An Ohio hospital has reached a proposed settlement of about $1 million with women who say an employee stuffed miscarried or stillborn fetuses into jars for years instead of medically disposing of them.

The U.S. State Department says human rights conditions have deteriorated in China and that Vietnam also continues to severely restrict political rights and freedom of expression.

Will President Barack Obama win re-election? Will the world end Dec. 21, as some say the Mayan calendar predicts? Will the economy ever improve?

New Orleans' daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, will switch to publishing three days a week starting in the fall and plans to increase its focus on online news.

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.

After years of denouncing Myanmar's human rights record, the State Department is holding it up as an example of reform in a world convulsed by citizen uprisings.

Maryland authorities are trying to find out how a man and his two teenage sons fell into a manure pit and died at the dairy farm where they worked.

The police chief of the California college town of Berkeley is defending using 10 officers - some on overtime - to search for his teenage son's stolen iPhone.

Police say two western Pennsylvania men mistook a woman's Bible carrying case for a purse when they tried to snatch it from her, knocking her to the ground.

A spokesman for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says she and her husband were not injured when a small private airplane carrying them to Santa Fe landed without its gears down.

A Texas man convicted of trying to sneak out of the U.S. to give al-Qaida restricted military documents, GPS equipment and money was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday.

The mother of a Massachusetts man fatally shot inside a Harvard University dormitory during a drug-related robbery has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Ivy League school.

Authorities say an upstate New York man using a samurai sword to fight with another man struck his 8-year-old son in the head.

The mother of a toddler who briefly got stuck inside an active washing machine at a southern New Jersey laundromat says she wants to press charges.

Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear.

Oil prices rose to near $92 a barrel Thursday as negotiations between six world powers and Iran about its nuclear program appeared to be stalling.

A young Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating disease sat up in a chair, surprising nurses and loved ones, her father said.

Muslim leaders who have been demanding a formal investigation into the New York Police Department's surveillance of businesses, mosques and Muslim student groups will meet Thursday with New Jersey's top state law enforcement official.

Police arrested 518 people overnight in the latest protest in Quebec over higher university tuition.

A man has implicated himself in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz, whose disappearance 33 years ago on his way to school helped launch a missing children's movement that put kids' faces on milk cartons, police said Thursday.

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Safety advocates urging parents to be aware of swimming pool safety before the summer heats up also say more efforts are needed to teach black and Hispanic children to swim.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for the coast of Mexico as Hurricane Bud gains strength in the Pacific.

In the summer of 2002, Brian Banks' future looked bright: He was a 17-year-old high school football star being heavily recruited by a number of colleges. But in a single day that changed with the accusations of kidnapping and rape by a female student.