Posted: 9:13 AM The Long Island college student was being held in a headlock by a masked intruder with a loaded gun to her head, police said. Then the gunman took aim at an officer.
Posted: 8:14 AM A Department of Veterans Affairs accounting released in response to inquiries from The Associated Press shows a heavy financial and emotional cost involving vets from Iraq, Afghanistan and even back to Vietnam.
Posted: 7:45 AM The Senate Judiciary Committee is aiming this week to pass a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, setting up a high-stakes debate on the Senate floor.
Posted: 6:26 AM It could be an anxious wait of up to two months for people in a small Florida city to find out who won the highest Powerball jackpot in history: an estimated $590.5 million.
Posted: 6:25 AM "Star Trek: Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations.
Posted: 6:23 AM Two FBI special agents on the agency's elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia, officials said Sunday.
Updated: 10:09 AM Witnesses described a frantic scene and close calls after an elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a small Virginia mountain town's parade.
Posted: 8:49 AM A lottery official says 1 winning ticket has been sold in Florida for a record Powerball jackpot of more than $590 million.
Posted: 11:51 AM Millions of U.S. children are living with mental health disorders, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Posted: 6:04 AM Habitat for Humanity spent years in Granbury's Rancho Brazos Estates subdivision, helping to build many of the 110 homes in the low-income area.
Posted: 6:03 AM The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes.
Updated: 1:13 PM Powerball officials say the jackpot has climbed to an estimated $600 million, making it the largest prize in the game's history and the world's second largest lottery prize.
Posted: 6:00 AM Steven Alexander stood before the jury, looked up at a family picture and grimaced and cried as he ticked off the list of problems that have befallen him in the five years since his brother was murdered.
Posted: 5:58 AM O.J. Simpson's former lawyer has some explaining to do. Miami attorney Yale Galanter is scheduled to testify Friday in Simpson's bid for a new trial.
Posted: 9:06 PM A smuggling ring that made a fortune selling more than a million cartons of untaxed cigarettes in New York may have funneled some of the illicit proceeds to terrorist groups.
Posted: 6:30 PM Army officials say the manager of the sexual assault response program at Fort Campbell has been arrested in a domestic dispute and relieved of his post.
Posted: 4:30 PM Only two of 13 small SUVs performed well in front-end crash tests done by an insurance industry group, with several popular models faring poorly in the evaluations.
Posted: 4:22 PM A nuclear plant near North Carolina's capital city was shut down after operators reviewing ultrasonic tests found tiny marks of corrosion and cracking that need repair, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
Updated: 7:27 PM homeless, hatchet-wielding hitchhiker who became an Internet celebrity earlier this year has been arrested in Philadelphia and charged with the murder of a New Jersey lawyer.
Posted: 9:55 AM Sources: Tsarnaev scrawled message on boat wall, saying attack was retribution for Iraq, Afghan wars
Posted: 9:49 AM The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans
Posted: 6:13 AM Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds said he hoped the death toll from the tornado would hold at six, with about 50 people injured and 250 people left homeless.
Posted: 6:12 AM Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.