From The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Although she liked her bacon crispy and her chicken fried, she never drank, smoked or fooled around, Gertrude Baines once said, describing a life that lasted...

From The Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A Yale University graduate student who disappeared less than a week before her planned wedding wrote a magazine article earlier this year about how to...

NEW YORK – Americans planned beach cleanups, packages for soldiers and save-the-tree fundraisers along with familiar remembrances in three cities to mark eight years since the attacks of Sept. 11, the...

From The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Democrats and Republicans alike are denouncing Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie" at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress, an extraordinary...

From The Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The first photographs of the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind at Guantanamo Bay have cropped up on the Internet, and experts say the images of Khalid...

ORLANDO, Fla. – Marcus Wells and Shirley Walker view their economic prospects from opposite ends of the age spectrum. Wells, 25, was initially optimistic about his prospects for finding a new job...

Police officers and FBI agents are searching for evidence that will connect the California couple charged with the kidnapping and raping of Jaycee Lee Dugard to other unsolved crimes in the area. Phillip...

Deadly fires have been charring up over 147,000 acres in Southern California, as firefighters hope for cooler temperatures. On Sunday, two firefighters lost their lives as their vehicle crashed while trying...

New Haven, CT – Today, a coalition of politically engaged students from across the state have announced the formation of Connecticut Students for Dodd. This student run organization, formed independently...

From The Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism...

From The Associated Press MARKHAM, Ill. – Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they're lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs. The...

From The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge is likely to remain closed at least a day longer than expected as crews race to repair a significant crack in a steel...

From The Associated Press NAMPA, Idaho – About a block from a street concert in downtown Nampa, Melissa Sue Robinson strolls with purpose into a trendy coffee shop — the unofficial liberal embassy...

From The Associated Press PADUCAH, Ky. – A former soldier received five consecutive life sentences Friday for his role in the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the slaying of three of her family...

One of the most celebrated photographs in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library depicts the Kennedy brothers at the White House a year after Senator Edward Kennedy took office in 1962. President Kennedy...