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.

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.

The Bisbee City Council is poised to make the southeastern Arizona town the first in Arizona to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples.

Lance Cpl. Mason Vanderwork loved going to the beach and cruising in his Mustang convertible. He and his wife, Taylor, married the day after she graduated high school and hoped to start a family.

The Obama administration says Vietnam is "backsliding" on human rights, particularly in its prosecution of bloggers.

Civil unions for gay couples in Colorado will be signed into law Thursday, a dramatic turnaround for a state where voters banned same-sex marriage in 2006.

The chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court has appointed a special judge to oversee the work of a grand jury investigating possible new charges related to the rape of a 16-year-old girl last summer.

Relatives of shooting victims from Newtown, Conn., stood with Vice President Joe Biden as he spoke at New York's City Hall in favor of an assault weapons ban.

They could have been lost forever, long-forgotten mementoes from home perhaps worn on a finger or carried in a pocket for good luck.