Posted: 12:46 PM A Labrador retriever named Kentucky is being credited with helping authorities find the body of its owner, who died hiking in a nature preserve in northern New Jersey.

Posted: 11:49 AM Two target shooters have taken a plea deal for igniting a major wildfire southeast of Salt Lake City last summer using explosive targets.

Updated: 1:15 PM Several schools in Yuma in western Arizona have been locked down and are being searched by police in response to an unconfirmed report of a person possibly having a gun.

Posted: 10:38 AM School officials in Alabama say they plan to have a party to celebrate the sixth birthday of the boy who was rescued yesterday after being held hostage for nearly a week in an underground bunker.

Posted: 10:38 AM Federal officials say they have broken up one of the nation's largest credit card fraud rings.

Posted: 10:20 AM A publisher says a former top Navy SEAL sniper and best-selling author who was fatally shot at the weekend had a second book in the works.

Updated: 10:06 AM A new government report is predicting the budget deficit will drop below $1 trillion for the first time in President Barack Obama's tenure in office.

Posted: 9:07 AM Opponents of New York City's plan to crack down on supersized, sugary drinks have asked a judge to keep it from taking effect next month.

Updated: 9:03 AM White House officials say President Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1.

Posted: 6:27 AM San Diego is struggling with a stinky problem - the smell from bird poop at a scenic cove

Posted: 6:12 AM Federal regulators say they are evaluating a Boeing request to conduct test flights of its 787 Dreamliners, which were grounded nearly three weeks ago after a battery fire in one plane and smoke in another.

Posted: 6:09 AM An upstate New York college plans to establish a new education center in honor of Sandy Hook Elementary School Principal Dawn Hochsprung, who was a doctoral candidate in the college's educational leadership program.

Posted: 12:00 AM The nation's commuters are adapting to increasing traffic congestion by building delays into their schedules, but at a cost of $121 billion in wasted time and fuel, according to an annual study of national driving patterns released Tuesday.

Posted: 7:26 PM U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is in San Diego to trumpet what she calls dramatic improvements in border security.

Updated: 8:43 PM New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and David Letterman have shared some laughs about the many fat jokes the comedian has made about the lawmaker's ample girth.

Updated: 2:29 PM Authorities say they continue to send food, medication and other items into a bunker where a man is holed up with a 5-year-old hostage.

Updated: 4:51 PM A law enforcement official says a 5-year-old has been safely released after a days-long standoff between police and the boy's abductor.

Posted: 11:43 AM Keeping a campaign promise, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has named a special deputy to oversee an inquiry into the handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.

Posted: 11:26 AM A Catholic hospital acknowledges it was "morally wrong" to argue in court that a fetus is not a human being under Colorado law.

Posted: 8:37 AM The U.S. Postal Service has issued a special Rosa Parks stamp on what would have been the late civil rights icon's 100th birthday.

Posted: 6:00 AM Oracle is buying the network gear company Acme Packet for about $2.1 billion.

Posted: 5:53 AM A 52-year-old upstate New York man accused of killing his son in a staged accident to collect his life insurance is due back in court.

Posted: 5:40 AM A court of inquiry is set to examine whether a Texas judge should face criminal charges in the case of a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 25 years for his wife's murder.

Posted: 3:48 AM Ed Koch (kahch) is being remembered as the quintessential New Yorker - an admired but tough former mayor who will be honored at his funeral by former President Bill Clinton.

Posted: 3:36 AM President Barack Obama is seeking to rally support from the public and the law enforcement community for his calls to ban assault weapons and require universal background checks for gun buyers.