Algerian terrorist Ahmed Ressam has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport around the turn of the new millennium.

Police say the man suspected in a fatal shooting at a Georgia megachurch was a former church employee.

Gasoline across the U.S. is cheaper after a week of rapid price declines. But it still isn't cheap.

A man who drove an SUV onto a Philadelphia airport runway, forcing a passenger jet on final approach to abort its landing, has been sentenced to 16 months in prison and told to pay $92,000 in restitution.

A New Jersey prosecutor says two teenage brothers have been charged with murdering a 12-year-old girl whose body was found in a recycling bin.

Alabama authorities say they have identified a body they found as that of a man who was wanted for questioning in four Tennessee homicides.

Massachusetts state officials say they found unclean conditions including visible black specks of fungus in steroids made by a pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis.

A Virginia woman is in custody after police say she rammed her car into another vehicle outside the entrance of Walter Reed Hospital and a Naval officer fired a shot at her.

The teenage suspect in the slayings of three men lured by phony Craigslist job offers acknowledges he had chances to report the alleged triggerman to police but never did so.

True to their motto, the Boys Scouts tried to be prepared. For months, they braced for the backlash sure to follow the court-ordered release of voluminous confidential files detailing decades of alleged sex abuse by Scout leaders.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it's investigating reports of five deaths and a non-fatal heart attack linked to highly caffeinated Monster Energy Drinks.

Testimony is set to begin this week in the first trial stemming from a fire at a Houston home day care center that killed four children and injured three others.

A Wisconsin woman whose husband is suspected of killing her and two others at the spa where she worked said he threatened to throw acid in her face and jealously terrorized her "every waking moment," according to court documents.

Republican Mitt Romney is refusing to say if he would be open to one-on-one talks with Iran if elected president.

Deputies in Wisconsin are responding to reports of a shooting near a major mall in suburban Milwaukee.

Miami police say three people were killed when a car that was drag racing struck a sport utility vehicle.

One person is dead after this bus crashed near Kingman, Arizona Friday night, not far from the Hoover Dam.

George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972, died before dawn Sunday. He was 90.

The White House says it is prepared to talk one-on-one with Iran to find a diplomatic settlement to the impasse over Tehran's reported pursuit of nuclear weapons, but there's no agreement now to meet.

An outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid shots for back pain is now blamed for 284 illnesses in 16 states, and 23 deaths.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Saturday that Judge Otto R. Skopil Jr. passed away at his home in Portland on Thursday night. He was 93.

A worker at a 7-Eleven in Brooklyn has lost his job after a group of employees were recorded ripping the clothes off a suspected shoplifter.

President Barack Obama says improvements in the housing industry are encouraging but there are still too many mortgage holders who owe more than their homes are worth. Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona says the administration is guilty of too much regulation of business.

The running mates get to run the campaign this weekend while the presidential candidates retreat from the public eye to prepare for the third and final debate on Monday.

America sent a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on a cruise through the South China Sea, projecting its power in waters that are fast becoming a focal point of its strategic rivalry with Beijing.