials say they've recovered the bodies of two crewmen who had been missing since a helicopter crashed in Mobile Bay in Alabama.

Posted: 6:52 AM The U.S. Department of Agriculture will unveil a plan that will offer financial incentives for farmers to enroll up to 1 million new acres of grasslands and wetlands into the conservation reserve program.

Posted: 6:35 AM Students mourning the deaths of three teens in a shooting at an Ohio high school are set to return to class today.

Posted: 11:39 AM Residents across the Midwest and South are trying to get back on their feet following devastating storms that swept across the region on Wednesday.

Posted: 11:37 AM Andrew Breitbart, the conservative media entrepreneur and activist who published photos that led to Rep. Anthony Weiner's resignation from Congress last year, died unexpectedly early Thursday.

Posted: 11:35 AM If you're amazed — and maybe even a little alarmed — about how much Google seems to know about you, brace yourself.

Posted: 11:21 AM School doors will reopen at Chardon High School Thursday, but the students returning will be in counseling, not class.

Posted: 11:18 AM It's been a rough two weeks for race car driver Danica Patrick - on and off the track. After crashing three times in three races at Daytona, the NASCAR rookie has been a target of sexist jabs by two on-air commentators.

Posted: 11:16 AM A grandfather was found guilty of child abuse Wednesday for forcing his grandsons on grueling hikes in the Grand Canyon in searing August heat, withholding food and water and choking and kicking them during the long treks.

Posted: 11:11 AM A laptop stolen from NASA last year contained command codes used to control the International Space Station, an internal investigation has found.

Posted: 7:44 AM All three of the boys testified during the trial. The oldest described secretly asking a hiker to call 911 toward the end of a 19-mile hike on Aug. 28.

Posted: 7:37 AM Afghan and U.S. military officials confirm to CBS News that the dead were U.S. troops, and that a third American service member was wounded in the attack.

Posted: 8:32 PM A federal judge has sentenced a California man to five years of probation for sending envelopes of rat poison to Los Angeles County child welfare officials in a fit of anger over the handling of his nephew's case in the 1990s.

Posted: 7:53 PM Democrats and Republicans, both eager to rouse their respective political bases in an election year are fighting fiercely over President Barack Obama's mandate that health insurers cover the cost of contraceptives.

Posted: 7:33 PM New York University students are calling for more support from school officials in light of revelations that the New York Police Department monitored Muslim student associations.

Posted: 11:28 AM Prosecutors have until Thursday to bring charges against TJ Lane, the suspect in the Chardon High School shooting rampage. They are also expected to ask that he be tried as an adult.

Posted: 11:22 AM After losing to a native son of Michigan in Tuesday night's Republican primary contest there, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum reminded voters that his close second-place finish to rival Mitt Romney was better than many had expected just weeks ago.

Posted: 11:19 AM A powerful storm system bearing a string of possible tornadoes left at least four people dead and dozens injured as it tore roofs from buildings, upturned trailers and wreaked chaos across a broad swath of the Midwest.

Posted: 11:16 AM One crewmember died and rescuers were searching Wednesday for three others missing after a Coast Guard helicopter crashed in Alabama's Mobile Bay during a training mission, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.

Posted: 11:04 AM One of the men the United States government considers a high-value detainee pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of murder, attempted murder, material support for terrorism and spying.

Posted: 10:57 AM No creature, living or dead has ever come close to matching the power and strength of the Tyrannosaurus rex's bone breaking bite, according to new research published in the Biology Letters.