Prosecutors are asking an appellate court to change its ruling and allow a retrial for Howard K. Stern, the former boyfriend and manager of Anna Nicole Smith.

Dozens of desert bighorn sheep from Nevada are getting a new home in southern Utah.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City Marathon has been canceled.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's signed an executive order waiving a requirement that fuel tankers register and pay tax before unloading.

An Illinois prosecutor says the suburban Chicago woman charged with stabbing to death her son and a little girl she was babysitting told investigators she was upset by her father's recent death.

Atlantic City's 12 casinos, ordered closed because of Sandy, can reopen immediately.

ABC announced Friday a "Day of Giving" to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy.

U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and hiring was stronger over the previous two months than first thought. The unemployment rate inched up to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent in September because the work force grew.

U.S. intelligence officials are offering a new timeline detailing the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, saying CIA security officers went to the aid of State Department staff less than 25 minutes after they got the first call for help.

A senior Secret Service agent being formally investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week.

No sooner than the floodwaters had receded and high winds from Superstorm Sandy faded, another threat is arising with the inevitable appearance of the scammer and the conman.

Prosecutors say a suburban Chicago woman stabbed her 7-year-old son 100 times and a 5-year-old girl about 50 times and slit both their throats because she was angry with her husband.

There's some rare good news for New Yorkers in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy.

Subways are rolling in much of New York City for the first time since superstorm Sandy crippled the nation's largest transit system. But ridership has been light, and service is limited.

President Barack Obama is telling people recovering from Sandy's devastation along New Jersey's coastline that "we are here for you, and we will not forget."

There's no trick-or-treating at the White House this Halloween.

A smog-like haze that hung over part of Alaska's Kodiak Island this week was courtesy of a volcanic eruption - 100 years ago.

Officials in the city of Hoboken, N.J., are defending their response to severe flooding from superstorm Sandy.

Jesse Jackson Jr.'s publicist says the ailing Illinois congressman has voted by absentee ballot.

A series of natural gas fires broke out in a New Jersey shore town that was hit hard by Sandy, but officials say no one was injured.

The parts of the city that are without power following the monster storm are seeing increased police patrols and other stepped-up security measures as they face the prospect of days without electricity.

Octomom Nadya Suleman has checked herself into a rehabilitation center, citing anxiety, exhaustion and stress.

An early morning house fire has killed four people, including an infant and toddler, in the southern Colorado city of Pueblo.

The forewoman of the jury that convicted an Ohio teenage of aggravated murder in a deadly plot to lure men desperate for work with phony Craigslist job offers says it was a difficult decision because of the boy's age

U.S. newspaper circulation was almost unchanged in the six months that ended in September as publications continued to make gains in digital editions, according to data from a media industry group.