The U.S. is increasing its oil production faster than ever, and American drivers are guzzling less gas. But you'd never know it from the price at the pump.

The New York affiliate of the National Rifle Association, sportsmen's groups, firearms businesses and individual gun owners are seeking an injunction to stop the state's strict new gun control law.

The state patrol and some other police agencies in Washington state are now training drug-sniffing dogs to ignore marijuana.

A mortar shell explosion Monday at an Army depot in Hawthorne, Nev., killed seven Marines and injured eight other servicemen. Here are profiles of the victims:

South Dakota routinely violates the federal law governing foster care and adoptions for American Indiana children by holding improper hearings after children are removed from homes, two tribes allege in a lawsuit filed Thursday.

A superior court judge in Washington has ordered a new court date for charges the Skagit County prosecutor is pursuing against "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore.

A lawyer who wanted off the case of a New York man suing for an interest in Facebook has been denied his request to withdraw.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is urging sponsors of Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to end their support after a dog was buried in snow by severe winds and suffocated to death.

The National Park Service on Thursday celebrated the 50th anniversary of Alcatraz Island's closure as a federal penitentiary with an exhibit of newly discovered photos of the prison's final hours.

It was a moment in time that became a moment in history. And now it will be a moment for all time. Van Cliburn's historic winning performance in the 1958 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow has been chosen as one of 25 audio recordings to be added today to the National Recording Registry by Librarian of Congress James Billington.

The brother of a jailed one-time billionaire hedge fund boss has been charged with conspiring with his brother to cheat on Wall Street and earn nearly $1.2 million illegally, federal authorities announced Thursday.

A man who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed by a judge on Thursday after a reinvestigation of his case cast serious doubt on evidence used to convict him in the cold-blooded shooting of a Brooklyn rabbi.

As Southern states cracked down on so-called pill mills, Georgia's lax regulation made it a magnet for clinics known for prescribing powerful painkillers to drug dealers and addicts for an illicit high.

Karleen Tutton's 22 grandchildren always perk up when she tells the tale of her 6-foot-6-inch great grandfather who stared down a grizzly bear in the 1800s.

A college lacrosse player who was injured when her team's bus veered off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crashed is suing the bus company.

An Anaheim police officer was legally justified when he shot and killed a 25-year-old man in July in the first of two shootings that caused weeks of angry protests in the city's streets, the district attorney said after an investigation.

The mayor of Vicksburg, Miss., has been indicted on a federal bribery charge.

The Defense Department will delay furlough notices for its civilian employees for about two weeks while officials analyze the impact of a new spending bill on planned budget cuts, the Pentagon said Thursday.

A jury in the civic corruption trial of former elected officials in the blue-collar, California city of Bell resumed deliberations Thursday, with at least one member indicating in a note that an improper guilty verdict might have been reached earlier.

School board meetings descend into shouting matches. Accusations of racism and anti-Semitism fly. Angry parents turn their backs on board members in a symbolic stand of disrespect.

No Powerball winner? It just means a bigger jackpot for the rest of us.

A California woman and her two sons are back together after the boys were kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico for more than a year.

Fire Department rescue crews have halted a nearly two-hour search of the frigid Missouri River near downtown Kansas City after a witness reported seeing two people jump from a highway bridge into the water.

A former mining community in rural southern Arizona that has shifted over the years into a liberal artists' haven and tourist destination is poised to become the first city in this conservative state to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples.