A woman and her boyfriend have been arrested after police found an 8-year-old developmentally disabled girl locked in a wooden cage in the couple's mobile home.

The indestructible Twinkie appears to be one step closer to a comeback.

Defense attorneys for a woman accused of shoving a man to his death from a New York City subway platform are contesting a ruling that she is mentally fit for trial.

Federal regulators say a Florida company has been marketing an untested inhaled formula as a flu remedy in violation of drug safety regulations.

No one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders.

An Ohio hospital where a nurse accidentally threw out a viable kidney has resumed its kidney transplant program.

Boston Scientific plans to cut as many as 1,000 additional jobs this year as the medical device maker expands a push to cut operating expenses.

Jobless Americans are paying millions in unnecessary fees to collect unemployment benefits because of state policies encouraging them to get the money through bank-issued payment cards, according to a new report from a consumer group.

Seeking swift action on immigration, President Barack Obama on Tuesday will try to rally public support behind his proposals for giving millions of illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, as well as making improvements to the legal immigration system and border security.

Law enforcement leaders who met with President Barack Obama are urging him to improve the mental health system and strengthen background checks, but did not unify on more controversial gun control measures.

Hostess is set to announce that it has picked the maker of Little Debbie as the lead bidder to buy its Drake's cakes, according to a source close to the situation.

Key Democratic and Republican senators are pledging to get a wide-ranging immigration bill through the Senate by summer even as they point to numerous pitfalls ahead.

The Boys Scouts of America is considering a dramatic change in its controversial policy of excluding gays as leaders and youth members.

The White House is praising an agreement on immigration reform reached by senators from both parties, calling it an important first step.

San Francisco's animal control agency is relying on donated newspapers to solve pooping puppies problem.

Scientists say a pole on the front of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley designed to plant explosives on enemy ships may hold a key clue to its sinking during the Civil War.

An eastern Pennsylvania high school says vandalism forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys' bathrooms.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been released from a city lockup where he spent the weekend for violating parole in the 2008 criminal conviction that booted him from office.

Jennifer Lawrence of the oddball romance "Silver Linings Playbook" and Daniel Day-Lewis of the Civil War epic "Lincoln" have won lead-acting prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws.

Starting Sunday, paying by credit card could get more expensive. Under the terms of a $7.2 billion settlement reached last summer between credit card companies and merchants, merchants will be free to impose a surcharge on customers paying by credit card.

The Coast Guard says oil spilled from at least one of two oil barges that were heavily damaged when they hit a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River at Vicksburg.

Chicago authorities say seven people were killed and six wounded in gun violence in one day.

The online hacking group Anonymous says it is "declaring war" on the U.S. Government after hacking the federal sentencing commission's website overnight.

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin says he will not seek re-election in 2014.