Posted: 4:55 AM Oregon State Police say the weekend tour bus crash that killed nine people happened near a treacherous eastern Oregon section of road known as Deadman Pass.

Posted: 4:30 AM Violence in Afghanistan fell in 2012, but more Afghan troops and police who now shoulder most of the combat were killed, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.

Updated: 12:21 PM Democrats and Republicans say signs of progress are emerging in urgent negotiations to avert the looming 'fiscal cliff' ahead of a midnight deadline.

Updated: 4:22 AM Parents and other family members of children and educators killed at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School have made one last visit to a memorial to the victims.

Posted: 4:20 AM The Defense Department for the first time will put a float in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses to commemorate the veterans from a conflict that still casts a shadow over the world.

Posted: 11:53 PM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.

Posted: 3:51 PM The last of three police officers shot and wounded by an arrested man inside a southern New Jersey police station has left the hospital.

Updated: 9:15 AM Local photography students are partnering with the Atlantis to help the families affected by the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.

Posted: 2:23 PM Police say a 74-year-old Maine man faces charges in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented at his home over a possible dispute about where they were parking their cars during a snowstorm.

Posted: 2:15 PM A woman charged in the death of an immigrant who was pushed off a New York City subway platform has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Updated: 12:13 AM Authorities say five people died and about 20 more were injured in a tour bus crash on an icy stretch of interstate in Oregon.

Updated: 12:16 AM President Barack Obama is voicing skepticism about proposals to place armed guards at schools in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Posted: 11:56 PM The top leaders in both parties on the House and Senate Agriculture committees have agreed to a one-year extension of the 2008 farm bill that expired in October, a move that would head off a possible doubling of milk prices next month.

Updated: 12:05 AM President Barack Obama is applying pressure on Republicans to negotiate a fiscal deal, arguing that GOP leaders have rejected his past attempts to strike a bigger and more comprehensive bargain.

Updated: 12:23 AM A Pennsylvania beauty queen who resigned after alleging that the Miss USA pageant had been fixed says she is stunned by an arbitrator's ruling that she must pay the pageant organization $5 million for defamation.

Posted: 2:08 PM President Barack Obama says 50 U.S. troops have deployed to the African country of Chad to help evacuate U.S. citizens and embassy personnel from the neighboring Central African Republic's capital of Bangui.

Posted: 1:36 PM As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln.

Posted: 12:57 PM A woman charged with trying to swindle donors by posing as a relative of a child killed in the Connecticut school massacre had also been soliciting money for Hurricane Sandy relief.

Updated: 12:32 PM New York City police say they have a suspect in custody in the death of a man who was shoved in front of a speeding subway train.

Posted: 10:42 AM Backers of a proposal to build a commercial spaceport in the southernmost tip of Texas are looking for ways to attract the company with full knowledge that money will be tight in the upcoming legislative session.

Posted: 9:43 AM NASA's newest Mars rover is gearing up for a road trip. But first, it has to drill into a rock.

Posted: 7:04 PM The executive director of the California-based environmentalist group Rainforest Action Network has died in a swimming accident at a beach near Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta.

Updated: 6:31 PM New York City police have identified a man they say was shoved to his death in front of a subway train by a woman.

Posted: 5:22 PM A Wisconsin couple says fire clucks, not trucks, helped them escape a blaze at their home.

Posted: 3:33 PM Jean Harris, who spent 12 years in prison for killing the "Scarsdale Diet" doctor in a lovers' quarrel, has died at age 89.