Authorities in the Houston area say they've detained a person of interest in connection with today's shooting on the campus of a community college.

Authorities in New Mexico say the teenager accused of gunning down his family over the weekend had reloaded his guns after the attacks and planned to go to a Wal-Mart and randomly shoot people.

The White House says a House Republican bill to extend the government's borrowing authority for three months still faces concerns in Congress.

School districts across the upper Midwest are canceling classes as the region grapples with another day of extreme cold.

U.S. sales of previously occupied homes rose in 2012 to their highest level in five years, spurred higher by record-low mortgage rates and steady hiring.

Abortion opponents are marking the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling with a push for yet more restrictions after a string of legislative victories narrowing access to the procedure.

A U.S. Education Department study says the high school graduation rate nationally is the highest since 1976, but more than a fifth of students fail to get a diploma in four years.

Home for a Southeast Texas family is still an old school bus with no engine and no front wheels.

Authorities say as many as 50 vehicles could be involved in a pileup on Interstate 75 in southwest Ohio.

Authorities say one person has died after a highway pileup involving as many as 85 vehicles in southwest Ohio.

Police say five people have been wounded in a shooting near a New Orleans intersection where a parade passed earlier celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

President Barack Obama has begun his second term by declaring that the nation's "possibilities are limitless."

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President Obama's Complete Inaugural Address

President Barack Obama is pointing to the recent deadly shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, as he says the nation's children must be protected from harm.

President Barack Obama says "we must act" even if our work is imperfect. He says we cannot afford to delay.

President Barack Obama says the nation must make the "hard choices" to reduce the cost of health care and the size of the deficit.

Authorities say the New Mexico teenager accused of fatally shooting his parents and three younger siblings had never been in trouble with the law.

The nation will honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. today - the same day as it celebrates the inauguration of the first black president to his second term.

The death toll from the terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed past 80 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the refinery for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured it was unclear whether they were hostages or militants, a security official said.

Japanese and U.S. investigators began a probe Monday into the maker of the lithium ion batteries used in Boeing's grounded 787 jets.

Rescuers in Kauai say they have recovered the body of one of two San Francisco men who drowned, but rough seas kept them from searching for the other man.

Yemeni military officials say eight people have been killed in two suspected U.S. drone strikes in Abieda valley in central Marib province.

A southwestern Idaho company is recalling 33,500 pounds of fully cooked meat and poultry products because of possible bacterial contamination.

Officials say two people were accidentally shot and wounded at a gun show at the North Carolina state fairgrounds.