The mother of a 2-year-old boy who was mauled to death after falling into a zoo exhibit of wild African dogs won't be prosecuted.

Two veterans and their wives are suing the railroad company whose train hit a truck carrying wounded veterans and their spouses during a parade in Texas.

The record Powerball jackpot just keeps rising. It now stands at $550 million after officials say brisk sales keep driving up the payout amount.

U.S. sales of new homes fell slightly in October and the September sales pace was slower than initially thought.

BP is being temporarily suspended from new contracts with the U.S. government, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

A special blend of coffee at Starbucks is now going for $7 a cup.

A new warning may have consumers thinking twice before eating pork chops. A sample of raw pork products from supermarkets around the United States found a dangerous bacteria present in the meats that put children most at risk.

The record Powerball jackpot is now even bigger.

Lawyers for the Tampa socialite embroiled in the scandal that prompted CIA Director David Petraeus' resignation say she never tried to exploit her friendship with him.

Former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas has checked himself into Walter Reed Army Medical Center for what his spokeswoman described as a routine procedure.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has ordered a "file by file review" of every case handled by a state chemist accused of faking test results at a now-closed government lab.

The piano used for the song "As Times Goes By" in the classic 1942 film "Casablanca" is getting another turn at fame.

The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a New Mexico peanut butter plant that had repeated food safety violations over several years, using a new authority to halt operations at facilities that may be producing unsafe food.

The wife of a shoplifting suspect who died after a fight with security outside a suburban Atlanta Walmart says she thinks store employees used too much force to subdue him.

Astronaut Scott Kelly will become the first U.S. astronaut to spend a year in space. Why? He is volunteering to be a human guinea pig -- to help NASA collect detailed medical and psychological data about the effects of long term spaceflight on a human. He and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in 2015 and return to Earth in 2016.

Plenty of Republicans are talking about a possible presidential run by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, but Walker insists he's not one of them.

A doctor who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work has died in Boston. Dr. Joseph E. Murray was 93.

Four police officers in Rhode Island are being investigated for making five boys do push-ups on the side of a street as punishment for damaging a mailbox.

The U.S. Capitol's Christmas tree has arrived.

Cyber Monday appears on track to becoming the biggest online shopping day ever, and web traffic isn't expected to peak for another several hours.

A new report says states can receive more than $9 in federal money for every dollar they spend to cover low-income residents under President Barack Obama's health care law.

The new musical "Kinky Boots" enjoyed a pre-Broadway run at a downtown Chicago theater this fall thanks to a little-known tax break aimed at luring productions to Illinois.

Police say a driver whose truck crashed through an overpass guard rail and dangled above a busy Oregon highway for nearly an hour had six times the legal limit of alcohol in his system.

A judge has rejected the request of a condemned Ohio killer to delay his execution because of his extreme weight.

The Supreme Court is questioning a monopoly on hospital services in southwestern Georgia.