Authorities say that divers hired by the owner of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire on Friday have recovered a body near the site.

Mormon church historians are calling the unearthing of a 19th century baptistry at the site of the old Provo Tabernacle a "significant discovery."

Coast Guard officials say they are searching from the sea and the sky for two workers who went missing after a fire erupted on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

Experts say the winds of Superstorm Sandy took out more trees in the neighborhoods, parks and forests of New York and New Jersey than any previous storm on record.

The White House says it believes Israel "has the right to defend itself" against attack and that the Israelis will make their own decisions about their "military tactics and operations."

Land conservancies and other farm preservation groups are launching a growing number of programs matching landowners with farmers to keep land in agricultural production.

A federal judge is temporarily preventing the Obama administration from forcing a Christian publishing company to provide its employees with certain contraceptives under the new health care law.

An ESPN producer says Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has suffered a minor stroke.

Police say planning for an Ohio murder-suicide that left three children, their grandmother and their uncle dead began at least four days before it happened.

All workers are accounted for and safe after a chemical plant near Dallas erupted in flames.

A Wisconsin college student is accused of molesting six young children and videotaping the assaults under such titles as "Monster Unleashed."

A southwest Missouri man is accused of plotting to open fire inside a movie theater during a screening of the new "Twilight" film.

Tens of thousands of young illegal immigrants are taking advantage of President Barack Obama's offer to let them stay and work in the United States.

A judge plans to rule within two weeks on Penn State's request to delay the whistleblower and defamation case filed by former assistant football coach Mike McQueary.

According to former CIA Director David Petraeus, classified intelligence showed that the deadly raid on the U.S. consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack. But he says the administration decided to withhold the suspected role of specific al-Qaida affiliates.

A man who had been volunteering at yesterday's parade honoring veterans in Midland, Texas, says it was "a scene of total chaos" after a train hit a parade float carrying wounded vets and their spouses.

Friends of a Texas woman convicted of murder after a fire at her home day care killed four children say she is a good person who loves kids and that she would never intentionally do them harm.

Coast Guard officials say an oil rig fire has been out after an explosion off the coast of Louisiana that sent four people to hospitals. Two others were believed to be missing.

Hostess, the maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread, is going out of business.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus (peh-TRAY'-uhs) has arrived on Capitol Hill to field questions from lawmakers about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.

A children's safety equipment manufacturer has agreed to recall about 220,000 infant travel beds after reports of one infant's death and nine others entrapped or distressed while sleeping inside the portable tents.

Officials say six people remain hospitalized in West Texas after a freight train hit a float in a veterans' parade, killing 4 people and injuring 16.

An investigator says child care workers from a government-funded program visited a northern Ohio family two months before their 18-month-old son died of malnutrition.

Police say a little boy is dead after a man set fire to a family's Pennsylvania home thinking his ex-girlfriend was inside.

Firefighters in Colorado say a woman's belly button ring became entangled with a drain cover in a shallow splash pool but that she was freed without injury.